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film Was Akira Kurosawa’s final film a tribute to his career, or someone else’s?
By Tasha Robinson December 19, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux The In Cold Blood killers were exhumed yesterday
By Josh Modell December 19, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux Jason Schwartzman will visit Pawnee
By Josh Modell December 19, 2012 | 4:35pm
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aux Dumb kid arrested for punking Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber
By Josh Modell December 19, 2012 | 4:15pm
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aux December 19, 2012
By Dan Savage December 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 19, 2012
By David Malki ! December 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Don't stop believin' our Sopranos reviews will run forever
By Emily St. James December 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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music Our favorite holiday songs from the last 20 years
By AV Club Staff December 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Do you hear the (dead) people sing? 20 films and shows that end with posthumous reunions
By Cory Casciato, John Semley, Kevin McFarland, Zack Handlen, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Tasha Robinson December 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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film The best films of 2012
By Nathan Rabin, Mike D'Angelo, Scott Tobias, Alison Willmore, Keith Phipps, Noel Murray, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson December 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Watch Zooey Deschanel get animated in this clip for She & Him’s “Baby, It's Cold Outside”
By Nathan Rabin December 18, 2012 | 11:10pm
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aux See the great Charles Grodin be adorably cranky on Fallon
By Nathan Rabin December 18, 2012 | 10:45pm
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aux The wait is over: Insane Clown Posse finally critiques “Gangnam Style,” calls it “fresh”
By Matt Kodner December 18, 2012 | 9:30pm
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aux There will be MINUTES more Game Of Thrones next season
By Josh Modell December 18, 2012 | 8:00pm
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film Zero Dark Thirty
By Scott Tobias December 18, 2012 | 7:11pm
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music The National’s “It Never Happened” ruins Christmas
By Josh Modell December 18, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux David Sedaris mixes the grotesque and the genuine in Holidays On Ice
By Kyle Ryan December 18, 2012 | 6:00pm
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film Rob Schneider’s The Chosen One is a redemption fantasy gone awry
By Nathan Rabin December 18, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux The guy who stole nude Scarlett Johansson photos gets 10 years in jail (so don't do that)
By Josh Modell December 18, 2012 | 4:10pm
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music Blur and Chief Keef top 2012’s last real week of new releases
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2012 | 3:30pm
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aux Cheer up: Here's a video of Alison Brie rapping and Danny Pudi beatboxing
By Josh Terry December 18, 2012 | 10:30am
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tv Happy Endings wishes you and yours a Happy Jane-mas
By Erik Adams December 18, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Poetry overcomes its sentimental plot with a series of harsh obstacles
By Scott Tobias December 18, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Adam Scott, the Sklar Brothers, and GWAR’s Oderus Urungus pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Emily St. James, Kyle Ryan December 18, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Ricky Gervais may star in the next Muppets movie, as the human
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 11:12pm
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aux Jawbreaker + reggae = Jahbreaker
By David Anthony December 17, 2012 | 10:50pm
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aux Update: The University Of Chicago figured out who sent that package to Indiana Jones
By Eric Thurm December 17, 2012 | 10:50pm
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aux Here's the cover of Nathan Rabin's new book
By Josh Modell December 17, 2012 | 10:45pm
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aux Football and Hillary Clinton collide atop this year's Black List of the best unproduced screenplays
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 10:20pm
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aux Watch Big Boi read How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
By Josh Modell December 17, 2012 | 10:00pm
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aux ABC adds two new Ben Stiller-produced family comedies to its roster of comedy families that can never abandon it
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 9:25pm
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aux Boston and San Fran, it's your turn for the New Cult Canon
By Josh Modell December 17, 2012 | 9:00pm
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aux Yeah Yeah Yeahs announce new album for spring 2013
By Austin Bernhardt December 17, 2012 | 8:50pm
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aux Martin Scorsese is making a documentary about Bill Clinton
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 7:31pm
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film How Make Way For Tomorrow earns its reputation as one of the saddest movies ever
By Noel Murray December 17, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Bald actor Vin Diesel to star in bald cop Kojak movie
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 7:02pm
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aux Watch Winona Ryder get carried away in the new, Tim Burton-directed Killers video
By Austin Bernhardt December 17, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux Frank Ocean may just write a best-selling novel and design an arena in Sweden next, according to Frank Ocean
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 6:32pm
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aux Experience a year’s worth of Top 40 radio in 4 minutes with DJ Earworm’s annual pop megamix
By Genevieve Koski December 17, 2012 | 6:16pm
