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tv Enlightened is TV’s best show right now—and it needs more viewers
By Emily St. James February 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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music Love on the dole: 18 songs about being on government assistance
By Nathan Rabin, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Marah Eakin February 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv The A.V. Club’s Oscar coverage is a dream come true—there are so many people to thank…
By Erik Adams February 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux Oscar anticipation reaches a zenith this week on The A.V. Club
By David Anthony, Andrea Battleground February 23, 2013 | 12:00am
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aux Nate Silver makes his Oscar predictions using the scientific formula of paying attention for the past few months
By Sean O'Neal February 22, 2013 | 11:29pm
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aux Get Involved, Internet: Help make Cannibal Ox's long-awaited follow-up to The Cold Vein a reality
By Nathan Rabin February 22, 2013 | 10:10pm
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aux James Van Der Beek finds work after Don't Trust The B---- as a gynecologist tending to ladies' ------s
By Sean O'Neal February 22, 2013 | 9:41pm
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aux R.I.P. Cleotha Staples, founding member of The Staple Singers
By Marah Eakin February 22, 2013 | 9:10pm
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aux Ashton Kutcher made a reality show about young and old people living together, and you see where this is going
By Sean O'Neal February 22, 2013 | 8:38pm
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aux Trent Reznor's How To Destroy Angels announces spring tour dates
By Marah Eakin February 22, 2013 | 7:50pm
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aux Mira Sorvino to get TV-married to Jim Gaffigan on CBS
By Sean O'Neal February 22, 2013 | 7:34pm
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music A song about a machine gun and other oddities from the strange world of Very Small Records
By Kyle Ryan February 22, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux Join us for an Academy Awards liveblog on Sunday
By Scott Tobias February 22, 2013 | 6:55pm
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aux Noted black leader Ted Nugent launches "Black Power" tour, to empower black people
By Sean O'Neal February 22, 2013 | 6:49pm
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film How Oscar’s Best Picture nominees rub viewers’ noses in America’s dark past
By Emily St. James February 22, 2013 | 6:20pm
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tv The Walking Dead is TV’s biggest show by at least one metric
By Erik Adams February 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Watch Lance Bass, Susan Boyle, and The Village People degrade themselves for faux-mayonnaise
By Marah Eakin February 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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film A bloody good crime film, a stellar horror comic, and 3 more can’t-miss entertainments
By Sean O'Neal, Emily St. James, Scott Tobias, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski February 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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music Finally, an album of Danish versions of old country songs
By Kyle Ryan February 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Young heroes get a big push in Nova and Vibe
By Oliver Sava February 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Adam Sandler hoping to take his next movie vacation with Drew Barrymore
By Sean O'Neal February 22, 2013 | 5:46pm
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aux Classic Hollywood horror films make for killer dresses in this psycho fashion show
By Genevieve Koski February 22, 2013 | 5:40pm
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aux Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z announce the humbly titled "Legends Of The Summer" stadium tour
By Marah Eakin February 22, 2013 | 5:20pm
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aux James Marsden joins the Anchorman sequel, presumably as Cyclops
By Sean O'Neal February 22, 2013 | 4:54pm
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aux Megan Fox sets aside her problems with Michael Bay for the greater good of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
By Sean O'Neal February 22, 2013 | 4:32pm
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tv Our Twilight Zone reviews return in the most ironic way possible! (Okay, they just return)
By Emily St. James February 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Daniel Knauf tells us his plan for the end of Carnivàle
By Emily St. James February 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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film The Friends Of Eddie Coyle gives a late-career Robert Mitchum an extra set of knuckles
By Scott Tobias February 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Fictional foods we want to try
By Cory Casciato, John Semley, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Scott Von Doviak, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Sarah Collins, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, Emily St. James, Claire Zulkey, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski February 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux Podcasters decamp to SF Sketchfest while Eddie Pepitone makes the rounds
By Genevieve Koski, Dan Telfer, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Scott Tobias, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Austin Bernhardt, Oliver Sava, Scott Gordon, Colin Griffith, Matt Kodner, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris February 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux FX renews The Americans, continuing the Cold War for at least another year
By Sean O'Neal February 21, 2013 | 10:27pm
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aux Watch John Vanderslice riff with David Wain, Michael Ian Black, and Michael Showalter
By Marah Eakin February 21, 2013 | 10:15pm
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aux Listen to an uncanny mashup of "Under The Sea" and "Ms. New Booty"
By Marah Eakin February 21, 2013 | 9:35pm
