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aux The necessary 2011 return
By Josh Modell, Tasha Robinson December 16, 2011 | 6:00am
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aux Week of Dec. 8-14
By Genevieve Koski, Nathan Rabin, Maureen Morrison, Kyle Ryan, Scott Gordon, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Tasha Robinson, Steven Hyden, Scott Tobias, Christian Williams, Emily St. James, Andrew Johnstone, Marcus Gilmer, Dan Telfer, Claire Zulkey, Jason Diamond, D.X. Ferris December 16, 2011 | 6:00am
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aux "A Very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas" makes grisly snowman death festive
By Genevieve Koski December 16, 2011 | 12:30am
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aux MTV uses its passing familiarity with music to name the year's best artists and songs
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 11:37pm
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aux Stephen Malkmus and L.A. Guns team up for single, appear to now be equally famous
By Steven Hyden December 15, 2011 | 10:52pm
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aux ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition can't help you anymore
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 10:35pm
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aux Clint Eastwood's family will star in a reality show
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 10:08pm
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aux New York's hottest Christmas card is this one with Saturday Night Live's Stefon on it
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 9:39pm
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music Bob Mould performs "Hoover Dam"
By AV Club Staff December 15, 2011 | 9:05pm
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aux Ned Flanders IS Walter White in "Breaking Bart"
By Genevieve Koski December 15, 2011 | 9:05pm
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aux R.I.P. Joe Simon, comics legend and co-creator of Captain America
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 8:59pm
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aux Fan recreates Raiders of the Lost Ark's opening scene using stop-motion animation
By Marcus Gilmer December 15, 2011 | 7:35pm
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aux Courtney Love being evicted from house she destroyed by landlord who'd never heard of Courtney Love, apparently
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 6:52pm
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aux UPDATE: Fox gives Russell Brand his own late-night comedy show AND his own primetime animated series
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 6:14pm
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aux Autobiographical comics
By Sam Adams December 15, 2011 | 6:01pm
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tv How The Grinch Stole Christmas
By Zack Handlen December 15, 2011 | 5:59pm
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aux Leonardo DiCaprio producing mafia/medical drama for HBO
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 5:05pm
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aux Foo Fighters literally cause geological tremors during concert in New Zealand
By Steven Hyden December 15, 2011 | 4:45pm
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aux Howard Stern officially joining America's Got Talent
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 4:29pm
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aux Madonna signs to Interscope, will release new album in March
By Steven Hyden December 15, 2011 | 3:52pm
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aux The Golden Globes are totally in love with Ryan Gosling and Zooey Deschanel
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2011 | 3:46pm
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music Ian Cooke
By Ian Gassman December 15, 2011 | 7:00am
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tv It's Always Sunny ends another season with a finale that feels more like a series finale, even if it isn't
By Emily St. James December 15, 2011 | 6:00am
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film I Wanna Hold Your Hand
By Keith Phipps December 15, 2011 | 6:00am
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film The worst films of 2011
By Nathan Rabin, Keith Phipps, Noel Murray, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias December 15, 2011 | 6:00am
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music Bob Mould discusses and performs “Hoover Dam”
By Kyle Ryan December 15, 2011 | 6:00am
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aux New Cult Canon debuts in NYC with Freaked and Death Wish 3, featuring special guest Alex Winter
By Scott Tobias December 14, 2011 | 10:48pm
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aux Spike Jonze, Benicio Del Toro, Neil Hamburger, Elliott Gould, and Michael Cera take part in 24-hour telethon for repertory cinema
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2011 | 10:20pm
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aux Loud music makes alcohol taste sweeter, according to study of awesome things
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2011 | 9:27pm
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aux Today in music videos: The internet was bored for a second, so Lana Del Rey posed with tigers, explosions, and stuff
By Steven Hyden December 14, 2011 | 9:25pm
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aux New Shins album due in March
By Steven Hyden December 14, 2011 | 9:13pm
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aux Behold the glory of the “Spielberg Face”
By Marcus Gilmer December 14, 2011 | 8:30pm
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aux Louis C.K. made some pretty good money selling his own comedy special
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2011 | 8:08pm
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aux The Screen Actors Guild really likes The Help and Modern Family
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2011 | 7:42pm
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aux David Cross calls Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked the "the most unpleasant experience" of his career
