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film Mark Wahlberg’s remake of The Gambler isn’t really about gambling
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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film Timothy Spall grunts his way to greatness as the famous subject of Mr. Turner
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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film Love is nice, but money is better in the shiny, hollow Annie
By Katie Rife December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Nation, it’s time to say goodbye to The Colbert Report
By Caroline Siede December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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film The 2014 A.V. Club Readers’ Poll results
By David Anthony December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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games The Crew is a car game with no interest in the players behind the wheel
By Derrick Sanskrit December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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film The 20 best movies of 2014
By A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Nick Schager, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, Ben Kenigsberg December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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film Shane Black expertly trims the action movie tree with Christmas spirit
By Les Chappell December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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film The best of film 2014: The ballots
By A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Nick Schager, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, Ben Kenigsberg December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Top Chef: “Big Sausage”
By Libby Hill December 18, 2014 | 5:30am
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tv Survivor: “This Is My Time”
By Carrie Raisler December 18, 2014 | 4:27am
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aux FXX is launching a late-night animation block
By Sam Barsanti December 18, 2014 | 3:46am
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tv The 100: “Spacewalker”
By Kyle Fowle December 18, 2014 | 3:00am
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aux UPDATED: Sony pulls The Interview from theaters, feds say North Korea ordered hack
By Katie Rife December 18, 2014 | 2:37am
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aux HBO isn’t going to release ratings numbers anymore
By Sam Barsanti December 18, 2014 | 2:02am
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aux Here are the things and people that were Googled the most in 2014
By Sam Barsanti December 18, 2014 | 1:17am
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tv Marco Polo: “White Moon”
By Kyle Fowle December 18, 2014 | 1:00am
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aux AMC to offer subscription service for frequent filmgoers
By Katie Rife December 18, 2014 | 12:46am
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aux Steve Jobs biopic keeps tempting fate, adds Michael Stuhlbarg to cast
By Kyle Daly December 17, 2014 | 11:49pm
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aux Guy who makes video game swords into real swords is getting a TV show
By B.G. Henne December 17, 2014 | 11:37pm
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aux Apple dodges $1 billion iPod class-action lawsuit
By Joshua Alston December 17, 2014 | 11:10pm
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aux Study proves that kids’ movies are more morbid than adult ones
By William Hughes December 17, 2014 | 10:59pm
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aux Barack Obama bypasses Congress to decree Boyhood favorite movie of the year
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2014 | 10:37pm
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aux Remake of Pulp Fiction scene dares Brett to “say what again” underwater
By B.G. Henne December 17, 2014 | 10:21pm
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aux Mythbusters to tackle the unpossible physics of The Simpsons
By William Hughes December 17, 2014 | 9:53pm
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aux Upcoming Steve Carell thriller set in North Korea canceled
By Katie Rife December 17, 2014 | 9:43pm
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aux Here are the most popular websites from every year since 1996
By Caroline Siede December 17, 2014 | 9:39pm
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aux UPDATED: Major theater chains drop The Interview following terrorist threats
By Katie Rife December 17, 2014 | 9:01pm
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aux Contemplate mortality with this slowed-down version of “Worthless” from The Brave Little Toaster
By Caroline Siede December 17, 2014 | 8:39pm
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aux Suicide Squad reportedly casts Viola Davis as Amanda Waller
By William Hughes December 17, 2014 | 8:37pm
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aux J.K. Rowling says Harry Potter has Jewish wizards, but not Wiccans
By Benjamin Cannon December 17, 2014 | 8:23pm
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aux Charlie Sheen will reprise his Ferris Bueller character on The Goldbergs
By Alex McLevy December 17, 2014 | 8:12pm
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aux The present bounces against the past in this meme-themed pinball table
By William Hughes December 17, 2014 | 8:01pm
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aux Adult Swim’s latest weird “infomercial” is deeply unsettling
By Eric Lindvall December 17, 2014 | 8:01pm
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aux Da’vine Joy Randolph and Sheaun McKinney join Danny McBride in Vice Principals
By B.G. Henne December 17, 2014 | 7:59pm
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aux Serial-obsessed Redditors raise money for a scholarship in Hae Min Lee’s name
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2014 | 7:55pm
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aux The Big Lebowski, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off among titles added to the National Film Registry
By Katie Rife December 17, 2014 | 7:20pm
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aux This is theoretically what a Tim Burton porno would look like
By Joe Blevins December 17, 2014 | 7:16pm
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aux Jason Reitman casts Aaron Paul and J.K. Simmons in Empire Strikes Back live read
By B.G. Henne December 17, 2014 | 7:14pm
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music Get the Led out with “Over The Hills And Far Away”
By Becca James December 17, 2014 | 7:00pm
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film Desperation and snowmobile racing in the Upper Peninsula