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aux Ted Leo and Aimee Mann team up, form a band together
By Marah Eakin February 21, 2013 | 8:50pm
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aux Justin Timberlake to just hang out at NBC for a week
By Sean O'Neal February 21, 2013 | 8:36pm
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aux Watch John Hodgman shop willy-nilly at Amoeba Records
By Marah Eakin February 21, 2013 | 8:30pm
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aux After four agonizing months, Foo Fighters call off their hiatus
By Marah Eakin February 21, 2013 | 8:00pm
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aux Nielsen agrees that some people watch TV on things besides TVs, and maybe they should do something about that
By Sean O'Neal February 21, 2013 | 7:52pm
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music “Pumped Up Kicks” sneaks eviscerating darkness into a danceable package
By Nathan Rabin February 21, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux Yo La Tengo announces spring North American tour
By Marah Eakin February 21, 2013 | 7:20pm
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aux Steve Zahn to play another unstable know-it-all in Kyle Killen's next show
By Sean O'Neal February 21, 2013 | 7:12pm
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aux Watch Fred Armisen cover TLC with help from members of Les Savy Fav and Yo La Tengo
By Noah Cruickshank February 21, 2013 | 6:45pm
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tv Pre-Star Wars, Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman were beacons for young nerds
By Noel Murray February 21, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Shia LaBeouf apologizes for LaBeef with Alec Baldwin by copying-and-pasting old Esquire article
By Sean O'Neal February 21, 2013 | 5:44pm
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aux Almost a quarter of Alanis Morissette fans have had threesomes and more things The A.V. Club found out using a weird new website
By Marah Eakin February 21, 2013 | 4:35pm
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aux Will Arnett attempts escape to CBS sitcom, despite still being trapped within Up All Night's mangled body
By Sean O'Neal February 21, 2013 | 4:12pm
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tv Daniel Knauf opens up about Carnivàle’s long, weird journey (1 of 2)
By Emily St. James February 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Realizing there’s only so much February sweeps left, Parks And Recreation throws another surprise wedding
By Erik Adams February 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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film A corporate whistleblower’s daily life lends dimension to the fact-based Silkwood
By Mike D'Angelo February 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Linda Cardellini on Freaks And Geeks, ER, and homewrecking
By Claire Zulkey February 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux R.I.P. Richard Briers, British actor of The Good Life
By Christopher Bahn February 20, 2013 | 11:50pm
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aux R.I.P. Kevin Ayers, founding member of Soft Machine
By Marah Eakin February 20, 2013 | 11:45pm
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aux Patton Oswalt will be on Parks And Recreation
By Sean O'Neal February 20, 2013 | 10:39pm
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aux FX developing a show set in the world of Hollywood stuntmen who don't chase fugitives in a cool pickup truck
By Sean O'Neal February 20, 2013 | 10:04pm
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aux Shia LaBeouf also has creative differences with Broadway now
By Sean O'Neal February 20, 2013 | 9:29pm
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aux Ben Affleck made a movie called “I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her On A Meathook And Now I Have A Three-Picture Deal At Disney,” and you can watch it
By Noah Cruickshank February 20, 2013 | 9:20pm
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aux Conan O'Brien to host White House Correspondents dinner, so maybe consider going this year
By Sean O'Neal February 20, 2013 | 8:05pm
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music OBN III’s make garage-punk that’s best heard in a vacuum
By Erik Adams February 20, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux M.I.A. claims the Grammys stole her ideas, art direction for Bob Marley tribute
By Marah Eakin February 20, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux Today in Star Wars rumors: Mark Hamill says no one is officially signed to Star Wars yet, if you can believe Mark Hamill
By Sean O'Neal February 20, 2013 | 7:17pm
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aux Mandy Moore trying again with another comedy pilot, bless her
By Sean O'Neal February 20, 2013 | 6:12pm
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film This week we're barely putting up with The Academy Awards
By Amelie Gillette February 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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film Jeffrey Combs on Re-Animator’s endurance, playing H.P. Lovecraft, and more
By Nathan Rabin February 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux CBS remaking Second Sight as a Jason Lee detective show
By Sean O'Neal February 20, 2013 | 5:34pm
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aux Never mind, there will still be plenty of meat at that Morrissey show
By Sean O'Neal February 20, 2013 | 4:56pm
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aux Billy Corgan stumps for custom furniture, pro-wrestling in suitably insane local commercial
By Erik Adams February 20, 2013 | 4:36pm
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aux Kristen Wiig and Seth Rogen join the cast of Arrested Development as surprise guest stars that aren't surprises anymore, sorry
By Sean O'Neal February 20, 2013 | 4:24pm
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tv Suburgatory offers you all the T-ball you need to get through this dark, baseball-less time
By Emily St. James February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux February 20, 2013
By Dan Savage February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux February 20, 2013
By David Malki ! February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Donnie Brasco features Al Pacino as a Willy Loman-esque sad sack
