YouTube has had free “movies” for years, most of them ripped from somebody’s DVD copy with a bizarrely cropped video and poorly synced audio (and they even used to be chopped up into 10-minute chunks), but lately the video site has been adding actual legal content that users can buy in order to make it more…

Out of all of the things made possible by Disney’s acquisition of the Star Wars brand back in 2012, few have been as highly anticipated—or as fraught with the potential for fuck-ups—as the chance to see what its famed Imagineers could do with a Wars-themed “Land” at the company’s parks. The end result of that effort…

A Japanese anime collector has just helped fill in one of the missing pieces of Western animation history, as THR reports that Disney has recovered footage of one of its “lost” animated shorts, featuring the company’s most beloved and popular character: Oswald The Lucky Rabbit.

Although the seven years since Friday Night Lights went off the air have been justifiably great for Connie Britton—including starring roles on shows like 9-1-1, Nashville, American Horror Story, and, most recently, Bravo’s Dirty John—they’ve been a lot harder on those of us with a criminally weak grasp on the…

When Christopher Nolan rallies in support of a streaming service, you know things are getting serious. Following the outcry among critics, filmmakers, and all reasonable cinema lovers who think it might be a little bit of an issue if films made more than 30 years ago were practically impossible to find on the platform…

December is typically a wintry month well-suited to Holiday-themed content, but apparently nobody told Amazon Prime about our human traditions. The streaming service clearly couldn’t care less about holidays or wintriness, as its offerings in December could just as easily be coming in one of the loser months like May…

Dan Aykroyd has put his name behind a lot of, let’s say, out there ideas over the years—many of the revolving around crystal skulls, and the life-giving powers and vodka contained within—but none are more bizarre than his continued, dogged, and utterly scientifically unfounded belief that there will ever be a …

Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger) and Lily James (Cinderella) are both veterans of the unnecessary remake game, having similarly spent their early careers retreading someone else’s more beloved and celebrated work. It’s fitting, then, that the two of them are gearing up for a remake of Rebecca, that classic story of…

We may have been a little too eager to declare whether or not something is part of the nebulous Cloverfield series in the past, but the trick of those movies has always been that it’s hard to tell what they’re really about until the very last moment. It’s sort of like a cinematic Schrödinger’s cat, in that any film…

Remember that episode of Twin Peaks: The Return that sort of established an origin story for all of the show’s unhinged weirdness, with several sustained minutes of exposition-free black-and-white footage of an atomic bomb test followed by what seemed to be a depiction of otherwordly evil being birthed into our…

Despite the best efforts of the internet, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences isn’t giving up on its absurd quest to introduce an Oscar for “outstanding achievement in popular film”—or, as it’s more commonly known, the “best popular film” Oscar. As Variety reports, Academy president John Bailey returned…

A single woman meets a man. They flirt, they kiss, they have sex. Sound familiar? Of course, it’s every rom-com ever. Now imagine that single woman is in her late fifties, and you’ll struggle to name more than a few films with a similar synopsis.

At this point, everybody who wanted to Bradley Cooper’s latest take on A Star Is Born has already seen it, meaning we all already know how the tragic end of this tragic story differs from the tragic end of all the previous versions of the tragic story, but it turns out that Cooper and the rest of the people behind…

Let Wes Anderson poke around a museum for too long, and he’ll end up curating his own art show. No, seriously. That’s what happened when Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum invited two of its frequent visitors— Anderson and his partner, designer Juman Malouf—to sort through its 14 collections of historical objects to…

In an absolutely non-stunning turn of events, German Playboy is now claiming that it maybe, possibly, sorta-kinda misquoted composer Ennio Morricone in a recently published interview. Just one day after insisting that the interview—in which Morricone allegedly referred to Quentin Tarantino as a “cretin,” among other…

According to Variety, Sharp Objects creator Marti Noxon has signed a multi-year deal to develop new programming exclusively for Netflix, meaning the streaming service has stolen yet another high-profile content-creator from the dark misery of—shudder—traditional TV. In a comment that was intended to be jokier than it…

Lin-Manuel Miranda is good at everything, whether it’s writing songs for Moana, making a cameo on How I Met Your Mother, or getting into a duel with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, but the one thing everybody wants to see from him is—altogether now!—raps about history. So far, there has really only been one way…

We tend to adhere to an attitude of cautious optimism here at The A.V. Club, since it’s not fair to judge something before you can really experience what it has to offer, but a movie studio has made it clear that it knows absolutely nothing about a character that is extremely important to us, and we are really darn…

This morning, we got our first look at Toy Story 4, which seems like it’s going to be a movie that questions the nature of toy reality, but it turns out that Pixar’s latest epic is going up against a movie with a much simpler message: Some toys will stab the shit out of you and then say bad words in an off-putting man…

Stan Lee, comics-industry legend and co-creator of such timeless characters as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Black Panther, Thor, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, has died. The Hollywood Reporter confirms the news. He was 95.