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Undesired romantic pairings make New York, New York interesting
By Mike D'Angelo December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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What’s the best non-2013 pop culture you discovered this year?
By Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, Zack Handlen, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Emily St. James, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, John Teti December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Martin Scorsese delivers an electrifying—and very belated—sequel
By Nick Schager December 26, 2013 | 6:00am
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Marty goes back to the mean streets of New York with Bringing Out The Dead
By Jesse Hassenger December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 20-December 22
By AV Club Staff December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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A Christmas Story 2 honors a holiday classic through awkward imitation
By Kyle Ryan December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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“How can you tell them on Thanksgiving?”: 12 awkward family revelations at holiday gatherings
By Kyle Ryan, Drew Toal, Matt Wild, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya, Les Chappell, Marah Eakin December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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Jacques Tati returns as Monsieur Hulot in Mon Oncle
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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How do you have a happy Christmas when your life has gone to shit?
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Who needs White Castle when you have WaffleBot?
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Why comedy sequels remain rare, even in a franchise-dominated era
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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Dated jokes aside, the second Naked Gun is still funny
By Nick Schager December 18, 2013 | 7:00pm
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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation proves that perfect holidays can’t be forced
By Kyle Ryan December 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Adam McKay talks about the long road to making an Anchorman sequel
By Kyle Ryan December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Fish Called Wanda sequel that wasn’t, exactly
By Jesse Hassenger December 17, 2013 | 7:00pm
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The best films of 2013
By Sam Adams, A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Nick Schager, Scott MacDonald, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Ben Kenigsberg December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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The best of film 2013: The ballots
By Sam Adams, A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Nick Schager, Scott MacDonald, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Ben Kenigsberg December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Great Muppet Caper makes larger-than-life characters even bigger
By Erik Adams December 16, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Is The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg’s score at odds with its narrative?
By Mike D'Angelo December 16, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 13-December 15
By AV Club Staff December 16, 2013 | 6:00am
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The best film scenes of 2013
By A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Nick Schager, Scott MacDonald, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Sam Adams December 16, 2013 | 6:00am
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Preston Sturges’ The Great McGinty sends a bum to the governor’s mansion
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Was the Revenge Of The Nerds series a prophetic vision of our present?
By A.A. Dowd December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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Tom Cruise is destined to keep fighting aliens forever, also stars in Edge Of Tomorrow trailer
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2013 | 8:57pm
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A new Manchurian Candidate for a scary new age
By Nick Schager December 11, 2013 | 7:00pm
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The 15 worst films of 2013
By Scott MacDonald, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Nick Schager December 11, 2013 | 6:00am
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Politics are a dirty game, even with honest Henry Fonda up for office
By Nick Schager December 10, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum star in the first trailer for the Wachowskis’ space epic, Jupiter Ascending
By Kevin McFarland December 10, 2013 | 6:00pm
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According to Oliver Stone, Nixon’s corruption cut deeper than Watergate
By Jesse Hassenger December 9, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 6-December 8
By AV Club Staff December 9, 2013 | 6:00am
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That was who? 13 actors rendered unrecognizable by makeup
By Kevin McFarland, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Matt Wild, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Les Chappell, Michelle Welch, Mike Vago, Cameron Scheetz December 9, 2013 | 6:00am
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Pedro Costa reveals the tedious side of making music in Ne Change Rien
By A.A. Dowd December 6, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Love Actually celebrates a Christmas for the rest of us
By Sonia Saraiya December 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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Kit Harington fights a volcano in the trailer for Pompeii
By Marah Eakin December 5, 2013 | 9:40pm
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Is Daniel Johnston a great musician or a victim of hipster exploitation?
