Actor Nick Stahl is no longer missing and has checked himself into rehab, resurfacing after disappearing nearly a week ago and prompting a whole lot of worrying (plus some "Have you seen this boy?" jokes, because he was in a Terminator movie).  Over the weekend, Stahl sent an email to ...

From the comments section on the Battleship review last week: “Does anyone say ‘You sunk my battleship?’” “Yes. Peter Berg says it to Joss Whedon on Monday.” As it happens, that was a joke too good not to serve as a premonition. Proving that yes, in fact, you can go ...

Singer and songwriter Robin Gibb died today at the age of 62 after a long struggle with cancer, The New York Times and other sources are reporting. Gibb, with his brothers Maurice (Robin’s twin, who died in 2003) and Barry, found fame as part of the Bee Gees, a ...

Community creator Dan Harmon will no longer serve as the series’ showrunner, The A.V. Club has learned from Sony Pictures Television, which produces the show. Taking his place are David Guarascio and Moses Port, who recently worked on ABC’s Happy Endings and ran Aliens In America, The CW ...

Ron Shock, a comedian's comedian well-regarded for his blending of stand-up with storytelling, has died due to complications from urethral cancer. He was 69. Shock was a late bloomer in comedy, launching his career at the age of 40 after stints as (according to his self-penned bio) an "unsuccessful ...

Declaring that he is both "too old" and "really, really tired," 58-year-old actor Jackie Chan told reporters at Cannes that his new action film, Chinese Zodiac, will be his last, making the announcement as quickly as he could before his brittle pelvis snapped in half. Of course, Chan has made ...

Passing through centuries of rewrites, forced to watch as the screenwriters and directors who once loved it withered and died and went on to other things, Neal Moritz's Highlander reboot remains strangely immortal, as the producer continues his efforts to remake the 1986 fantasy about why it's so ...

As recently pointed out by Diffuser.fm (and picked up by Pitchfork), there's a new British commercial for the Volkswagen Polo with a soundtrack that bears an uncanny resemblance to Beach House's "Take Care," the Teen Dream closer that perfectly captures the ad's sentiments about a dad ...

Don't let Joss Whedon's humility fool you: The Avengers is huge and only getting huger, yesterday surpassing the $400 million domestic benchmark in just two weeks at the box office. That's a new record to go with all the others it's accrued already, which include being ...

Anthony Bourdain already has two TV shows, a writing gig on Treme, and all the anuses he can eat, and now he's expanding his enivable dominion to the world of feature films. The smoke-cured chef has sold the rights to his 2000 novel Bone In The Throat, a mob ...

While the value of the honor remains dubious, some people are upset that Donna Summer, who died Thursday after a long battle with breast cancer, is not a member of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. This includes the guy in charge of the Rock Hall, chairman Jon Landau ...

Swaggering, soulful rock group The Afghan Whigs have released their first music since reuniting late last year: a cover of 1970's "See And Don't See" from mercurial funk star Marie "Queenie" Lyons, whose under-appreciated, one-and-done recording career has made her a cult favorite over the years. It's ...

For more than 30 years, Paul Hewson of Dublin has been fiddling around with a rock band instead of settling down and getting a real job. Luckily, he's come into a little money that will allow him to avoid real work for roughly the next five centuries. As of ...

Director Alex Proyas may have been thwarted in his effort to transform Paradise Lost into the 3-D story of angels machine-gunning demons that it always was in the minds of bored high school students, but he's set to console himself with another tale of immortals on an epic, probably ...

As Lena Dunham acknowledged in her recent interview with NPR's Terry Gross, America's number one source for frank racial discussion, Dunham is well aware that Girls has a white people problem—and not just the glibly dismissive kind that sums up the show so you don't have ...