Apr 7 2019
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April 7, 1979 was the date of the Japanese premiere of Yoshiyuki Tomino’s Mobile Suit Gundam, a low-rated sci-fi…
PrimerPrimer is The A.V. Club’s ongoing series of beginner’s guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you.
Oct 1 2018
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For a while, getting into modern Doctor Who was easy. The long-running BBC show is broken up into two distinct eras:…
Oct 31 2017
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Japanese horror movies have had a profound impact on their Western counterparts, permanently changing the grammar of…
Oct 3 2016
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Mar 15 2016
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In February—one month after the death of his close friend and collaborator David Bowie—Iggy Pop covered Bowie’s “The…
Jan 11 2016
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The films of Pedro Almodóvar are twisty, lurid, and lustful, melodramatic but deeply empathetic, taboo-breaking but…
Nov 24 2015
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As a pop-culture-consuming whole, Americans have a strange relationship with Jamaican dancehall. Although it’s one…
Nov 5 2015
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Independent record labels are often guided by a singular vision, but few instantly evoke a particular artist’s…
Oct 8 2015
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Mel Brooks’ reputation rests on a fragile precipice. He built a career pioneering, popularizing, and perfecting two…
Sep 21 2015
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For decades, horror was the thing you were least likely to see on your TV. It came and went sporadically,…
Aug 25 2015
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Steve Martin has been a part of pop culture for so long, and a force in so many mediums, that the best way into his…
Jul 23 2015
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Prerequisites: A History Lesson
Jun 25 2015
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Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, there were few artists as in-demand as Giorgio Moroder, an Italian record producer…
Jun 5 2015
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The films of Billy Wilder are more famous than Wilder himself. As with Howard Hawks—another director beloved by…
Apr 27 2015
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Any conversation about the mercurial singer-songwriter Damon Albarn begins with Blur. His longest-running…
Apr 21 2015
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If Lifetime movies came in Odorama—not Smell-O-Vision, Odorama—the scratch-and-sniff cards would have to include a…
Apr 20 2015
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When punk and rockabilly had a baby, the little bugger wasn’t pretty. Called psychobilly, the greasy mutant…
Mar 30 2015
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This month, The Sonics will release This Is The Sonics—the legendary garage-rock band’s first studio album of…
Mar 18 2015
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Mar 16 2015
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Anyone needing evidence that punk rock is just as much an American musical institution at this point as jazz or…