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Screenshot : Doom Patrol/HBO Max After a year of tumult at Warner Bros. Discovery, we can be thankful for at least one streaming blessing this holiday season: David Zaslav hasn’t kicked Doom Patrol to the curb...yet. Despite a raft of cancellation rumors this past summer , the weird-as-shit series following DC Comics’ weirdest band of anti-heroes will return for a fourth season on Dec. 8—and the door is still open for more zany adventures to come. If Doom Patrol exists to you only as the show you keep mistaking for The Umbrella Academy , it really is worth watching. It’s crass, over-the-top, and surprisingly touching. If nothing else, it’s one of the best queer-positive, found-family stories on TV that also features Brendan Fraser as a bronzed cyborg. Watch it now before it gets canceled for real and shoved down the streaming memory hole alongside Batgirl. Doom Patrol Season 4 | Official Trailer | HBO Max And speaking of shows that were almost canceled, this month also sees the l...

Screenshot : Everything Everywhere All at Once/A24 If the nominations for the 2023 Academy Awards tell us anything, it’s that the movies are back, baby: After two years of pandemic disruption, and following last year’s ceremony, during which a film released by Apple on its streaming service took home Best Picture, the vast majority of this year’s Oscar nominees played first in theaters. Also telling: For the first time in two years, you actually have to venture out to theaters if you want to see all of the Best Picture nominees in advance of the ceremony on March 12. A handful of Best Picture nominees— Top Gun: Maverick; Avatar: The Way of Water; Elvis; Everything Everywhere All at Once —were even box office hits, which is more than you can say for the likes of many recent contenders, even before COVID threatened to kill moviegoing forever. It’s anyone’s guess if the excitement over populist favorites will result in stronger ratings for the Oscar ceremony itself, which is coming o...