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AVQ&A Willful cultural ignorance

Our weekly reader-and-staffer question looks at art and information we’ve deliberately avoided because we don’t want it in our heads.

April 12, 2013 | 12:00am -
Podmass Matt Walsh chills with Who Charted? and Freakonomics plays the name game

The best podcasts of the week of April 4-10.

April 12, 2013 | 12:00am -
Hear This Remembering the unlikely track that united DOOM and Larry The Cable Guy

DOOM once again turns trash into treasure.

April 11, 2013 | 1:00pm -
Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Bill Maher’s True Story tries to say something profound about stand-up, but fails spectacularly

For a famously smart guy, Maher makes a lot of incredibly stupid mistakes in his authorial debut.

April 11, 2013 | 10:00am -
Movie Review It’s A Disaster

David Cross turns in a great straight-man performance in a comedy about an apocalyptic brunch.

April 11, 2013 | 12:03am -
Newswire A Garfunkel And Oates show highlights an aggressive and impressive slate of upcoming television projects from IFC

IFC announces projects in development from the likes of Garfunkel And Oates, Chris Gethard, Tom Scharpling, Megan Mulally and more

April 10, 2013 | 4:50pm -
My World Of Flops Bureau Of Regrettable Ideas Case File #36: The Simpsons, The Yellow Album

When merchandising moves faster than quality control.

April 10, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Sugar goes beyond hits and runs in revealing the American immigrant experience

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s follow-up to Half Nelson defies the norms of the sports movie.

April 9, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Dispatches From Direct To DVD Purgatory Malcolm McDowell’s smirking Satan makes Suing The Devil ridiculous fun

A Christian evangelical film ends predictably, but enjoys the trip with a sense of humor about itself.

April 9, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : The Simpsons (Classic) “Burns' Heir”

Bart faces down a Faustian bargain in the opportunity to inherit the Burns fortune.

April 7, 2013 | 2:00pm -
AVQ&A What did Roger Ebert mean to you?

The world’s most famous film critic was so much more than that.

April 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
Podmass Comedy Bang! Bang! doubles down on El Chupacabra and Walking The Room returns to the closet

The best podcasts for the week of March 28-April 3.

April 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A Who should replace Jimmy Fallon?

The Tonight Show news has us all speculating about our dream host for Late Night.

April 4, 2013 | 12:30pm -
Bestcasts Jesse Thorn picks his favorite episodes from his Maximum Fun empire

“It feels very important to me to reflect value in my work, even if my work is going to be making jokes or interviewing rappers.”

April 4, 2013 | 11:00am -
Movie Review The Company You Keep

Professor Redford educates the masses on the Weather Underground.

April 4, 2013 | 12:08am -
Great Job, Internet! Watch Huey Lewis menace “Weird Al” in this clever parody of American Psycho

In which Huey Lewis conclusively proves he has a sense of humor about himself and his past.

April 3, 2013 | 4:44pm -
AVQ&A What are you reading this month? (April 2013)

We look at some of the month’s releases and ask our staff and readers what books they’re currently exploring.

April 3, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Dispatches From Direct To DVD Purgatory Her Master’s Voice is the most profound movie about ventriloquism ever made

A direct-to-DVD semi-documentary finds the beating heart beneath one of show business’ most maligned sectors.

April 2, 2013 | 12:00am -
Great Job, Internet! Watch Lana Del Rey cover Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel #2" in a very Lana Del Ray kind of way

Lana Del Rey covered "Chelsea Hotel" because of course she did

April 1, 2013 | 2:40pm -
Great Job, Internet! Watch a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt be adorably exuberant on Jeopardy

JGL was that one sensitive young man who really, really loves J.D. Salinger.

April 1, 2013 | 11:00am -
Inventory It’s time to move on, it’s time to get going: 17 solo albums (and one single) that effectively doomed bands

The A.V. Club's weekly list.

April 1, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : The Simpsons (Classic) “Bart Gets An Elephant”

Bart gets an elephant!?!

March 31, 2013 | 2:00pm -
Movie Review Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor

Tyler Perry brings his usual tonal shifts and lack of subtlety to this PG-13 erotic thriller.

March 29, 2013 | 4:34pm -
NOT OPTIONAL A lunatic drummer, Steve Coogan, and 3 more pop-culture musts

Some entertainment is optional. These aren’t.

March 29, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Watch This Best Worst Movie uncovers the heartbreaking psychodrama in a memorably insane B-movie

Troll 2’s young star made an unexpectedly moving study on the making and afterlife of a popular candidate for the worst film ever made.

March 29, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A Empathizing with art

Our weekly reader-and-staffer question looks at moments where we know exactly what someone in a story feels, because we’ve been there ourselves.

March 29, 2013 | 12:00am -
Podmass “Werner Herzog” bums out Doug Loves Movies and David Lee Roth has a podcast now

The best podcasts for the week of March 21-27.

March 29, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review The Place Beyond The Pines

Derek Cianfrance’s ambitious follow-up to Blue Valentine attempts an intimate epic.

March 28, 2013 | 12:08am -
Great Job, Internet! Recoil at the pilot for a Superman-derived show populated by little people in nightmarish dog masks

A canine-themed Superman spin-off featuring little people in dog masks? It happened, amazingly and regrettably enough

March 27, 2013 | 3:30pm -
Great Job, Internet! Watch the makers of the Louie/Charlie Brown mash-up's tongue-in-cheek take on Jurassic Park

The wisenheimers over at ADHD take on Jurassic Park

March 27, 2013 | 2:45pm -

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