Succession creator Jesse Armstrong has stated in no uncertain terms that he’s not intent on returning to the hallowed board rooms of Waystar Royco (or Waystar Gojo or whatever the hell those crazy kids are calling it these days) any time soon. That’s perfectly understandable. The man gave us one of the greatest shows…
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If there’s one thing we can all agree on, the culture needs more Dev Patel. For years, audiences have been fancasting Patel in all sorts of projects (please, Dev Patel rom-com… save us Dev Patel rom-com!), but it turns out Patel has been busy casting himself. He’s starring in his own directorial debut, Monkey Man,…
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Nicki Minaj has earned her place as rap’s elder stateswoman, but she’s burned bridges with a lot of other female rappers along the way. The latest is Megan Thee Stallion, hip hop’s ascendant Hot Girl, with whom Minaj collaborated on Megan’s 2019 smash hit “Hot Girl Summer.” Since then, things have soured between the…
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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…
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Godzilla Minus One returns to theaters this weekend minus one important element: Color. Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color, a black-and-white version of the king lizard’s biggest Japanese movie ever, makes this old-fashioned blockbuster feel more like the era it mimics. For one week, the monster stomps into multiplexes…
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One of the most entertaining aspects of author Rick Riordan’s takes on mythology in his novels—whether they’re based on Greek, Norse, or Egyptian lore—is how he updates legendary gods and monsters and incorporates them into modern life in unexpected and fun ways. In the Disney+ adaptation of Percy Jackson And The…
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1984 is roundly considered to be one of the greatest years in pop music history, a year that produced an embarrassment of riches in both the mainstream and underground. It was a year where the echoes of Michael Jackson’s Thriller could still be felt, a year that Prince turned into a superstar and Madonna had her first…
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Welcome to the weekend edition of What’s On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, January 26 to Sunday, January 28. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What’s On publishes on Sundays.]
The family of George Carlin has launched a lawsuit against media company Dudesy this week, accusing the organization of committing “a casual theft of a great American artist’s work” by creating a generative AI project based on Carlin’s stand-up, and using it to produce an hour-long stand-up special that also imitated…
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As far as we can tell, the new trailer for Emily Bett Rickards’ upcoming Western film Calamity Jane—presented, its closing credit card cheerfully asserts, by Tubi Films—exists for the benefit of three kinds of people: Arrow fans, excited to see the actors who played Felicity Smoak and Oliver Queen hanging out together…
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If anyone ever tries to tell you that the Oscars don’t matter, one easy way to swiftly correct them is to point to the trades in the days after the nominations for The Big Show roll out—when actors who were putting in their time, often for years, start seriously reaping the rewards. Earlier today, we reported that…
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A full moon rises. A wolf howls. A single-season television show transforms into nothing.
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You can get pretty much everything you need to know about Spring Breakers and The Beach Bum director Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft from looking at one still image—which will most likely feature an infrared image of some kind of masked soldier dude holding some kind of gun, like you got bored with regular Call Of Duty an…
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A series of AI-generated images of Taylor Swift in suggestive and pornographic situations are causing an uproar on Twitter/X. While some of the images have been taken down, others remain on the platform and Swift’s army of fans have embarked on a campaign to bury the images by flooding the platform with their…
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At this point, comedian and actor Kate Berlant has taken her one-woman show, Kate, across both the country and the ocean. What began as a late lockdown-era challenge has become a piece of theater, blurring the lines between standup set and performance art in sold-out theaters in New York and London before landing in…
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Just days after she received an Oscar nomination for Killers Of The Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone has signed on to star in The Memory Police—an adaptation of Yoko Ogawa’s novel of the same name written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Reed Morano. This comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which says that the project is…
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Vince McMahon, who previously faced an internal investigation into misconduct within WWE, now faces a lawsuit from a former employee who accuses him of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. The suit alleges that McMahon and WWE’s former head of talent relations John Laurinaitis used the ex-employee “both for their own…
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