Captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie) spends a lot of time looking aghast in HBO's Avenue 5. Alex Bailey/HBO hide caption
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Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) shows off a diamond-encrusted Furby. A24 hide caption
In writer/director Makoto Shinkai's latest animated feature, Hodaka (voiced by Kotaro Daigo, L) meets Hina (voiced by Nana Mori, R), a girl who can stop the rain. Gkids hide caption
"Polly want a movie!": Dr. John Dolittle (Robert Downey Jr.) and parrot (voiced by Emma Thompson) are lost at sea in Dolittle. Universal Pictures hide caption
Katherine Moennig reprises the role of Shane McCutcheon in The L Word: Generation Q. Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/Showtime hide caption
Cho Yeo-jeong stars in Parasite, which earned six Oscar nominations, including best picture. NEON hide caption
Coma Unto Me: Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) lies between life and death in the world's most stylish hospital in HBO's The New Pope. Gianni Fiorito/HBO hide caption
George MacKay as Lance Corporal Schofield in the film 1917. Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures hide caption
Violinist Rose (Freya Tingley) frets in The Sonata. Screen Media hide caption
Three Christs, No Waiting: Joseph (Bradley Whitford), Leon (Peter Dinklage) and Clyde (Walton Goggins) in Jon Avnet's film. IFC Films hide caption
Buck Henry attends a screening of The Graduate during the TCM Classic Film Festival on April 8, 2017 in Los Angeles, Calif. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for TCM hide caption
The Navarro College team competes at the national championships. Netflix hide caption
Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda at the 69TH PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS in 2017, when Dolly pointedly took the conversation away from politics. Trae Patton/CBS via Getty Images hide caption
Harvey Weinstein (center) leaves a bail hearing last month in New York City. The former Hollywood megaproducer has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women. He now faces five charges in New York City. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images hide caption
Harvey Weinstein Heads To Trial For Sex Crimes In A #MeToo Landmark
Tom Hanks won the Cecil B. Demille Award at the 2020 Golden Globes. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
Sam Mendes accepts the award for best drama movie for 1917 at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Paul Drinkwater/NBC Universal via Getty Images hide caption
David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Cook, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani and Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay in the Friends episode "The One Where They All Turn Thirty." Warner Bros. Television/Getty Images hide caption
(From left) Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo, members of the cast of Avengers: Endgame in Los Angeles in April. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is getting a trans character, Feige says. Willy Sanjuan/Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP hide caption
It's a Pop Culture Happy Hour tradition to make some resolutions and predictions for the new year. Malorny/Getty Images hide caption
Phoebe Waller-Bridge breaking the fourth wall in Fleabag is among the great things of this year. Steve Schofield/Amazon Prime Video hide caption
Columbia Journalism Review set up a misinformation newsstand in Manhattan in October 2018, in an effort to educate news consumers about the dangers of disinformation in the lead-up to the U.S. midterm elections. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
'Disinformation' Is The Word Of The Year — And A Sign Of What's To Come
The career of DJ Don Imus, which spanned more than four decades, was made and then undone by his acid tongue. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
As the world prepares to ring in 2020, many people are arguing over whether a new decade will also begin on Jan. 1 or whether it will actually begin on the first day of 2021. Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters hide caption
Laurie (Timothée Chalamet) and Amy (Florence Pugh) in Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women. Wilson Webb/Columbia Pictures hide caption
Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) defends wrongly condemned Walter McMillan (Jamie Foxx) in Destin Daniel Cretton's film. Jake Giles Netter/Warner Bros. hide caption