By Mike D'Angelo December 5, 2013 | 7:00pm
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer explains the mathematical reasoning behind why it has so many villains
By Sean O'Neal December 5, 2013 | 4:55pm
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Slow dance across the backs of dead Greeks with the 300: Rise Of An Empire trailer
By Sean O'Neal December 4, 2013 | 9:43pm
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Christophe Gans offers a trailer for yet another Beauty And The Beast adaptation, this time in French
By Kevin McFarland December 4, 2013 | 8:30pm
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John Cassavetes “sells out” with a Hollywood movie about selling out
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 4, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Batman Returns digs into seasonal depression
By Jesse Hassenger December 4, 2013 | 5:00pm
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It’ll change your life, I swear: 12 music-preaching film scenes
By Evan Rytlewski, Annie Zaleski, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, Genevieve Valentine, Sonia Saraiya, Mike Vago, Cameron Scheetz December 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Fugazi documentary Instrument makes the mundane mesmerizing
By Kyle Ryan December 3, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Martin Mull talks Dads, Lenny Bruce, and opening for The Pointer Sisters
By Will Harris December 3, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Grunge fans, your date movie has arrived
By Nick Schager December 2, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: November 29-December 1
By AV Club Staff December 2, 2013 | 6:00am
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Anne Hathaway is boldly off-putting in Rachel Getting Married
By A.A. Dowd November 27, 2013 | 7:00pm
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“Don’t I get a last request?”: 10 songs that saved the day
By Kevin McFarland, Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground, Brandon Nowalk, Tasha Robinson November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Here’s a French comedy worth hunting down
By Mike D'Angelo November 26, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Steve Coogan talks Alan Partridge and being “that guy with Judi Dench”
By Kyle Ryan November 26, 2013 | 6:00am
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A Christmas Tale takes dysfunctional families to the extreme
By Nick Schager November 25, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: November 22-November 24
By AV Club Staff November 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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Gobble garble: 11-plus unorthodox turkey preparations in pop culture
By Annie Zaleski, Becca James, Matt Wild, Erik Adams, Les Chappell, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson, John Teti November 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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“Torture porn” is rarely this smart
By A.A. Dowd November 22, 2013 | 5:00pm
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The first full trailer for Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac has his most artful dick shots yet
By Sean O'Neal November 22, 2013 | 4:50pm
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Luck is the deadly game of Intacto
By Mike D'Angelo November 21, 2013 | 5:00pm
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In our new feature, Guillermo Del Toro takes us through his biggest firsts
By Emily St. James November 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Peter Watkins puts American bloodlust on trial
By Gregg LaGambina November 20, 2013 | 7:00pm
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This week we’re barely putting up with About Time
By Amelie Gillette November 20, 2013 | 6:38pm
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The Running Man is classic Arnold Schwarzenegger, for better and worse
By Josh Modell November 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Gymkata is a masterpiece of unintentional comedy
By Nick Schager November 18, 2013 | 7:00pm
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No one—really, no one—makes movies like Roy Andersson
By Mike D'Angelo November 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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Adultery is the real crime of Timecrimes
By A.A. Dowd November 15, 2013 | 6:00pm
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What movies did you watch in school?
By Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Brandon Nowalk, Erik Adams, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson November 15, 2013 | 6:00am
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Primer is the most “realistic” (and complicated) time travel movie
By Mike D'Angelo November 14, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Cannes ’66 ends in a draw between love and lust
By A.A. Dowd November 14, 2013 | 6:00am
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Will Forte on “internal brain warfare” and the path to Nebraska
By Erik Adams November 14, 2013 | 6:00am
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Denzel Washington falls in love with an image in Tony Scott’s best movie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 13, 2013 | 7:00pm
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This week we’re barely putting up with Thor: The Dark World
By Amelie Gillette November 13, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Back To The Future Part II—not as awful as Ghostbusters 2
By Kyle Ryan November 12, 2013 | 5:00pm
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H.G. Wells hunts Jack The Ripper through time
By Nick Schager November 11, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: November 8-November 10
By AV Club Staff November 11, 2013 | 6:00am
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Bill Murray lives life on repeat in Groundhog Day
By A.A. Dowd November 8, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The bare-assed passion project that nearly killed Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael
By Kyle Ryan November 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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Why Cool Runnings is the best (and most unusual) of Disney’s sports fables
By David Anthony November 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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25 years later, Jurassic Park still feels like the quintessential special-effects movie
By A.A. Dowd November 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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Naked is Mike Leigh’s nastiest movie—and maybe his best
By Mike D'Angelo November 6, 2013 | 7:00pm
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This week we’re barely putting up with Diana
By Amelie Gillette November 6, 2013 | 5:00pm
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He’s big, he’s bad, and he’s babysitting: 19 least essential entertainments from 1993
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Annie Zaleski, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Matt Wild, Marah Eakin November 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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Dazed And Confused was no wistful remembrance of high school
By Kyle Ryan November 5, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Why Last Action Hero failed—and why it deserves to be rediscovered
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Our week of 1993 recommendations begins with a Nicolas Cage neo-noir
By Nick Schager November 4, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Alec Baldwin declares himself God in the big scene from Malice
By Mike D'Angelo November 4, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: November 1-November 3
By AV Club Staff November 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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“After a couple of years no one will even remember”: 16 pop-culture windows into the world of 1993
By Annie Zaleski, Steve Heisler, Scott Von Doviak, Josh Modell, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin November 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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The horror of Cure lurks in the background
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 1, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Reese’s Pieces and Jawbreakers: The A.V. Club’s favorite uses of candy in pop culture
By Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, Zack Handlen, Sonia Saraiya, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Oliver Sava, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson November 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean the pod people aren’t after you
By A.A. Dowd October 31, 2013 | 5:01pm
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We watched all eight Halloween movies so you don't have to
By A.A. Dowd October 31, 2013 | 5:02am
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The most terrifying PBS special of all time
By Scott MacDonald October 30, 2013 | 6:00pm
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A Guillermo Del Toro-approved mystery features creepy ghost children
By Josh Modell October 29, 2013 | 6:00pm
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24 Hours Of Horror with Slayer’s Kerry King
By A.A. Dowd October 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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Fatherhood is terrifying, especially when your kid is a murderous mutant
By Nick Schager October 28, 2013 | 6:00pm
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“I see dead people—they don’t know they’re dead”: The confused dead in pop culture
By AV Club Staff October 28, 2013 | 4:30pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: October 25-October 27
By AV Club Staff October 28, 2013 | 5:00am
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Your rational skepticism won’t save you from the flying, cross-eyed demon
By A.A. Dowd October 25, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Revisiting Hocus Pocus, the silliest Halloween movie
By Sonia Saraiya October 25, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Johnny Knoxville on Jackass, Bad Grandpa, and having his dick grabbed on set
By Marah Eakin October 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Is the search for word-of-mouth consensus ruining the way we talk about movies?
By Jesse Hassenger October 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Which movie scenes scare you the most?
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, A.A. Dowd, Zack Handlen, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Oliver Sava, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Brandon Nowalk, Tasha Robinson October 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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John Brahm was the Mario Bava and Brian De Palma of the 1940s
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 24, 2013 | 6:00pm
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G-g-g-ghosts? Movies that taught us about those haunting spirits
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, A.A. Dowd, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Oliver Sava, Marah Eakin, Mike Vago October 24, 2013 | 4:00pm
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It’s not just the direction that makes Donnie Darko creepy
By Scott Kaufman October 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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Hal Hartley directs a monster movie—the monster is not sarcasm
By Mike D'Angelo October 23, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The Host is Bong Joon Ho’s river-monster daydream come to life
By Kyle Ryan October 22, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Wesley Snipes is a zombie cowboy (or something) in the long-shelved GallowWalkers
By Josh Modell October 21, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: October 18-October 20
By AV Club Staff October 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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From the right vantage point, even harmless trick-or-treaters look nightmarish
By Mike D'Angelo October 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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Who was the man behind The Scream?
By A.A. Dowd October 18, 2013 | 5:00pm