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music Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: January 24 - January 26
By AV Club Staff January 27, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv My So-Called Life set the path all teen shows would follow
By Emily St. James January 27, 2014 | 6:00am
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film Far-fetched football: 17 scenes of fictional gridiron lunacy
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Drew Toal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Marah Eakin, Les Chappell, Sonia Saraiya January 27, 2014 | 6:00am
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aux New William S. Burroughs bio gets lost in minutiae
By Noah Cruickshank January 27, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv HBO’s Herblock doc supplies a one-man history of editorial cartooning
By Phil Dyess-Nugent January 27, 2014 | 6:00am
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aux Orfeo ponders philosophy and music in a socio-political thriller
By Gregg LaGambina January 27, 2014 | 6:00am
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aux An abandoned ship remains spectral in The Ghost Of The Mary Celeste
By Emily St. James January 27, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv American Dad: “Cock Of The Sleepwalk”
By Kevin McFarland January 27, 2014 | 5:55am
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tv Shameless: "Like Father, Like Daughter"
By Joshua Alston January 27, 2014 | 5:45am
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tv Sherlock: “The Sign Of Three”
By Genevieve Valentine January 27, 2014 | 5:00am
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tv Family Guy: "Brian's A Bad Father"
By Eric Thurm January 27, 2014 | 4:15am
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tv Looking: "Looking For Uncut"
By Brandon Nowalk January 27, 2014 | 4:00am
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tv Girls: “Dead Inside”
By Emily St. James January 27, 2014 | 3:30am
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tv Bob’s Burgers: “Easy Com-mercial, Easy Go-mmercial”
By Genevieve Valentine January 27, 2014 | 3:30am
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tv Downton Abbey: “Season Four, Episode Four”
By Sonia Saraiya January 27, 2014 | 3:00am
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tv True Detective: “The Locked Room”
By Erik Adams January 27, 2014 | 3:00am
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tv The Simpsons: "Specs And The City"
By Dennis Perkins January 27, 2014 | 2:00am
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tv We're live-chatting the Grammy Awards
By Marah Eakin January 27, 2014 | 12:00am
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tv The Simpsons (Classic): “Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily”
By David Sims January 26, 2014 | 8:00pm
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tv Doctor Who: "New Earth"/"Tooth And Claw"
By Alasdair Wilkins January 26, 2014 | 6:00pm
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tv Saturday Night Live: “Jonah Hill/Bastille”
By David Sims January 26, 2014 | 4:00pm
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games Mobile of the Week: Hoplite (iOS/Android)
By Luke Larsen January 26, 2014 | 3:00pm
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tv LL Cool J continues a 56-year-old tradition of giving out tiny record players
By Erik Adams January 26, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Black Sails: “I.”
By Rowan Kaiser January 26, 2014 | 4:45am
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aux Courtney Love not guilty of Twit-libel, still guilty of being Courtney Love
By Josh Modell January 25, 2014 | 10:00pm
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tv Doctor Who (Classic): “Horror Of Fang Rock”
By Christopher Bahn January 25, 2014 | 8:00pm
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tv Grimm: "The Wild Hunt"
By Kevin McFarland January 25, 2014 | 9:05am
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tv Helix: "Single Strand"
By Rowan Kaiser January 25, 2014 | 9:00am
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tv Dracula: "Let There Be Light"
By Les Chappell January 25, 2014 | 5:00am
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tv Raising Hope: “The Thrilla In Natesvilla”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent January 25, 2014 | 4:00am
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tv Enlisted: “Pete’s Airstream”
By Les Chappell January 25, 2014 | 2:30am
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film Vanessa Hudgens stumbles through the social-issues melodrama Gimme Shelter
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 25, 2014 | 12:01am
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aux Movie version of Lean In to bring the excitement of women making smart career choices to big screen
By Sean O'Neal January 24, 2014 | 11:20pm
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aux Bob Odenkirk says there's a new Afghan Whigs record coming
By Marah Eakin January 24, 2014 | 11:15pm
