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aux Even Billy Campbell is done with The Killing
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:59pm
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aux TLC to explore death with the same dignity it explores all other aspects of life on Best Funeral Ever
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:23pm
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aux Kids! Enjoy Alien's light-hearted mayhem with this commercial for its action figure
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 8:15pm
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aux Thurston Moore's iconic 1960 Jazzmaster stolen in Philadelphia
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 8:10pm
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tv Yvette Nicole Brown, Kumail Nanjiani, and Damon Lindelof pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Emily St. James, Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Justin Bieber narrowly avoided a grisly castration-and-murder plot by two hit men
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:33pm
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film A week of swordfighting films continues with Kurosawa’s startlingly bloody Sanjuro
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Read This: Wired visits a Walter White lookalike contest judged by Bryan Cranston himself
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux The Archer Live! Tour is a thing and it's happening
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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music When Cloud Nothings played “Wasted Days” through a thunderstorm and without a PA
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Watch Paul McCartney play a new song with the remaining members of Nirvana
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 6:15pm
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film Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs
By Steve Heisler December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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music Fartbarf, Neon Piss, and more: the year in band names 2012
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Gillian Anderson to co-star on, possibly get eaten by NBC's Hannibal
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 5:43pm
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aux Want to listen to Björk's weird solstice song? There's an app for that.
By Austin Bernhardt December 13, 2012 | 5:30pm
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aux Little Miss Sunshine directors to tell the quirky story of Black Panthers founder
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 5:18pm
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aux Exclusive: Teenage Bottlerocket goes “Cruisin’ For Chicks” in a new video
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 4:45pm
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aux Mark Wahlberg to make a movie about hackers and tell them to knock it off with the hacking
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 4:39pm
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aux Watch an exclusive Ben Folds Five performance of "Do It Anyway"
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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music Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift For You aimed for respectability—and created a new tradition
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The memoir of Kiss drummer Peter Criss is endearingly needy and sleazy
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The Golden Globes also like Lincoln, but prefer The Newsroom to Mad Men
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 3:33pm
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film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Watch Neil Patrick Harris get felt up in Neil’s Puppet Dreams
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Love (or Love Actually) is all around in this year’s Glee Christmas episode
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Best films of 2012 so far: an annotated checklist (Part 2)
By Scott Tobias December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Visit the inspiration for Portlandia's feminist bookstore with Kumail Nanjiani
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 11:50pm
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aux People Still Buy Music: Believe it or not, some people still give CDs as Christmas presents
By Marah Eakin, Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 11:40pm
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aux The CW's quest for a Hunger Games-like show leads to it making The Hunger Games real, basically
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 11:29pm
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aux Johnny Depp is confirmed to star in a movie in which his brain is uploaded into a computer
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 10:30pm
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aux They Might Be Giants announces new record for grown-ups, tour dates
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 10:20pm
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aux Someone assembled a Simpsons gingerbread house on YouTube, so it’s officially Christmas
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 10:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Reinhold Weege, creator of Night Court
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 9:58pm
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aux Rocket From The Crypt announces first run of 2013 tour dates
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 9:00pm
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aux "Paranormal" Romeo And Juliet and Jennifer Love Hewitt's Pride And Prejudice added to TV's sort-of-reading list
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 8:45pm
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aux New on DVD and Blu-ray: December 11, 2012
By Scott Tobias December 12, 2012 | 8:00pm
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music Loud’s best metal, punk, and hardcore of 2012
By John Semley, Jason Heller December 12, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Wavves announces new album for 2013, releases “Sail To The Sun” single
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 7:50pm
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aux Paul Revere may finally get what's coming to him with new AMC comedy
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 7:40pm
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film John Boorman’s Excalibur covers the King Arthur legend in blood, flesh, and Jung
