Category: A.V. Club

It’s Rumor Time: Is Walmart planning to make its own Netflix competitor?

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Walmart Sets Three Women As Directors Of Ads Airing During Oscar Broadcast
  2. Newswire: It’s Rumor Time: Is Warner Bros. planning a Superman: Red Son movie?
  3. Walmart Targets $8 Streaming Service to Take on Netflix and Amazon (Report)
  4. Is Walmart Prepping a Streaming-Video Rival to Netflix and Amazon?

Netflix releases some stylish teaser images from its new She-Ra cartoon

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. We may know which heroes will join Harley Quinn in Cathy Yan’s Birds Of Prey
  2. If there’s going to be a Kick-Ass 3, it’ll be without Chloë Grace Moretz
  3. HBO gives Fred Armisen’s Spanish-language comedy a series order
  4. Brie Larson says she’s done filming Captain Marvel

YouTuber DaddyOFive is back, pulling more “pranks” that look a lot like child abuse

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Great Job, Internet!: The full story of the horrible YouTube family that abused its kids for yucks
  2. Disney Suspends Music Exec Jon Heely After Felony Child Sex Abuse Charges
  3. YouTuber Mars Argo Accuses Ex-Partner of ‘Severe Emotional and Psychological Abuse’ in Lawsuit
  4. Brad Pitt Cleared in Child Abuse Investigation

R.I.P. Anthony Filosa, Nathan For You’s retired judge

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. ‘Nathan For You’ Star Warns That The Emmy Voting System Can Be Hacked
  2. Newswire: A pop-up shop for Nathan Fielder’s Summit Ice is opening in Vancouver
  3. Errol Morris calls the Nathan For You season 4 finale his “new favorite love story”
  4. Coming Distractions: New Nathan For You trailer introduces secret chili and asexual computer repairs

“Fred” Mercury takes the stage in the full-length trailer for Bohemian Rhapsody

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ First Trailer: Watch Rami Malek Rock You as Freddie Mercury (Video)
  2. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Official Trailer: Rami Malek Rocks His Heart Out as Freddie Mercury
  3. Rami Malek Dazzles as Queen’s Freddie Mercury in First ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Trailer
  4. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: Rami Malek Is the Champion of the World in Trailer for Freddie Mercury Biopic (Video)

Jean-Claude Van Damme was apparently “coked out of his mind” filming Street Fighter

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Jean-Claude Van Damme Teases New Amazon Series ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ — Watch
  2. ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ Review: An Ode to Jean-Claude Van Damme, His Movies, and Not Much Else
  3. ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson Trailer: Jean-Claude Van Damme Is Back – Sort Of
  4. A live-action Street Fighter TV series is in the works

The CW is developing a live-action Batwoman series, too

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. ‘Batwoman’: The CW Developing Lesbian Superhero As a New DC Drama Series
  2. Batwoman TV Series From Greg Berlanti in the Works at The CW
  3. Batwoman Series in Development at CW
  4. Batwoman TV Series In Works At the CW With Groundbreaking Lesbian Superhero Lead From Caroline Dries & Greg Berlanti

Spielberg’s Jaws adaptation cut the mafia and sex subplots—and made movie history

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. In A.I., Steven Spielberg (and Stanley Kubrick) turned an eye to loneliness
  2. Blade Runner translated Philip K. Dick’s sparse mindfuck into Ridley Scott’s overwhelming vision
  3. The Thing shows how non-metaphoric monster movies come down to craft
  4. Neither Death Wish film dares to grapple with the anti-vigilante stance of the novel

“So a drug trafficker calls into a podcast…”: Chris Gethard on this week’s shocking episode of Beautiful/Anonymous

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. LeVar Burton, Chris Gethard, Phoebe Judge, and more dish out some podcast recommendations
  2. Newswire: Chris Gethard to commit Career Suicide on HBO
  3. Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Allegations Are Shocking, But What Happens Now? — IndieWire’s Movie Podcast (Screen Talk Episode 168)
  4. Chris Gethard wants to teach you how to get strangers to open up

We may know which heroes will join Harley Quinn in Cathy Yan’s Birds Of Prey

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. If there’s going to be a Kick-Ass 3, it’ll be without Chloë Grace Moretz
  2. HBO gives Fred Armisen’s Spanish-language comedy a series order
  3. Brie Larson says she’s done filming Captain Marvel
  4. Jeremy Irons to play mysterious British lord on HBO’s “remixed” Watchmen 

