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The best new festive movies of 2026 to stream this holiday season Original
Christmastime is just around the corner, so that means a bunch of new holiday films are about to hit streamers. The crop of 2026 yuletide movies is diverse, with plenty of cozy and spirited fare (think romcoms set in winter wonderlands) and even a bit of seasonal horror (think a very thirsty vampire in a Santa suit). We’ve also thrown in some family-friendly specials and theatrical releases for good measure.
The best period dramas on Netflix
Now that Zoe Kazan’s take on the classic epic East of Eden has graced Netflix and the latest adaptation of the beloved romance Pride and Prejudice is on its way (arriving December 3, to be precise), it's as good a time as any to take stock of the best period dramas on the platform.
The best zombie movies of all time
Zombie movies refuse to die. Ever since Night of the Living Dead invented the modern version of the genre in 1968, the undead have risen continuously over the decades, mutating as they go. Sure, there’s a well-established formula – some sort of plague infects the planet, turning the deceased into ravenous cannibals looking to feast on the flesh of the living – and plenty of hacks have exploited the template to overwhelm video store shelves and streaming platforms with mindless schlock.
The Best Halloween Movies for Kids (That Aren’t Too Scary)
Let’s face it: Halloween is a children’s holiday. College kids may have usurped it as an excuse to throw costumed keg parties, and fortysomethings may use it as an excuse to put pumpkin spice in everything, but at its heart, All Hallow’s Eve is still mostly about tweens and grade-schoolers cosplaying as their favorite superhero, eating candy and allowing themselves a few innocent scares.
The 27 best movies based on true stories
Audiences have learned to view movies based on true stories with a certain amount of suspicion. Cinematic truth often differs from actual truth, and even the most accurate depictions of real events to appear on the big screen typically feature at least a sprinkling of dramatic license.
Preview Halloween Horror Nights’ bloody good ‘Sinners’ and Ozzy Osbourne haunted houses Original
A stake through the heart. A throat that’s been ripped open by some ungodly creature. A woman in a snazzy purple dress lying lifeless on the bar. Playing cards scattered across the floor. Broken tables and whiskey-slicked glasses. Bottles of Old Crow Beer lining the wall. And blood. Everywhere. Something seriously wrong happened in this room—and things will only get worse for the souls who make it out of here alive.
Fall 2026 TV preview: 38 shows to put on your radar Original
The summer might be winding down fast, but the TV calendar is hardly cooling off, as the next three months boast a bunch of series worth checking out. (If you're looking for the movies you need to see come September, we’ve got you.) This fall promises highly anticipated returns, with Black Doves, The Lowdown and Slow Horses launching new seasons.
Why Levitation in Austin is one of America’s best music festivals
7 hours ago Apparently, one Charli XCX song has the perfect CPR tempo, but I honestly hope I never have to try it. In a social media post, the American Heart Association revealed that “Card Declined” by Charli XCX has 112 beats per minute. This makes it, as the non-profit organization notes, perfect for …
Why Levitation in Austin is one of America’s best music festivals Original
We’re in the dog days of not only summer but the music-festival season. Biggies like Lollapalooza in Chicago and San Francisco’s Outside Lands wrapped up earlier this month, as did, in my neck of the woods, the more niche (but no less pricey), single-day blowout Just Like Heaven. And this year’s Coachella weekends occurred so many news cycles ago that it’s best not to think about it.
William Franklyn-Miller on Making His Big-Screen Debut as Young Washington
It can’t be easy starring in your first movie, especially when said movie happens to be about one of the most important historical figures of all time. William Franklyn-Miller, the 22-year-old British actor and lead of the drama Young Washington (out July 3), should know, as he found himself in that very position, portraying George Washington alongside a stacked cast that includes Ben Kingsley, Mary-Louise Parker, Kelsey Grammer, and Andy Serkis.
DTF St. Louis , Humpday , and the sloppy art of straight dudes getting intimate
In this week’s finale of the HBO miniseries DTF St. Louis, which A.V. Club staffers just broke down, two straight, middle-aged men (Jason Bateman’s Clark Forrest and David Harbour’s Floyd Smernitch, co-workers at a local news station who quickly became BFFs) strip down to just their underwear and get into it.
