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For some time now, we’ve been tracking how long it would take the streaming giants to become regular old TV again. It’s already started to happen: adding ad tiers, windowing content to other services, bundling different apps. The truth of the matter is that the old mode of television is profitable, and the new mode…

When Paul Giamatti commits to a character, he really commits. His feet were apparently blue for “months” after being sprayed with layer upon layer of tattoo ink for 2002's (severely under-appreciated) Big Fat Liar, and he delivered his entire Oscar-nominated turn as curmudgeonly teacher Paul Hunham in The Holdovers…

[Note: this article contains spoilers for season three of CBS’ Ghosts.]

Bassem Youssef, the comedian often called “the Jon Stewart of the Middle East,” believes he lost a role in James Gunn’s film Superman: Legacy because of his outspoken pro-Palestine stance. In an interview with Salon, Youssef says he had been cast in the film but the role was rescinded shortly after he spoke with Piers…

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In news that’s making our staff scream “yes!” and probably every other horror director scream “no!!”, Oscar-nominated director Christopher Nolan just said he wants to get into the ghost game. Yes!!!

The idea many of us have of Bob Marley might veer toward caricature. At best, people know about his music and may have some idea of its political subtext; at worst, they may just know his image from dorm room posters. Even Bob Marley: One Love star Kingsley Ben-Adir admits he was in a similar boat. “Before I took on…

Bennifer fans are winning at the moment. If you’re pro-Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, you get to enjoy their relationship through This Is Me… Now, and appreciate The Greatest Love Story Never Told (now 100% more told!). If you miss Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, well, you’re also in luck, because the ex-spouses are…

You never quite know what will happen when two divas come together, but Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey are setting out to break charts not hearts with their remix of Grande’s recent ode to brushing off the haters, “yes, and?” Simply put, the two queens are maximizing their joint slay.

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you’re playing this weekend, and what…

Taylor Swift has shown her support to the Kansas City Chiefs community with a significant donation to the family of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, who died in the shooting at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade on Wednesday. Swift contributed $100,000 to a GoFundMe page made in Lopez-Galvan’s honor, leaving a note that read,…

Dancing never goes out of style, but apparently dance movies do. The 40th anniversary of Footloose has us thinking about all the dance movies we’ve loved through the years, and the scarcity of those kinds of films these days. If you look at social media, especially TikTok, dance is more popular than ever. Dancing With…

There’s a lot to talk about in the new trailer for Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, but what caught our eye was our first look at the new character fans have already started calling Mini Kong (as coined by Brian Tyree Henry’s Bernie Hayes). Not only does the tiny titan’s appearance signal that Legendary’s Monsterverse…

Welcome to the weekend edition of What’s On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, February 16 to Sunday, February 18. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What’s On publishes on Sundays.]

Much has been said, over the last 20-plus years, about Tom Green’s 2001 comedy Freddy Got Fingered—and much of it has been stridently, burn-the-house-down levelsnegative. (Roger Ebert’s famous pan remains a masterpiece of the form, deriding Green for “doing things that a geek in a carnival sideshow would turn down”…

Jon Hamm has not been hurting for work of late—even if you constrict the definition of “work” simply to mean “television acting in cowboy hats.” Case in point: Hamm, who’s fresh off a typically excellent villain turn in the most recent season of Fargo, has lined up his next project, and damn if it doesn’t sound like…

Dune: Part 2, the long-awaited follow-up to January’s erotic popcorn bucket, is less than two weeks from release. Among the most anticipated films of the year, Dune missed its original October bow because studios were trying to bankrupt writers and actors, forcing the film to compete in the shadow of Madame Web. But…

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Culture has become nothing but a giant ouroboros as of late. Just this year, we’re repeating the same Super Bowl matchup, presidential ballot, and Sarah Palin press tour as we did in 2020, but the loop goes back so much further than that. It’s been 15 years since the infamous VMA ceremony where Kanye West interrupted…