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aux As Bandcamp waives its share of sales, artists share special offers in support of Black Lives Matter
By Randall Colburn June 5, 2020 | 5:05pm
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music 5 new releases we love: Run The Jewels’ cathartic roar, Hinds’ cool polish, and more
By The A.V. Club, Cameron Scheetz, Baraka Kaseko, Randall Colburn June 5, 2020 | 5:00pm
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film The Last Days Of American Crime is a bloated sci-fi heist movie from the director of two Takens
By Jesse Hassenger June 5, 2020 | 5:00pm
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aux Here's the ballad of Ted Cruz, post-9/11 country music fan
By Reid McCarter June 5, 2020 | 4:34pm
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aux New study suggests universe is devolving into chaos, which, thanks, we know
By Alex McLevy June 5, 2020 | 4:12pm
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tv Paul Feig on cocktails and his Love Life
By Marah Eakin June 5, 2020 | 3:30pm
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aux Look at these dorky bike cops
By Reid McCarter June 5, 2020 | 3:13pm
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aux Joe Exotic's songwriter gets publishing deal, continues to write songs about Carole Baskin
By Randall Colburn June 5, 2020 | 3:04pm
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aux Disney's Lost Rides: Dick Tracy's Crime-Stoppers
By Garrett Martin June 5, 2020 | 2:30pm
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film Up crams a lifetime of joy and grief into 5 wordless minutes
By Katie Rife June 5, 2020 | 2:00pm
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games Sony Europe Hit with $2.4 Million Penalty for Illegal Refund Policy in Australia
By Joseph Stanichar June 5, 2020 | 12:30pm
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games Saints Row: The Third Remastered’s New Coat of Paint Can’t Erase Its Tired Tropes
By Joseph Stanichar June 5, 2020 | 12:10pm
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film 20 years ago, But I’m A Cheerleader reclaimed camp for queer women
By Caroline Siede June 5, 2020 | 11:00am
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aux Dr. Bernice King would like you to stop whitesplaining her father's words back to her, thanks
By Dennis Perkins June 5, 2020 | 10:20am
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games Why stop at RoboCop? 6 more characters who should join the Mortal Kombat
By Sam Barsanti June 5, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv RuPaul brings back some All Stars, plus Sesame Street on CNN, standup, and Queer Eye returns
By Allison Shoemaker June 5, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux Oprah Winfrey to host 2-night town hall on OWN about racism in America
By Sam Barsanti June 5, 2020 | 2:45am
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aux Gabrielle Union files discrimination complaint against America's Got Talent
By Sam Barsanti June 5, 2020 | 1:36am
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aux Ari Aster says his next movie, a "zonky nightmare comedy," will be 4 hours long
By Sam Barsanti June 4, 2020 | 11:56pm
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aux The NBA announces complex plan for bringing basketball back this summer
By Sam Barsanti June 4, 2020 | 10:22pm
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aux Enjoy some on-point parodies of Tom Cotton's trash New York Times op-ed
By Randall Colburn June 4, 2020 | 9:13pm
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aux Despite everything going on, Warner Bros. is apparently committed to Tenet hitting theaters in July
By Sam Barsanti June 4, 2020 | 8:11pm
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aux Jake Paul officially charged after denying involvement with Arizona mall looting
By Shannon Miller June 4, 2020 | 7:19pm
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film 30 years ago, Paris Is Burning changed popular culture but not the lives of its subjects
By Katie Rife June 4, 2020 | 7:00pm
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aux Summerfest canceled, as if we needed another reminder that summer is canceled
By Randall Colburn June 4, 2020 | 6:31pm
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aux The Dilbert guy credits "powerful and well-made" Joker for Black Lives Matter protests
By Reid McCarter June 4, 2020 | 5:18pm
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aux Comedian gets Trump goon Corey Lewandowski to celebrate child's "poopies"
By Andrew Paul June 4, 2020 | 4:49pm
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aux Jordan Peele, Edgar Wright, and other directors support John Boyega after protest speech
By Shannon Miller June 4, 2020 | 4:07pm
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aux Well, would you look at that: Tweeting the same stuff as Trump gets you suspended
By Andrew Paul June 4, 2020 | 4:02pm
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aux Losers argue over who sucks more
By Reid McCarter June 4, 2020 | 3:10pm
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tv Momma, I Made It! solidifies Yvonne Orji as a stand-up and a leading lady
By Ashley Ray-Harris June 4, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux Dwayne Johnson shares impassioned statement supporting protests: "We must say the words Black Lives Matter”
By Randall Colburn June 4, 2020 | 2:57pm
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games Call of Duty Developers Vow to Address Racism within Its Games
By Joseph Stanichar June 4, 2020 | 2:45pm
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games What Games Are Still Stuck on the Wii U, and Will They Ever Be Liberated?