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aux HBO releasing line of Game Of Thrones beers for all your Game Of Thrones beer-related needs
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 6:12pm
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film Two versions of Bad Santa’s opening scene create different expectations
By Mike D'Angelo December 17, 2012 | 6:00pm
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tv The Great Santa Claus Switch introduced Jim Henson’s obsessions
By Tasha Robinson December 17, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux USA adding modern-day Zorro to its lineup of shows about people in nice pants
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 5:30pm
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aux AMC officially welcomes Low Winter Sun to its bleak drama family
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 5:02pm
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aux Fan who rushed stage at Odd Future show receives violent beating instead of free hugs
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 4:31pm
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aux Read This: Mental Floss gathers once-annoying words that are now common
By Josh Modell December 17, 2012 | 4:15pm
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music Come on get on Frankie Smith’s “Double Dutch Bus”
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: Moviegoers see new J.R.R. Tolkien film out of Hobbit
By Scott Tobias December 17, 2012 | 2:57pm
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aux Mark Atherton: There And Back Again: J.R.R. Tolkien And The Origins Of The Hobbit
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 17, 2012 | 6:02am
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aux José Saramago: Raised From The Ground
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 17, 2012 | 6:01am
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aux Magnus Flyte: City Of Dark Magic
By Noah Cruickshank December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Exclusive: Behind the scenes of Sleepwalk With Me
By Josh Modell December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 14-16, 2012
By AV Club Staff December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Rock stars rescue faded actors (and Colonel Sanders) in the Austin Powers lead-up The Phynx
By Nathan Rabin December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv This holiday season, celebrate the CW's gift of finally cancelling Gossip Girl
By Emily St. James December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 17, 2012
By David Malki ! December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv The Lawrence Welk Show was TV’s best party—until it wasn’t
By Emily St. James December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Losing our edge?: 14 panicky works about growing older
By Nathan Rabin, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Ho-ho-Homeland finale!
By Erik Adams December 16, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Read This: Our sister publication The Onion profoundly, profanely covers the latest unspeakable tragedy
By Nathan Rabin December 15, 2012 | 5:35pm
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aux Jon Stewart finds Hugh Grant to be the most detestable man he's ever met, declares they'll never get back together
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 11:51pm
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aux The best music, comedy albums, and so much more this week on The A.V. Club
By Sarah Collins December 14, 2012 | 11:50pm
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aux That whole "Paul McCartney playing with Nirvana" thing was also to promote Dave Grohl's new movie
By Marah Eakin December 14, 2012 | 10:50pm
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aux Hey Chicago, come see The A.V. Club’s Erik Adams on The Late Live Show this Saturday
By Austin Bernhardt December 14, 2012 | 10:45pm
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aux HBO orders Laughs Unlimited, a show that will provide very limited laughs
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 10:18pm
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aux Keith Phipps is no longer editor of The A.V. Club
By AV Club Staff December 14, 2012 | 10:02pm
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aux Never mind, Jack White is no longer doing the music for The Lone Ranger
By Marah Eakin December 14, 2012 | 10:00pm
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aux Whatever, NBC still thinks Dane Cook is funny, so suck it
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 8:39pm
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aux Everything seems insignificant right now anyway, so here's a story on an ABC sitcom about Justin Bieber's life
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 8:00pm
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music Trust’s “Sulk” pushes ahead into the darkness
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 7:30pm
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film Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career
By Nathan Rabin December 14, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Donnie Andrews, real-life inspiration for The Wire's Omar
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 6:40pm
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film Eight Crazy Nights proves that it’s not worth spending Hanukah with Adam Sandler
By Nathan Rabin December 14, 2012 | 6:00pm
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film The Princess Bride cast duels with words as much as with swords
By Tasha Robinson December 14, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux The Walking Dead to rerun its first and second season in prestige-adding black and white
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 5:43pm
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aux Listen to Too $hort's new gelt-riddled, schmaltz-laden rap about Hanukkah
By Marah Eakin December 14, 2012 | 5:30pm
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aux History Channel to squeeze more out of Hatfields & McCoys with a reality series
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 5:03pm
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aux L.A. Reid withdraws crucial "guy with glasses" credibility from X Factor
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 4:20pm
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aux Caption Contest: What is this dwarf from The Hobbit thinking?