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2011 | 7:14pm
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aux The Dictator trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen does that thing again
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2011 | 6:30pm
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aux Bill Maher: The New New Rules
By James Sullivan December 14, 2011 | 6:04pm
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aux Joan Didion: Blue Nights
By Kevin McFarland December 14, 2011 | 6:03pm
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aux Péter Nádas: Parallel Stories
By Ellen Wernecke December 14, 2011 | 6:02pm
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aux Larry Doyle: Deliriously Happy: And Other Bad Thoughts
By Christian Williams December 14, 2011 | 6:01pm
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aux Richard L. Brandt: One Click: Jeff Bezos And The Rise Of Amazon.com
By Rowan Kaiser December 14, 2011 | 6:00pm
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tv December 14, 2011
By Amelie Gillette December 14, 2011 | 6:00pm
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tv The Snowman
By Emily Yoshida December 14, 2011 | 6:00pm
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aux Electronic artist Alan Braxe accused of joining France's proud tradition of symbolically pissing on things
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2011 | 5:40pm
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aux Patton Oswalt and Jason Reitman make their own "No Texting" PSA
By Marcus Gilmer December 14, 2011 | 5:00pm
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aux FCC actually doing something useful by getting rid of loud commercials
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2011 | 4:38pm
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aux Christopher Meloni joining True Blood as a presumably shirtless regular
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2011 | 4:13pm
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aux A talking ball of foam brings presidential politics to their logical conclusion
By John Teti December 14, 2011 | 4:12pm
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tv We miss The Sucklord, too, but read our Work Of Art reviews anyway
By Emily St. James December 14, 2011 | 6:00am
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aux December 14, 2011
By Dan Savage December 14, 2011 | 6:00am
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aux December 14, 2011
By David Malki ! December 14, 2011 | 6:00am
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film Unsung films Of 2011
By Nathan Rabin, Keith Phipps, Noel Murray, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias December 14, 2011 | 6:00am
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film #23: Why The Pop-Culture World Continually Disappoints Us
By AV Club Staff December 14, 2011 | 6:00am
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music MC Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em
By Steven Hyden December 14, 2011 | 6:00am
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aux Hairy Hasidic musician Matisyahu is no longer two of those things
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2011 | 11:19pm
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aux The American Horror Story house really is for sale
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2011 | 10:15pm
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aux FX orders fourth season of The League
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2011 | 9:44pm
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aux Louis C.K.'s Reddit interview was just like getting pissed on, according to Taiwanese animators
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2011 | 8:52pm
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aux The Critics Choice Awards offer hope for Drive and Andy Serkis
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2011 | 6:18pm
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tv Nice places to visit: How some dramas remain compelling while falling short of greatness
By Emily St. James December 13, 2011 | 6:01pm
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tv Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale
By Steve Heisler December 13, 2011 | 6:00pm
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aux Drake plots tour of only the coziest, most intimate arenas in the world
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2011 | 5:31pm
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aux Bradley Cooper-starring Paradise Lost postponed for being way too expensive, as though such a film ever could be
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2011 | 4:51pm
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film Best films of 2011
By Nathan Rabin, Scott Tobias, Alison Willmore, Keith Phipps, Noel Murray, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson December 13, 2011 | 6:02am
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aux Jack Davis
By Sam Adams December 13, 2011 | 6:01am
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tv J-Zone’s Root For The Villain: Rap, Bullshit And A Celebration Of Failure
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2011 | 6:00am
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tv Raising Hope is pretty darn funny, and at least it's not another Glee Christmas episode
By Emily St. James December 13, 2011 | 6:00am
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music G-Side’s Yung Clova and ST 2 Lettaz
By Dylan Peterson December 13, 2011 | 6:00am
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aux Lowe's pulls ads from All-American Muslim to avoid controversy, which goes over about as well as you'd expect
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2011 | 11:47pm
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aux Go buy Louis C.K.'s new comedy special so he can make another movie
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2011 | 10:27pm
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aux Leonardo DiCaprio and Chewbacca top this year's Black List
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2011 | 9:33pm
