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AVQ&A Surprising songs in concert

This week, a reader asks the staff and readers about unexpected songs we heard at live performances.

March 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
A Very Special Episode How Dollhouse toyed with the idea of how people and institutions are formed

Snappy dialogue masking genuine questions of identity or writers’ lament?

March 14, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review Ginger & Rosa

Director Sally Potter chronicles a volatile friendship between two teenagers (Elle Fanning and Alice Englert) in 1962 London.

March 14, 2013 | 12:02am -
Movie Review From Up On Poppy Hill

Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro directed this sweet animated coming-of-age tale, set the year before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

March 14, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Club : Smash “The Fringe”

Big decisions get made on a not-too-terrible Smash.

March 13, 2013 | 12:15am -
HomeVideo Review Naked City: 20 Star-Filled Episodes

From 1958 to 1963, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, and more passed through this often-lurid crime show.

March 13, 2013 | 12:02am -
HomeVideo Review Ministry Of Fear

Fritz Lang’s dark history in pre-WWII Germany informs this noir-tinged paranoid thriller.

March 13, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Roundtable Daria’s musical episode comes off like a dare—but does it hit the right notes?

An all-singing, all-dancing episode of this down-to-earth cartoon makes no sense, but it’s still an endearing experiment.

March 13, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “Get Drew”

A twisty Justified separates its Harlan players into outlaws, assholes, and awesome.

March 12, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Why Is This Commercial? An AT&T spot uses cute kids to sell multitasking, but fails to sell AT&T

The “Dizzy” spot is pleasant, but not pointed enough to work as advertising.

March 12, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Comics Panel New comics releases include a Guardians Of The Galaxy origin story and the sordid Sex

Also reviewed: Gilbert Hernandez’s latest, Age Of Ultron, and a romantically nerdy Neil Gaiman adaptation

March 12, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Watch This Triplets Of Belleville’s director adapted a Jacques Tati screenplay into a deft homage

A long-lost script became a modern, melancholy animated film about a fading past.

March 12, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration From Journey to Jack White to James Hunter: What makes a singer “good?”

Range and power can only take a singer so far.

March 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey

A look at Journey’s latest incarnation focuses on the incredible story of Filipino vocalist Arnel Pineda.

March 7, 2013 | 12:03am -
Movie Review Gut Renovation

A damning look at Williamsburg gentrification makes a strong argument against itself.

March 7, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Roundtable Frasier forgets the words in one of the funniest sitcom episodes of the 1990s

The glare of the spotlight makes the show’s characters sweat, copiously and hilariously.

March 6, 2013 | 10:00am -
TV Club : Smash “The Read-Through”

Smash smashes on, Smash-ily.

March 6, 2013 | 12:45am -
HomeVideo Review The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley: The Complete Series

Hanna-Barbera teamed with Martin Short for one of the most unusual cartoons of the ’80s.

March 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory MTV After Dark: 15 R-rated (or at least PG-13) music videos of the ’80s

Another list from The A.V. Club.

March 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “The Hatchet Tour”

This week on Justified, the real Drew Thompson finally stands up.

March 5, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Why Is This Commercial? A confusing Samsung Galaxy spot offers a peek at the doofuses behind the ads

It’s supposed to be The Next Big Thing, but the people who use them seem smug, dorky, or both.

March 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This The inspiration and heartbreak of the Minutemen story comes through in We Jam Econo

Twenty years after D. Boon’s death, his bandmates share their story.

March 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory Out of a tailspin: 16 great shows that recovered from bum seasons

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

March 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Leviathan

Gaspar Noé meets Deadliest Catch in this experimental documentary about the fishing industry.

February 28, 2013 | 12:09am -
Movie Review Welcome To Pine Hill

Racial and cultural tensions run high in this innovative portrait of a reformed drug dealer.

February 28, 2013 | 12:00am -
HomeVideo Review On The Waterfront

For its politics and performances, Elia Kazan’s union drama remains a vital cinematic touchstone.

February 27, 2013 | 12:01am -
Watch This Session 9 turns an abandoned asylum and digital video’s limits into assets

Director Brad Anderson used a real abandoned asylum in Massachusetts to give his ghost tale an ominous feel.

February 27, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration No accounting for The Taste: The taming of Anthony Bourdain

The punky iconoclast of Kitchen Confidential has become everything he used to hate, but there’s hope on the horizon.

February 27, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “Outlaw”

Justified clears away some of this season's subplot-bloat in tense, bloody, surprisingly moving fashion.

February 26, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Comics Panel New comics releases include an attention-seeking Justice League and a wine-comics exchange

Also reviewed: A bloody, good Kill Shakespeare, a Bernard Krigstein anthology, and new Powers.

February 26, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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