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It appears President Bartlet won’t be elected to another term. Per Deadline, that West Wing reunion hyped by series alums Mary McCormack and Josh Malina is happening… in book form. “What? You were expecting a reboot?” Malina joked on Twitter to the sound of a thousand neo-liberal Baby Boomers sighing out in…

It’s an election year, which means—among other things—that Donald Trump’s Spotify playlist is about to get a lot smaller. In one of his most Veep-adjacent stunts yet, the twice-impeached and many-times-indicted former president played a song by The Smiths ahead of a recent campaign rally in South Dakota, and...…

Can Deadpool 3 resuscitate superhero movies? We’ll soon find out, as the third film in the violent, raunchy franchise has just wrapped, according to Ryan Reynolds. The actor has long been teasing the on-screen reunion between himself and Hugh Jackman, with whom he first starred in the much-maligned 2009 film X-Men…

The Daily Show finally hired a host. That long-awaited leader is... Jon Stewart, who will be returning to the hosting desk eight years after initially stepping down in 2015.

The road to hell is paved with discourse, and no one can discourse better (or just more) than film fans. Most years around awards season, an outrage narrative will arise regarding a particular scandal or snub, one where the tenor of the discourse begins to eclipse the actual subject of the discourse. Such is the case…

Jacqueline Novak’s new special Get On Your Knees is ostensibly about a “certain body part,” per Netflix’s description, but on this she would like to correct the record. The show, she says, is about overreaching; she didn’t set out to make penis jokes, “I was just forced to, to make my points,” she explains to The A.V…

Reid Scott as Det. Vincent Riley in the new season of Law & Order Photo: Virginia Sherwood/NBC As an NBC programmer, you don’t renew the three Law & Order shows to worry about them; you expect Dick Wolf and his army of showrunners to keep the melodrama flowing in a pleasingly pressurized stream. (The network’s Chicago dramas, particularly Fire, do this incredibly well, with formulas that are so tight that cast members are basically interchangeable. Knock an eight-season... Читать дальше...

As an NBC programmer, you don’t renew the three Law & Order shows to worry about them; you expect Dick Wolf and his army of showrunners to keep the melodrama flowing in a pleasingly pressurized stream. (The network’s Chicago dramas, particularly Fire, do this incredibly well, with formulas that are so tight that cast…

Melissa Barrera is once again taking the high road on her whole Scream debacle. Two months ago, the In The Heights actor was severed from the franchise after she referred to the Israel-Hamas war as “GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING” on social media. Now, having had some time to process and with two new horror films, Your…

Are you the sort of person who saluted the screen when the fleet of little boats arrived at Dunkirk beach in Christopher Nolan’s much-lauded war film? Did you choke back a sob when Sgt. Warren “Skip” Muck and Pfc. Alex Penkala were killed instantly (and together) by an artillery barrage in Band Of Brothers? And do the…

Clockwise from top left: Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures), The Zone Of Interest (A24), Napoleon (Apple TV+), Barbie (Warner Bros.), Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) Graphic: The A.V. Club The final stretch of awards season is here, so how many of the Oscar-nominated films have you seen? If the answer is “not enough,” or you just feel like hosting your own Barbenheimer double feature at home, we’ve got you covered. Between the many streaming platforms, video-on-demand services... Читать дальше...

The final stretch of awards season is here, so how many of the Oscar-nominated films have you seen? If the answer is “not enough,” or you just feel like hosting your own Barbenheimer double feature at home, we’ve got you covered. Between the many streaming platforms, video-on-demand services, and good old-fashioned…

Netflix users still on the company’s most affordable plan, currently known as Basic (not pejorative), might lose access to their $9.99 ad-free plan later this year. Per Vulture, in the company’s earnings report earlier today, Netflix said they have begun retiring the Basic plan in “ads countries, starting with Canada…

The 24 hours after the Oscar nominations are announced has historically been the period when we all let out our frustrations over the terrible snubs of the year, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera are joining in the festivities this year after the Motion Picture Academy declined to nominate director Greta…

Despite Netflix and MrBeast’s best efforts to take the sting out of Squid Game, the original Korean series will finally return to the streamer this year. Per Variety, Netflix announced the second season of their 2021 Emmy winner in a letter to shareholders today.

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When the 96th annual Academy Award nominations were announced today, the biggest surprise was that there weren’t any really big surprises. With 13 nominations to its name, it may seem like Oppenheimer is set to dominate the awards, as it has all season. But the Academy is still the Academy and, to borrow a phrase…

Disney and Marvel Studios’ decision to bring back Charlie Cox’s Daredevil for a new series called Daredevil: Born Again has been a real roller coaster for fans of Netflix’s Daredevil series. It was exciting to hear about the show and that Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin would also be returning, plus the news that Jon…

This morning, Lily Gladstone became the first Native American woman to be nominated for Best Lead Actress at the Academy Awards—meaning she would also be the first to win, if she wins. Gladstone’s nomination came from her work as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, about how a conspiracy…

The whole point of Netflix, when it started streaming, was to be different from traditional television; the company created the full-season binge model with paid subscriptions that circumvented ads. Now, the point of Netflix is to replace traditional television, and that means in some cases becoming traditional…