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William Hughes

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Simpsons prophecy comes true again, as Cypress Hill teams up with London Symphony Orchestra - The...

The prophetic abilities of The Simpsons are legendary at this point—a knack for predicting the future that’s one part “sheer number of shots taken,” one part luck, and a whole bunch of “Today’s satire becomes tomorrow’s depressingly dumb reality.” At least this latest instance of the show getting something right is more likely to get Marge Simpsons’ toe-tapping approval, then the usual horrorshows, though: Legendary hip hop group Cypress Hill announced today that they’ll soon be playing with the…
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Video game actor strike "likely" happening soon, SAG-AFTRA says - T...

Nobody loves sequels like the video game industry—which might explain why it’s seemingly careening toward a follow-up to one of the biggest pop culture events of 2023: The SAG-AFTRA strike that shut down Hollywood for a massive 118 days. That’s per SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director/That Guy Who’s Always Standing With Fran Drescher In Press Conferences Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, who said as SXSW this weekend that a strike between video game companies and video game actors is now looking “likely…
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Okay, fine, this Tenacious D cover of "…Baby One More Time" is pret...

Few people on this planet are better at conveying (or being rewarded for conveying, if you want to be a tad cynical about it) a sense of having a really good time as Jack Black, who can project clearly genuine enthusiasm about damn near anything—including his very long tenure in the title role of Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda movies. Said enthusiasm is, for instance, the primary commodity on offer in the new music video just released for the animated feature, in which Tenacious D (a.k.a., Black and…
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Game Theory: Thank god, someone finally fixed poker - The A.V. Club

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 theories it’s got you kicking around. You know you’re playing a good poker video game when the developers need to come up with whole new, never-before-seen poker hands just to cover…
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March 2024 TV Preview: The Regime, X-Men '97, Palm Royale - The A.V...

TV sure feels like it’s officially back—and no, it’s not just because Grey’s Anatomy is about to launch its landmark 20th season. March is jam-packed with plenty of exciting television, including Kate Winslet’s return to HBO, Apple TV+’s star-studded ’60s dramedy Palm Royale, and the highly anticipated X-Men ’97. We’re also being treated to new episodes of Invincible and Girls5eva, another Liane Moriarty thriller, Noel Fielding’s turn as a 19th-century thief, and Ewan McGregor’s Showtime series…
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HBO promises you'll be getting new Game Of Thrones stuff in 2024 an...

Big news today for the none of you out there who were eagerly awaiting yet another Game Of Thrones prequel spin-off: HBO/Max has confirmed that it’s set a late 2025 release date for its latest such project—a span of time that will hopefully be spent figuring out where to chop words off of the title *deep breath* Game Of Thrones: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight. As the name almost entirely fails to imply, GOT:AKOTSK:THK is set to be an adaptation of Martin’s well-loved “Dunk An…
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Eminem, inventor of "stans," is producing a documentary about them ...

Among Eminem’s various contributions to our cultural lexicon—Mom’s spaghetti, “real” Slim Shadys, an abiding and unshakeable affection for Venom—few are as likely to endure as long as “Stans.” Named for Eminem’s 2000 song/Devon Sawa trivia factoid, the term has come to serve as a blanket label for too-obsessive fans that extends far beyond its initial coinage on The Marshall Mathers LP. (Although few stans, thankfully, go as far as the one from what is, we’re reasonably sure, the single darkest…

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Uber Eats alters Super Bowl ad to remove "potentially fatal allergy...

As far as marketing messages go, “We don’t care if you live or die” is kind of a, let’s call it, tricky one. (Sprite could have pulled it off back in the 1990s, maybe, but those people were maniacs.) Hence, presumably, news that Uber Eats has had to slightly dial down one of its big, expensive ad spots for this weekend’s big, expensive Super Bowl, after some consumers pointed out that making fun of someone with a peanut allergy for forgetfully eating peanut butter might rub certain people (i.e.,…
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SNL is bringing fired-after-four-days cast member Shane Gillis back...

In what we can only assume is some sort of ongoing campaign to get Bowen Yang to distance himself so far from the weekly goodnights that they turn into a Where’s Waldo? puzzle, Saturday Night Live has announced that it’s tapping comedian Shane Gillis to be its next guest host. Which is interesting, in so far as Gillis is most famous, to a lot of people, for being the record holder for what might be the single shortest cast member tenure in all of SNL history, after he was fired from the series i…
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Carl Weathers came up with his own weirdo Arrested Development "cha...

In the grand pantheon of actors playing weird, crappy version of themselves for comedy, it’s damn hard to top Arrested Development and the late Carl Weathers. (Who died on Friday, at the age of 76.) The key to Weathers’ performance, as is so often the case in comedy, comes down to specificity: “Carl Weathers,” the Rocky star and acting coach who insinuates himself into the Bluths’ lives as an acting coach for David Cross’ endlessly deluded Tobias, wasn’t just vain, or arrogant, or any of the oth…
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Persona 3: Reload review: A re-energized revival of a grim gaming c...

When grappling with a video game remake—in this case, Persona 3: Reload, which is, by our count, at least the fourth separately sold version of Atlus’ classic RPG to hit store shelves since the game first smashed its way into the genre back in 2006—you have to start by asking which kind of remake you’re actually dealing with. Cynical cash grab? A complete re-invention? Or the strange middleground—an effort to resurrect something singular, maybe a bit lost to the mists of past console generations…