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TV Club : Top Of The Lake “Episode Three”

Elisabeth Moss and Peter Mullan reveal their characters’ vulnerabilities as the mysteries of Top Of The Lake deepen.

March 25, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Newswire Weekend Box Office: "ShamWow" remains "ShamWow" guy's biggest moneymaker

DreamWorks' The Croods won as expected, but new films by Harmony Korine and the "Sham Wow" guy made more interesting impressions.

March 25, 2013 | 9:44am -
Inventory No training, no medical license, no problem!: 20 scenes where civilians perform surgery

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

March 25, 2013 | 12:00am -
Great Job, Internet! A Spring Breakers parody video offers debauched Disney princesses

Snow White, Ariel, and Jasmine take Cinderella to the ball, bitch.

March 22, 2013 | 9:01am -
Podmass Dick Van Dyke continues WTF’s “comedy legends” streak and Dane Cook makes it weird

The best podcasts for the week of March 14-20.

March 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A “Shitty miracles”

This week, we discuss examples of stunningly inept projects we cannot believe actually came to fruition.

March 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
Newswire George R.R. Martin says he's considering a Game Of Thrones prequel TV series

The "Dunk And Egg" saga.

March 21, 2013 | 4:54pm -
Movie Review The Croods

A prehistoric family discovers life outside the cave in DreamWorks’ slapstick animated adventure.

March 21, 2013 | 12:06am -
Movie Review Eden

An indie about sex slavery outside Vegas exists in an awkward place between exposé and thriller.

March 21, 2013 | 12:05am -
Movie Review Olympus Has Fallen

Die Hard meets In The Line Of Fire meets one of the year’s dumbest screenplays.

March 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon My Own Private Idaho is a personal statement and a River Phoenix memorial

Director Gus Van Sant put a great deal of himself into the film, then went on to less intimate filmmaking.

March 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
HomeVideo Review Tristana

Catherine Deneuve seeks revenge on her unsavory gentleman guardian in Luis Buñuel’s complex provocation.

March 20, 2013 | 12:01am -
Newswire Zero Dark Thirty, Rust And Bone and Badlands lead a week of essential DVD/BD pick-ups

Jacques Audiard's follow-up to A Prophet is a whale of a good movie.

March 19, 2013 | 11:46am -
AVQ&A Favorite festival experiences

After SXSW, we talk about our favorite festival experiences.

March 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle Of Algiers is the standard by which all movies about terrorism are judged

This controversial 1965 film has been used as an instructional text on insurgencies.

March 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Top Of The Lake “Episode One”/“Episode Two”

Academy Award-nominated director Jane Campion dives deep into a twisty mystery in this new miniseries.

March 18, 2013 | 4:00pm -
Newswire Weekend Box Office: Harmony Korine's avant-garde experiment in not repelling moviegoers pays off

In its opening weekend, Spring Breakers tops the combined overall gross of Harmony Korine's last three films

March 18, 2013 | 9:55am -
NOT OPTIONAL A pair of funny new TV shows, last year’s best doc, and 2 more can’t-miss entertainments

Some entertainment is optional. These aren’t.

March 15, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Newswire Today show pariah Matt Lauer poised to replace Alex Trebek, kill off another American institution

A. Matt Lauer. Q: Who's the worst possible choice to host Jeopardy!?

March 15, 2013 | 10:58am -
Watch This Ingmar Bergman’s overlooked The Magician proved he was a master illusionist

Max von Sydow stars as the titular man of mystery in a film about the clash between science and magic.

March 15, 2013 | 12:01am -
Podmass John Hodgman judges hipsters and Walking The Room goes solo

The best podcasts of the week of March 7-13

March 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
Newswire Jimmy Kimmel to host 2014 Oscars, according to idle speculation from anonymous sources

Is it too early to talk about who will host the Oscars over 11 months from now? Of course not.

March 14, 2013 | 12:49pm -
Movie Review The Call

Halle Berry plays a 911 operator who becomes her own first responder on an abduction call.

March 14, 2013 | 10:15am -
Movie Review Spring Breakers

Girls, girls, girls.

March 14, 2013 | 12:07am -
Movie Review My Amityville Horror

The eldest of the Lutz children, Danny, reflects on the lasting impact the Amityville house has had on his life.

March 14, 2013 | 12:04am -
Movie Review Reality

Matteo Garrone’s impressive follow-up to Gomorrah follows a Neapolitan fishmonger’s attempt to appear on the Italian Big Brother.

March 14, 2013 | 12:00am -
Great Job, Internet! Get Involved, Internet: A Kickstarter campaign for the Veronica Mars movie

If the Internet can't raise $2 million for a Veronica Mars movie, what's the point of having an Internet at all?

March 13, 2013 | 10:36am -
Great Job, Internet! A fan-made poster captures the essence of Martin Scorsese's Casino

The suits of Ace Rothstein.

March 12, 2013 | 3:40pm -
Newswire This Is Not A Film, Smashed, and This Must Be The Place are among the neglected gems this week on DVD/BD

The Oscar-winning Life Of Pi leads a gem-filled week on DVD/BD.

March 12, 2013 | 2:33pm -
Newswire Weekend Box Office: Disney closer to affording real-life Emerald City

The absurdly expensive Oz The Great And Powerful makes the absurd amount of money it needed to justify its absurdity.

March 11, 2013 | 9:20am -

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