By Vadim Rizov December 17, 2014 | 7:00pm
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aux 7th Heaven’s Stephen Collins ready to talk about the girls he molested
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2014 | 6:47pm
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aux Dear White People’s Tessa Thompson joins the next Rocky movie
By Mike Vago December 17, 2014 | 6:20pm
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aux Hell Yeah Fuck Die: See every decade’s most used song title words
By Mike Vago December 17, 2014 | 6:14pm
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aux “Sarah Koenig” strains for answers in Funny Or Die’s “The Last Episode Of Serial”
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2014 | 6:12pm
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aux Dish Network accepts the inevitable, puts Netflix on its set-top boxes
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2014 | 5:53pm
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aux Fifty Shades Of Grey star visits “sex dungeon,” says it was icky
By Katie Rife December 17, 2014 | 5:42pm
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aux Here’s a clever stock footage tribute to 5 major modern movie directors
By Joe Blevins December 17, 2014 | 5:37pm
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tv This week we’re barely putting up with Real World: Skeletons
By Amelie Gillette December 17, 2014 | 5:00pm
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tv Gaze into a dystopian future where Parks And Recreation is ending
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2014 | 4:38pm
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aux The Missing to get second series, new missing kid
By William Hughes December 17, 2014 | 3:43pm
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aux Denver, see Heavy Metal tonight as part of our Science Friction film series
By Jason Heller December 17, 2014 | 3:38pm
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games The stories of Zelda II villagers, told in sonnet form
By Derrick Sanskrit December 17, 2014 | 3:00pm
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film The Hebrew Hammer makes Christmastime safe for Jews from New York to Tel Aviv
By Eric Thurm December 17, 2014 | 3:00pm
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tv Real World: Skeletons: “Skeleton Keys”
By Joshua Alston December 17, 2014 | 2:04pm
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tv Gary Coleman raps: 9 oddities from Hollywood Squares’ 1987 Christmas episode
By John Teti December 17, 2014 | 12:06pm
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tv Person Of Interest: “The Cold War”
By Alexa Planje December 17, 2014 | 9:28am
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games Getting Sucked Into Game of War: Fire Age
By Josh Jackson December 17, 2014 | 8:00am
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tv MasterChef Junior: “The Finale”
By Gwen Ihnat December 17, 2014 | 6:03am
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film Despite risible subject matter, The Night Porter is more tedious than vile
By Mike D'Angelo December 17, 2014 | 6:00am
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aux Savage Love live at the Neptune
By Dan Savage December 17, 2014 | 6:00am
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aux What book did you finally get around to reading in 2014?
By Jesse Hassenger, Gregg LaGambina, Caroline Siede, Eric Thurm, Josh Modell, Tasha Robinson, Molly Eichel, Caroline Framke, Samantha Nelson, Andrea Battleground, William Hughes, Drew Fortune, Mike Vago, Dennis Perkins, Laura M. Browning December 17, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Settle in for two hours of acapella-based puns, courtesy of The Sing-Off
By LaToya Ferguson December 17, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv From figgy pudding to candy to roast beast, Christmas means carnage
By Charlie Hopper December 17, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv 10 episodes wishing you and yours a merry sitcom Christmas
By Erik Adams, Joshua Alston, Noel Murray December 17, 2014 | 6:00am
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film The best movie trailers of 2014
By A.A. Dowd December 17, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Benched: “Diamond Is A Girl’s Worst Friend”
By Emily L. Stephens December 17, 2014 | 4:04am
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aux In light of threats, Sony will let theaters pull The Interview
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2014 | 3:43am
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aux TBS orders pilot from some of the Broken Lizard guys
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2014 | 2:40am
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aux Terry Crews to host Fox’s World’s Funniest Fails, will laugh at you for falling down
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2014 | 1:37am
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tv Selfie: “Perestroika”
By Brandon Nowalk December 17, 2014 | 1:30am
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tv Marco Polo: “Hashshashin”
By Kyle Fowle December 17, 2014 | 1:00am
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aux R.I.P. Nine Lives Of Fritz The Cat director Robert Taylor
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2014 | 12:49am
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aux Roman Polanski is trying to get the rape case against him dismissed again
By Dan Selcke December 16, 2014 | 11:52pm
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aux 128-year-old soft drink officially too hip for American Idol
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2014 | 11:49pm
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aux Netflix makes it its beeswax to film that Wet Hot American Summer TV series
By Katie Rife December 16, 2014 | 11:21pm
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aux Jared Leto makes it easier than it ostensibly was to dress like Jared Leto
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2014 | 11:06pm
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aux R.I.P. Norman Bridwell, creator of Clifford The Big Red Dog
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2014 | 10:26pm
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aux Slowed way down, Wham’s “Last Christmas” becomes an ambient stunner
By Alex McLevy December 16, 2014 | 10:10pm
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aux Hackers threaten violence against theaters that screen The Interview
By Katie Rife December 16, 2014 | 10:05pm
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aux Jesse Ventura would rather sue than bodyslam publisher of American Sniper
By Alex McLevy December 16, 2014 | 10:00pm
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aux The Walking Dead spinoff thinks that zombies would actually walk in L.A.
