Not since Innerspace has America been forced so aggressively to reckon with a plan positing Dennis Quaid as the solution to the nation’s medical problems: Politico reports tonight that the The Intruder star and Randy brother is apparently part of a $300 million White House initiative to try to convince us all to stop…

Much of RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue has centered on the queens’ struggles to balance their work with their personal relationships. This has come through strongest with the Asia, Naomi, and Derrick conflict, but it’s been a theme all season, from Derrick’s nonexistent relationship with her mom to Kameron and…

Drew Barrymore kicked off her (sometimes bizarre) new talk show with a Charlie’s Angels reunion with Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz, but where was The Chad? Tom Green’s role may have been too small to warrant a spot at the Angels reunion, but he did get his own segment on The Drew Barrymore Show Friday. In what was…

After a few months during which the show’s vaunted library of episodes was only available piecemeal, NBC has now announced that all 45 years of Saturday Night Live are coming to its Peacock streaming service. Per Variety, this marks the first time that the show’s full library has been available to streamers since the…

Note: The writer of this review watched Ava from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in a movie theater, please consider the health risks involved. Here’s an interview on the matter with scientific experts.

Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam has just added another member to its nascent take on DC Comics’ Justice Society, with Deadline reporting that Aldis Hodge has signed on to play the film’s incarnation of Hawkman. Hodge—whose last big roles saw him co-star opposite Elisabeth Moss in The Invisible Man, and play football…

Disney announced a critical piece of casting for the next wave in its inevitable tide of live-action movie remakes today, with Deadline reporting that Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi has signed on to play Tinker Bell in the company’s upcoming Peter Pan And Wendy. Shahidi has spent the last six years playing the character…

We all have different quarantine projects. Soon, everyone will be baking bread again like we never left March 2020 behind; soon we’ll once again run out of jigsaw puzzles and we’ll buy all the yoga mats Target has to offer. David F. Sandberg, the director of Shazam and Lights Out, among other films, has spent his time…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: The fourth season of FX’s small-screen Fargo starts, so we’re singling out “Coenesque” movies, i.e. ones influenced by or imitative of the work of those famous sibling…

This post discusses major plot points of The Boys episode “The Bloody Doors Off.”

Yes, Spooky Season is very much upon us and the streaming sites are stocking up on all the October-appropriate frights. HBO Max is no different and will be onboarding a few well-known scares, such as The Haunting and a couple of Dracula hits. The streamer is also shining the spotlight on some not-so-scary monsters…

We can all agree that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a badass. The Supreme Court Justice spent her life pioneering a path for women in the American judicial system and fighting for equality for all. But in addition to her professional achievements and tenacity, the Notorious RBG was known for one thing: being the most jacked…

Gossip Girl and Single Parents star Leighton Meester has more than six million followers on Instagram, all of whom are hungry for Leighton Meester-related content. Consider their shock, then, when they flocked to her latest Instagram story only to be met by some dude with a beard talking about voting.

The original Mafia, released all the way back in 2002, has become harder and harder to go back to over the years. It’s clunky, doesn’t look amazing, and suffers annoying quirks. Mafia Definitive Edition, a complete remake that just came out today, is a useful way to go back and experience what is still a good (if not…

Note: The writer of this review watched On The Rocks from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in a movie theater, please consider the health risks involved. Here’s an interview on the matter with scientific experts.

It’s National Comic Book Day and what better way to celebrate than to get into these groundbreaking comics by Black creators. Not sure where to start? How about a Black-owned comic book store?

We’re not ones to promote typecasting. Range is fantastic—preferred, even! And after working in the industry for nearly 50 years, Samuel L. Jackson has more than enough of it to do whatever the hell he wants. So please believe us when we say that our lack of an “oh shit!” response to Variety’s report, which says that…

Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services and…

Owing to the lack of any formal rubric, like a standardized test, musical “genius” is hard to qualify. You know it when you hear it. The measure of an act can come down to how obvious they make it: Could anyone with working ears deny the genius of Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, or Stevie Wonder? Floating beneath the…

There are many deeply, deeply shitty things about social media, but when it’s good, it’s good. And when Gail Simone is involved, it’s usually good. This circumstance is no exception.