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The return of Broken Social Scene is fully underway. The band has unveiled its first new song in seven years, “Halfway Home,” playing it on last night’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert along with collaborators like Emily Haines from Metric and Amy Millan from Stars. It was a lively number, complete with hand claps and horns:

Along with the track—which is now available on iTunes—the group revealed a series of mostly European tour dates beginning in May. Right now, it’s still unclear when the full album of new material will be released, but summer is looking more and more likely.

Broken Social Scene 2017 Tour

5/23—Albert Hall—Manchester, United Kingdom
5/24—Brixton Academy—London, United Kingdom
5/26—Immergut Festival—Neustrelitz, Germany
5/28—Trix Club—Antwerp, Belgium
5/29—Paradiso—Amsterdam, Netherlands
5/30—Alhambra—Paris, France
6/1—Primavera Sound ...

Seriously, what the hell is going on in The Book Of Henry? On a surface level, we understand that the movie is about an 11-year-old genius named Henry (Jaeden Lieberher) who takes care of his waitress mom Susan (Naomi Watts) and his younger brother Peter (Jacob Tremblay)—and his family’s finances, apparently. So protective is Henry, that he feels compelled to take charge when he concludes that his next-door neighbor Christina (Maddie Ziegler) is being abused by her stepfather Glenn (Dean Norris).

Dig into that premise a little deeper, though, and this thing starts to get all kinds of dark. There’s the odd relationship between Henry and his mother, for starters—at one point, she tells her [pal Sheila (Sarah Silverman) that Henry is the only man she needs in her life—which apparently extends to Susan committing murder at her eldest boy’s bidding. At least, that ...

Fargo season three’s brotherly feud heats up in this new preview, which sees Ewan McGregor putting himself down and preparing to rob himself as brothers Ray and Emmit Stussy. The extended trailer folds in several other early looks at the new season of Noah Hawley’s anthology series, which will see Carrie Coon playing the long arm of the law opposite David Thewlis’ undoubtedly nefarious character. Truly, things are going to get ugly in this small town, though we won’t have to worry about anyone making meth out of frozen orange juice concentrate as that’s not actually a thing.

You can visit Fargo beginning April 19 on FX.

Welcome to our Game In Progress coverage of Persona 5. Over the next several weeks, Internet Culture Editor Clayton Purdom will be playing through the long-awaited latest entry in Atlus’ acclaimed high-school role-playing games. As always, we invite you to play and comment along (once the game is released on April 4).

It’s been almost a decade since Persona 4 came out. (Nine years, but who’s counting.) That’s a long time in any medium, but an eternity in video games, where annualized sequels are supplemented with a steady trickle of year-round downloadable content. To take a full console generation off, as Persona did, is an unconscionable indulgence. True, Persona 4 was polished and rereleased in near-perfect form for Sony’s portable Vita console in 2012, and the team did release a low-key classic in its psychosexual block-climbing game Catherine from 2011, as well as a handful of ...

Starz’s American Gods series, which is based on the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman and counts Bryan Fuller as one of its showrunners, is about a coming war between old gods that represent traditional belief systems and new gods based on modern obsessions like technology and celebrity. Given that premise, it naturally has a pretty wild opening title sequence combining religious iconography with modern delights like wires, drugs, and machine guns. Starz has released that opening sequence—which was created by a studio called Elastic—ahead of the show’s April 30 premiere date, and you can see it for yourself below.

In a statement (via Deadline), Fuller and fellow showrunner Michael Green asked if it’s strange “to want action figures from a main title sequence” and highlighted the “crucified astronauts, neon cowboys, and S&M centaurs” as their favorite details.

Get Out is a bona fide phenomenon, a massive critical and commercial success that made history as the first debut film by a black writer-director to gross $100 million. So it makes sense that executives would be clamoring to suck that writer-director, Jordan Peele, up into the jet engine of the blockbuster studio system. But there’s still reason to look askance at a new rumor out of CinemaCon—where Peele will receive the Director of the Year award later today—that Peele is currently in talks to direct Warner Bros.’ live-action adaptation of Akira.

The rumor originated with The Tracking Board, which last week was reporting that Life’s Daniel Espinosa and Lights Out’s David F. Sandberg were in the running for the job. (Before that, the site touted Justin Lin as a frontrunner.) Now the site says that Peele is Warner Bros.’ top pick, based on ...

In addition to housing a surprising number of flat-earth conspiracy theorists, the NBA is home to many of the world’s most dynamic, inventive athletes. There are also, as a delightful investigation on ESPN reveals, a shocking number of peanut butter and jelly devotees among those players. Like, all of them.

As Baxter Holmes reports, almost every major team in the NBA preps dozens of PB&J sandwiches for players as a pre-game, mid-game, and post-game snack. Each team and even each player has their own preferences that must be adhered to:

The Trail Blazers offer 20 crustless, halved PB&J’s pregame—10 of them toasted, a mandate ever since an opposing arena prepared them as such and Blazers guard Damian Lillard approved… The Rockets make sure the PB&J is available in their kitchen at all times, in all varieties—white and wheat bread, toasted, untoasted, Smucker’s strawberry and grape ...

