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film Why comedy sequels remain rare, even in a franchise-dominated era
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv The many exciting conclusions of Breaking Bad, 2013’s second-best show
By Erik Adams December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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music Low’s Christmas is the religious album even heathens can love
By Josh Modell December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Key & Peele: "Season Three, Episode 13"
By Brandon Nowalk December 19, 2013 | 4:00am
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aux The Wire and Friday Night Lights stars hired to make us pay attention to The Purge 2
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 10:43pm
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aux Sofia Coppola's next film will be about the gay scene in San Francisco
By Kevin McFarland December 18, 2013 | 10:14pm
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aux Also, the guy who wrote Argo is writing the Batman-Superman movie
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 10:05pm
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aux Warner Bros. reportedly wants Joaquin Phoenix around when Batman meets Superman
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 9:07pm
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aux Today in synergy: Amazon to shoot original series in Ultra HD, in order to sell Ultra HD TVs
By Mike Vago December 18, 2013 | 8:43pm
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aux There will finally just be a TV show about Twitter
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 8:24pm
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aux Nintendo announces someone’s dream Zelda/Dynasty Warriors mash-up and more
By Matt Gerardi December 18, 2013 | 8:20pm
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aux Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite in the trailer for Adam Sandler's most recent vacation
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 7:40pm
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aux All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter will play Gregg Allman in a new Allman Brothers biopic
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux Secret agents, cheating husbands, and Dick Cheney top this year's Black List of the best unproduced screenplays
By Mike Vago December 18, 2013 | 7:23pm
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aux "Weird Al" Yankovic just cashed in on a major lawsuit against his record label
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2013 | 7:05pm
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aux Pulp Fiction and Mary Poppins together at last in the National Film Registry
By Kevin McFarland December 18, 2013 | 7:00pm
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film Dated jokes aside, the second Naked Gun is still funny
By Nick Schager December 18, 2013 | 7:00pm
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music Who loves the sun? For starters, the vinyl peddlers of High Fidelity
By Erik Adams December 18, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Now you can watch a bunch of pugs re-enact the movie Elf
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2013 | 6:50pm
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aux Death finally ended the feud between Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland
By Gwen Ihnat December 18, 2013 | 6:44pm
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aux Veronica Mars coming to PaleyFest, Pivot, your general consciousness for the next several months
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Yet more evidence of Shia LaBeouf's plagiarism surfaces, as Shia LaBeouf issues yet more plagiarized apologies
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 6:17pm
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tv Mad Men: “Babylon”
By Emily St. James December 18, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux The Duck Dynasty family shared some charmingly down-home thoughts on Jesus, gays, anuses, what have you
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 5:21pm
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aux This week we’re barely putting up with Black Panties
By Amelie Gillette December 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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film National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation proves that perfect holidays can’t be forced
By Kyle Ryan December 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux New author to continue The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series
By Mike Vago December 18, 2013 | 4:23pm
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aux It's ape o'clock in the Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes trailer; time to wake up and greet the ape-day
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 4:20pm
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aux Watch Between Two Ferns with Samuel L. Jackson, Tobey Maguire, & Arcade Fire
By Kyle Ryan December 18, 2013 | 4:08pm
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games The 5 Best Videogame Alpacas of 2013
By Samantha Allen December 18, 2013 | 7:45am
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aux December 18, 2013
By Dan Savage December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Top Chef goes back to school with Questlove
By Alasdair Wilkins December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Adam McKay talks about the long road to making an Anchorman sequel
By Kyle Ryan December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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games We pick the saddest console and best comeback of the year in games
By John Teti December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Bob’s Burgers’ Tina makes the series a must-watch and 2013’s third-best show
By Sonia Saraiya December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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film There are hits and misses aplenty in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
