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aux NBC might not actually make its Hillary Clinton miniseries now that Republicans are mad
By Sean O'Neal August 19, 2013 | 4:59pm
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aux Major Lazer dives deep into the world beat criminal underground for its new video
By Marah Eakin August 19, 2013 | 4:35pm
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aux Superchunk celebrates its hatred of music with a brand new video
By Marah Eakin August 19, 2013 | 4:15pm
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tv Cagney & Lacey survived two cancellations and multiple re-castings to become a TV groundbreaker
By Emily St. James August 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: Moviegoers so starved for drama they pay for a Lee Daniels movie
By A.A. Dowd August 19, 2013 | 3:19pm
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aux Hey, it’s 1983 Week at The A.V. Club
By Erik Adams August 19, 2013 | 2:17pm
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tv With finales for both Switched At Birth and Teen Wolf, we imagine unlikely crossovers
By Emily St. James August 19, 2013 | 5:05am
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film Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: August 16-August 18
By AV Club Staff August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux August 19, 2013
By David Malki ! August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Not just the year of Stephen King: 10 excellent, underappreciated books from 1983
By Kevin McFarland, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, Eric Thurm, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Andrea Battleground, Laura M. Browning August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Reaching new depths of desperation: 11 (mostly lousy) sequels released in 1983
By John Semley, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Mike Vago August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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music Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan talks weird gaps, magical hawks, and slack motherfuckers
By Kyle Ryan August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Marisha Pessl: Night Film
By Ellen Wernecke August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Wiki Wormhole: Quench a thirst for knowledge with a page all about cola
By Mike Vago August 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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tv Is True Blood preparing for a nuclear apocalypse or a season finale?
By Erik Adams August 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux MTV, in a moment of sobering self-awareness, orders show called Jerks With Cameras
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 8:37pm
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aux Joseph Kosinski is the latest director to get trapped in The Twilight Zone movie
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 8:11pm
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aux CBS seeks frat bro with "keg stand experience" to bring keg stand verisimilitude to legal drama
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark reprises its show-stopping "seriously injured actor" number
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 6:51pm
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aux The Onion's Peter K. Rosenthal reviewed Lee Daniels' The Butler, calls it the most important film of all time
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 6:45pm
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aux Read This: Cameron Esposito on what not to yell at a lesbian comic
By Kayla Reed August 16, 2013 | 6:40pm
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aux A new podcast finds Steve Albini talking Nirvana, In Utero, and music industry "parasites"
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 6:10pm
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aux There's probably a new Paul McCartney record coming out later this year
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 6:10pm
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aux Somehow Russell Simmons' "Harriet Tubman Sex Tape" did not go over that well
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Hey Chicago! Come play music trivia with The A.V. Club's Marah Eakin
By Kayla Reed August 16, 2013 | 5:45pm
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aux Electro-pop duo YACHT just released a pretty great anti-NSA single
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 5:30pm
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aux The "Blurred Lines" guys are suing Marvin Gaye's family for saying they copied "Got To Give It Up"
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 5:25pm
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aux Corporate rock band KISS has gone and bought its own arena football team
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 5:15pm
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aux Movie explicitly designed to sell Ninja Turtles toys delayed to sell more Ninja Turtles toys
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 5:06pm
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aux Ignatz Awards for excellence in independent comics announces its 2013 nominees
By Jason Heller August 16, 2013 | 4:45pm
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aux Watch Donald Glover demand to be taken seriously in his short film, Clapping For The Wrong Reasons
By Kayla Reed August 16, 2013 | 4:40pm
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aux FXX is going to win you over with a whole day of Parks And Recreation
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 4:30pm
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aux For just $2,800, two stuntwomen recreated Family Guy's "epic chicken fight"
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 4:25pm
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aux Asian-American group asks Fox to do something about its racist Dads
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 4:09pm
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aux Pick your favorite controversial episode to be the fifth TV Roundtable Readers' Choice selection!
By Emily St. James August 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Hear an exclusive single from Toronto band The Darcys
By Kayla Reed August 16, 2013 | 3:00pm
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music On “Pyrrhic,” Julianna Barwick invokes the loneliness of Iceland
By Colin Joyce August 16, 2013 | 3:00pm
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film Vincent Gallo plays a Muslim terrorist on the run—yes, really
By A.A. Dowd August 16, 2013 | 3:00pm
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tv Phineas & Ferb meet up with the world of Marvel Comics, and all 10-year-olds go wild
By Emily St. James August 16, 2013 | 5:15am
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aux How much liberty should biographers take with their subjects’ lives?
