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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They…

Books for women and by women tend to get a bad rap. They’re “chick lit,” or “trashy romances.” Fan fiction—which is…

In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one…

William Kunstler, the character that Mark Rylance plays in The Trial Of The Chicago 7, had a rich and full legal…

Heads up, Encyclopedia Brown-heads: The time has come for your dark cinematic adaptation—At least, sort of. In The…

When Supermarket Sweep premiered in 1965, it was a pricing game with a sprinting twist broadcast from various Food…

There are over 20,000 pages of court transcript from the actual trial of the Chicago 7, all of which Aaron Sorkin…

Earlier this year, when Vanity Fair teased the release of Aaron Sorkin’s new movie, The Trial Of The Chicago 7, the…

In the new movie Hubie Halloween Adam Sandler plays the dim but lovable Hubie Dubois, who strives to keep his…

It may come as no surprise to know that Adam Sandler is funny. He’s been professionally funny for almost 40 years,…

The first time we meet June Squibb’s Hubie Halloween character, Mrs. Dubois, she’s sporting an oversized T-shirt…

In Adam Sandler’s latest Happy Madison production, Hubie Halloween, the actor plays Hubie Dubois, a lonely, verbally…

In The Glorias, Julianne Moore and Lorraine Toussaint play Gloria Steinem and Florynce Kennedy, respectively,…

In Ratched, Cynthia Nixon plays a strong woman with political aspirations who falls in love with another woman and…

Gloria Steinem is 86 now, and she’s at that point in her life where—to the general public at least—she’s more of an…

Most of America’s introduction to Steve-O—whose real name is Stephen Glover—happened 20 years ago this week, when he…

Putting together a stand-up special is not easy. Michelle Buteau learned that the hard way when she was putting…

Everyone knows that falling down sucks. It’s embarrassing, you can get hurt, and even if you’re able to turn it into…

In the new Netflix series Ratched, Sophie Okonedo is Charlotte, a young woman stricken with dissociative identity…

Evan Rachel Wood steals nearly every scene in Miranda July’s new film, Kajillionaire. As Old Dolio, she’s a…