“If you can get it right, there’s a real opportunity to advance the racial discussion in America.” This is what HBO president Casey Bloys said after scores of people made it clear they didn’t, actually, want a speculative series about slavery in the modern age from the two guys in the above picture. Well, it appears…

Good news for everyone who’s found their TV-watching habits insufficiently dragon-filled since Game Of Thrones went off the air last year: HBO president Casey Bloys has hazily confirmed that the show’s spin-off prequel, House Of The Dragon, will run on the network some time in 2022. That’s a measly two years away,…

Daniel Radcliffe, refined English thespian, has guns bloodily bolted to his hands in the trailer for Guns Akimbo, a grimy-looking exploitation flick tapping, at least in the below trailer, into?that Neveldine-Taylor magic. That’s not to be reductive, of course, as Kiwi director Jason Lei Howden has an aesthetic all…

Superheroes were a quaint thing in the ‘60s, with Adam West and Burt Ward leading the charge as a much sillier spin on Batman and Robin than we’re accustomed to seeing these days. Still, as boomers will remind you, Batman was a huge fucking deal, despite the show’s relentless campiness and infatuation with labeling…

In a 2016 interview, Escape From Tarkov designer Pavel Dyatlov said women weren’t in the game because they ”can’t handle that amount of stress.” After renewed scrutiny of the comments last week, studio Battlestate Games took to Twitter to distance themselves from Dyatlov’s statements. They noted that “game lore” and…

The people who make animated films, despite contributing to one of the most popular types of movie, rarely get proper recognition. Every year, though, the Academy Awards provide an opportunity to reward at least a handful of them with an opportunity to stand up on stage and receive praise for their hard work. To…

Why does every waiter act like they needs to explain how menus work now? They’re menus. Appetizers up top, desserts at the bottom. We get it. That topic and more are covered in our interview with Avenue 5's Zach Woods and Rebecca Frost, above. On Armando Iannucci’s new farce, premiering this weekend on HBO, the pair…

Just a few days after Issa Rae offered congratulations to “those men” during the Oscar nominations telecast, the rising multi-hyphenate has dropped a teaser for the fourth season of her Emmy-nominated HBO comedy, Insecure.

Back in the good ol’ days, Fridays used to mean something. “TGIF,” these modern youngsters ironically holler on the way out of their TikTok factories and back to their avocado-shaped tiny homes, oblivious to what those letters once stood for. There was a time when we would shout “TGIF!” with pride as we gathered…

Look, if you were to tell us 10 years ago that this whole “furry” thing would someday evolve into a lasting, complex meta-culture of sexual fetishes, post-ironic memes, conspiracies, occasional Nazism, and inclusivity activism, we’d have probably laughed ourselves out of breath, then returned to discussing how?My…

Who is Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as the title character of Dolittle for, exactly? It’s a snuffling, shuffling, head-twitching collection of tics, with aphysicality that’s more evocative of a nervous squirrel than the actual CGI squirrel who accompanies Dr. Dolittle on his adventures across the sea. Downey’s…

In a fairly major get, Apple has acquired the rights to Beastie Boys Story, a new documentary produced and directed by Spike Jonze, who directed the unforgettable video for the iconic group’s hit single, “Sabotage.” Described as a “live documentary experience,” Beastie Boys Story explores the history of the band from…

Though Game Of Thrones ended last year, its lessons reverberate throughout modern culture—lessons like, say, solving interpersonal disputes by up and demanding that they be decided upon with sword duels. As reported by the Des Moines Register, this, incredibly, is exactly what a 40 year-old man from Kansas has done.

We’re nearing the end of The Good Place?(it’s hard for us to even admit that, we are bereft), so it should perhaps come as no surprise that its creator and steward, Michael Schur, is talking about it a little more freely than he otherwise might. (Case in point: Our own Erik Adams’ chat with him about last week’s…

What’s the point of making a Bad Boys movie without Michael Bay? Assuming that there was a point to these things, beyond giving the Wesleyan-educated frat-guy auteur an opportunity to show his portfolio of camera moves. The first one, which starred Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as a couple of wisecracking Miami…

Summer is usually the time for a nostalgia tour or two, with previously announced matchups like Matchbox Twenty and The Wallflowers, Foreigner’s Jukebox Heroes tour with Kansas and Europe, and M?tley Crüe with Def Leppard and Poison set to bring live sets of recognizable songs to fans across the country. Billboard…