A.V. Club Blog

Nov 26, 2008

Pretty simple really: We're taking a couple of days off like the rest of America unless something truly momentous happens. And by "truly momentous,"...

Nov 25, 2008

The Scott Weiland-less Velvet Revolver has parted ways with its label. Shocked? Probably not. Here's the press release: Finding the new...

Nov 24, 2008

Variety has news of an in-the-works film bio of famed French...

Nov 21, 2008

The axe sharpened by low ratings finally fell on three ABC shows yesterday, according

Nov 14, 2008

In some kind of first, Xbox LIVE has teamed up with several famed (and a few not-so-famed) horror directors to create an ongoing series of horror...

Nov 13, 2008

Hey, remember My Own Worst Enemy, that show whose ads you saw more often than Michael Phelps if you watched the Summer Olympics?

Nov 12, 2008

The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard (1899)

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

Sep 13, 2005

Understand that any complaints I make about the Toronto International Film Festival should be considered in a larger context.

Sep 13, 2005

Bottoming out.

Sep 12, 2005

Prior to walking into Harsh Times last night, about all I knew about it was that it’s written and directed by David Ayer, who wrote Training Day, and that it stars Christian Bale as a guy hanging out with his buddy in Los Angeles.

Sep 11, 2005

In the past 24 hours I’ve seen such eagerly awaited fall releases as Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, A History Of Violence and Elizabethtown. So naturally, I’m going to start off today talking about an Austrian documentary that almost nobody’s heard of.

Sep 11, 2005

Ups and downs in fake New York.

Sep 10, 2005

What do you do when a filmmaker you like makes a movie you think might be brilliant, but you absolutely despise it?

Sep 9, 2005

One of my wife’s friends in college invented something he called BraveStat ™, which extrapolated the potential performance of our favorite baseball team, based on their first game of the season. (A guy who hits a homer in game one will hit 162 homers that year, and so on.) Well if I apply BraveStat technology to the Toronto International Film Festival--call it TIFFstat--then it looks like every movie I see is going to be either good or great.

Sep 7, 2005

From Thursday the 8th to Sunday the 18th, Noel Murray and I will be making our annual pilgrimage to the Toronto Film Festival, so if any...

Sep 6, 2005

Weren't 20 versions of Oliver Twist enough?