By Josh Modell December 14, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The Joker and his flesh-mask are back in two haunting Bat-family titles
By Oliver Sava December 14, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv The Simpsons believes in The A.V. Club bump
By Erik Adams December 14, 2012 | 3:30pm
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tv Celebrate Christm... er... the holid... er... winter with Portlandia
By Emily St. James December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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music Our favorite songs of 2012
By AV Club Staff December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux The best podcasts of 2012
By Genevieve Koski, Aaron Frank, Nathan Rabin, Dan Telfer, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Steven Moore, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Colin Griffith, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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music The least essential albums of 2012
By Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Keith Phipps, Marah Eakin, Genevieve Koski December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Artie Lange opens up to Jay Mohr and Judd Apatow continues his rounds
By Genevieve Koski, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Scott Tobias, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Oliver Sava, Scott Gordon, Colin Griffith, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Comedian Duncan Trussell probably has “CANCER!!!”
By Kyle Ryan December 14, 2012 | 12:00am
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aux Hear a danceable new Foals track, "My Number"
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 11:45pm
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aux Garrett Hedlund confirms he will be in next Tron movie, instead of doing whatever else it is that Garrett Hedlund does
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 11:18pm
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aux Tyler Perry creates two archetypically Tyler Perry shows for Oprah Winfrey's Oprah Winfrey Network
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 11:00pm
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aux Autechre announces Exai, a two-hour-long album
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 10:40pm
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aux The University of Chicago admissions office receives mysterious package intended for Indiana Jones
By Eric Thurm December 13, 2012 | 9:50pm
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aux Watch Hobbit stars play “Fuck, Marry, Kill” over Hobbit characters
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 9:30pm
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aux Even Billy Campbell is done with The Killing
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:59pm
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aux TLC to explore death with the same dignity it explores all other aspects of life on Best Funeral Ever
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:23pm
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aux Kids! Enjoy Alien's light-hearted mayhem with this commercial for its action figure
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 8:15pm
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aux Thurston Moore's iconic 1960 Jazzmaster stolen in Philadelphia
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 8:10pm
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tv Yvette Nicole Brown, Kumail Nanjiani, and Damon Lindelof pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Emily St. James, Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Justin Bieber narrowly avoided a grisly castration-and-murder plot by two hit men
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:33pm
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film A week of swordfighting films continues with Kurosawa’s startlingly bloody Sanjuro
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Read This: Wired visits a Walter White lookalike contest judged by Bryan Cranston himself
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux The Archer Live! Tour is a thing and it's happening
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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music When Cloud Nothings played “Wasted Days” through a thunderstorm and without a PA
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Watch Paul McCartney play a new song with the remaining members of Nirvana
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 6:15pm
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film Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs
By Steve Heisler December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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music Fartbarf, Neon Piss, and more: the year in band names 2012
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Gillian Anderson to co-star on, possibly get eaten by NBC's Hannibal
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 5:43pm
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aux Want to listen to Björk's weird solstice song? There's an app for that.
By Austin Bernhardt December 13, 2012 | 5:30pm
