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aux The director of Natalie Portman's new Western just decided not to go to work yesterday
By Sean O'Neal March 19, 2013 | 8:45pm
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aux True story: MTV to air three "retro" seasons of The Real World this weekend
By Marah Eakin March 19, 2013 | 8:45pm
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aux R.I.P. Bobbie Smith, lead singer of The Spinners
By Marah Eakin March 19, 2013 | 8:10pm
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aux R.I.P. Henry Bromell, Homeland writer and producer
By Sean O'Neal March 19, 2013 | 8:03pm
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aux Watch the cast of Game Of Thrones sing the theme song—yeah, the one with no words
By Steve Heisler March 19, 2013 | 8:00pm
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aux Here are the Muppets meeting the Russian prison system, just like you've always dreamed of, you big weirdo
By Sean O'Neal March 19, 2013 | 7:07pm
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film Want to know that kind of watch Mark Wahlberg wears? There's an app for that
By Marah Eakin March 19, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Check out The Office that might have been with a look at the show's audition sign-in sheet
By Nathan Rabin March 19, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Dinosaur Jr. covers Phoenix, releases signature J. Mascis tennis shoe
By Marah Eakin March 19, 2013 | 6:30pm
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music A dubby deep cut from The Clash reverberates 30 years later
By Josh Modell March 19, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Thumbs And Ammo finds a positive, encouraging solution to the problem of movie gun violence
By Sean O'Neal March 19, 2013 | 5:30pm
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aux Chris Rock making a totally not-serious movie about comedians who try to make serious movies
By Sean O'Neal March 19, 2013 | 5:15pm
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music Wild Belle’s Elliot Bergman gets wild about these six bell-tinged tracks
By Marah Eakin March 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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music Bush had fame, but with Razorblade Suitcase, it wanted credibility
By Kyle Ryan March 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Zero Dark Thirty, Rust And Bone and Badlands lead a week of essential DVD/BD pick-ups
By Scott Tobias March 19, 2013 | 4:46pm
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aux Justin Timberlake's new record is just the first of two he'll put out this year
By Marah Eakin March 19, 2013 | 4:45pm
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aux Ben Affleck considering directing a film set in an entirely different era of Boston
By Sean O'Neal March 19, 2013 | 4:41pm
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aux Tom Cruise may also do his Tom Cruise thing for The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
By Sean O'Neal March 19, 2013 | 4:07pm
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aux Watch Telekinesis fall in love with a computer and fight a bearded baddie in a new video
By Marah Eakin March 19, 2013 | 3:45pm
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aux Bauhaus' Peter Murphy arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run, meth possession
By Marah Eakin March 19, 2013 | 3:35pm
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aux Michelle Shocked delivers homophobic rant, surprises world by still headlining concerts
By Sean O'Neal March 19, 2013 | 3:22pm
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tv Please RSVP to The Mindy Project’s birthday-party episode
By Erik Adams March 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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music Favorite festival experiences
By Nathan Rabin, Cory Casciato, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Scott Tobias, Joel Keller, Vadim Rizov, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Noel Murray, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson March 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Indie upstarts the Polish brothers wandered off the map with Smell Of Success and Stay Cool
By Nathan Rabin March 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle Of Algiers is the standard by which all movies about terrorism are judged
By Scott Tobias March 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux David Hasselhoff protests plans to tear down the Berlin Wall
By Sean O'Neal March 18, 2013 | 10:29pm
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aux Read This: Rob Delaney explains March Madness
By Nathan Rabin March 18, 2013 | 9:18pm
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aux America's general indifference will not prevent a Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters sequel
By Sean O'Neal March 18, 2013 | 9:03pm
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aux Animal Collective cancels March tour dates, citing Avey Tare's "intense case of strep throat"
By Marah Eakin March 18, 2013 | 8:40pm
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aux Escape From New York to get another reboot attempt since no one's done that yet
By Sean O'Neal March 18, 2013 | 8:26pm
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aux Listen to two tracks from Vampire Weekend's new record, Modern Vampires Of The City
By Marah Eakin March 18, 2013 | 8:15pm
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aux Watch Baths, Fear Of Men, METZ, Paws, Wild Belle, and Balmorhea play The A.V. Club's SXSW party
By Marah Eakin March 18, 2013 | 7:45pm
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aux Morrissey cancels his remaining tour dates, citing lasting illness and general lack of vim, vigor
By Marah Eakin March 18, 2013 | 6:40pm
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aux UPDATE: The Bible says Barack Obama is the devil, according to people who have already been saying that for years
By Sean O'Neal March 18, 2013 | 6:30pm
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music Skeletonwitch’s “Tragedy Of Days” is a sweet, screeching track of remembrance
By Marah Eakin March 18, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Listen to Beyoncé's new single, bitch
By Marah Eakin March 18, 2013 | 6:10pm
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aux The Office's Rainn Wilson will star in a CBS procedural about an unlikable detective who nevertheless gets results
By Sean O'Neal March 18, 2013 | 5:39pm
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tv Why the mostly forgotten Route 66 was one of TV’s most ambitious shows
By Emily St. James March 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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music Prolific producer Prince Paul on almost being fired, De La Soul classics, and working with his son
By Eric Thurm March 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux American Horror Story picks an appropriately witchy title for its new season with all the witches
By Sean O'Neal March 18, 2013 | 4:57pm
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aux R.I.P. Jason Molina of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.
