Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier’s most famous novel, endures not just because it has proven endlessly adaptable—as a play, for radio, on television, as the Alfred Hitchcock-directed winner of the Best Picture Oscar in 1941, and a new Netflix film released nearly 80 years later. The story of Rebecca taps into a…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, October 22. All times are Eastern.

James Randi, known to the world of both magic and professional skepticism as The Amazing Randi, has died. As a frequent talk show guest, performer, and sponsor of the famed (and never claimed) One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, Randi spent his life exposing false claims of paranormal abilities, often by those…

Now that it’s over, Adam Reed’s tenure as the primary writer of the first nine seasons of Archer is an amazing thing to look back at. Give or take a story credit here or there, Reed wrote (or, on rare occasion, co-wrote) all of the first 102 episodes of the show, a feat that probably did more to establish Archer’s…

Don’t get between Shonda Rhimes and her Disneyland passes.

Applying the valued lessons he learned from his old mentor/stalker Felicity Porter way way back in the day, Scott Speedman has signed on to play a character we’re just going to go ahead and assume will be a massive creeper on Netflix’s ongoing stalker drama You. That’s a fairly safe bet, in so far as every character…

Ah, November: The Christmas in the month that’s right before Christmas. For anyone worried that their various streaming services might not have enough holiday content to get them through the long, cold month ahead of that other, longer, colder month, rest assured, friends: Netflix has got your back, with its November…

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog about “Snake Eater,” the titular song in the 2004 video game masterpiece, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. In it, I gush about the song and how it is as responsible for the prestige of the game as anything else. Tucked into the final paragraph, I made an entreaty to the song’s…

It’s over: According to The Wall Street Journal, Quibi Holdings LLC is finally shuttering after only six months, making it the shortest living streaming service to date. This comes after a weeks-long, last ditch effort to garner additional backers, lure new meme enthusiasts with new features, and outright sell the…

Since the success of his 2014 comedy Dear White People—and the Netflix series it inspired—writer-director Justin Simien has maintained an abiding interest in distilling the complex Black American experience into creative storytelling. Bad Hair, his latest satire, blends his penchant for cultural commentary with…

Disney just dropped the trailer for its upcoming action-adventure—and despite the image above, it’s not set during COVID times. That said, Disney’s first Southeast Asian princess does seem to be speaking to a 2020 audience: “My whole life I trained to become a guardian of the dragon gem. But this world has changed,…

Perhaps sensing that the minds of the moviegoing public—as much as concepts like “moviegoing” and “public” exist during the COVID-19 pandemic—were otherwise occupied with images far more horrifying than a giant Slor, Sony announced this afternoon that the release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been pushed to June 11,…

William Kunstler, the character that Mark Rylance plays in The Trial Of The Chicago 7, had a rich and full legal life. He not only defended the Chicago 7—or 8, depending on if you include Bobby Seale—but also members of the communist party, the American Indian Movement, and the Attica prison riots. The A.V. Club talked…

Looks like everyone’s happy to have Sterling Archer back out of the coma, after all (sorry, Cyril): It’s just been announced that FXX’s animated comedy Archer has been renewed for season 12. That means another entire year of opportunities for the world’s greatest spy (again, sorry, Cyril) to either save the day or…

Is Pa Kent returning for the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League? Who gives a shit, ‘cause Jared Leto’s Joker sure is. Fire up the Twiztid, bitches.

Don’t worry: Technically, this is not one of those in-fashion “Moneybags Studios is moving this premiere because this pandemic is never ending” announcements. We already did that in September. This is the ever-hopeful “here’s a solid date that we can very tentatively look forward to” kind of development, which is a…

This post contains plot details from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery Of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan. It also contains information about the conduct of one of the closest advisers to the president of the United States.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Ben Wheatley’s take on Rebecca in theaters and en route to Netflix, we’re singling out other Hitchcockian thrillers—ones that explicitly recall the master of…

It was, somehow, only last week when news broke that Ice Cube was working with the Trump administration on their “Platinum Plan,” which promises to “increase access to capital in black communities by almost $500 billion.” But it would seem that the rapper and actor isn’t all that keen on one of Trump’s large adult…