By Keith Phipps December 12, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux “Weird Al” Yankovic posted a picture of himself with a dead hooker
By Tasha Robinson December 12, 2012 | 7:10pm
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music Mike Mictlan’s druggy, dirty “Spicy Peeñ” is a love-it-or-hate-it jam
By Genevieve Koski December 12, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux The Screen Actors Guild really enjoyed Silver Linings Playbook and the hot TV comedies of three years ago
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 6:44pm
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tv 10 episodes that show how Buffy The Vampire Slayer blew up genre TV
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux The Knife announces its presumably eerie, disturbing upcoming album with an eerie, disturbing teaser
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Bone up for The Hobbit with this handy dwarf flowchart
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 6:25pm
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aux Linus delivers Orson Welles' "cuckoo clock" Third Man speech in the most highbrow mash-up ever
By Josh Modell December 12, 2012 | 6:05pm
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film This week we're barely putting up with Jack Reacher
By Amelie Gillette December 12, 2012 | 6:00pm
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film Garbo sneezes!: 26 genuinely effective movie taglines
By Nathan Rabin, Parker Winship, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Alison Willmore, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, David Sims, Tasha Robinson December 12, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Paul McCartney to sorta, kinda front a reunited Nirvana at tonight's 12.12.12 concert
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 5:45pm
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aux R.I.P. Ravi Shankar
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 12, 2012 | 5:34pm
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aux HBO developing Game Change sequel about the 2012 election we thought we all agreed we'd never speak of again
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 5:09pm
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aux Cat Power breaks down in front of a bunch of kids (on Funny Or Die)
By Josh Modell December 12, 2012 | 5:05pm
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tv Tess Harper on Breaking Bad, Tender Mercies, and shooting Kevin Bacon
By Will Harris December 12, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux There will now be even more Arrested Development beyond the new Arrested Development you'd already accepted
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 4:32pm
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tv The American Dad Christmas episodes provide an antidote to holiday cheer
By Genevieve Koski December 12, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv Christmas? Modern Family is more popular than Christmas now
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 12, 2012
By David Malki ! December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv “…And Introducing Chewbacca’s Family!” Case File #30: The Star Wars Holiday Special
By Nathan Rabin December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 12, 2012
By Dan Savage December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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music 40 great songs in 40(ish) sentences
By Noel Murray December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Chuck Lorre sells CBS on the comedic premise of single mothers
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 11:16pm
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aux Tupac gets mashed up with James Brown for the Django Unchained soundtrack
By Eric Thurm December 11, 2012 | 10:55pm
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aux Marnie Stern to release Aslan-endorsed new album, The Chronicles Of Marnia
By Josh Terry December 11, 2012 | 10:30pm
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aux Storage Wars is totally fake, alleges new lawsuit that is familiar with reality television, apparently
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 10:21pm
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aux The Critics Choice Awards like pretty much every movie this year, but especially Lincoln
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 9:51pm
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aux Retribution Gospel Choir announces new two-track, 42-minute-long record
By Marah Eakin December 11, 2012 | 8:45pm
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aux Depeche Mode announces new Violator-like album, tour
By Josh Terry December 11, 2012 | 8:40pm
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aux The Asylum sued over Age Of The Hobbits, which now legally cannot go near The Hobbit
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 8:19pm
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aux Watch Andrew W.K. and feline Internet sensation Lil Bub wish you happy holidays
By Josh Modell December 11, 2012 | 8:10pm
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aux Public Enemy, Donna Summer, Rush and more to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
By Marah Eakin December 11, 2012 | 7:45pm
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film Paul Verhoeven’s Flesh + Blood—it’s all right there in the title
By Noel Murray December 11, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Yes, Sufjan Stevens has a Christmas-themed rap mixtape featuring Das Racist and Kitty Pryde
By Josh Terry December 11, 2012 | 7:10pm
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aux Frightened Rabbit announces North American tour for spring 2013
By Marah Eakin December 11, 2012 | 7:00pm
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music Appreciating the one-two punch of Archers Of Loaf’s “You And Me” and “Might”
By Josh Modell December 11, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Angry Birds movie hires visionary who had the idea to reimagine Alvin And The Chipmunks
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 6:00pm
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tv The Fonz plays against type in 1979’s An American Christmas Carol
By Keith Phipps December 11, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Angelina Jolie to retire from career of marrying Brad Pitt to focus on Salt sequel
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 5:14pm
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music What does it mean to grow up with a band?
