A.V. Club Blog

May 8, 2008

Who saw this coming? The Gong Show will return to television by way of Comedy Central beginning July 17th. The title has changed slightly:...

May 8, 2008

Eddy Arnold, the Nashville fixture whose hits were fixtures on the 1960s country charts, has died at the age of 89. Best known for "Make The World Go...

May 8, 2008

The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Not This August by C.M. Kornbluth (1955)

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

May 5, 2008

Video game adaptation, um, auteur Uwe Boll has filed a lawsuit against his Bloodrayne star Billy Zane, according to

Apr 24, 2008

The Hollywood Reporter is now http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i893a6fe1c07f680412675ba1e7ac5004 that Jimmy Fallon...

Apr 24, 2008

First they decided to remake all of John Carpenter's classic films in lesser versions. Now it looks like Brian DePalma's getting the remake...

Apr 24, 2008

The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: The Green Odyssey. by Philip José Farmer (1956)

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

Feb 25, 2007

I'm not saying that the Oscars telecast isn't absolutely riveting but I just watched the clip on Videocracy of the cat watching television. It's...

Feb 25, 2007

That has to be the best bit of trivia of the night, and the best worded: "In order to write the screenplay to Little Miss Sunshine he had to...

Feb 25, 2007

What a great idea. Rather than the dull, schoolmarmish speech we get from the Academy each year, they squeeze it into a 60 second comedy bit. And no...

Feb 25, 2007

I did a longer post on this earlier this week suggesting that this wouldn't necessarily be a showcase for what Morricone did best and the clip reel...

Feb 25, 2007

Jerry Seinfeld has been doing movie-related shtick for roughly five minutes and he has yet to delve into an enduring mystery that has bothered...

Feb 25, 2007

As with short feature, my method of picking winners based on important-sounding titles pays off again with The Blood Of YingZhou District....

Feb 25, 2007

I could have posted this yesterday. Well, good for her. Dreamgirls didn't do much for me but she's pretty strong. And she seems genuinely...

Feb 25, 2007

Catherine Deneuve-- clearly, the most well-preserved woman in movie history, right?-- and Ken Watanabe introduce an assemblage of Guiseppe...

Feb 25, 2007

Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore delivers a tribute to 50 years of foreign film nominees. Deneuve cautions that it's not...