Leonard Pierce's posts

Miles Davis 101
Even for the musical obsessive, detailing Miles Davis’ impact on jazz is a daunting task. He left…

The story of The Mickey Mouse Club, a kid-centered variety show that ran for four years on ABC in the late 1950s,…

Throughout the year, Leonard Pierce, The A.V. Club’s most devoted metalhead, has steered you through the minefield…

Let's talk about the Joker.

The more I think about it, the more I believe that the way the big writing shake-up of The Walking Dead staff is…

In a legal development that may have long-term ramifications in the area of swiping, Caitlin Sanchez, the former…

Actress Kirsten Dunst, the only living historical tie to the era when Spider-Man movies…

Ever since news broke that Frank Darabont fired the entire writing staff of his hit AMC series The Walking Dead,…

Rolling Stone reports that an analysis of this year's Grammy nominations by independent label trade organization…

If an exclusive feature in the Hollywood Reporter is to believed, the Marc Webb  Spider-Man reboot — which came into…

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more…

A few weeks ago, we received an e-mail from the fine folks at William Grant & Sons with the following subject line…

Though I've had my problems with the medium and its fans in recent years, I remain an unabashed fan of superhero…

This is probably entirely unfair of me—although unfair in whose direction is a bit more open to debate—but I've…

Every year, our network overlords correctly assume that over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we will be too blown…

The folks who cooked up Record Store Day have concocted a new deal to get you out of the chain stores and into the…

Ghostbusters 3 will probably never happen, and if it does, the odds of it being any good are about the same as the…

In what is hopefully an attempt to prevent the marketing of cheap knockoff merchandise, and not a preliminary move…

When the A.V. Club recently spoke with comics scribe Brian K. Vaughan, he kept the status of various film…

In today's second least-surprising news item (after the fact that Wesley Snipes is still not in prison), Comic Book…