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aux George Takei urges end to "Star Trek vs. Star Wars" debate so we can all hate on Twilight
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2011 | 8:48pm
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aux Austin Powers could become the latest musical to save Broadway
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2011 | 8:12pm
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aux Nick Cave says Grinderman is over
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2011 | 6:47pm
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aux Radiohead to release even more King Of Limbs stuff beginning next week
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2011 | 6:13pm
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music Jeff Tweedy
By Steven Hyden December 12, 2011 | 6:10pm
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music Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, “American Girl”
By Jason Heller December 12, 2011 | 6:00pm
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tv Gilmore Girls, “Forgiveness And Stuff”
By David Sims December 12, 2011 | 6:00pm
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games Dec. 12, 2011
By Noah Cruickshank, Steve Heisler, Noah Cruickshank, Anthony John Agnello, Christian Williams, Jeffrey Matulef, Tasha Robinson, John Teti December 12, 2011 | 5:59pm
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aux Two missing Doctor Who episodes turn up
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2011 | 5:42pm
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aux George Clooney is working on a film about The Smothers Brothers
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2011 | 5:08pm
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aux December 12, 2011
By Max Cannon December 12, 2011 | 4:25pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: Audiences fail to show up to sequel to movie they hated
By Scott Tobias December 12, 2011 | 3:12pm
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aux December 12, 2011
By David Malki ! December 12, 2011 | 6:00am
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film Seven
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2011 | 6:00am
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tv Enlightened has its season finale, and we beg TV not to leave us
By Emily St. James December 12, 2011 | 6:00am
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aux Tony Mantuano
By Amy Cavanaugh December 12, 2011 | 6:00am
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tv When 5 cents is too high a price: 26 destructive fictional therapists
By Jason Heller, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Joel Keller, Keith Phipps, Noel Murray, Emily St. James, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski December 12, 2011 | 6:00am
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tv Thirtysomething “The Mike Van Dyke Show”
By Emily St. James December 11, 2011 | 6:00am
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tv Time for a lackluster Amazing Race season to cross the finish line, probably disappointingly
By Emily St. James December 11, 2011 | 6:00am
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tv Two Saturday Night Live Christmases: 1975 and 1976
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 10, 2011 | 6:00pm
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aux Michael Jackson's daughter starring in appropriately bizarre movie with Larry King and Joey Fatone
By Sean O'Neal December 9, 2011 | 11:06pm
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aux Eddie Murphy to play Marion Barry in Spike Lee-directed biopic
By Sean O'Neal December 9, 2011 | 9:05pm
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aux Real Occupy Wall Street occupies Law And Order's fake Occupy Wall Street
By Sean O'Neal December 9, 2011 | 7:39pm
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aux An architecture lesson from a crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube
By Genevieve Koski December 9, 2011 | 7:21pm
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aux Lifetime remaking The Blue Lagoon as a movie appropriate for all basic-cable audiences
By Sean O'Neal December 9, 2011 | 6:59pm
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aux In formerly Soviet Russia, The King Of Queens isn't a fat guy
By Sean O'Neal December 9, 2011 | 6:15pm
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film Diablo Cody
By Sam Adams December 9, 2011 | 6:01pm
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tv South Park, “Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo”
By Rowan Kaiser December 9, 2011 | 6:00pm
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aux The Dark Knight Rises prologue suggests you won't understand a goddamn thing Bane says
By Sean O'Neal December 9, 2011 | 4:39pm
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aux Korn's Jonathan Davis: Obama an "Illuminati puppet"
By Steven Hyden December 9, 2011 | 3:58pm
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music They Might Be Giants & The A.V. Club cover "Tubthumping" (Live)
By Josh Modell December 9, 2011 | 6:01am
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music 2011: The year in band names
By Kyle Ryan December 9, 2011 | 6:01am
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film Best stories behind the art
By AV Club Staff December 9, 2011 | 6:00am
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music Holiday edition
By Steven Hyden, Genevieve Koski December 9, 2011 | 6:00am
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tv We are The Colbert Report late-night round-up, and so can you
By Emily St. James December 9, 2011 | 6:00am
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music They Might Be Giants & The A.V. Club cover "Horse With No Name" (Live)
By Josh Modell December 9, 2011 | 6:00am
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aux Week of Dec. 1-7
By Genevieve Koski, Nathan Rabin, Maureen Morrison, Kyle Ryan, Scott Gordon, Maggie Serota, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias, Steven Hyden, Emily Withrow, Andrew Johnstone, Marcus Gilmer, Dan Telfer, Claire Zulkey, Jason Diamond, D.X. Ferris December 9, 2011 | 6:00am
