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tv Life of Muhammad is the religious pilgrimage that can be enjoyed from the comfort of the living-room couch
By Erik Adams August 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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music Not Murmur: 36 great but underappreciated records from 1983
By Marc Hirsh, Jonah Bromwich, Evan Rytlewski, Annie Zaleski, Jason Heller, Eric Thurm, David Brusie, Aaron Lariviere, David Anthony, Sean O'Neal, Colin Joyce, Ryan Bray, Dan Ozzi, Matt Wild, Marah Eakin August 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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film William Forsythe on punk rock, Al Capone, and the worst script ever written
By Will Harris August 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv The Man With The 132-Lb. Scrotum
By Sonia Saraiya August 20, 2013 | 4:45am
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tv Under The Dome: “The Fourth Hand”
By Scott Von Doviak August 20, 2013 | 4:20am
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tv Switched At Birth: “Departure Of Summer”
By Carrie Raisler August 20, 2013 | 2:30am
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aux Seriously though, mermaids are suddenly about to be everywhere
By Sean O'Neal August 19, 2013 | 10:13pm
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games What's Next in Games: The Next Generation of Consoles and Indie Games
By Garrett Martin August 19, 2013 | 10:10pm
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tv The IT Crowd: “Something Happened”/“Italian For Beginners”
By Caroline Framke August 19, 2013 | 9:00pm
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aux Lynyrd Skynyrd dunks the Squidbillies theme in a fresh coat of grease
By Jason Heller August 19, 2013 | 8:25pm
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aux Janelle Monáe drops new single, announces fall tour
By Kayla Reed August 19, 2013 | 8:25pm
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aux The replacement players for The Replacements reunion shows confirmed
By Josh Modell August 19, 2013 | 8:15pm
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aux Lady Gaga is a swan in the new video for lackluster single "Applause"
By Marah Eakin August 19, 2013 | 8:15pm
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aux Rio de Janeiro mayor willing to pay "whatever" to get Woody Allen to city that definitely isn't rioting over wasteful spending
By Sean O'Neal August 19, 2013 | 8:08pm
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aux Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal, and John Hodgman to tour together this October
By Kayla Reed August 19, 2013 | 7:25pm
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aux CBS imagines a world in which a woman can be Secretary of State
By Mike Vago August 19, 2013 | 7:15pm
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aux R.I.P. Lee Thompson Young of The Famous Jett Jackson and Friday Night Lights
By Kevin McFarland August 19, 2013 | 7:05pm
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tv Scrubs: “My Self-Examination”/“My Best Friend’s Wedding”
By Myles McNutt August 19, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter director might make the new Ben Hur, is definitely producing a killer squirrel movie
By Sean O'Neal August 19, 2013 | 6:52pm
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aux The guy who created "Harlem Shake" says he made no money from it
By Kayla Reed August 19, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Hear A.V. Fest headliner Neko Case’s new album in its entirety
By Kevin McFarland August 19, 2013 | 6:05pm
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music New wave in the front, heavy metal in the back
By Jason Heller August 19, 2013 | 6:00pm
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film Our look at 1983’s best films begins with the family drama À Nos Amours
By Michael Sicinski August 19, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Stranger
By Sean O'Neal August 19, 2013 | 5:38pm
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aux This slowed down version of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is better than any cover
By Kayla Reed August 19, 2013 | 5:30pm
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aux Prince posts new single with surprisingly self-aware Dave Chappelle-featuring artwork
By Marah Eakin August 19, 2013 | 5:10pm
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aux Patton Oswalt won Twitter over the weekend with a series of hilarious, slightly offensive tweets
By Marah Eakin August 19, 2013 | 5:10pm
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aux Watch an exclusive new video from Seattle's Pickwick
By Kayla Reed August 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Adam McKay drops Anchorman 2 hints with the Sklars, and a Comedy Bang! Bang! pool party extravaganza
By Dan Telfer, Caroline Siede, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Trip Cook, Dan Jakes, Maggie Serota, Dennis DiClaudio, Steven Moore, David Anthony, Nowah Jacobs, Austin Bernhardt, Oliver Sava, Colin Griffith, Matt Kodner, D.X. Ferris August 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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tv Justice League: “Ultimatum”
By Oliver Sava August 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux NBC might not actually make its Hillary Clinton miniseries now that Republicans are mad
By Sean O'Neal August 19, 2013 | 4:59pm
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aux Major Lazer dives deep into the world beat criminal underground for its new video
By Marah Eakin August 19, 2013 | 4:35pm
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aux Superchunk celebrates its hatred of music with a brand new video
By Marah Eakin August 19, 2013 | 4:15pm
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aux Girls
By Sean O'Neal August 19, 2013 | 4:04pm
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tv Cagney & Lacey survived two cancellations and multiple re-castings to become a TV groundbreaker
By Emily St. James August 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Eastbound And Down
By Sean O'Neal August 19, 2013 | 3:25pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: Moviegoers so starved for drama they pay for a Lee Daniels movie
By A.A. Dowd August 19, 2013 | 3:19pm
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aux Hey, it’s 1983 Week at The A.V. Club
By Erik Adams August 19, 2013 | 2:17pm
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tv With finales for both Switched At Birth and Teen Wolf, we imagine unlikely crossovers
By Emily St. James August 19, 2013 | 5:05am
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film Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: August 16-August 18
By AV Club Staff August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux August 19, 2013
By David Malki ! August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Not just the year of Stephen King: 10 excellent, underappreciated books from 1983
By Kevin McFarland, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, Eric Thurm, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Andrea Battleground, Laura M. Browning August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Reaching new depths of desperation: 11 (mostly lousy) sequels released in 1983
By John Semley, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Mike Vago August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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music Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan talks weird gaps, magical hawks, and slack motherfuckers
By Kyle Ryan August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux Marisha Pessl: Night Film
By Ellen Wernecke August 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Whodunnit? - “Golden Cuffs”
By Myles McNutt August 19, 2013 | 3:30am
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tv True Blood: “Radioactive”
By AV Club Staff August 19, 2013 | 3:15am
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tv The Newsroom: “One Step Too Many”
By Emily St. James August 19, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv Ray Donovan: “Bridget”
By Sonia Saraiya August 19, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv Low Winter Sun : “The Goat Rodeo”
By Dennis Perkins August 19, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv Breaking Bad: “Buried”
By Donna Bowman August 19, 2013 | 2:05am
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tv Dexter: “Are We There Yet?”