By Joseph Stanichar June 4, 2020 | 1:15pm
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games Pokémon Fan Discovers Secret Changes on Holidays and Tragedies
By Joseph Stanichar June 4, 2020 | 12:15pm
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film New films from Spike Lee, Judd Apatow, and, uh, Kevin James are coming this June
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, William Hughes June 4, 2020 | 11:43am
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film We fell in love with WALL-E because of how Pixar “filmed” him
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 4, 2020 | 11:00am
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aux W. Kamau Bell assigns Conan O'Brien a whiteness tutor, urges him to tend to his own TBS house
By Dennis Perkins June 4, 2020 | 10:33am
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tv Let’s revisit some Problem Areas with Wyatt Cenac
By Allison Shoemaker June 4, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux Spanish penis candle mogul accused of causing death by ritualistic toad venom
By William Hughes June 4, 2020 | 4:03am
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aux R.I.P. Chris Trousdale, from '90s-era boy band Dream Street
By William Hughes June 4, 2020 | 3:04am
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tv Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. delivers the goods while our heroes deliver bootleg liquor
By Alex McLevy June 4, 2020 | 3:00am
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tv Nadja battles sperm-stealing witches on an engorged What We Do In The Shadows
By Katie Rife June 4, 2020 | 3:00am
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aux Disney has John Boyega's back, this time
By William Hughes June 4, 2020 | 1:32am
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aux Jeffrey Katzenberg assures worried nation that Quibi's going to get through this
By William Hughes June 3, 2020 | 11:20pm
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aux Snapchat says it will no longer promote Trump’s account, thus alerting us to Trump's Snapchat
By Randall Colburn June 3, 2020 | 9:30pm
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aux Riverdale's Vanessa Morgan calls out Hollywood, own show for mistreating Black characters
By Shannon Miller June 3, 2020 | 8:22pm
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film Kevin James playing a “scary” Nazi villain isn’t even the most ridiculous thing about Becky
By A.A. Dowd June 3, 2020 | 8:00pm
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aux Enjoy these videos of pissed-off Angelenos just eviscerating the L.A. Police Commission
By Reid McCarter June 3, 2020 | 7:20pm
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film The groundbreaking Desert Hearts brought lesbian romance to American screens
By Gwen Ihnat June 3, 2020 | 7:00pm
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aux Cannes 2020 is still on (sort of), with The French Dispatch and Pixar's Soul among its selections
By Randall Colburn June 3, 2020 | 6:48pm
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film No, Tracee Ellis Ross isn't playing her mom in The High Note, thanks
By Marah Eakin June 3, 2020 | 6:30pm
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film The director and the star of Pontypool reunite for the sleepy, scuzzy thriller Dreamland
By William Hughes June 3, 2020 | 6:00pm
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aux Superman Smashes The Klan explores history through a superhero lens
By Oliver Sava, Caitlin Rosberg June 3, 2020 | 5:00pm
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aux John Boyega delivers moving speech at protest in London
By Britt Hayes June 3, 2020 | 4:58pm
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aux "Fuck it, why wait?": Run The Jewels release new album early
By Randall Colburn June 3, 2020 | 4:57pm
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games Sega Announces Bafflingly Small and Confusing Game Gear Micro for Japan
By Joseph Stanichar June 3, 2020 | 4:45pm
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aux Lea Michele apologizes—but not for any particular thing, or to any specific person
By Shannon Miller June 3, 2020 | 4:03pm
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aux Reasonable Discussions: June 3
By The A.V. Club June 3, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux AMC Theatres now has "substantial doubt" that it can stay in business
By Britt Hayes June 3, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Ivanka Trump’s Pride tweet has been received exactly as you’d expect
By Reid McCarter June 3, 2020 | 3:40pm
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tv Ramy Youssef and May Calamawy talk Ramy season two, Mahershala Ali
By Cameron Scheetz June 3, 2020 | 3:30pm
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aux Elizabeth Warren, Spider-Man, and a nice duck joined last night's protests
By Randall Colburn June 3, 2020 | 3:26pm
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aux K-pop fans are now hard at work commandeering racist hashtags
By Reid McCarter June 3, 2020 | 2:18pm
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games Audio Logs: Where Are All the Black Videogame Composers?
By Dia Lacina June 3, 2020 | 2:05pm
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film Elisabeth Moss finds the dark soul of Shirley Jackson in a fittingly Gothic psychodrama
By Katie Rife June 3, 2020 | 2:04pm
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music Run The Jewels, HAIM, and 15 more albums we can’t wait to hear in June
By The A.V. Club, Gwen Ihnat, Katie Rife, Cameron Scheetz, A.A. Dowd, Randall Colburn, Baraka Kaseko, Erik Adams June 3, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Ratatouille tugs on taste buds, not heartstrings, and is all the better for it
By Randall Colburn June 3, 2020 | 11:00am
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aux On Late Night, Amber Ruffin talks about yet another time she was almost shot by the police
By Dennis Perkins June 3, 2020 | 10:23am
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games Why Is It So Hard to Buy Art in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
By Jim Vorel June 3, 2020 | 10:00am
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tv The Legends Of Tomorrow defend free will in a solid end to an exuberant season
By Allison Shoemaker June 3, 2020 | 8:19am
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aux This week in Savage Love: Blinders
By Dan Savage June 3, 2020 | 7:00am
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tv A new spelling bee documentary on Netflix, plus we talk to What We Do In The Shadows’ Natasia Demetriou
By Allison Shoemaker, Katie Rife June 3, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux Ruby Rose's Kate Kane will be replaced by a whole new character on Batwoman
By Sam Barsanti June 3, 2020 | 1:51am
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aux The Weeknd drops big donations to Black Lives Matter and other organizations, asks music labels to do the same
By Sam Barsanti June 3, 2020 | 12:06am
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aux Warner Bros. makes Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx legal drama Just Mercy free to rent
By Sam Barsanti June 2, 2020 | 10:18pm
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film Willem Dafoe is an addict trying to keep it together in Abel Ferrara’s disarming Tommaso
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 2, 2020 | 9:00pm
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aux No, MSNBC didn't show a clip from World War Z while reporting on the protests
By Randall Colburn June 2, 2020 | 8:46pm
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aux Dick Wolf fires writer on Law & Order spin-off for threatening to shoot looters
By Sam Barsanti June 2, 2020 | 8:39pm
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aux Halsey calls out the LAPD for its violence against peaceful protesters in L.A.
