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A new Treasure Island is lost at sea - A.V. Club

Treasure Island, the 1883 boys adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, is in the public domain. This means anyone can do pretty much whatever they want with it, without having to worry about payin…

Bayou crimes mostly go unpunished in the haunting HBO doc The Pet Cemetery Murders - A.V. Club

It would be ridiculously unfair to stack Phil Cairneys HBO docuseries The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story against the work of the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. The Pet Cemeter…

The problem with AI-upscaled monstrosities isn't the AI - A.V. Club

The problem with using the term “artificial intelligence” to cover everything from large language models to your TikTok algo to whateverOpenAI and Anthropic are panicked about in order to raise fundi…

Aaron Sorkin explains the "polish" he's added for A Few Good Men's return to Broadway - A.V. Club

For the first time since its premiere in 1989, A Few Good Menis returning to the Broadway stage. Playwright Aaron Sorkin worked with screenwriter William Goldman when it was adapted into the 1992 fil…

These PBS space documentaries explore the wonders of our universe - A.V. Club

Space: The final frontier. Humanity has been fascinated by it since time immemorial, captivated and frightened in turn by its beautiful scale and vastness. Public broadcaster PBS has long been a home…

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds goes full soap opera, to mixed results - A.V. Club

When you commit to a long-term relationship with a TV show, you have to learn to see it for what it is and not what you want it to be. My ideal version of Star Trek isnt a show driven by weekly pasti…

Gal Gadot jogs into people for an entire hour in The Runner - A.V. Club

Some actors get showcases. Gal Gadot gets made an example of. The Runner, an Amazon thriller where she jogs around London for an hour bumping into shit, seems like a punishment, something imposed by …

Why do people get so weird about Grand Theft Auto? - A.V. Club

Over the past week, the biggest story in all of gaming was a series of videos that showed not much, actually. The issue (which has now launched god knows how many YouTube reaction videos, an odd apol…