By Ben Kenigsberg December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Person Of Interest: “Lethe”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Joaquin Phoenix courts his computer in the beguiling Her
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Robert Altman’s Nashville is no attack on the city
By Mike D'Angelo December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Awkward.: "Who I Want To Be"
By Myles McNutt December 18, 2013 | 4:33am
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tv Black Mirror: “The Waldo Moment”
By David Sims December 18, 2013 | 3:00am
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aux The Simpsons had another split-second tribute to the late Marcia Wallace on Sunday
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2013 | 10:26pm
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aux Former Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont is suing AMC for millions
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2013 | 9:57pm
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aux The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne is going on a wacky tour of record stores, slowly turning into Willy Wonka
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2013 | 9:25pm
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aux Once again, Conan catches local TV news people recycling the same cheesy joke
By John Teti December 17, 2013 | 9:17pm
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aux Christ returns to NBC
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2013 | 9:05pm
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aux Petition launched to name the Paul's Boutique corner in New York after the Beastie Boys
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2013 | 8:30pm
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aux Josh Gad is the latest to be marooned on Gilligan's Island movie
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2013 | 8:04pm
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aux Lord Of The Rings star Christopher Lee has a new Christmas single, "Jingle Hell"
By Dan Selcke December 17, 2013 | 8:00pm
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aux Bradley Cooper fucking loves Paradise Lost, bro
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2013 | 7:42pm
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aux R.I.P. country singer Ray Price
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2013 | 7:40pm
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music Wes Anderson brought the world a lot of music, too
By Josh Modell December 17, 2013 | 7:00pm
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film The Fish Called Wanda sequel that wasn’t, exactly
By Jesse Hassenger December 17, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Target won't be selling the new Beyoncé record, thank you very much
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2013 | 6:15pm
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aux Danny Strong will write Guys And Dolls remake, in continued attempt to get us to stop calling him "Jonathan from Buffy"
By Gwen Ihnat December 17, 2013 | 6:06pm
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aux Frank Black talks recent Pixies lineup changes, thinks fans should mind their own beeswax
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2013 | 6:05pm
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aux Linda Cardellini signs up for recurring role on New Girl
By Mike Vago December 17, 2013 | 6:00pm
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games Last-minute gift picks from the Chicago Toy & Game Fair
By Samantha Nelson, John Teti December 17, 2013 | 6:00pm
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games Mobile Game of the Week: 868-HACK (iOS)
By Aevee Bee December 17, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, KISS, and more will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2013 | 5:40pm
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aux Joseph Gordon-Levitt really is making Sandman into a movie
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2013 | 5:32pm
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aux A classic Donald Duck comic reflects the season’s spirit of revelation
By Jason Heller December 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux New comic releases include Inhumanity and Justice League 3000
By Oliver Sava December 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Shia LaBeouf plagiarizes Daniel Clowes comic for his film, responds with plagiarized apology
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2013 | 4:56pm
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aux Voting closes tomorrow for the 2013 A.V. Club readers’ poll
By Kyle Ryan December 17, 2013 | 4:02pm
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aux Listen to Acid Fast’s “Tangle”
By David Anthony December 17, 2013 | 4:00pm
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games The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS)
By Garrett Martin December 17, 2013 | 9:15am
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tv Mom: “Corned Beef And Handcuffs”
By Emily St. James December 17, 2013 | 7:20am
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games No Objection: How Dual Destinies Saved Phoenix Wright
By Stephen Swift December 17, 2013 | 7:00am
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tv Hostages: “Fight Or Flight”
By Sonia Saraiya December 17, 2013 | 6:10am
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music Talib Kweli once again grasps for his conscious roots on Gravitas
By Patrick Bowman December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Person Of Interest turns conspiracy theory into art
By Zack Handlen December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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music Mike Doughty covers “Christmas In Hollis”
By Josh Modell December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Screw the technocracy—we’re reviewing Black Mirror in the proper order
By Erik Adams December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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games The Xbox One is like a linebacker in ballet shoes