By Jason Heller August 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Separating art from its creators
By John Semley, Annie Zaleski, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Joel Keller, Brandon Nowalk, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Matt Wild, Sonia Saraiya, Marah Eakin, Mike Vago August 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux East Of West #5 combines romance and apocalypse with spectacular results
By Oliver Sava August 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Coolio auctioning off royalty rights to all his songs in order to fund his new cooking career
By Marah Eakin August 15, 2013 | 11:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Valentin De Vargas of Touch Of Evil and The Magnificent Seven
By Phil Dyess-Nugent August 15, 2013 | 10:38pm
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aux Oh hey, Orson Scott Card also wrote about Obama becoming Hitler and commanding an army of gang members
By Sean O'Neal August 15, 2013 | 10:01pm
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aux Beak-lieve it or not, last night’s Duck Dynasty première made ca-bill history
By Erik Adams August 15, 2013 | 9:27pm
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aux Mike Love now blames the hovering hand of some mysterious overlord for Brian Wilson's removal from The Beach Boys
By Marah Eakin August 15, 2013 | 8:30pm
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aux R.I.P. Lisa Robin Kelly of That '70s Show
By Marah Eakin August 15, 2013 | 8:30pm
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aux One Direction fans bravely vanquish some old band called The Who
By Sean O'Neal August 15, 2013 | 7:50pm
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aux The Dodos teamed up with Magik Magik Orchestra for a lovely new video
By Kayla Reed August 15, 2013 | 6:50pm
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aux Boards Of Canada's entire catalog to be reissued on vinyl
By Marah Eakin August 15, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Hear an exclusive track from Mark Knopfler's new solo album
By Kayla Reed August 15, 2013 | 5:55pm
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aux Toro Y Moi covers "Slough" by Ricky Gervais as David Brent, awesomeness ensues
By Kayla Reed August 15, 2013 | 5:40pm
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aux Ed Helms is making a show about a lady lawyer
By Sean O'Neal August 15, 2013 | 5:33pm
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aux 30 Rock's Dean Winters will now cause problems for Andy Samberg on Brooklyn Nine-Nine
By Sean O'Neal August 15, 2013 | 5:09pm
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aux Tina Fey has another TV show in the works about a women's college
By Sean O'Neal August 15, 2013 | 4:50pm
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aux R.I.P. Allen Lanier of Blue Öyster Cult
By Jason Heller August 15, 2013 | 4:45pm
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games Game Giveaway: Gone Home
By Garrett Martin August 15, 2013 | 4:30pm
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aux Kristen Wiig and TV On the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe making Nasty Baby
By Mike Vago August 15, 2013 | 4:20pm
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aux Eastbound And Down's story of rocky career redemption now involves Lindsay Lohan, naturally
By Sean O'Neal August 15, 2013 | 4:09pm
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music Murder By Death plays wedding band
By Bill Jones August 15, 2013 | 4:00pm
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film Nicholas Ray began his career with a masterpiece, They Live By Night
By Mike D'Angelo August 15, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Mad Men's Keirnan Shipka will star in Lifetime's adaptation of Flowers In the Attic
By Mike Vago August 15, 2013 | 3:38pm
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aux Orange Is The New Black may have a lot less Laura Prepon next season
By Sean O'Neal August 15, 2013 | 3:11pm
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aux Read This: Steve Harm, owner of one of America’s oldest all-ages venues, did a Reddit AMA
By David Anthony August 15, 2013 | 3:00pm
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film David Gordon Green on Prince Avalanche and its Nicolas Cage companion piece
By A.A. Dowd August 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv AMC’s new reality series Owner’s Manual is the top pick (and other tells that it’s the middle of August)
By Erik Adams August 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Pelle The Conqueror conquered at Cannes—and at the Oscars and Golden Globes
By A.A. Dowd August 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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music We visit Preston, Idaho, hometown of Napoleon Dynamite (and director Jared Hess)
By Kyle Ryan August 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux A robot is making random gifs of The Wire now
By Caroline Siede August 14, 2013 | 10:15pm
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aux Cast of Pitch Perfect hoping to aca-cash in with a Christmas record
By Marah Eakin August 14, 2013 | 9:20pm
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aux For sale: a bunch of original master tapes from Joy Division, New Order, and more
By Marah Eakin August 14, 2013 | 9:15pm
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aux Phoenix and R. Kelly's friendship continues to flourish as the two acts release a new remix
By Kayla Reed August 14, 2013 | 9:00pm
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aux Parks And Recreation casts its April doppelgänger in the episode with all the doppelgängers
By Sean O'Neal August 14, 2013 | 8:57pm