DTF St. Louis, Humpday, and the sloppy art of straight dudes getting intimate
In this week’s finale of the HBO miniseries DTF St. Louis, which A.V. Club staffers just broke down, two straight, middle-aged men (Jason Bateman’s Clark Forrest and David Harbour’s Floyd Smernitch, co-workers at a local news station who quickly became BFFs) strip down to just their underwear and get into it.
Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden team up in the funny, bloody Sunny Nights
At first blush, two of the more promising TV comedies debuting in the States this month, DTF St Louis and Sunny Nights, seem to have a lot in common. They’re both dark, with normal folks getting in over their heads resulting in a dead body—or in the case of the latter series, a body part—revealed in the premiere to set up an investigation.
Will Forte and D'Arcy Carden team up in the funny, bloody Sunny Nights
At first blush, two of the more promising TV comedies debuting in the States this month, DTF St Louis and Sunny Nights, seem to have a lot in common. They’re both dark, with normal folks getting in over their heads resulting in a dead body—or in the case of the latter series, a body part—revealed in the premiere to set up an investigation.
Will Forte and D'Arcy Carden team up in the funny, bloody Sunny Nights
At first blush, two of the more promising TV comedies debuting in the States this month, DTF St Louis and Sunny Nights, seem to have a lot in common. They’re both dark, with normal folks getting in over their heads resulting in a dead body—or in the case of the latter series, a body part—revealed in the premiere to set up an investigation.
The Surreality of Watching Industry During the Epstein Fallout
The Surreality of Watching Industry During the Epstein Fallout Published March 8, 2026 “It’s unavoidable,” griped the titular host of the live talk show “Hanging With Dr. Z” (stand-up and former Simpsons writer Dana Gould, in some very impressive Dr. Zaius ape makeup and prosthetics and loud 1970s duds) over the weekend at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles.
The surreality of watching Industry during the Epstein fallout
Works of art have captured scandals—or at least the spirits and pervading feelings of them—as they played out in reality before.
DTF St. Louis is really effing good
One sign of a really good writer is the ability to take a premise plenty of people could come up with and some could even tackle entertainingly and creatively—in the case of DTF St. Louis, it’s essentially “bored, stuck, middle-aged suburbanites dip their toes into extramarital affairs…with fatal results“—and package it in a way that nobody else could or would. Which is all to say: Steven Conrad is a really “effing,” as one of the characters in this new HBO miniseries would put it, good writer.
Love Week continues with a toast to the TV couple we don't want to get over Original
Is it weird to still be turning to a fictional network TV show, some two decades after it debuted, for life advice? Absolutely. Pathetic? More than a bit. Advisable? There’s a 99-percent chance that, no, it’s not. But it depends, as there’s one clear-eyed outlier.
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! takes a big-hearted look at an American original
Mel Brooks can really tell a story. That, admittedly, will come off as a painfully obvious observation to anyone who is even remotely aware of him.
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! takes a big-hearted look at an American original
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Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! takes a big-hearted look at an American original
10 hours ago Jimmy Kimmel has a theory about what Donald Trump's "master plan" is, assuming there's one at all — and in the clip above the late night host paints a pretty bleak picture. "I never believe there's some big master plan, but maybe there is," he says in the Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue above. "Maybe it …
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! takes a big-hearted look at an American original
Mel Brooks can really tell a story. That, admittedly, will come off as a painfully obvious observation to anyone who is even remotely aware of him.
Late night with the devil: How attacks on Kimmel and Colbert brought a fading format back to life
As the year quickly winds down, it’s worth pausing to remember, however briefly, that this business with The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel Live! actually happened. With so much noise these days, the respective cancellation and suspension of those shows—and the frightening free-speech and First Amendment implications they suggest—can easily be at risk of being drowned out by the latest, more consequential injustice and forgotten.