By John Teti December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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film The best films of 2013
By Sam Adams, A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Nick Schager, Scott MacDonald, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Ben Kenigsberg December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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film The best of film 2013: The ballots
By Sam Adams, A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Nick Schager, Scott MacDonald, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Ben Kenigsberg December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Orange Is The New Black bet on its characters and won
By Kevin McFarland, Carrie Raisler, Molly Eichel, Caroline Framke, Rowan Kaiser, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Emily St. James, Myles McNutt December 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Almost Human: “Arrhythmia”
By Kevin McFarland December 17, 2013 | 5:05am
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tv How I Met Your Mother: "Bass Player Wanted"
By Donna Bowman December 17, 2013 | 2:35am
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aux Don Cheadle will also be back for Avengers: Age Of Ultron
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2013 | 10:45pm
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tv Homeland’s Alex Gansa talks about the season finale’s big reveal
By Emily St. James December 16, 2013 | 10:29pm
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aux Welcome To Night Vale will be available in book form in 2015
By Kevin McFarland December 16, 2013 | 10:16pm
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aux Paul Feig is making yet another comedy about the ladies
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2013 | 10:16pm
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aux The Critics' Choice Awards release annual list of films that were out this year, basically
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2013 | 9:51pm
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aux Jason Reitman’s next film adds Emma Thompson, Dean Norris, and Judy Greer
By Kevin McFarland December 16, 2013 | 9:25pm
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aux Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac may get web series, potentially bringing pornography to Internet
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2013 | 9:10pm
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aux Read This: Sickening details of investigating allegations against R. Kelly
By Kevin McFarland December 16, 2013 | 8:40pm
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aux Netflix will also get users hooked on Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2013 | 8:39pm
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aux James Cameron suggests you think of the Avatar saga like The Godfather
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2013 | 8:15pm
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aux Adventure Time’s Candy Kingdom exists and looks delicious
By Sarah Shachat December 16, 2013 | 8:15pm
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aux And now there's a 200,000 brick LEGO model of elven outpost Rivendell
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2013 | 7:00pm
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music The Virgin Suicides now owns 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love”
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2013 | 7:00pm
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film The Great Muppet Caper makes larger-than-life characters even bigger
By Erik Adams December 16, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Lorde announces first North American tour
By Kevin McFarland December 16, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are back as old-ass college students for 22 Jump Street
By Marah Eakin December 16, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: Wicked, tricksy hobbit steals box-office glory
By A.A. Dowd December 16, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Miramax and the Weinsteins reunite to make sequels and TV spinoffs of just about everything they ever made together
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2013 | 6:29pm
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aux Will Ferrell stops by the garage and Moshe Kasher joins the Sklarbros
By Dan Telfer, Caroline Siede, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Dan Jakes, Maggie Serota, Nowah Jacobs, Austin Bernhardt, Tim Karan, Colin Griffith, Matt Kodner, D.X. Ferris December 16, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie kill count includes ice cream, assisted suicides
By Sarah Shachat December 16, 2013 | 5:59pm
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aux Wiki Wormhole gets down and dirty with the animal kingdom
By Mike Vago December 16, 2013 | 5:30pm
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music Beyoncé’s surprise album is her most substantial and also her most human
By Evan Rytlewski December 16, 2013 | 5:05pm
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tv Showrunner Michelle Ashford talks Masters Of Sex
By Emily St. James December 16, 2013 | 5:00pm
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film Is The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg’s score at odds with its narrative?
By Mike D'Angelo December 16, 2013 | 5:00pm
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tv The Christmas Toy presents the darkest holiday of Jim Henson’s career
By Erik Adams December 16, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux The first teaser for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is both light and heavy on the corn
By Sean O'Neal December 16, 2013 | 4:53pm
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aux R.I.P. Joan Fontaine
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 16, 2013 | 4:10pm
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aux R.I.P. Tom Laughlin of Billy Jack
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 16, 2013 | 4:10pm
