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tv Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: July 27-29, 2012
By AV Club Staff July 30, 2012 | 5:00am
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tv Read all about Web Therapy, just in case you meet someone who watches Web Therapy
By Emily St. James July 30, 2012 | 5:00am
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tv The Newsroom and the perils of time-delay drama
By Phil Dyess-Nugent July 30, 2012 | 5:00am
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tv Best band ever, briefly!: 17 musical acts beloved by TV characters for just one episode
By John Semley, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Joel Keller, Keith Phipps, Marah Eakin, Marcus Gilmer, Meredith Blake, 1560738667, Claire Zulkey, Genevieve Koski July 30, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux CBS at the TCA press tour: Nina Tassler could crush your puny network like a bug
By Emily St. James July 29, 2012 | 6:20pm
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tv With all eyes on London, Inspector Lewis helps other parts of England get some attention
By Erik Adams July 29, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Louie win big at Television Critics Association awards
By Emily St. James July 29, 2012 | 4:00am
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aux FX at the TCA press tour: FX creates weird feud with Netflix, announces another season of Louie
By Emily St. James July 28, 2012 | 5:40pm
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aux Modern Family cast members agree to new deal, get raises
By Emily St. James July 28, 2012 | 1:00pm
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aux New Cult Canon returns to Music Box Theatre with The Hole and Gremlins 2, with special guest Joe Dante!
By Scott Tobias July 28, 2012 | 1:53am
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aux R.I.P. Lupe Ontiveros of Selena, Chuck And Buck, and The Goonies
By Phil Dyess-Nugent July 27, 2012 | 9:40pm
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tv AMC is developing a show about Area 51, not that it exists or anything has ever happened there
By Sean O'Neal July 27, 2012 | 9:31pm
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aux Larry David's movie will screen on HBO now, which is still pretty good
By Sean O'Neal July 27, 2012 | 9:13pm
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aux You'll be able to see The Master a month earlier now
By Sean O'Neal July 27, 2012 | 8:49pm
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aux Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band add dates to their U.S. tour
By Marah Eakin July 27, 2012 | 8:30pm
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aux Bret Michaels wants to make a movie telling whatever story of his life reality TV hasn't already told
By Marah Eakin July 27, 2012 | 8:15pm
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aux Lana Del Rey covers Nirvana, does about as good of a job of that as can be expected
By Marah Eakin July 27, 2012 | 7:45pm
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aux AMC killed The Killing—or did it?!
By Sean O'Neal July 27, 2012 | 7:38pm
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aux Dane Cook brings Dane Cook's sense of satire to the Aurora shooting
By Sean O'Neal July 27, 2012 | 6:51pm
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aux It's a bloody hilarious trailer for the new Childrens Hospital season
By Josh Modell July 27, 2012 | 6:35pm
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aux ABC at the TCA press tour: Paul Lee believes that love is the answer
By Emily St. James July 27, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Animal Collective to host a weekly radio show in preparation for Centipede HZ
By Marah Eakin July 27, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Art Garfunkel gets overserious in these weird outtakes
By Sam Adams July 27, 2012 | 5:49pm
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film 10 ways to improve dance-movie plots (while dumping the evil developers)
By Tasha Robinson July 27, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Mary Tamm, Doctor Who's Romana
By Christopher Bahn July 27, 2012 | 4:48pm
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aux French fans call Madonna a "slut" after she cuts Paris concert short
By Marah Eakin July 27, 2012 | 4:30pm
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aux Billie Joe Armstrong joining Christina Aguilera on The Voice, igniting another debate over "punk" that we can all have again or not
By Sean O'Neal July 27, 2012 | 4:25pm
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aux Mad scientists reach for the stars, kill everything in The Manhattan Projects #5
By Oliver Sava July 27, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux Laurence Fishburne to glare at more serial killers on Hannibal
By Sean O'Neal July 27, 2012 | 3:27pm
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tv Ten episodes that show how All In The Family changed television
By Robert David Sullivan July 27, 2012 | 3:00pm
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aux The CW's quest for a Hunger Games-like TV show leads them to consider Battle Royale
By Sean O'Neal July 27, 2012 | 2:48pm
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aux A.V. Club exclusive: Listen to Haim's take on Fleetwood Mac's "Hold Me"
By Marah Eakin July 27, 2012 | 10:00am
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tv The Olympics are here! You won't have to change the channel for weeks!
