A.V. Club: Best of the Decade

  • Inventory on sale for less than $7 over at Amazon

    posted by: Keith Phipps November 20, 2009 - 04:11p.m.

    Amazon currently has our new(ish) book Inventory available for $6.83. We're not sure why, honestly, but we're just letting you know in case you want to buy it on the cheap. Or several copies for Christmas. Or Hannukah. Or just because you love somebody.

    Here's ...

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  • Funeral Friday

    posted by: Sean O'Neal November 20, 2009 - 03:11p.m.

    Congratulations on making it to the end of another week! Unfortunately, these people didn't. Light a candle for Funeral Friday.

    Nothing against Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek—it's just that their demographics skewed decidedly older—but to children of the ’80s, there were really only two game show ...

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  • Will Ferrell, Ewan McGregor top Most Overpaid Stars list

    posted by: Tasha Robinson November 20, 2009 - 12:11p.m.

    Forbes Magazine just came out with its annual list of the most overpaid stars in Hollywood, which it generates via a somewhat complicated metric that looks at their last three films and compares their paychecks, the films' budgets, and the money those films brought in via theatrical, TV, and DVD ...

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  • King, Spielberg team up to adapt Under The Dome

    posted by: Keith Phipps November 20, 2009 - 10:11a.m.

    Stephen King's massive new novel Under The Dome is set to become a TV miniseries developed by Steven Spielberg, Variety is reporting. Beyond that, there's not a lot of news. But now's a good a time as any to ponder why these two haven't teamed up ...

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  • Oprah to end her show

    posted by: Josh Modell November 19, 2009 - 06:11p.m.

    According to CNN.com, Oprah Winfrey will end her insanely popular talk show in 2011. But where will the nation's ladies go for weird diet advice and softball interviews with celebrities and free cars and shit? Well, speculation has Oprah simply moving her show--or some version of it--over to ...

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  • Lost moves to Tuesdays for final season, starting Feb. 2

    posted by: Noel Murray November 19, 2009 - 03:11p.m.

    Well, here's a Groundhog Day we wouldn't mind re-living over and over. ABC has announced that the final season of their cult hit Lost will premiere on February 2nd (beginning that night with a clip show, followed by the two-hour opener "LAX"), and that the show will air ...

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  • Here's your shortlist for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar

    posted by: Noel Murray November 18, 2009 - 08:11p.m.

    Today the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the 15 movies that made the shortlist for this year's Best Documentary Feature award. And they are... (drumroll)...

    The Beaches Of Agnes, Agnès Varda
    Burma VJ    , Anders Østergaard
    The Cove    , Louie Psihoyos
    Every Little Step,     James D. Stern & Adam ...

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  • Check out the new Nine trailer

    posted by: Noel Murray November 18, 2009 - 03:11p.m.

    As we approach the finish line for 2009, there's not a whole lot left on the ol' pop culture checklist. Still, there are a few juicy pieces of Oscar bait remaining, including Nine, the musical version of Fellini's 8½. With Chicago director Rob Marshall at the helm and ...

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  • Warner Bros. will upgrade your DVDs to Blu-ray (for a fee)

    posted by: Noel Murray November 18, 2009 - 02:11p.m.

    Been coveting that Blu-ray edition of A Clockwork Orange or The Dirty Dozen, but don't know what to do with the perfectly fine DVD version you've already got sitting on your shelf? Warner Brothers has set up a website called DVD2Blu, through which owners of selected WB DVDs ...

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  • A&E's newest TV concept: Bob Saget wants to get all up in your business

    posted by: Steve Heisler November 18, 2009 - 01:11p.m.

    In the latest "let's put a wacky person in a crazy scenario and bask in the hilarity" news, A&E announced today via press release that Full House pushover/The Aristocrats filth-mouth Bob Saget will be returning to TV next year on Bob Saget's Strange Days (working title ...

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  • New Fight Club Blu-Rays not actually defective

    posted by: Keith Phipps November 17, 2009 - 11:11a.m.

    We were delighted, then baffled, then again delighted when the new Blu-Ray version of Fight Club arrived in the mail the other day. Popping it into the A.V. Club Blu-Ray player we watched in dismay as the menu screen appeared, and with it images and music from 1999 Drew ...

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  • Edward Woodward RIP  

    posted by: Nathan Rabin November 17, 2009 - 11:11a.m.

    Edward Woodward, the respected British character actor famous for his portrayal of a geriatric crime-fighter in the hit eighties show The Equalizer passed away yesterday at the age of 79. A respected theater actor, Woodward made an assured transition to television and film by playing the title character in the ...

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  • 50 Cent to make more terrible movies

    posted by: Nathan Rabin November 17, 2009 - 10:11a.m.

    You've got to hand it to 50 Cent: he hasn't let his complete lack of success in acting, writing or directing dim his enthusiasm for making movies. Terrible, terrible movies. Unwatchable movies. Movies that make you wonder what kind of a benevolent God would allow 50 to continue ...

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  • Today in annoying buzzword-themed film news: Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris to star in TMI

    posted by: Nathan Rabin November 17, 2009 - 10:11a.m.

    TMI (or Too Much Information). Yesterday it was merely the kind of annoying buzzword the young people of today use with the baggy pants and the Twittering and the Twilight grunge dancing and sexting and whatever it is youth-Americans enjoy (as a ninety-seven year old in spirit I haven't ...

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  • DVD Release List – 11/17/09

    posted by: Noel Murray November 17, 2009 - 07:11a.m.

    It’d be a lot easier to tell you what’s not worth checking out this week than it is to point you to the gems. Among other things, this week sees the release of three of 2009’s best films: the sharp indie comedy Humpday, the moody Korean vampire ...

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