Here’s what’s coming to Amazon Prime in August

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. What’s Coming to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime in August 2017
  2. Newswire: Here’s what’s coming to Amazon Prime in August
  3. Here’s what’s coming to Amazon Prime in February
  4. Here’s Everything You Can Stream With Your Amazon Prime Membership in August

Nickelodeon is bringing back Rugrats for a TV revival and “live-action” movie

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. ‘Rugrats’ Returns With Nickelodeon Series Revival & Live-Action Paramount Movie
  2. ‘Rugrats’ Gets Nickelodeon Revival, Live-Action Film From Paramount Players
  3. ‘Rugrats’ Relaunch Set With Nickelodeon Series, Paramount Movie
  4. Cyma Zarghami Steps Down as President of Nickelodeon Group

Showtime denies Sacha Baron Cohen posed as disabled veteran to trick Sarah Palin

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Sarah Palin Says She Was ‘Duped’ By Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Sick Humor”
  2. Sarah Palin Says She Was ‘Duped’ by Sacha Baron Cohen Posing as Disabled Veteran
  3. Sacha Baron Cohen Denies Fooling Sarah Palin: ‘I Did NOT Say I Was a War Vet’
  4. ‘Who Is America?’: Sarah Palin Says Sacha Baron Cohen Tricked Her Into TV Interview by Posing as Wounded War Veteran

Nathan Fillion explains his love for Nathan Drake, Uncharted’s “not-quite hero”

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Newswire: Tom Holland to play young Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie
  2. It Turns Out That ‘Uncharted’ Project Nathan Fillion Teased Is a Fan Film (Video)
  3. Nathan Fillion Takes Leaf Out Of Joss Whedon Playbook For eOne’s ABC Cop Drama ‘The Rookie’
  4. Did Nathan Fillion Just Tease a Role in an ‘Uncharted’ Movie?

Timothée Chalamet might spice up Denis Villeneuve’s Dune reboot

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Timothee Chalamet in Talks to Star in Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Remake
  2. Denis Villeneuve Confirmed to Direct ‘Dune’ Adaptation For Legendary Pictures
  3. Denis Villeneuve Is Planning At Least Two ‘Dune’ Films, If Not More: ‘It Will Probably Take Two Years to Make’
  4. ‘Dune’: Timothée Chalamet Eyeing the Lead Role in Denis Villeneuve’s Two-Part Film Adaptation

Come Inside My Mind is an inviting, uneven look at the unseen Robin Williams

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Review: ‘Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind’ is a poignant portrait of a comic giant and his vulnerability
  2. ‘Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind’ Trailer: Get the Tissues Ready — Watch
  3. ‘Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind’ HBO Documentary – First Trailer Out
  4. ‘Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind’ Film Review: HBO Doc Remembers Comic Actor With Tough Love

Man Seeking Woman’s Simon Rich wrote a tragic autobiography of Paul Revere’s horse

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Rich people are just dropping thousands of dollars on used Puff Daddy shirts now
  2. Simon Helberg Snags Horse Farm North of Los Angeles (EXCLUSIVE)
  3. Newswire: David Simon wrote a Broadway musical about The Pogues
  4. Oscar Dark Horse Simon Helberg on Working With Meryl Streep: ‘Intimate and Terrifying’

Jodie Whittaker drops off some pizza in the new Doctor Who teaser

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. New Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker Set For Comic-Con Debut By BBC America
  2. ‘Doctor Who’: First Look At Jodie Whittaker As New Time Lord
  3. ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special Teaser: Time Lords Bicker, But New Doctor Jodie Whittaker Is MIA (Video)
  4. ‘Doctor Who’ Teaser: Jodie Whittaker Makes Her Grand Entrance — Watch

Duncan Jones is making a very British comic book movie

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. The 16-Year Journey To Release For Duncan Jones And ‘Mute’ – Q&A
  2. Newswire: Justin Theroux quietly boards Duncan Jones’ Mute
  3. ‘Mute’ Trailer: Duncan Jones’ Netflix Movie Looks As Cool As You’d Expect
  4. ‘Logan’ Review: The Marvel Comic Book Movie For People Who Hate Marvel Comic Book Movies