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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
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aux Ken Jennings: Because I Said So!
By Hayden Childs December 10, 2012 | 6:02am
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aux Felix Gilman: The Rise Of Ransom City
By Jason Heller December 10, 2012 | 6:01am
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aux Bill Roorbach: Life Among Giants
By Ellen Wernecke December 10, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Howie Mandel asks you to Take It All
By Emily St. James December 10, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 10, 2012
By David Malki ! December 10, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 7-9, 2012
By AV Club Staff December 10, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Christmas With The Super-Heroes searched for the holiness of Superman and friends
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 10, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Jon Lovitz will kick your ass: 20-plus unexpectedly badass performances from established non-badasses
By Nathan Rabin, Steve Heisler, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Tasha Robinson December 10, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux UPDATE: The A.V. Club was on The Simpsons!
By Josh Modell December 10, 2012 | 1:35am
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tv Is this Simpsons/Portlandia crossover local? Is it USDA organic, or Oregon organic, or Portland organic?
By Erik Adams December 9, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux West Virginia senator condemns MTV for putting actual West Virginia people on television
By Sean O'Neal December 7, 2012 | 11:39pm
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aux Read This: Some choice, throbbing lines from Literary Review's Bad Sex In Fiction Award winner
By Austin Bernhardt December 7, 2012 | 11:15pm
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aux The Walking Dead, an apocalypse-ready gift guide, and more this week on The A.V. Club
By Sarah Collins December 7, 2012 | 11:00pm
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aux It looks like Nicolas Winding Refn is directing The Equalizer
By Sean O'Neal December 7, 2012 | 10:50pm
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aux The drinking prowess of every character on Mad Men, in handy chart form
By Eric Thurm December 7, 2012 | 10:45pm
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aux Disney finally just making another Alice In Wonderland movie, since that's what everyone's trying to do anyway
By Sean O'Neal December 7, 2012 | 10:14pm
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aux UPDATE: "Most-loved entertainer on the planet" Psy says he's sorry for rapping about killing Americans
By Marah Eakin December 7, 2012 | 10:00pm
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aux Bravo also thinks Death Becomes Her might make a good TV show
By Sean O'Neal December 7, 2012 | 9:44pm
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aux Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell have organized a senatorial screening of Lincoln
By Austin Bernhardt December 7, 2012 | 9:15pm
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aux Indulge the evil side of the holidays with black metal Dolly Parton
By Eric Thurm December 7, 2012 | 9:10pm
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aux Actually, now Kevin Smith's final movie will be Clerks III
By Sean O'Neal December 7, 2012 | 8:59pm
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aux The Breeders are set to reunite for the 20th anniversary of Last Splash
By Austin Bernhardt December 7, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Believe it or not, Duck Dynasty is now one of the most popular shows on television
By Sean O'Neal December 7, 2012 | 7:48pm
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aux Caption Contest: What's Gerard Butler thinking in this stinky new soccer-based rom-com?
By Josh Modell December 7, 2012 | 7:30pm
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film Idiocracy posits a future president that’s as slick as he is dumb
By Tasha Robinson December 7, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Look at Aaron Paul's sweet Breaking Bad cupcakes
By Marah Eakin December 7, 2012 | 7:15pm
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tv Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Andrew W.K., and more on their favorite things of 2012
By A.V. Club Staff and Marah Eakin December 7, 2012 | 7:00pm
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music An old California band offers a prelude to an A.V. Club writer's future pop-punk dementia
By Kyle Ryan December 7, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux James Murphy is definitely involved with Arcade Fire’s new album in some very vague capacity
By Austin Bernhardt December 7, 2012 | 6:10pm
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aux The Residents to release a $100,000 box set packed in a refrigerator
By Josh Terry December 7, 2012 | 6:05pm
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music The strange rehabilitation of Rage Against The Machine
By Jason Heller December 7, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux How did Hawkeye become Marvel’s best comic?
By Oliver Sava December 7, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux The Jumanji remake hires a writer to handle all that re-imagination
By Sean O'Neal December 7, 2012 | 5:41pm
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aux Cloud Cult announces new record, Love, premieres arty new video
By Marah Eakin December 7, 2012 | 5:10pm
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aux Jonathan Demme drops Stephen King's 11/22/63, claims it has nothing to do with shadow government
By Sean O'Neal December 7, 2012 | 4:56pm
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tv The Walking Dead (nearly) conquers all
By Erik Adams December 7, 2012 | 4:00pm
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film Tasteful pop-culture preferences for our presidential runs
By AV Club Staff December 7, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv 30 For 30 aims to crack the eternal mystery of what, exactly, Bo Jackson knows
By Emily St. James December 7, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux MATES and Superego return, and Neil Hamburger celebrates New Year’s Eve
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, Scott Gordon, Colin Griffith, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 7, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux The Writers Guild also likes Homeland, Breaking Bad, and Modern Family—but y'know, for writerly reasons
By Sean O'Neal December 6, 2012 | 11:29pm
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aux Drink in the fantastical whimsy of the Manic Pixie Dream Prostitute!