By Nathan Rabin February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Neil Flynn on The Middle, switching from drama to comedy, and his many Cop #1 roles
By Will Harris February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv “I forget who I am—who am I?”: 23-plus alter egos of sitcom characters
By Nathan Rabin, Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Emily St. James, Genevieve Koski February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux Here's who was picked as the TV version of Cameron Diaz on CBS' Bad Teacher
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 11:52pm
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aux David O. Russell also wants Jennifer Lawrence for another movie
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 11:20pm
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aux Out There
By AV Club Staff February 19, 2013 | 10:50pm
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aux Methopoly lets you play Breaking Bad at home without ruining your entire life
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 10:31pm
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aux Bruce Lee's life inspires movie that is way more interesting now that it has a bunch of made-up shit
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 9:43pm
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aux Belle And Sebastian announces North American tour dates
By Marah Eakin February 19, 2013 | 8:40pm
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aux Michael Jackson's son being raised by the creepy foster family of Entertainment Tonight
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 8:26pm
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aux Read 12 new Neil Gaiman mini-stories online, then help illustrate them
By Tasha Robinson February 19, 2013 | 8:00pm
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aux Uncaring CBS takes America's The Job
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 7:54pm
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music This band wants to kill you, but gently
By Josh Modell February 19, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux Paul McCartney, Mumford & Sons, Tom Petty, and more to play Bonnaroo festival
By Marah Eakin February 19, 2013 | 7:20pm
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aux Zero Dark Thirty's Jason Clarke joins Planet Of The Apes sequel, possibly to torture some monkeys
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 7:15pm
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aux New On DVD And Blu-ray: February 19, 2013
By Scott Tobias February 19, 2013 | 6:52pm
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aux Download Couldn't You Wait, a new feature-length documentary about Silkworm
By Marah Eakin February 19, 2013 | 6:50pm
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aux This photo of Kanye West with Aziz Ansari's parents is fantastic
By Josh Modell February 19, 2013 | 6:45pm
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aux Morrissey gets the Staples Center to go completely vegetarian
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 6:29pm
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aux Today in Alison Brie being adorable news: Alison Brie adorably freestyle raps on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
By Nathan Rabin February 19, 2013 | 6:25pm
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aux Watch the video for Puscifer's Tim And Eric-like take on Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
By Marah Eakin February 19, 2013 | 6:20pm
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music Eugene Mirman on why The Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” is just the worst
By Marah Eakin February 19, 2013 | 6:00pm
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music Songs That Saved Your Life: The Smiths’ small, precious discography
By Noel Murray February 19, 2013 | 6:00pm
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film Here are some scary movie characters you wouldn't want in your family
By AV Club Staff February 19, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux And now Christian Bale will race Tom Hardy up Mount Everest
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 5:53pm
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aux Watch Jack White tour the United Record Pressing plant in anticipation of Record Store Day 2013
By Marah Eakin February 19, 2013 | 5:35pm
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aux The Postal Service announces extensive North American tour
By Marah Eakin February 19, 2013 | 5:20pm
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aux Read This: Here’s a long history of the Cosby Sweater, finally
By Kyle Ryan February 19, 2013 | 5:18pm
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aux Alec Baldwin had another angry run-in with someone, except this time it turned into a hate crime investigation
By Sean O'Neal February 19, 2013 | 5:10pm
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aux Stream two new songs from Braid
By Kyle Ryan February 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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music Matmos, Nick Cave, and Major Lazer lead the week in new releases
By Marah Eakin February 19, 2013 | 3:30pm
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tv You don’t know what you got ’til it’s Go On
By Erik Adams February 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Al Pacino’s integrity costs him in the undercover-cop classic Serpico
By Noel Murray February 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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film The singularly insane Branded is a case study in good intentions gone astray
By Nathan Rabin February 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Eric Roberts on The Dark Knight, Shelley Winters, John Waters, and more
By Will Harris February 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux Led Zeppelin might totally be getting back together in 2014—or not
By Marah Eakin February 18, 2013 | 11:15pm
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aux Lincoln finally abolishes slavery in Mississippi
By Sean O'Neal February 18, 2013 | 11:05pm
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aux Watch a lovely documentary on the making of Belle & Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister
By Nathan Rabin February 18, 2013 | 10:40pm