The A.V. Club

As Halloween approaches, The A.V. Club is celebrating all that goes bump in the night, be it on screen, stage, or the page with our 2026 Horrors Week. tinyurl.com/5294243j

We're begging AI documentaries like 14th and Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive not to look like sloppy Facebook feeds. tinyurl.com/ym3ydp3r

Hellraiser reviver David Bruckner is taking over Smile 3 from a busy Parker Finn. tinyurl.com/522x484m

What do David Fincher, MTV, Kane Parsons, and YouTube all have in common? tinyurl.com/35ptvhkt

The more Lee gets beat up, the more The Lowdown heats up. tinyurl.com/5ywmwvpf

The voice actor and puppeteer who played Rocky in Project Hail Mary is being submitted for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. tinyurl.com/2veredkn

Alexander Payne has been sued over The Holdovers plagiarism accusations. tinyurl.com/mw5c9j4t

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim still have absolutely zero clarity on what Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans wanted from them. tinyurl.com/ydpcye2j

LaKeith Stanfield and Other Mommy's Rob Savage have abandoned the Molepeople. tinyurl.com/46jx3uxe

Bluesky users recently noticed a puzzling glitch in which Google AI refused to answer a simple question about who won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. tinyurl.com/2frpectu

A new Wired feature published Wednesday highlighted authors and employees at major publishers who are frustrated by the insistence on using AI tools in their workflows. tinyurl.com/n8kjebfb

John Goodman will join Claire Danes in season two of Netflix's The Beast In Me. tinyurl.com/549rjdwx

Former Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy is now in charge of the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, following Peter Rice's move to Netflix. tinyurl.com/mjx2x4uc

Nice news for prestige TV horror-heads: Crystal Lake racked up an impressive 1.3 billion watch minutes in its first 11 days on Peacock, making it the fourth most-watched scripted original series on the platform. tinyurl.com/2w8sxewu

Stage and screen legend Tovah Feldshuh called costar Adam Brody's recent statements condemning Israel's Gaza actions "right out of Hitler's playbook." tinyurl.com/4rjb3smk

During an appearance on Call Her Daddy, Jennifer Lawrence confirmed she'll return as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping, along with Josh Hutcherson and Woody Harrelson. tinyurl.com/5cay7t29

The tragedy in the documentary Everest: The Other Side underscores how personal psychology has usurped natural awe. tinyurl.com/34t9vyhz

Controversial Twitch influencer Hasan Piker claims CNN commentator Scott Jennings deliberately manipulated recordings to make him appear to advocate lynching. tinyurl.com/msauhhta

Peter Medak, director of the 1980 psychological horror film The Changeling and the 1993 crime thriller Romeo Is Bleeding, died peacefully in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to a statement from his family. He was 88. tinyurl.com/yeyw5mrs

Emma Corrin, Olivia Colman, and Jack Lowden star in the first full trailer for Netflix's Pride And Prejudice. tinyurl.com/4vdtwkha

November's most anticipated books: Look forward to a new epic fantasy from John Gwynne and a fiction debut that will almost certainly end up in your book club. tinyurl.com/y8rnhe9e