A.V. Club Blog

Sep 6, 2008

The Wrestler, a new film directed by Darren Aronofsky, has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The movie stars Mickey Rourke as a...

Sep 5, 2008

The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Slan by A.E. van Vogt (1940)

(Not long ago, A.V. Club editor Keith...

Sep 3, 2008

In the flood of interesting information about Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin that's emerged in the last few days, not a lot of it has touched...

Sep 2, 2008

Songwriter, guitarist, and actor Jerry Reed has died at the age of 71,

Sep 2, 2008

Know your mushrooms. Horse Whisperer author Nicholas Evans and three family members are recovering in a hospital in Aberdeen, Scotland after a...

Sep 2, 2008

In a world where trailers help people learn about new movies, Don LaFontaine's booming voice provided an imposing presence. Sadly LaFontaine died...

Aug 28, 2008

It's been kind of a slow news week, but the good old reliable NME, as usual, has an...

Aug 30, 2005

Sometimes the ending of a movie changes everything.

Aug 30, 2005

In the mid-’90s, Of Montreal songwriter Kevin Barnes kicked around several U.S. cities searching for a music scene simpatico with his own interests, and finally found one in Athens, Georgia, in the indie psychedelic-pop bands circling around the Elephant Six label. Starting with 1997’s Cherry Peel, Barnes began creating music that was whimsical, inventive, and perhaps more purist than any other Elephant Six band in hewing to a ’60s aesthetic. His more recent albums, Satanic Panic In The Attic and the new The Sunlandic Twins, reflect his growing interests in modern music, especially dance-pop, but they’re no less imaginative, idiosyncratic, or fun to listen to. Barnes recently talked with The A.V. Club about fatherhood, songwriting in Norway, and the early days. The band is on tour across the U.S. through the end of September. This is an extended cut of an interview that appeared in The A.V. Club’s Twin Cities print edition.

Aug 29, 2005

On the year's most underrated movie.

Aug 26, 2005

The 25th was my daughter’s first birthday, which means the 27th is the one-year anniversary of my interview with Mitch Hedberg.

Aug 26, 2005

When the promise is less intriguing than what's delivered.

Aug 24, 2005

Just a quick note: We know. We're working on it. It will be fixed. (Just not right away. Sorry.)

Aug 23, 2005

Waiting for individual seasons of The Simpsons to arrive on DVD is a little like waiting for bread rations in the USSR, but after...

Aug 19, 2005

Most rock/pop/R&B music buffs keep an interior list of artists we feel should be bigger than they are, and most of us keep a second list as well, of artists that have made it big, even though (in our opinion), they’re not as good. The hard part is not blaming the hitmakers for making hits.

Aug 19, 2005

It's still more than two months before All Hallows Eve, but the North American Halloween Prevention Initiative is already on the case with "