By Jason Heller December 11, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux Milwaukee, Atlanta, Portland, St. Paul—you've got the New Cult Canon this week!
By Josh Modell December 11, 2012 | 4:30pm
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music Jimmy Buffett pulled in some country-music ringers for the horribly titled License To Chill
By Steven Hyden December 11, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv “Weird Al” Yankovic, Sharon Van Etten, Scott Aukerman, and more pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By AV Club Staff December 11, 2012 | 4:00pm
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music Green Day, Big Boi, and the This Is 40 soundtrack top this week’s new releases
By Marah Eakin December 11, 2012 | 3:30pm
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aux Listen to the premiere of Holly Golightly's "That's What I Want For Christmas"
By Marah Eakin December 11, 2012 | 3:00pm
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tv Parenthood presents a very Braverman Christmas—and all the small-scale drama that implies
By Erik Adams December 11, 2012 | 6:00am
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music The best music of 2012: The ballots
By Evan Rytlewski, Annie Zaleski, Chris Mincher, Jason Heller, Kyle Ryan, Josh Modell, Steven Hyden, Sean O'Neal, Keith Phipps, Noel Murray, Marah Eakin, Genevieve Koski December 11, 2012 | 6:00am
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music The best music of 2012
By AV Club Staff December 11, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux American Film Institute recognizes The Dark Knight Rises and Louie as worthy of recognition by The Institute
By Sean O'Neal December 10, 2012 | 11:01pm
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aux FX orders very Homeland-y pilot from the guys who made Homeland
By Sean O'Neal December 10, 2012 | 10:36pm
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aux R.I.P. Jenni Rivera, Banda singer and reality TV star
By Marah Eakin December 10, 2012 | 10:00pm
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aux Esquire will help G4 become a more sophisticated man channel
By Sean O'Neal December 10, 2012 | 9:41pm
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aux Eliza Dushku will co-star in a new TV version of The Saint
By Sean O'Neal December 10, 2012 | 8:56pm
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film Before Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn made the bloody good Viking movie Valhalla Rising
By Scott Tobias December 10, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Matt Selman, the writer of last night's episode of The Simpsons, explains the A.V. Club cameo
By Nathan Rabin December 10, 2012 | 7:15pm
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film A Tyler Perry academic conference applies highbrow criticism to a lowbrow empire
By Nathan Rabin December 10, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux Yes to play three full albums each night of its upcoming tour, just to show it can
By Austin Bernhardt December 10, 2012 | 7:00pm
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music Mumford And Sons, Dawes, and more rock “With A Little Help From My Friends”
By Marah Eakin December 10, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Los Angeles Film Critics continue bitter feud with New York by picking Amour and The Master as year's best
By Sean O'Neal December 10, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Samuel L. Jackson, Ewan McGregor, and Jimmy Smits are all willing to accept more money to appear in more Star Wars
By Sean O'Neal December 10, 2012 | 6:01pm
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film Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel
By Will Harris December 10, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux New graphic novels and art-comics feature daydreams, quiet apocalypses, and Donald Duck
By Noel Murray December 10, 2012 | 6:00pm
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film And the Parameter winner is... The Ballad Of Oscar Homeslice!
By Josh Modell December 10, 2012 | 6:00pm
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tv Patton Oswalt’s favorite pop culture of 2012, from The Queen Of Versailles to Sklarbro Country
By Patton Oswalt December 10, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux The best comedy albums of 2012
By Marah Eakin, Nathan Rabin, Kyle Ryan, Steve Heisler, Steven Moore, Erik Adams, David Sims, Tuyet Nguyen, Scott Gordon, Genevieve Koski December 10, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux Nine Inch Nails making a new record, also releasing a greatest hits collection
By Marah Eakin December 10, 2012 | 4:15pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: Audiences unsure whether they can ever truly love Gerard Butler
By Sean O'Neal December 10, 2012 | 4:05pm
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film Big Stan is a prison-rape comedy made worse by its commentary
By Nathan Rabin December 10, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux Listen to Hannibal Buress' new song, "Gibberish Rap"
By Marah Eakin December 10, 2012 | 3:00pm