Late night with the devil: How attacks on Kimmel and Colbert brought a fading format back to life
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. “The Fourteenth Floor” is hardly the best episode of The Larry Sanders Show or even the season in which it ran. (That distinction, for both, goes to “Hank’s Night In The Sun.”) Which isn’t a slight: An unremarkable outing of this remarkable series isn’t bad by any stretch.
Late night with the devil: How attacks on Kimmel and Colbert brought a fading format back to life
Now Paul Dano and Matthew Lillard may have caught strays from the '90s auteur terriblé turned part-time critic, but these movies never will. If there was any film obsessive whose ideas about what constitutes a perfect movie are worth taking seriously, it's probably Quentin Tarantino, who's long been one …
December 2025 TV preview: Fallout, Stranger Things' finale, and Taylor Swift
The Abandons (Netflix, December 4) Kurt Sutter (Sons Of Anarchy, Mayans M.C.) moves from motorcycle gangs to Old West outlaws in this action drama, in which a religious Irish woman in 1850s Oregon (portrayed by Game Of Thrones’ Lena Headey) is forced to stand up to Gillian Anderson’s powerful, land-hungry adversary. Lucas Till, The Nightingale‘s Aisling Franciosi, and Nick Robinson co-star.
Imposter thriller Malice presents a "manny" from hell and almost no subtlety
Any show in which David Duchovny plays a rich dick with a chokingly self-satisfied air about him is at least worth a look, no? The guy has a natural onscreen charisma going back to his The X-Files days and can, as any fan of The Larry Sanders Show no doubt knows, be quite funny.
Stephen King's Entertainment Weekly column was the best worst thing
It was, objectively and with respect, not a very good column. And it started at a time when a column—like, say, Bill Simmons’ “The Sports Guy” for ESPN—had a lot of power and could be the first thing readers wanted to talk about, as well as when big-deal novelists (who likely didn’t need the paycheck) having one wasn’t unheard of: Nick Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” column in The Believer (which also kicked off in 2003) was, as memory serves, often great.
Down Cemetery Road hits a sweet spot of thrills and odd-couple comedy
Before Sarah ends up in that shabbily charming office, things start, like they often do in Apple TV shows, with a bang—in this case, a nearby explosion that interrupts a dinner that was becoming very uncomfortable thanks to a cartoonishly dickish, rich-guy guest (portrayed by Baby Reindeer‘s Tom Goodman-Hill).
It's always (mostly) sunny at UNEC: How Undeclared started a new chapter for Freaks And Geeks crew
How do you follow up something perfect? It’s a very enviable and—one would assume—daunting question.
Mo Amer to invite fans into his Wild World in new Netflix special
Amer also found a home on Netflix for Mo, the series he co-created with Ramy Youssef. Mo, which premiered in 2022 and ran for two seasons, starred Amer and was loosely based on his life as a Palestinian refugee living in Texas. The second season was released in January of this year and “doesn’t shy away from political issues,” as The A.V. Club‘s Saloni Gajjar wrote in an essay on its series finale.
Tom Hanks, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and over 400 celebrities sign ACLU pledge supporting Jimmy Kimmel
The letter acknowledges that attacks on freedom of expression are also affecting non-famous people like teachers, students, government employees, and more. But “if it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us,” the logic goes. The signees profess a love of the country, concluding, “This is the moment to defend free speech across our nation.
Spoiler Space: The Biblical scapeGOAT in Him
Set at the isolated desert compound of fading star Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans), the old GOAT quarterback on his way out to pasture, Him follows the trials of incoming rookie QB Cam Cade (Tyriq Withers), who gets the rare invite to train under Isaiah. Over the course of six days, Cam’s trials grow increasingly violent, invasive, and surreal; a run in the desert heat gives way to a murderous attack by the cultish fans camping round-the-clock outside Isaiah’s lair.