By Marah Eakin March 18, 2013 | 4:30pm
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aux You can buy Jesse Pinkman's crappy car from Breaking Bad
By Sean O'Neal March 18, 2013 | 4:19pm
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aux Atoms For Peace schedule U.S. and Japanese tour dates
By Marah Eakin March 18, 2013 | 3:50pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: Harmony Korine's avant-garde experiment in not repelling moviegoers pays off
By Scott Tobias March 18, 2013 | 2:55pm
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aux Sam Lipsyte: The Fun Parts: Stories
By Ellen Wernecke March 18, 2013 | 5:02am
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aux Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then
By Kevin McFarland March 18, 2013 | 5:02am
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aux Alexander Theroux: The Grammar Of Rock: Art And Artlessness In 20th Century Pop Lyrics
By Phil Dyess-Nugent March 18, 2013 | 5:02am
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film The Day Of The Jackal meticulously tracks an assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle
By Noel Murray March 18, 2013 | 5:01am
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tv Sundance and A&E repopulate undercrowded Monday with Top Of The Lake and Bates Motel
By Emily St. James March 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Parks And Recreation has a Leslie Knope problem
By Emily St. James March 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: March 15-17
By AV Club Staff March 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv “What a nightmare!”: 21 TV episodes that do dream sequences right
By John Semley, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Oliver Sava, David Sims, Emily St. James, Claire Zulkey, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski March 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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games The Leaderboard: EA Discusses a Full Spectrum of Diversity
By Todd Harper March 17, 2013 | 11:17pm
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music SXSW Saturday capped off by The Coup, The Thermals, and more
By Josh Modell, Marc Hawthorne, Marah Eakin, Kyle Ryan March 17, 2013 | 11:15pm
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tv The deadline for Girls’ second season approaches
By Erik Adams March 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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music Usher, Afghan Whigs, and Green Day top Friday's SXSW round-up
By Josh Modell, Marc Hawthorne, Marah Eakin, Kyle Ryan March 16, 2013 | 6:10pm
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aux Watch the livestream of our SXSW showcase
By AV Club Staff March 16, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux The pope in Showtime’s pilot for The Vatican will be played by (the same guy who once played) Hitler
By Austin Bernhardt March 15, 2013 | 10:30pm
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aux Dispatches from SXSW and the return of David Bowie this week on The A.V. Club
By Andrea Battleground March 15, 2013 | 10:00pm
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aux Watch the history of breaking the fourth wall in a new supercut
By Austin Bernhardt March 15, 2013 | 8:10pm
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aux Gang of young bop musicians including Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, and Frank Ocean pull together for Yahoo! On The Road Festival
By Erik Adams March 15, 2013 | 7:47pm
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music Third Eye Blind and two different groups of punks provide Thursday’s SXSW highlights
By Josh Modell, Marc Hawthorne, Marah Eakin, Sean O'Neal, Kyle Ryan March 15, 2013 | 7:05pm
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aux Feist makes a Leonard Cohen tune her own
By Andrea Battleground March 15, 2013 | 6:30pm
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music The drunk history of American drinking songs
By Kyle Ryan March 15, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Here's a collection of our favorite stand-ups who are playing the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival
By AV Club Staff March 15, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Mandy Moore signs onto pilot for new CBS drama, doesn’t even think about ABC anymore
By Austin Bernhardt March 15, 2013 | 6:15pm
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aux Soundtrack your Friday afternoon with this Daft Punk/“Suit & Tie” mash-up
By Genevieve Koski March 15, 2013 | 6:05pm
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aux Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, and a bunch of other awesome comedy people reenacted Sixteen Candles and Pretty In Pink in 2004
By Jess Greene March 15, 2013 | 5:05pm
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tv A pair of funny new TV shows, last year’s best doc, and 2 more can’t-miss entertainments
By Nathan Rabin, Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground, Kyle Ryan, Scott Tobias March 15, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux The silent Batman And Robin #18 is a Dark Knight masterpiece
By Oliver Sava March 15, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux No, Tina Fey does not want to take over SNL when Lorne Michaels retires
By Austin Bernhardt March 15, 2013 | 4:15pm
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aux Check out a lot of bad martial arts in this supercut
By Matt Kodner March 15, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Today show pariah Matt Lauer poised to replace Alex Trebek, kill off another American institution
By Scott Tobias March 15, 2013 | 3:58pm
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aux Today in “What’s being Kickstarted?”: Maybe Pushing Daisies, definitely not Firefly
By Erik Adams March 15, 2013 | 3:27pm
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film Ingmar Bergman’s overlooked The Magician proved he was a master illusionist
By Scott Tobias March 15, 2013 | 5:01am
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tv Young Justice ends its run in a pitched battle against hideous monsters—aliens, not executives
By Emily St. James March 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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music Why understanding and embracing easy pop-culture targets beats deriding them
By Nathan Rabin March 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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music Surprising songs in concert
By Nathan Rabin, Cory Casciato, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Joel Keller, Sarah Collins, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, Tasha Robinson March 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux John Hodgman judges hipsters and Walking The Room goes solo
By Genevieve Koski, Nathan Rabin, Dan Telfer, Kevin McFarland, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Scott Tobias, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Austin Bernhardt, Oliver Sava, Christian Williams, Scott Gordon, Colin Griffith, Matt Kodner, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris March 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin Trevorrow selected to direct tonally similar Jurassic Park 4
By Austin Bernhardt March 14, 2013 | 11:00pm
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aux Movie buds Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis reunite for buddy-cop comedy (for pals!)