By Emily St. James July 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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film William Friedkin talks Killer Joe and shares some choice words about Hollywood
By Sam Adams July 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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film The best of 2012 so far
By AV Club Staff July 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux Kanye West, Ben Gibbard, and Britain’s next big thing land on this week’s must-hear rundown
By Marah Eakin July 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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music This Was Pop gets snippy over Katy Perry, Pink, and more
By Steven Hyden, Genevieve Koski July 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux We visit Harmontown and binge on Doug Loves Movies in this week’s podcast roundup
By Genevieve Koski, Aaron Frank, Nathan Rabin, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Scott Tobias, David Anthony, Colin Griffith, Oliver Sava, Christian Williams, Scott Gordon, Marcus Gilmer, Dan Telfer, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris July 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux Today's music is too loud and all sounds the same, conclude old person scientists
By Marah Eakin July 26, 2012 | 11:00pm
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aux Guy who plays McSteamy on Grey's Anatomy runs out of McSteam
By Sean O'Neal July 26, 2012 | 10:30pm
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aux Bravo renews Kathy Griffin's talk show, despite its horrible ratings and polarizing host
By Marah Eakin July 26, 2012 | 10:20pm
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aux Lady Gaga will also star in, generate publicity for Machete Kills
By Sean O'Neal July 26, 2012 | 9:33pm
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aux Jay-Z even looks cool in a battery commercial
By Josh Modell July 26, 2012 | 9:05pm
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aux Ridley Scott making a disaster movie about the world's worst traffic jam
By Sean O'Neal July 26, 2012 | 8:03pm
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aux Crystal Castles drop new single, announce a bunch of tour dates
By Marah Eakin July 26, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux PBS painter Bob Ross gets awesomely Auto-Tuned
By Marcus Gilmer July 26, 2012 | 7:45pm
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aux Pinback announces new record, its first in five years
By Marah Eakin July 26, 2012 | 7:10pm
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aux Lamb Of God tour cancelled as singer remains in Czech jail
By Marah Eakin July 26, 2012 | 6:45pm
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aux Matthew Weiner needlessly confirms that Elisabeth Moss is returning to Mad Men
By Sean O'Neal July 26, 2012 | 6:36pm
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aux Mariah Carey will also be in Lee Daniels' The Butler, though most likely not as Gerald Ford
By Sean O'Neal July 26, 2012 | 5:42pm
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aux In 1992, Green Day only made $100 a night
By Marah Eakin July 26, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux Ron Howard extends the Arrested Development reunion ruse with photo of a "script"
By Sean O'Neal July 26, 2012 | 4:56pm
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film A guide to the fantastical work of Joe Dante
By Keith Phipps, Noel Murray, Scott Tobias July 26, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv And now, the exciting, awkward conclusion to Louie’s first two-parter
By Erik Adams July 26, 2012 | 7:19am
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film A critical movement saved Margaret from burial; here’s why it deserved a second chance
By Scott Tobias July 26, 2012 | 5:00am
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film Paul Dano talks Ruby Sparks and how acting is like maintaining an erection
By Tasha Robinson July 26, 2012 | 5:00am
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music Touring The Doors' Los Angeles
By Sean O'Neal July 26, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux Dispatches from the TCA Summer Press Tour: When will web video look like web video?
By Erik Adams July 26, 2012 | 1:03am
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aux Fox bringing back the multi-camera sitcom in a big, convoluted way with The Short-Com Comedy Hour
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 10:56pm
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aux Dan Harmon might have a new show at Fox pretty soon
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 10:16pm
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aux Vince Vaughn bought himself a China-set political thriller to star in
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 9:02pm
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aux Werner Herzog discovers that his old friend John Waters is gay
By Josh Modell July 25, 2012 | 8:41pm
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aux Pete Holmes may get his own, Conan O'Brien-produced talk show
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 8:26pm
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aux MTV renews Awkward for a supersized third season, eases teen angst everywhere
By Marah Eakin July 25, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Modern Family cast ready to get back together, because that's what fake families do
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 7:18pm
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aux Lady Gaga sued for breaching her Bratz contract, engaging in bad corporate romance
By Marah Eakin July 25, 2012 | 6:50pm
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aux R.I.P. Chad Everett of Medical Center and Mulholland Drive
By Phil Dyess-Nugent July 25, 2012 | 6:18pm
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aux Here are a couple more images that prove they really made a Cloud Atlas movie
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 5:25pm
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tv Wayne Knight talks about The Exes, Newman, and working in the mud for Jurassic Park
