The Social Reckoning

Sign up for The A.V. Club's free newsletter to have the best TV, film, and news stories sent straight to your inbox. Recommended for You 1Chuck Lorre responds to Donald Trump via sarcastic vanity card ...

Staff Picks: A hero-free Hollywood satire and another round for Mojito fiends

For this week’s Staff Picks, TV critic Saloni Gajjar heads west for a Hollywood satire starring an unlikable Simp, and staff ...

You've already ingested AI-generated content, boasts Netflix exec

And while the list of entertainment professionals decrying the insidious process by which puny humans are erased from the ...

Shane Gillis f-bombs, bombs

Shane Gillis just can’t stop breaking Saturday Night Live records. As SNL historians know, the right-leaning stand-up was ...

The problem with AI-upscaled monstrosities isn't the AI

The problem with using the term “artificial intelligence” to cover everything from large language models to your TikTok algo ...

Chris Rock can't get out of the title character's way in the fascinating, frustrating Misty Green

Rosalind Eleazar gives a terrific performance in Misty Green, but a sterling supporting cast can't fully float the whole ...

Blade Runner 2099 trailer offers new look at humanity's bleak teal-and-orange future

Released during New York Comic Con on Saturday, Prime Video’s new trailer for Blade Runner 2099 drops one hell of an enticing ...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in his new U.N.-appointed role, addresses AI impact

As A-list directors such as Ben Affleck, Ava DuVernay, and Danny Boyle employ generative AI in their projects, some in the ...
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Social media sites offer another look at future by refusing to run ads for Musk

Sign up for The A.V. Club's free newsletter to have the best TV, film, and news stories sent straight to your inbox. Social media companies are, once again, offering ...

Nicolas Cage appears to spontaneously announce that, yeah, he's making a season of True Detective

That’s okay that I’m the first to announce that, right?” Cage asked, with a him-standard level of not really giving a shit, from the stage at New York Comic-Con on Saturd ...

Paramount+ throws two new seasons and a prequel at Avatar: Seven Havens

This is, of course, one of the benefits of having a franchise rooted in an eternally recurring hero figure: There’s a metric ...

What's the antidote to a summer of crappy boss fights?

I’ve been getting whiplash with my boss fights lately. Not just because I’ve been fighting enemies with whips—although, thanks to a recent poke at the Castlevania: Belmonts ...