By Erik Adams March 14, 2013 | 9:42pm
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aux Presenting President Marshmallow Morgan Freeman’s crucial monologue from the fake screenplay Peep Impact
By Erik Adams March 14, 2013 | 9:04pm
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aux Ang Lee joins Tyrant, FX’s not-quite-Homeland, as executive producer and director
By Austin Bernhardt March 14, 2013 | 8:00pm
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aux There are three people you shouldn’t yell at when they’re doing their jobs: A pilot, a ballerina, and Louis C.K.
By Erik Adams March 14, 2013 | 7:59pm
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aux Read This: The letter from a school librarian that’s responsible for Francis Ford Coppola directing The Outsiders
By Matt Kodner March 14, 2013 | 7:03pm
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aux Fox recruits actors known for playing parents to mortify a new batch of TV kids
By Austin Bernhardt March 14, 2013 | 7:00pm
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music “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” strikes a blow for country feminism
By Emily St. James March 14, 2013 | 6:30pm
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music Wednesday’s SXSW experience highlighted by Iggy And The Stooges and pork-belly sliders
By Josh Modell, Marc Hawthorne, Marah Eakin, Sean O'Neal, Kyle Ryan March 14, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Jimmy Kimmel to host 2014 Oscars, according to idle speculation from anonymous sources
By Scott Tobias March 14, 2013 | 5:49pm
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aux Watch the latest installment of a “long lost” short film series presented by Andrew W.K.
By Austin Bernhardt March 14, 2013 | 5:10pm
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tv Going beyond “Washington” with the online cartoons of Brad Neely
By Erik Adams March 14, 2013 | 5:00pm
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tv How Dollhouse toyed with the idea of how people and institutions are formed
By Noel Murray March 14, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Michelle Williams appeared in a magazine ostensibly dressed as a Native American. Oh boy.
By Austin Bernhardt March 14, 2013 | 4:20pm
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aux Check out the web cartoonists continuing Calvin And Hobbes
By Tasha Robinson March 14, 2013 | 3:45pm
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aux R.I.P. Clive Burr, Iron Maiden drummer
By John Semley March 14, 2013 | 3:36pm
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aux Great job, Internet! (seriously): Veronica Mars movie raises all the money, gets the greenlight
By Erik Adams March 14, 2013 | 3:14pm
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film Upside Down
By Tasha Robinson March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv What we talk about when we talk about Girls
By Emily St. James March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Neal Pollack on rebounding from massive hype and six-figure deals to online publishing
By Nathan Rabin March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Orson Welles’ F For Fake orchestrates a film-length work of cinematic magic
By Nathan Rabin March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv No, this is The Office episode that was the pilot for The Farm
By Erik Adams March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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music Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater plays "It's Over" by Roy Orbison
By Josh Modell March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Smash isn't dead! It's just moving to Saturdays!
By Emily St. James March 14, 2013 | 12:05am
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aux Bill Callahan announces dates for intimate, coastless spring tour
By Austin Bernhardt March 13, 2013 | 9:35pm
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aux Alison Brie says “dick” a bunch of times in service of promoting Nick Offerman’s new movie
By Erik Adams March 13, 2013 | 9:03pm
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aux Django Unchained will be the first Quentin Tarantino movie to screen in China
By Sean O'Neal March 13, 2013 | 7:31pm
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aux Revisit the works of Stanley Kubrick with this animated tribute
By Matt Kodner March 13, 2013 | 7:10pm
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aux Warwick Davis would like to be in more Star Wars and get a lightsaber this time, please
By Sean O'Neal March 13, 2013 | 6:58pm
