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Movie Review Chernobyl Diaries

A real-life ongoing mass tragedy gets the Paranormal Activity treatment.

May 25, 2012 | 11:16am -
Podmass May 17-May 23

Alison Brie gets naughty, Stephen Tobolowsky does Broadway, and Doug Loves Movies has a busy week.

May 25, 2012 | 12:00am -
Newswire New Cult Canon returns to Music Box Theatre with Black Dynamite, feat. a Q&A with Scott Sanders plus an episode of the upcoming Adult Swim series

You won't mind having your kung fu interrupted for this.

May 24, 2012 | 2:28pm -
Newswire The director of Martha Marcy May Marlene wants to turn The Exorcist into TV series that will make your head spin

With Game Of Thrones currently thriving on HBO, the idea of turning novels into serialized TV shows—not movies, not mini-series, but full-on, take-all-the-time-you-need series—has become more attractive, and given creators the opportun...

May 24, 2012 | 12:21pm -
Movie Review Oslo, August 31st

The director of Reprise returns with a perceptive drama about a young heroin addict struggling to find purpose after rehab.

May 24, 2012 | 12:03am -
The New Cult Canon Vampire’s Kiss features one of Nicolas Cage’s best, most out-of-control performances

Nicolas Cage gets an appropriately weird home in this ’80s “vampire” movie.

May 24, 2012 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Moonrise Kingdom

A comic fantasy contrasts first love with adulthood.

May 24, 2012 | 12:00am -
Newswire Weekend Box Office: Audiences force catchphrase out of Battleship

From the comments section on the Battleship review last week: “Does anyone say ‘You sunk my battleship?’” “Yes.

May 21, 2012 | 10:08am -
Inventory The Brady Nod: 18-plus works of fictional art that don’t live up to their billing

The A.V. Club's weekly list.

May 21, 2012 | 12:00am -
Podmass The best podcasts for the week of May 10-16

Dungeons & Dragons, dick jokes, and Don Draper populate this week’s podcast roundup.

May 18, 2012 | 12:00am -
Movie Review What To Expect When You’re Expecting

A star-filled ensemble ovulates in harmony in this pregnancy-themed Love Actually.

May 17, 2012 | 12:09am -
Movie Review Battleship

Peter Berg's long-awaited, if not exactly anticipated, board-game adaptation makes a big, noisy splash.

May 17, 2012 | 12:08am -
Movie Review Elena

In this Russian drama with Hitchcockian touches, a subservient Russian housewife faces a moral quandary over her husband’s money.

May 17, 2012 | 12:08am -
Movie Review Polisse

Maïwenn’s docudrama about a Child Protection Unit in northern Paris draws convincingly on real-life cases.

May 17, 2012 | 12:03am -
Movie Review Quill: The Life Of A Guide Dog

The life and death of a Labrador companion makes for uniquely awkward fiction.

May 17, 2012 | 12:00am -
DVD Being John Malkovich

13 years later, one of most audacious and original modern comedies reveals itself to be one of the most touching, too.

May 16, 2012 | 12:03am -
Movie Review The Dictator

Following Brüno’s diminishing returns, incognito rapscallion Sacha Baron Cohen goes back to an even older well: the Marx Brothers.

May 15, 2012 | 12:00am -
Newswire Weekend Box Office: The Avengers breaks some records, shatters others, crushes still more

Another week, another assortment of records for The Avengers, which once again dominated the box office with $103.2 million, over three times more money than the runner up.

May 14, 2012 | 8:54am -
Inventory “We stuck your girlfriend on an island”: 22 main characters casually dismissed in sequels

The A.V. Club's weekly list.

May 14, 2012 | 12:00am -
Podmass The best podcasts for the week of May 3-9

Paul F. Tompkins goes solo again on Doug Loves Movies, Wayne Coyne stops by the Cat Ranch, and Hang Up And Listen bums everyone out.

May 11, 2012 | 12:00am -
Movie Review A Bag Of Hammers

A love story between two unctuous rockers plays out against the far more interesting backdrop of a Scottish music festival.

May 10, 2012 | 12:08am -
Movie Review Dark Shadows

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp try to recapture their old magic in a gothic comedy based on the long-running soap opera.

May 10, 2012 | 12:02am -
Movie Review God Bless America

Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait follows an angry man on a pop cultural killing spree in his latest black comedy.

May 10, 2012 | 12:01am -
Preview What To Expect When You’re Expecting A Summer Movie Preview (Part 2 of 2)

Here they are: The movies you will be watching this summer.

May 10, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview God Bless America director Bobcat Goldthwait is okay with not everybody liking his movies

The filmmaker and standup comic talks about the angry, funny God Bless America

May 8, 2012 | 12:00am -
Newswire Weekend Box Office: Avengers smash!

The Avengers breaks box-office records. A nation cheers.

May 7, 2012 | 9:24am -
Podmass The best podcasts for the week of April 26-May 2

Jay Mohr has some stories, some modern witches have a podcast, and Comedy Bang Bang has a cavalcade of fan favorites.

May 4, 2012 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon The horrible, hilarious violence of Ichi The Killer

Takashi Miike takes violence to the limit, and beyond.

May 3, 2012 | 12:00pm -
DVD Pillow Talk

The greatest of the fluffy Rock Hudson-Doris Day team-ups tries to square old-fashioned screwball with urbane modernity.

May 2, 2012 | 12:02am -

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