New York magazine reports that Google is getting ready to kill off one of its most beloved features: Google Talk (or, as it’s more colloquially known, Gchat), the little conversational window lurking like a time-devouring landmine on the side of every Gmail session. The service’s main chat functionality will be taken over by Google Hangouts, which the company rolled out a few years ago, and which have slowly become the center of its social messaging tools.

Still, we’ll miss old-school Gchat, the inescapable, weirdly intimate chat medium that could always be plausibly passed off as “checking emails,” and, thus, work. Google will formally kill the unofficial “AIM-for-grown-ups” off in June.

Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes

Cooperative games are the best sorts of games, especially if you’re a naturally competitive person. Instead of pitting people against each other, these games encourage players to work together for a common goal, and no sensitive feelings are hurt at the end. Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes is cooperative, addicting, and a game unlike any other I’ve played. The gist of it is a bomb-diffusion scenario. Imagine that, for some reason, you’re alone in a room with a bomb that’s about to go off in two minutes. You don’t know how to diffuse it, but in a different location, several people have the manual containing the instructions to diffuse it. You’re on the phone with them; they can see the manual but not what the bomb looks like; you can see exactly what the bomb looks like, but not ...

Deadline reports that blood-drenched genre director Robert Rodriguez has been tapped to direct Fox’s remake of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York. Fox picked up the remake rights to Carpenter’s classic action flick two years ego, emerging victorious from a vicious bidding war.

It’s been three years since Rodriguez last helmed a major studio movie, the disappointing Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Since then, he’s been focused on his own TV network, El Rey, the From Dusk Till Dawn TV show, and putting the pieces into place for his adaptation of anime classic Battle Angel Alita. That being said, if an Escape From New York remake is inevitable, Rodriguez feels like a better-than-average choice to treat Snake Plissken’s cinematic legacy with some modicum of respect. (Fingers crossed that he can get Carpenter to handle the soundtrack duties, too.)

[Note: El Rey, like ...

It’s been four long years (and one stalled-out Ant-Man movie) since Edgar Wright’s last film, The World’s End, arrived in theaters. Now—just in time for its premiere tonight at SXSW—Wright is ready to release the first trailer for his upcoming Baby Driver, starring Ansel Elgort as a getaway driver whose tendency to soundtrack his own car chases makes him the best wheelman around.

Co-starring Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Jon Bernthal, and Lily James as the object of Elgort’s affections, the trailer lays out the movie’s elemental premise in a few quick beats: good music, tough criminals, a wholesome lady, and some kick-ass driving stunts. For once, Wright seems less interested in pastiche than in delivering a rock-solid iteration of the car-action movie form, leavened with typically distinctive bursts of style. (Not that the thing is humorless; there’s a pretty fantastic ...

The prolific indie director Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies) has mostly shied away from direct conflict in his films, which makes the upcoming Win It All seem like a comparatively risky change of pace. It’s the story of a compulsive gambler (Jake Johnson, a Swanberg regular) who is asked to hide a duffel bag of money for a criminal acquaintance and ends up blowing it on bets. And while it seems to be set in Swanberg’s regular milieu (i.e. the north side of Chicago) and was shot in his preferred format of Super 16mm by Easy cinematographer Eon Mora, the trailer doesn’t completely look like a Joe Swanberg movie, either. It’s a little dingier, a little more adventurous in the lighting.

Win It All was actually shot in the summer of 2015, and despite being rumored as a possible pick for Sundance for two years in ...

Ryan Reynolds just hopped on Twitter to announce that Atlanta star Zazie Beetz, who plays Vanessa on Donald Glover’s critically beloved FX show, will play luck-twisting mercenary Domino in the upcoming Deadpool 2. Always happy to blur the line between himself and his beloved Merc With The Mouth, Reynolds made the announcement in a typically offbeat way, photoshopping Beetz’s head into an old Deadpool comic and spelling her name out with dominoes.

Beetz—who’s also attached to Chance The Rapper’s upcoming pizza horror film Slice—beat out a lot of big-name competition for the part of Domino. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Lizzy Caplan were both tossed around as potential choices to play the hard-bitten mercenary, who often serves as the straight-faced ...

It's been a great 4.54 billion years, but I think it's time to end Earth.

Why?

Because people have started a hot new trend of dipping pizza in milk, and, wow, let's just end the whole thing now. Seriously, I just looked at a picture of this, and I don't see much of a point in continuing the whole planet Earth thing. 

There's plenty of things to dip in milk. Cookies, cereal, your hand. But not pizza. The only thing you should dip pizza in is more sauce. But, you know what? Humans have made such a mess of things, so maybe it's time to just quit while we're ahead — or rather before we've totally lost.

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It’s been 17 years since the conclusion of author Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy (and ten years since the forgettable big-screen adaptation of the first book), but today Pullman has announced that he’s returning to that series’ many universes for a new companion trilogy called The Book Of Dust. According to The Guardian (via Nerdist), the first book will take place parallel to the events of the original trilogy, and it will be primarily set in London and Oxford. Also, His Dark Materials protagonist Lyra Belacqua will show up in the first two Book Of Dust installments, both as a baby and as an adult woman from a time period 20 years after the events of the other books.

In a timely turn, Pullman says the books will chronicle “the struggle between a despotic and totalitarian organization, which wants to stifle speculation and inquiry, and those ...