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film I, Frankenstein is a (slightly) better monster mash than Underworld
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 24, 2014 | 10:43pm
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aux Hotel Rwanda screenwriter set for Mother Teresa biopic
By Caroline Siede January 24, 2014 | 10:36pm
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aux FX will give Judy Greer and Nat Faxon a new sitcom home this summer
By Sean O'Neal January 24, 2014 | 10:32pm
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aux Rosario Dawson says she will return for Clerks III
By Kevin McFarland January 24, 2014 | 10:00pm
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aux Nicole Kidman's Grace Of Monaco will open at Cannes, but not in the U.S. (for now)
By Caroline Siede January 24, 2014 | 9:50pm
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aux February 20 is now "Kurt Cobain Day" in Aberdeen, Washington, at least
By Marah Eakin January 24, 2014 | 9:40pm
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aux Louis C.K. will play a cartoon dog
By Sean O'Neal January 24, 2014 | 9:05pm
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aux Make playtime much less fun with the Sad Keanu Reeves doll
By Sean O'Neal January 24, 2014 | 8:15pm
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aux Go behind the scenes on Community with set photos from Troy’s farewell episode
By Kevin McFarland January 24, 2014 | 8:10pm
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aux Here's a peachy keen new track from The Presidents Of The United States Of America
By Marah Eakin January 24, 2014 | 7:50pm
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games Preserving video games is tricky, but our readers have some ideas
By Matt Gerardi January 24, 2014 | 7:45pm
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aux Ted Leo and Aimee Mann's The Both will release a new record in April
By Marah Eakin January 24, 2014 | 7:40pm
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aux Mike Newell will direct that update of killer plant movie The Day Of The Triffids
By Sean O'Neal January 24, 2014 | 6:56pm
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aux Get some "Psychotherapy" with a new track from pop act The Jezabels
By Marah Eakin January 24, 2014 | 6:30pm
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music Macklemore & Lewis’ “Same Love” is more than a pro-gay marriage anthem
By Chris Mincher January 24, 2014 | 6:00pm
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film Even without the nuts and bolts, Splice is clearly a Frankenstein story
By A.A. Dowd January 24, 2014 | 6:00pm
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aux Hank Azaria offers a clue about which Simpsons character will die, sort of
By Sean O'Neal January 24, 2014 | 5:50pm
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aux Check out this awesome fan-made Lego video for Superchunk’s “FOH”
By Kyle Ryan January 24, 2014 | 5:35pm
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aux Fox to strand reality show contestants on an island for an entire year
By Mike Vago January 24, 2014 | 4:45pm
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aux Stars of Grey's Anatomy to remain stars of Grey's Anatomy
By Caroline Siede January 24, 2014 | 4:20pm
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aux Ben Kingsley will be an Egyptian pharaoh in Night At The Museum 3
By Kevin McFarland January 24, 2014 | 4:00pm
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aux Fiction and reality collide in the masterful The Unwritten: Apocalypse #1
By Oliver Sava January 24, 2014 | 4:00pm
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aux Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. at TCA: Here comes Deathlok... and a better show, hopefully
By Emily St. James January 24, 2014 | 4:00pm
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games 5 Reasons Playstation Now Will Rule
By Eric Walters January 24, 2014 | 10:30am
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tv Parenthood: “You’ve Got Mold”
By Emily St. James January 24, 2014 | 10:25am
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games The Banner Saga (PC / Mac)
By Luke Winkie January 24, 2014 | 9:30am
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tv Parks And Recreation: “Farmers Market”
By Alasdair Wilkins January 24, 2014 | 6:50am
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tv The Greatest Event In Television History 4
By Kate Knibbs January 24, 2014 | 6:30am
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tv Viewer beware: Black Sails wants to pillage your Saturdays
By Caroline Framke January 24, 2014 | 6:10am
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games How do you manage your personal game backlog?
By John Teti January 24, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv When one sketch flopped, two words saved The State: “monkey torture”
By Erik Adams January 24, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv The guilty (and not-so-guilty) pleasures of Dateline NBC
By Matt Wild January 24, 2014 | 6:00am
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film What movie party do you wish you’d attended?
By Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Becca James, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Oliver Sava, Emily St. James, Sonia Saraiya, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson, John Teti January 24, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Christina Ricci takes a whack at playing Lizzie Borden
By Phil Dyess-Nugent January 24, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv The Monkey’s Paw bolts a bad slasher film onto a classic horror tale
By Alasdair Wilkins January 24, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Reign: "For King And Country"
By Caroline Framke January 24, 2014 | 3:45am
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tv Spoils Of Babylon: “The Rise Of The Empire”
By David Sims January 24, 2014 | 3:30am
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tv The Michael J. Fox Show: “Sochi”
By Robert David Sullivan January 24, 2014 | 3:00am
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tv Rake: “Serial Killer”
By Scott Von Doviak January 24, 2014 | 3:00am
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tv White Collar: “Taking Stock”
By Kenny Herzog January 24, 2014 | 3:00am
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tv The Vampire Diaries: “500 Years Of Solitude”
By Carrie Raisler January 24, 2014 | 2:00am
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tv Community: “Geothermal Escapism”
By Emily St. James January 24, 2014 | 2:00am
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aux Robert Zemeckis is remaking Man On Wire as a 3-D drama, maybe with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
By Marah Eakin January 23, 2014 | 11:40pm
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aux Read some plot details from Quentin Tarantino's scrapped Western, since he's not going to make it now
By Sean O'Neal January 23, 2014 | 11:30pm
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aux Adrianne Palicki will be the first Friday Night Lights alum to guest star on About A Boy
By Kevin McFarland January 23, 2014 | 11:08pm
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aux Foo Fighters are maybe recording their new album in 12 different cities
By Marah Eakin January 23, 2014 | 11:00pm
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aux America to get its own upstairs/downstairs show thanks to David O. Russell
By Caroline Siede January 23, 2014 | 11:00pm
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aux Federal agents start busting some Goodfellas' balls over Lufthansa
By Sean O'Neal January 23, 2014 | 10:40pm
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aux Someone recut the Her trailer with Philip Seymour Hoffman as Samantha
By Kevin McFarland January 23, 2014 | 10:10pm
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aux The new trailer for The Raid 2 is super violent and super sweet
By Marah Eakin January 23, 2014 | 10:06pm
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aux Garrett Hedlund will play the not-yet-villainous Hook in Joe Wright’s Pan
By Kevin McFarland January 23, 2014 | 9:31pm
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aux HBO cancels Hello Ladies and Family Tree
By Sean O'Neal January 23, 2014 | 9:06pm
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music A yogi numerologist and other “experts” have some thoughts on Justin Bieber
By Kyle Ryan January 23, 2014 | 9:00pm
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aux We are entering the age of excellent waterslides as foretold by Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
By Mike Vago January 23, 2014 | 8:52pm
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aux Jeffrey Tambor reuniting with Will Arnett on The Millers
By Caroline Siede January 23, 2014 | 8:20pm
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aux Is this is what Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will look like, or just what we assume they'll look like?
By Sean O'Neal January 23, 2014 | 7:56pm
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aux Ramble, man, with this previously unreleased Allman Brothers live track
By Marah Eakin January 23, 2014 | 7:45pm
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aux Saturday Night Live names its new Weekend Update co-anchor
By Sean O'Neal January 23, 2014 | 7:25pm
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aux Shia LaBeouf plagiarizes every article about his plagiarism by claiming it was all just performance art
By Sean O'Neal January 23, 2014 | 6:35pm
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aux And here's what Game Of Thrones would look like if it were set during WWII
By Dan Selcke January 23, 2014 | 6:15pm
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aux Justin Bieber arrested for artistic expression of racing toward his future, racing in his car while drunk
By Sean O'Neal January 23, 2014 | 5:06pm
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film Roger Corman puts a smart, strange spin on the Frankenstein mythos
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 23, 2014 | 5:00pm
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music “Royals” would never be “Royals” without the finger snaps
By Emily St. James January 23, 2014 | 5:00pm
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tv The Middle: “The Carpool”
By Will Harris January 23, 2014 | 4:30pm
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tv Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: “Time’s Orphan”/“The Sound Of Her Voice”
By Zack Handlen January 23, 2014 | 4:00pm
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aux The new Maleficent trailer really hopes you remember Sleeping Beauty
By Dan Selcke January 23, 2014 | 3:50pm
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aux Now that you mention it, Aaron Paul would be in The Dark Tower if it happened
By Kevin McFarland January 23, 2014 | 3:36pm
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aux Chris Gethard will release his first stand-up record this April
By Marah Eakin January 23, 2014 | 3:00pm
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games The 10 Most Disappointing Games of 2013
By J.P. Grant January 23, 2014 | 10:00am
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tv Modern Family: "Three Dinners"
By Joshua Alston January 23, 2014 | 8:50am
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games Boardgame: Forbidden Desert
By Keith Law January 23, 2014 | 8:00am
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tv Revolution: "Captain Trips"
By Les Chappell January 23, 2014 | 6:35am
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tv Arrow: “Blind Spot”
By Alasdair Wilkins January 23, 2014 | 6:30am
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tv Mitt suggests that Mitt Romney might not be so fascinating
By John Teti January 23, 2014 | 6:00am