By Will Harris July 25, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux This week we're barely putting up with Jerry Seinfeld
By Amelie Gillette July 25, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux The Mountain Goats release horn-laden new single, "Cry For Judas"
By Marah Eakin July 25, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert aren't going anywhere for a while
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 4:46pm
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aux And now Warner Bros. is also delaying Gangster Squad because of the Colorado shooting
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 3:46pm
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film Ruby Sparks
By Tasha Robinson July 25, 2012 | 3:31pm
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aux Peter Jackson considering tempting fate with yet another Hobbit film
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 3:15pm
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aux Skip whimsically through the history of Manic Pixie Dream Girls on film
By Nathan Rabin July 25, 2012 | 3:07pm
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film You Know, For The Kids? Case File #20: Clifford
By Nathan Rabin July 25, 2012 | 3:00pm
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aux Attention: The woman who plays Total Recall's three-breasted prostitute does not actually have three breasts
By Sean O'Neal July 25, 2012 | 2:37pm
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aux July 25, 2012
By Dan Savage July 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux July 25, 2012
By David Malki ! July 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux How Tosh.0 survived the decline of the “clip show”
By Noel Murray July 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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tv Top Chef Masters returns with another season and, presumably, yet another format
By Emily St. James July 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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film Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology
By Tasha Robinson July 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux Reggie Watts shows team spirit
By AV Club Staff July 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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aux NBC at the TCA Summer Press Tour: Thanks to Mockingbird Lane and Dracula, monsters have never looked more handsome
By Erik Adams July 25, 2012 | 12:11am
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aux That whole Modern Family situation is indeed getting pretty ugly
By Sean O'Neal July 24, 2012 | 11:09pm
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aux R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley
By Sean O'Neal July 24, 2012 | 10:12pm
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aux Alice Cooper deems Universal theme parks worthy of hosting his haunted mazes
By Marah Eakin July 24, 2012 | 9:30pm
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aux Someone made a colorful stop-motion Super Mario Bros. clip out of Post-It Notes
By Marcus Gilmer July 24, 2012 | 8:45pm
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aux 98 Degrees reunites "Because Of You"
By Caitie Kealy, Marah Eakin July 24, 2012 | 8:40pm
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aux Win a copy of comedian Dan Telfer’s new album Tendrils Of Ruin
By Keith Phipps July 24, 2012 | 8:30pm
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aux Today in music videos: Kreayshawn goes "hard" with dancing animals and Seussian lyrics
By Marah Eakin July 24, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux The little minion guys from Despicable Me are getting their own movie
By Maureen Monahan, Sean O'Neal July 24, 2012 | 7:48pm
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aux MTV bringing back House Of Style, sort of
By Sean O'Neal July 24, 2012 | 7:20pm
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aux HBO is now also in the Stephen Merchant business
By Sean O'Neal July 24, 2012 | 6:49pm
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aux New Pornographers' A.C. Newman announces new solo album, North American tour
By Caitie Kealy July 24, 2012 | 6:20pm
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aux Bat For Lashes announces new album with (probably) NSFW cover, dramatic new video
By Caitie Kealy, Marah Eakin July 24, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux NBC at the TCA Summer Press Tour: “NBC” now stands for “New Broad Comedies”
By Erik Adams July 24, 2012 | 5:43pm
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aux Edgar Wright keeps signing up to direct more stuff
By Sean O'Neal July 24, 2012 | 5:22pm
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aux Tim Heidecker wrote Bob Dylan's new song about the Titanic
By Josh Modell July 24, 2012 | 5:03pm
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aux Todd Barry on the “fucking awful” people who bring kids to stand-up shows
By Scott Gordon July 24, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux Denzel Washington signs on to The Equalizer after being assured that it's about a cop or agent or something
By Sean O'Neal July 24, 2012 | 4:34pm
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aux Jimmie Walker’s memoir paints him as a comedy Zelig
By Nathan Rabin July 24, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux Mariah Carey now the most overpaid reality show judge of all the overpaid reality show judges
By Sean O'Neal July 24, 2012 | 3:57pm
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music How Elton John’s “The Bitch Is Back” said a lot without specifying anything
By Jason Heller July 24, 2012 | 3:00pm
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tv Six Feet Under celebrates Christmas in July in a most depressing fashion
By Erik Adams July 24, 2012 | 9:29am
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music New feature: Japandroids’ David Prowse recalls a series of firsts
By Marah Eakin July 24, 2012 | 5:00am
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music Dave Wakeling on the short, successful, fractious career of The English Beat
By Noel Murray July 24, 2012 | 5:00am