By Nathan Rabin December 6, 2012 | 11:15pm
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aux Watch a super-dramatic Sigur Rós video starring Elle Fanning and John Hawkes
By Josh Terry December 6, 2012 | 10:30pm
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aux Here's the guy who will replace Michael Clarke Duncan in the Sin City sequel
By Sean O'Neal December 6, 2012 | 10:14pm
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aux Justin Bieber's manager and Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste aren't super happy about their Grammy snubs
By Marah Eakin December 6, 2012 | 9:45pm
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aux Merry Christmas, world: Here's a new Calvin And Hobbes search engine
By Eric Thurm December 6, 2012 | 9:40pm
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aux New On DVD And Blu-Ray: December 4, 2012
By Scott Tobias December 6, 2012 | 9:33pm
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aux Johnny Depp releasing a record of "pirate ballads, sea songs, and chanteys"
By Marah Eakin December 6, 2012 | 9:15pm
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aux Pan's Labyrinth to become a Broadway musical, finally
By Sean O'Neal December 6, 2012 | 9:04pm
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aux Mike Doughty will send you a personalized song message for just $35,335.53
By Marah Eakin December 6, 2012 | 8:25pm
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aux A&E and Carlton Cuse want you to make the opening sequence for Bates Motel
By Josh Terry December 6, 2012 | 8:15pm
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aux Kristen Wiig may play Steve Carell's non-lamp love interest in Anchorman sequel
By Sean O'Neal December 6, 2012 | 8:03pm
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aux Barbra Streisand considering Lady Gaga for the film adaptation of Gypsy
By Marah Eakin December 6, 2012 | 7:35pm
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film Primary Colors examines the moral compromises involved in running for president
By Keith Phipps December 6, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Jersey Shore's JWOWW and Antonio Sabato Jr. to hurl themselves into swimming pools in continued bid for your attention
By Sean O'Neal December 6, 2012 | 7:28pm
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aux M.I.A. releases a new track after being harassed on Twitter
By Marah Eakin December 6, 2012 | 7:15pm
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aux Psy has tricked the world into giving him $8.1 million for "Gangnam Style"
By Josh Terry December 6, 2012 | 7:15pm
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aux ABC orders yet another cop comedy, this one starring Hannibal Buress
By Sean O'Neal December 6, 2012 | 6:41pm
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music A non-single from her sophomore album shows Ellie Goulding has more to offer beyond “Lights”
By Genevieve Koski December 6, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Mike Judge sells HBO a new office comedy
By Sean O'Neal December 6, 2012 | 6:21pm
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music Navigating the diverse, difficult musical career of Scott Walker
By Noel Murray December 6, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux That third Tron movie is still in the works
By Sean O'Neal December 6, 2012 | 5:40pm
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aux Maybe the Grammys won't be terrible this year: Frank Ocean, The Black Keys, fun., and more get big nods
By Marah Eakin December 6, 2012 | 5:40pm
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aux R.I.P. Eileen Moran, a leader in special effects
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 6, 2012 | 4:37pm
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tv The Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special put a fresh coat on an old format
By Marah Eakin December 6, 2012 | 4:30pm
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music Fat Mike talks about NOFX and his later-life interest in drugs and bondage
By Kyle Ryan December 6, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Does The Office’s last Christmas episode show shadows of things that will be, or shadows of things may be, only?
By Erik Adams December 6, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv A holiday episode of The Bob Newhart Show defies convention and affirms Christmas
By Noel Murray December 6, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Watch Honest Trailers take The Dark Knight Rises down a peg
By Austin Bernhardt December 5, 2012 | 11:45pm
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aux Glenn Beck and Vince Vaughn to combine truth-pursuing skills for Pursuit Of Truth
By Sean O'Neal December 5, 2012 | 11:22pm
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aux Jay-Z rides the subway and talks to old people, just like a normal person who has jillions of dollars
By Austin Bernhardt December 5, 2012 | 11:00pm
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aux The National Board of Review also liked Zero Dark Thirty, prefers Bradley Cooper
By Sean O'Neal December 5, 2012 | 10:07pm
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aux Recoil in horror at the new John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John Christmas video!
By Nathan Rabin December 5, 2012 | 10:00pm
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aux Argument over The Walking Dead spurs man to shoot his girlfriend in the back
By Sean O'Neal December 5, 2012 | 9:23pm
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aux Brittany Murphy's final film is now complete, looking for a distributor
By Marah Eakin December 5, 2012 | 8:40pm
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aux Johnny Depp is just going to make his own Don Quixote movie without Terry Gilliam
By Sean O'Neal December 5, 2012 | 8:23pm
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aux Call Of Duty: Black Ops II makes $1 billion in 15 days
By Austin Bernhardt December 5, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Stream a new-old Texas Is The Reason song from the upcoming Do You Know Who You Are? reissue
By Kyle Ryan December 5, 2012 | 7:30pm
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film Gabriel Over The White House’s fictional president awakes from a coma and saves the world
By Noel Murray December 5, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux A timeline of all the crazy things Katt Williams did these past few weeks before quitting comedy
By Sean O'Neal December 5, 2012 | 7:24pm
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music Fugazi’s “Break” is a strange but powerful opening to a difficult album
By Josh Modell December 5, 2012 | 6:30pm
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tv This week we're barely putting up with Wives With Knives
By Amelie Gillette December 5, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Dave Brubeck
By Marah Eakin December 5, 2012 | 6:00pm
