VR is getting very, very good
Tech is playing a larger role at SXSW with every passing year, and despite the deeply irritating fact that some…
Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block has set a new bar for terrifying TV depictions of mental illness
The first season of Channel Zero, Syfy’s horror anthology series, had some aesthetically cool and creepy elements—not…
The director of Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning made a charming shaggy-dog drama
A low-key indie drama about a down-on-his-luck bookie debuted at SXSW this week, and although it at first looks like it…
John Krasinski, after seeing his own horror-film premiere: "Why did someone make this?"
It was the opening night of films here at the South By Southwest Conference And Festivals, starting with a horror film…
Robert Pattinson in spurs, Debra Granik in nature, and the best movies of Sundance 2018
Sundance is a snow globe: a miniature winter wonderland and self-contained cultural ecosystem, closed off from the rest…
Hereditary is the most traumatically terrifying horror movie in ages
I don’t scare easily. As much as I love horror movies, and have since I was young, they don’t usually shake me in any…
Laura Dern digs deep in the most powerful and disturbing of Sundance’s potential winners
Sundance really likes to push the idea that it’s a “community”—a network of artists converging on the same Utah ski…
Is there anything more “midnight movie” than Nicolas Cage in a chainsaw fight?
The midnight movie slate at Sundance is always an uneven grab bag of red-meat offerings: a festival within the…
Joaquin Phoenix undergoes his latest transformation in Gus Van Sant's earnest new biopic
To call Joaquin Phoenix one of our greatest living shape-shifters is to do more than acknowledge his range. It’s also a…
Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn try to get pregnant in the highlight of Sundance’s opening night
Most years at the Sundance Film Festival, there’s at least one title that qualifies, sight unseen, as a Very Big Deal.…
Nine Inch Nails, Jawbreaker, and that's kinda it: What The A.V. Club saw at Riot Fest 2017
This past weekend, a few A.V. Club staffers headed to Chicago’s Douglas Park for Riot Fest, the marathon three-day…
The A.V. Club goes to Pitchfork Fest 2017
Priests, 1:45 p.m.
A secret Shins show, the new Edgar Wright movie, and everything else The A.V. Club saw at SXSW
Even when South By Southwest was solely music-focused, there was no way to catch everything of import, and as it’s…
Check out The A.V. Club’s photos from Lollapalooza’s 25th anniversary
For its 25th anniversary Lollapalooza extended its stay in Chicago’s Grant Park. Having called it home for over a…
The 2016 Pitchfork Music Festival in photos
The Pitchfork Music Festival has been holding court in Chicago’s Union Park for a decade now, and the 2016 edition saw…
The A.V. Club’s guide to the 8 best things we saw in Montreal last week
With its charming buildings and diverse neighborhoods, Montreal is a lovely and unique town, a little quasi-European…
Lollapalooza 2015: Scantily clad teens, evacuations, and Paul McCartney
It never rained on Lollapalooza, but that didn’t stop the fest’s organizers, C3, from both evacuating the whole fest…
Trevor Noah’s pre-TCA stand-up set shows that he just wants to be your teddy bear
Trevor Noah is essentially the Barack Obama of comedy. He’s stylish, charming, and statuesque, with an impossibly broad…
2015 Gathering Of The Juggalos: Children, a wedding, and Juggalos For Jesus
The word “family” is ubiquitous at the Gathering Of The Juggalos, the infamous yearly festival of arts and culture…
Pitchfork Music Fest 2015: Rain, Chance The Rapper, and a bunch of new Wilco
With torrential downpours and abrasive heat, this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival felt like more of an endurance event…
