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Getting our hopes up: The A.V. Club’s 14 most anticipated releases of 2021

After the year we’ve all had, it feels like courting disaster to pin any hopes on a wide release that wasn’t…

Erik Adams,

William Hughes,

Alex McLevy,

Laura Adamczyk,

Danette Chavez,

A.A. Dowd,

and Shannon Miller

1/04/21 12:00AM

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Metallica sues, chads hang, and Survivors survive: 19 pop culture windows into 2000

The world didn’t end. The lights stayed on, airplanes remained in the sky, and when the clock struck midnight on…

Erik Adams,

Katie Rife,

Alex McLevy,

Gwen Ihnat,

and A.A. Dowd

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Kid, you oughta be in pictures: 9 onscreen stars who got their start behind the scenes

Some people are born knowing that their only dream in this life is to be on camera, and pursue that dream with…

Katie Rife and Erik Adams

9/18/19 6:00AM

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Stan by your man: 15 depictions of obsessive fandom

Pop culture just wouldn’t be the same without its fans, which is why the entertainment industry so often tells…

Erik Adams,

Randall Colburn,

William Hughes,

Gwen Ihnat,

Katie Rife,

Alex McLevy,

and Danette Chavez

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Star Wars v. Matrix, Santana v. Smash Mouth, and Y2K panic: 21 windows into 1999

The HBO revolution was already underway in January of 1999, but the gulf between Sex And The City and Oz and…

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9 queer comics that go beyond pride

Pride month is all about celebrating the queer experience and showing the world that there’s no shame in loving who…

Oliver Sava and Caitlin Rosberg

6/06/19 10:00AM

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Simply the beast: 18 of the greatest dog sidekicks in pop culture

The W.C. Fields adage warning against working with children or animals is solid advice, mostly—but pop culture (and…

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They’re listening: 13 actually good therapists in TV and film

Psychology gets a bad rap in television and film, with therapists often portrayed as one more hurdle characters must…

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Dust in the wind: 13 on-screen cremation calamities

There’s just no relief for the fictional dead. If it’s not deceased dragons being lifted from their watery graves,…

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Age of apocalypses: 10 momentous character events in ’90s comics

The 1990s were a period of boom and bust for the comic book industry. Many of the highest-selling single issues of…

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Ghosts can do it: 8 pop cultural instances of human-on-ghost love

Earlier this year, a 45-year-old Irish woman named Amanda Teague came forward to share a joyful announcement with…

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Seinfeld ends, TRL begins, Titanic goes on and on: 17 pop culture windows into 1998

To those who would call its political satire toothless, Saturday Night Live’s March 14, 1998 episode presented an…

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Amusing ourselves to death: 12 theme parks where the danger is real

Summer is close to its halfway point, which if you’re responsible in any way for a school-aged child, means you’ve…

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GLOW is just the start: 16 unusual athletic events deserving TV dramatization

Much of the fun in watching Netflix’s hit comedy GLOW lies in peeking behind the curtain of a left-field televised…

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Fuck off, Adolf: 15 creative ways to kill Hitler

So, you’re still somewhat ambivalent on the morality of punching Nazis in the face, even though they voluntarily…

Katie Rife,

and Alex McLevy

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The shitty Avengers: 15 movie superheroes not ready for franchising

Minting a successful superhero franchise out of a preexisting comic book is easy (despite what Green Lantern might…

A.V. Club

4/25/18 6:00AM

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Ha-ha-hostages!: 17 comedies that make abduction fun

A hostage situation is among the most traumatic experiences anyone can suffer through: your life in the hands of a…

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Halfway-decent proposals: 7 TV episodes that reference the 1993 blockbuster

For a multiple Razzie winner, it’s hard to believe that Indecent Proposal was such a huge hit when it was released…

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Rock me, sexy Jesuses: 15 super-cool sons of God

This Easter Sunday will see NBC’s live telecast of Jesus Christ Superstar with singer John Legend in the title…

A.V. Club Staff

3/31/18 10:00AM

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Cut the vagina subplot: 12 great movies made from bad books

For as long as cinema has looked to literature for inspiration, there’s been someone around to study the results and…

A.V. Club Staff

3/21/18 6:00AM

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