The A.V. Club weighs in on the snubs and nods of this year’s Oscar nominations
Katie Rife: Well, we’ve reached the pinnacle of awards season: The 2018 Oscar nominations were announced this morning.…
There’s at least one absolutely great scene in Justice League
Alex McLevy: Justice League has been out for a couple of weeks now, and to say opinions are mixed would be gentle. Some…
We went to the Cinepocalypse genre film festival, and lived to tell about it
Last year, The A.V. Club covered a little festival in Chicago called Bruce Campbell’s Horror Film Festival. This year,…
We loved Mindhunter, but what was going on with that finale?
Clayton Purdom: Mindhunter was just compulsively watchable, at least for me. It hit the perfect mid-October note of…
Did 1997 contain the worst two weeks in music history?
Sean O’Neal: In the topic of “Worst Music Year,” 1997 is a frequent contender. Some of this can be attributed to…
For some of us, games never got better than GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 was an anomaly on so many levels. Hailing from storied British developer Rare, it came out two years…
Is Harry Styles for grown-ups?
Esther Zuckerman: Fran, I’ll start off this discussion by stating for the record that you and I are two adult women who…
No Emma, no peace: Has Once Upon A Time run its course?
Marah Eakin: When news broke yesterday, Gwen, that Jennifer Morrison was leaving Once Upon A Time, we both had the same…
What was our blush response to the Blade Runner 2049 trailer?
Sean O’Neal: Clayton, today is a day I’ve been both anticipating and dreading possibly more than my own demise. Today …
Why can’t I be a Cure fan like you?
Gwen Ihnat: The Cure didn’t exactly make a U-turn in 1987 with Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, but it was a hell of a…
The A.V. Club’s resident wrestling geeks talk WrestleMania
WrestleMania week is upon us, and for pro wrestling nerds, this is Valhalla. The A.V. Club will cover NXT TakeOver:…
Three decades later, Prince’s Sign O’ The Times keeps showing different sides of itself
Erik Adams: The sound of “Purple Rain” blaring from a tour bus should’ve been the first indication. I was on vacation…
15 years ago, The Bachelor wrote the reality TV script, and little has changed
Caity PenzeyMoog: The Bachelor turns 15 this week. Alex McLevy and I—along with a glut of other A.V. Clubbers—recap the…
Is The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild one of the best games of all time?
Clayton Purdom: Like everyone else, I’ve spent the past two weeks in thrall to Nintendo’s new Zelda. Breath Of The Wild …
Should the Oscars go back to having only 5 Best Picture nominees?
Sean O’Neal: In 2009, the Academy announced that it would expand the list of Best Picture contenders to 10, a move that…
What would it take to fix the Grammys?
David Anthony: Last night was the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, an event that, year after year, sparks the same debate: Do…
Has skewering Trump made Saturday Night Live great again?
Gwen Ihnat: This week, Variety reported that Saturday Night Live’s ratings are the…
Dead dogs and border walls dominate 2017’s politically charged Super Bowl ads
Katie Rife: We’ve been talking a lot, both amongst ourselves and on Facebook Live, about how even normally innocuous…
Should the Academy cancel the Oscars?
Caitlin PenzeyMoog: The Oscars are more than three weeks away but have been a topic of discussion recently thanks to…
If you didn’t love La La Land, are you dead inside?
Note: This article discusses plot points from La La Land.
