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Comics Panel New releases include an alternative detective story and a new collection examining the collective urban subconscious

Also reviewed: a long-in-development adaptation, dog ownership as suspenseful drama, and Peter Bagge’s “other stuff.”

May 21, 2013 | 11:00am -
AVQ&A The films you’ve loved longest

In the third AVQ&A in a themed trilogy, we look at the films we discovered earliest in life and still enjoy rewatching.

May 10, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Aftershock

It’s hell on (crumbling) Earth for the obnoxious heroes of this sadistic disaster movie.

May 9, 2013 | 12:05am -
Comics Panel New comics releases include several superhero debut issues and an impressive graphic novel exploring family and history

Also reviewed: a horror/crime hybrid, a visual cine-essay, and a collection of blues legends.

May 7, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A The books you’ve loved longest

This week, our staff and reader question addresses the books we discovered earliest in life and still have on the shelves.

May 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Greetings From Tim Buckley

And salutations from his son, Jeff, the true subject of this behind-the-music drama.

May 2, 2013 | 12:02am -
Movie Review Kiss Of The Damned

Bad acting can’t quite sink this Euro-horror homage.

May 2, 2013 | 12:01am -
Watch This It’s hard out there for a hero in Big Man Japan

Defending the city from monsters is a thankless job in comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto’s directorial debut.

April 30, 2013 | 11:00am -
AVQ&A Favorite pop-culture goodbyes

A staff departure has us thinking about the best and most poignant farewells in pop culture.

April 26, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty

Few contemporary indies are as wildly inventive as this experimental passion project.

April 25, 2013 | 12:06am -
Movie Review At Any Price

The director of Chop Shop plants a corny melodrama in the American farmland.

April 25, 2013 | 12:04am -
Movie Review Arthur Newman

Colin Firth fakes his death and hits the road with Emily Blunt in a disappointingly conventional drama.

April 25, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Club 10 10 episodes of Mission Impossible that are formulaic television at its most refined

Marvel at the talent and intellect of accomplished professionals who knew how to conceive and execute a plan.

April 24, 2013 | 11:00am -
TV Roundtable Futurama’s opera was a poignant final bow—until it wasn’t

Fry’s deal with Robot Devil gives him musical prowess that comes with a price. How ironic! (That’s not what ironic means.)

April 24, 2013 | 12:00am -
Comics Panel New comics releases include shaky starts for 2 new runs and a coming-of-age tale from Gilbert Hernandez

Also reviewed: a time-traveling Russian engineer, a family portrait of Jerusalem, and an all-ages Batman.

April 23, 2013 | 11:00am -
TV Club : Mad Men “To Have And To Hold”

It's women vs. men and ketchup vs. catsup on this week's Mad Men.

April 22, 2013 | 12:45am -
Watch This Before Star Wars, George Lucas was an indie filmmaker

A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, George Lucas made a small and personal debut.

April 19, 2013 | 11:00am -
AVQ&A The album you’ve loved longest

A reader asks about albums we discovered early in life and still consider essential listening.

April 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This John Carpenter’s debut, Dark Star, plays like a parody of the later Alien

Alien’s writer and Halloween’s director launched their careers with a deep-space spoof.

April 18, 2013 | 11:00am -
Movie Review The Lords Of Salem

Spring is the season of the witch for Rob Zombie.

April 18, 2013 | 12:03am -
Movie Review In The House

French director François Ozon explores the voyeuristic nature of storytelling.

April 18, 2013 | 12:02am -
HomeVideo Review Hey Good Lookin’

An obscure Ralph Bakshi animated film depicts 1950s New York with appealing roughness.

April 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Roundtable Scrubs took its time to make a musical episode, but made it count

The medical comedy was bound to make an all-singing, all-dancing half-hour—all it needed was an assist from the Avenue Q guys.

April 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Other Shows The Central Park Five

Ken Burns breaks from his usual style to look back on a 1989 assault and rape case in New York’s Central Park.

April 16, 2013 | 2:00pm -
Films That Time Forgot William Shatner negotiates with terrorists in The Kidnapping Of The President

When kidnappers demand $100 million for the return of President Hal Holbrook, it’s up to the CIA to ransom him, or save him, or something.

April 15, 2013 | 10:00am -
The Gameological Society Pinning down the exact moment that Family Feud become all about dick jokes

Richard Dawson has never seemed more tasteful.

April 14, 2013 | 11:59pm -
Movie Review Antiviral

David Cronenberg’s son Brandon makes his debut with a Cronenbergian tale of body commodification.

April 11, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Roundtable Taxi asks, “How much of a sitcom needs to be comedic?”

Before Girls and Louie, a different Louie pushed the boundaries of TV comedy.

April 10, 2013 | 10:00am -
Watch This Bingo Long mashes up ’70s tropes with a story about black indie baseballers

Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones lead a stellar cast in John Badham’s rollicking lesson in baseball history.

April 10, 2013 | 10:00am -
HomeVideo Review Howdy, Kids!! A Saturday Afternoon Western Roundup / Captain Cornelius Cartoon’s Cartoon Lagoon, Vol. 1

A pair of new TV sets offer entertainment from bygone eras.

April 10, 2013 | 12:00am -

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