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2014 | 9:51pm
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music Win a cabin for two on ShipRocked and cruise with Fred Durst
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2014 | 9:20pm
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aux A British medical journal investigated Nintendinitis and the Ice Bucket Challenge
By B.G. Henne December 16, 2014 | 9:00pm
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aux Esquire will be the first network to debut a whole series on demand
By Alex McLevy December 16, 2014 | 8:56pm
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aux Kraftwerk, Lou Reed tapped for the Grammy Hall Of Fame
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2014 | 8:40pm
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aux Tom Hanks will star in another Dave Eggers adaptation
By Matt Wayt December 16, 2014 | 8:37pm
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aux Mad Season is reuniting with Chris Cornell, without two dead members
By Eric Rovie December 16, 2014 | 8:32pm
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aux Bill Cosby asks for neutrality from black media, which doesn’t go over so well
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2014 | 8:10pm
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aux Pop Danthology 2014 rounds up the year in music
By Rob Dean December 16, 2014 | 8:10pm
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aux Sneaky Congress lifts federal ban on medical marijuana
By John Teti December 16, 2014 | 7:27pm
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tv Hey, it’s the first promo for The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2014 | 7:26pm
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aux Vintage licensed character Christmas specials add even more commercialism to the holiday
By Rob Dean December 16, 2014 | 7:15pm
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aux Tim Burton says “Yeah” to a Beetlejuice sequel with Winona Ryder
By B.G. Henne December 16, 2014 | 7:06pm
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music In mere seconds The Jazz June made a drum fill worth remembering
By David Anthony December 16, 2014 | 7:00pm
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film Where’s the awards campaign for John Cusack and Emma Roberts?
By Mike D'Angelo December 16, 2014 | 7:00pm
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aux Beyoncé and Jay-Z hit with lawsuit over “Drunk In Love” sample
By Joshua Alston December 16, 2014 | 6:53pm
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aux Anne Heche, Rob Riggle join Topher Grace’s musical with JC from ‘N Sync
By Rob Dean December 16, 2014 | 6:48pm
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aux These guys built Sauron’s mace
By B.G. Henne December 16, 2014 | 6:28pm
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aux Liam Neeson might endorse your particular set of skills...on LinkedIn
By Kyle Daly December 16, 2014 | 6:25pm
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aux Joan Jett, Green Day, Lou Reed to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
By Katie Rife December 16, 2014 | 5:57pm
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aux Now there’s depressing audio of Scott Stapp’s meltdown
By Josh Modell December 16, 2014 | 5:56pm
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aux Here’s a fairly competent and thought-provoking rap about “Listening To Serial”
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2014 | 5:39pm
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aux And now here’s a supercut of TV’s most memorable Christmas trees
By Joe Blevins December 16, 2014 | 5:26pm
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music D’Angelo’s long-awaited Black Messiah is devastatingly great
By Kyle Fowle December 16, 2014 | 5:20pm
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aux Bitch Planet soars, Secret Six stumbles, and Superior Foes says goodbye
By Oliver Sava, Tegan O'Neil December 16, 2014 | 5:00pm
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aux Here are some details on Judy Blume’s first adult book in 15 years
By Laura M. Browning December 16, 2014 | 4:38pm
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aux Hundreds of celebrities weigh in on the age old Lennon-McCartney debate
By Joe Blevins December 16, 2014 | 4:22pm