By Shannon Miller June 2, 2020 | 7:50pm
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film By any title, Show Me Love remains a sweetly perceptive coming-out story
By Alex McLevy June 2, 2020 | 7:00pm
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film Hong Sang-soo adds to the pantheon of Vertigo riffs with the ambiguous Yourself And Yours
By Mike D'Angelo June 2, 2020 | 7:00pm
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aux Common, Lizzo, and The Weeknd sign open letter calling for decrease in police budgets
By Randall Colburn June 2, 2020 | 6:29pm
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aux PSA: Posting those black squares on Instagram isn't helping anybody
By Reid McCarter June 2, 2020 | 5:04pm
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film We Are Freestyle Love Supreme is a feel-good origin story for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first troupe
By Caroline Siede June 2, 2020 | 5:00pm
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aux Conservative media clout-chaser busted for staging photo of her helping board up storefront
By Andrew Paul June 2, 2020 | 4:44pm
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aux Mission: Impossible 7 will resume (outdoor) production in September
By Britt Hayes June 2, 2020 | 4:42pm
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aux Stephanie Beatriz, Griffin Newman donate cop-show salaries, urge others to do the same
By Katie Rife June 2, 2020 | 4:25pm
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aux UPDATE: Glee's Samantha Marie Ware to Lea Michele: "You made my first TV gig a living hell"
By Shannon Miller June 2, 2020 | 4:06pm
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aux This Valley Of The Dolls history is as fun and tawdry as its subject
By Gwen Ihnat June 2, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Judge awards control of Joe Exotic's zoo to his arch-nemesis, Carole Baskin
By Britt Hayes June 2, 2020 | 3:31pm
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aux Pinhead has a YouTube page now and he’s reading us Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
By Andrew Paul June 2, 2020 | 3:02pm
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tv Bob Balaban tells us what he can about the new Wes Anderson and learning “Smelly Cat” on the fly
By Marah Eakin June 2, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux Seth Rogen not mincing words with the "all lives matter" chuds in his replies: "Stop watching my shit"
By Randall Colburn June 2, 2020 | 2:49pm
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film With Cars, Pixar took a detour into the past—and made an ironic case against progress
By William Hughes June 2, 2020 | 11:00am
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aux White late-night comics wisely turn over their shows to Black experts on racial injustice
By Dennis Perkins June 2, 2020 | 10:52am
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tv Legends Of Tomorrow plays the “Swan Thong” in its season finale
By Allison Shoemaker June 2, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux LeBron James to produce Salima Koroma documentary about Black Wall Street
By Sam Barsanti June 2, 2020 | 2:45am
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aux The Fauxnys: With the 2020 Tonys delayed, watch the show's all-time most memorable performances
By Patrick Gomez June 2, 2020 | 1:43am
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aux J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot to donate $10 million to "anti-racist" organizations
By Sam Barsanti June 2, 2020 | 1:37am
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aux From now on, Bandcamp will donate all profits on Juneteenth to the NAACP
By Sam Barsanti June 1, 2020 | 11:38pm
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aux E3 isn't happening, so here's a rundown of when you can expect this summer's video game news
By Sam Barsanti June 1, 2020 | 9:40pm
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aux James Cameron enters 14-day isolation so he can go back to making Avatar movies
By Sam Barsanti June 1, 2020 | 8:29pm
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aux Facebook employees virtually protest company's weak stance on Trump's posts
By Shannon Miller June 1, 2020 | 8:25pm
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aux Kevin Smith thinks now is the time for a Clerks: The Animated Series reboot
By Randall Colburn June 1, 2020 | 8:10pm
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film New Queer Cinema pioneer Gregg Araki gave Joseph Gordon-Levitt one of his best roles
By Jesse Hassenger June 1, 2020 | 7:00pm
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aux Sean Bean checking his script in Lord Of The Rings created a classic meme
By Reid McCarter June 1, 2020 | 6:50pm
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tv Big Mike and Delicious Milkshake Man: Can the Reno 911! cast name guest stars' characters?
By Marah Eakin June 1, 2020 | 6:30pm