Sam Claflin sees dead people in Harlan Coben’s Lazarus trailer
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Aw, look at Baby Yoda bein' all cute in The Mandalorian And Grogu teaser
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John Oliver says "history will remember" the "cowards" who suspended Jimmy Kimmel
But I will say this. If we’ve learned nothing else from this administration’s second term so far, and I don’t think we have, is that giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away. It just makes him come back hungrier each time. They are never going to stop. They’ve literally said that openly. After Kimmel’s suspension, Trump posted, ‘That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers on fake news NBC. Their ratings are also horrible.
Tom Holland suffers head injury from Spider-Man: Brand New Day stunt
A source close to the production said Holland will now take a break from filming “out of precaution.” A meeting will reportedly take place on Monday to adjust the shooting schedule, but Holland is expected to return to filming in a few days.
English Teacher season 2 is, thankfully, more of the same
Formulaic might sound like a pejorative when it comes to talking about modern TV—and it isn’t exactly the first word that springs to mind to describe a word-of-mouth show on FX—but there is something so wonderfully formulaic about English Teacher.
Ted Sarandos thought the pitch for streaming entertainment "sounded nuts"
Sarandos apparently pushed back on the idea, but Hastings was adamant, telling him, “‘No. In fact, if you think you’re still gonna be getting your entertainment on cable, you should not only [not] take this job—don’t buy my stock when I go public,'” Sarandos remembered. “So he laid this out. I wasn’t even sure I believed him, to be honest with you.
Spinal Tap II, like so many comedy sequels, succumbs to nostalgic respectability
Now, Spinal Tap is adored—with no shortage of praise for the film or McKean, Guest, Shearer, and Reiner’s creation—and it throws the entire sequel off its axis. They never manifested in the off-screen world as something like Anvil, the Canadian one-hit-wonder metalhead lifers of Anvil! The Story Of Anvil, a documentary hailed as a real-life Spinal Tap when it came out in 2008.
R.I.P. Robert Redford, beloved leading man and Sundance founder
But these were just a drop in the bucket compared to the resume that would make Redford one of the defining faces of ‘70s film. Piling on the box office success were The Great Gatsby, and a string of team-ups with filmmaker Sydney Pollack: Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, The Electric Horseman, and Three Days Of The Condor.
Slow Horses widens its spotlight (and turns down the emotional drama) in season 5
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Slow Horses widens its spotlight (and turns down the emotional drama) in season 5
“I want what I always want,” Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), perpetually the smartest guy in the room, plainly tells the head of MI5 (James Callis’ Claude Whelan), perpetually the dumbest, in the closing minutes of the upcoming season of Slow Horses, “…to be left in utter fucking peace.” The more things change, the more they remain the same on this show.
Tim Robinson's The Chair Company manufactures release date and first look
The Chair Company gave us doubles today. Almost exactly a year after it was ordered by HBO, the upcoming Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin series has both a premiere date and a first look. Make sure you claim the comfiest chair in your living room this fall, because The Chair Company will officially arrive on both HBO and HBO Max October 12.
Bryan Fuller makes his monstrous feature directorial debut with Dust Bunny trailer
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Mobs, billionaires, and a bit of repetition infiltrate Only Murders In The Building
Hangout shows usually apply to comedies like Seinfeld, Friends, Happy Endings, and, most recently, Adults. Hulu’s Only Murders In The Building, however, has not-so-sneakily joined this category over the years. The series has become less and less the unique true-crime satire it started out as and more a show that coasts along on vibes and the strong chemistry of its leads.
Ava DuVernay, Yorgos Lanthimos, and more pledge to boycott "Israeli film institutions"
As filmmakers, actors, film industry workers, and institutions, we recognize the power of cinema to shape perceptions. In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror. The world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, has ruled that there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza, and that Israel’s occupation and apartheid against Palestinians are unlawful.
R.I.P. Brent Hinds, Mastodon co-founder and singer-guitarist
Hinds was born in Alabama but relocated to Atlanta in the ’90s, per Pitchfork. It was here that he met bassist Troy Sanders, whose band, Four Hour Fogger, he initially joined. When that band fell apart, the two linked up with drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher to form Mastodon in 2000.
Peter Jackson's got a new episode of The Beatles Anthology docuseries in the tank
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