The week in entertainment news: Tim Allen is more Grinch than Santa, and Flower Moon comes home
Catching up with The A.V. Club's top news stories from the week of December 4

Tim Allen was “such a bitch” on set of The Santa Clauses, says Casey Wilson
“Tim Allen was such a bitch,” Casey Wilson boldly declares in a new episode of her podcast Bitch Sesh. The Happy Endings alum had “buried” the story of her experience on The Santa Clauses for over a year because one of the Disney+ show’s producers is “a great friend” of hers and because her kids “loved the movies.” But no more: “It was the truly single worst experience I’ve ever had with a co-star ever,” she says now (via Variety). Read More
Killers Of The Flower Moon is now available to watch at home
If you were nervous about seeing a 206-minute epic with absolutely no intermissions in theaters, or you really wanted to experience Brendan Fraser and his “girth” from the comfort of your own home, today’s your lucky day. Fresh off nabbing both a Best Film win and a Best Actress win (for Lily Gladstone) from the New York Film Critic’s Circle Awards, Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon is now available to rent and buy on demand. Read More
Taylor Swift feels like she was canceled. Is that even true?
When it comes to cancel culture, it seems like there are two different worlds. There’s the real one, where everyday people live, in which words and actions have regular-sized consequences. Then there’s the celebrity world, apparently ruled by McCarthy-esque forces wielding pitchforks, eagerly waiting to ruin powerful peoples’ lives. Never mind that few people have actually materially had their lives “ruined” by a public backlash, and the few who arguably have (Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby) faced what could be categorized as justifiable legal consequences. Yet even celebrities of ostensibly upstanding character live in fear of cancelation—even the biggest stars in the world, like Taylor Swift. On Wednesday, she was named Time’s Person of the Year, despite having once been “canceled within an inch of my life and sanity,” as she puts it. Read More
Taylor Swift’s association with Jackson Mahomes is disappointing fans
Taylor Swift is in her WAG era. That’s “wives and girlfriends,” a term used in reference to the partners of athletes, and not one to which a Grammy-winning artist would typically be reduced. Yet Swift seems to be embracing the part, supporting her boyfriend Travis Kelce by rolling up to Kansas City Chiefs games flanked by fellow WAGs and coming up with cutesy secret handshakes to celebrate touchdowns. It’s all fun and games, depending on who else is in the suite. When that person is Jackson Mahomes, things get more complicated. Read More