30 years later, the global anime industry is still in Dragon Ball Z’s shadow Elijah Gonzalez | January 31, 2026 Dragon Ball Z finished airing 30 years ago in Japan today, and the legendary series still continues to influence the anime industry.
Inside the hideous, exploitative, but still addictive world of vertical dramas Jim Vorel | January 31, 2026 Every day, millions of Americans are paying vast sums of money to watch vertical dramas: absurd melodramatic movies, chopped into 70 pieces.
February games preview: Resident Evil’s latest frights cap off a busy month Garrett Martin | January 31, 2026 Find out what The A.V. Club will be playing next month in our February games preview. It might get pretty scary.
Great Job, Internet!: A Melania-based erotic horror parody book is cleaning up on the Amazon charts William Hughes | January 30, 2026 The free novel Melania: Devourer Of Men has taken over several Amazon charts, spurred on by protesters gaming the algorithm to mock Brett Ratner’s new doc.
HBO Max to try to prestige TV-up the cop show procedural with Milo Ventimiglia and David Ayer William Hughes | January 30, 2026 Training Day‘s David Ayer will direct the pilot for American Blue, HBO’s latest effort to prestige-up the basic TV procedural.