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aux Tim Heidecker and Davin Wood to release second Heidecker & Wood album, Some Things Never Stay The Same
By Kevin McFarland August 14, 2013 | 8:30pm
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aux Eminem premieres his new single in a Call Of Duty commercial, announces new album
By Marah Eakin August 14, 2013 | 8:20pm
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aux A new test allows headphone wearers and concert goers to determine just how bad their hearing has gotten
By Kayla Reed August 14, 2013 | 8:20pm
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aux As we'd all like to, Darren Aronofsky may next turn his attention to sexy Russian spies
By Sean O'Neal August 14, 2013 | 8:12pm
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aux Journey to the center of the TARDIS via Google Maps
By Caroline Siede August 14, 2013 | 7:40pm
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aux Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton to play Moses and Ramses, which sounds about right
By Sean O'Neal August 14, 2013 | 7:27pm
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aux Watch Superchunk's Mac McCaughan interview The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle about All Hail West Texas
By Kayla Reed August 14, 2013 | 7:25pm
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aux Bruce Willis is officially bored with fireballs
By Sean O'Neal August 14, 2013 | 6:38pm
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music Elliott Smith’s ode to embracing the ending, yourself
By Erik Adams August 14, 2013 | 6:00pm
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film Before she broke through with Old Joy, Kelly Reichardt made the outlaw comedy River Of Grass
By Michael Sicinski August 14, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Somehow we've already reached the "Orlando Bloom" stage of Batman casting rumors
By Sean O'Neal August 14, 2013 | 5:45pm
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aux Listen to a new track from L.A. post-punk act Flaamingos
By Marah Eakin August 14, 2013 | 5:05pm
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aux This Charming Charlie brings a new Smiths-infused sadness to the Peanuts universe
By Kayla Reed August 14, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux You'll have to wait an extra month to see Spike Jonze's Her
By Sean O'Neal August 14, 2013 | 4:50pm
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aux Hallelujah! Prince joined Twitter for at least a little bit last night
By Marah Eakin August 14, 2013 | 4:50pm
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aux Chris Brown is being sued for that parking lot fight with Frank Ocean
By Marah Eakin August 14, 2013 | 4:30pm
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aux Sunday's Breaking Bad was dedicated to a teen who died of cancer—and turned down the chance to hear how it ends
By Sean O'Neal August 14, 2013 | 4:19pm
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aux Read This: Aaron Paul did a Reddit AMA, bitch
By Kayla Reed August 14, 2013 | 4:05pm
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tv The episode that liberated—then destroyed—Ellen
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, David Sims, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman, Genevieve Koski August 14, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux What are you reading this month? (August 2013)
By Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground August 14, 2013 | 4:00pm
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film This week we're barely putting up with the Hunger Games-inspired summer camp
By Amelie Gillette August 14, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Tina Fey has another show in the works for NBC
By Sean O'Neal August 14, 2013 | 3:48pm
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aux It's time once again to nominate episodes for the TV Roundtable Readers' Choice, so get controversial!
By Emily St. James August 14, 2013 | 2:00pm
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aux August 14, 2013
By David Malki ! August 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux August 14, 2013
By Daniel Bergner, Chris Savage August 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain: 7 fiction authors whose careers were extended by ghostwriters
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Kevin McFarland, Mike Vago, Noah Cruickshank August 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv The creators of The Venture Bros. walk us through the show’s 5th season
By Zack Handlen August 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Duck Dynasty is back, and you are constitutionally obligated to watch it
By Emily St. James August 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Explore the wild world of Futurama in just 10 episodes
By Phil Dyess-Nugent August 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Sandra Oh is leaving Grey's Anatomy, which is a show that will still be on the air anyway
By Sean O'Neal August 13, 2013 | 10:23pm
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aux HBO picks up pilot for new David Milch show it hasn't canceled too soon yet
By Sean O'Neal August 13, 2013 | 9:50pm
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aux Michelle Obama compiling hip-hop album full of reckless vegetable-promoting imagery
By Sean O'Neal August 13, 2013 | 9:13pm
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aux Listen to “Deny The Absolute,” the latest track from Chicago post-metal band Pelican
By Kevin McFarland August 13, 2013 | 9:10pm
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aux R.I.P. Jon Brookes, drummer for The Charlatans
By Marah Eakin August 13, 2013 | 7:35pm