By Joshua Alston August 19, 2013 | 2:00am
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tv Masterpiece Mystery!: The Lady Vanishes
By Phil Dyess-Nugent August 18, 2013 | 9:00pm
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tv The Simpsons (Classic): “Fear Of Flying”
By Erik Adams August 18, 2013 | 9:00pm
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tv Saturday Night Live (Classic): “Dick Cavett/Jimmy Cliff”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent August 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Wiki Wormhole: Quench a thirst for knowledge with a page all about cola
By Mike Vago August 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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tv Farscape: “Liars, Guns And Money”
By Alasdair Wilkins August 18, 2013 | 3:00pm
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tv Being Human (U.K.): Being Human — “The Last Broadcast”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent August 18, 2013 | 7:15am
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tv Is True Blood preparing for a nuclear apocalypse or a season finale?
By Erik Adams August 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Doctor Who (Classic): “The Reign Of Terror”
By Christopher Bahn August 17, 2013 | 7:00pm
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tv The Twilight Zone: “The Parallel”/“I Dream Of Genie”
By Zack Handlen August 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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tv Borgen: “Battle Ready”
By Emily St. James August 17, 2013 | 10:50am
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tv Strike Back: “Season 3, Episodes 1 and 2”
By Myles McNutt August 17, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv Comedy Bang! Bang!: “Gillian Jacobs Wears A Red Dress With Sail Boats”
By David Sims August 17, 2013 | 2:30am
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tv Phineas And Ferb: Mission Marvel
By Gwen Ihnat August 17, 2013 | 12:30am
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aux MTV, in a moment of sobering self-awareness, orders show called Jerks With Cameras
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 8:37pm
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aux Joseph Kosinski is the latest director to get trapped in The Twilight Zone movie
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 8:11pm
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aux CBS seeks frat bro with "keg stand experience" to bring keg stand verisimilitude to legal drama
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 7:30pm
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tv Wonderfalls: “Cocktail Bunny”
By Les Chappell August 16, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark reprises its show-stopping "seriously injured actor" number
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 6:51pm
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aux The Onion's Peter K. Rosenthal reviewed Lee Daniels' The Butler, calls it the most important film of all time
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 6:45pm
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aux Read This: Cameron Esposito on what not to yell at a lesbian comic
By Kayla Reed August 16, 2013 | 6:40pm
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aux A new podcast finds Steve Albini talking Nirvana, In Utero, and music industry "parasites"
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 6:10pm
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aux There's probably a new Paul McCartney record coming out later this year
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 6:10pm
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aux Somehow Russell Simmons' "Harriet Tubman Sex Tape" did not go over that well
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Hey Chicago! Come play music trivia with The A.V. Club's Marah Eakin
By Kayla Reed August 16, 2013 | 5:45pm
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aux Electro-pop duo YACHT just released a pretty great anti-NSA single
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 5:30pm
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aux The "Blurred Lines" guys are suing Marvin Gaye's family for saying they copied "Got To Give It Up"
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 5:25pm
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aux Corporate rock band KISS has gone and bought its own arena football team
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 5:15pm
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aux Movie explicitly designed to sell Ninja Turtles toys delayed to sell more Ninja Turtles toys
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 5:06pm
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tv The Larry Sanders Show: “Arthur’s Crises”/“End Of The Season”
By Kyle Ryan August 16, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Ignatz Awards for excellence in independent comics announces its 2013 nominees
By Jason Heller August 16, 2013 | 4:45pm
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aux C.O.G.
By Kayla Reed August 16, 2013 | 4:40pm
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aux Watch Donald Glover demand to be taken seriously in his short film, Clapping For The Wrong Reasons
By Kayla Reed August 16, 2013 | 4:40pm
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aux FXX is going to win you over with a whole day of Parks And Recreation
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 4:30pm
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aux For just $2,800, two stuntwomen recreated Family Guy's "epic chicken fight"
By Marah Eakin August 16, 2013 | 4:25pm
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aux Asian-American group asks Fox to do something about its racist Dads
By Sean O'Neal August 16, 2013 | 4:09pm
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aux Pick your favorite controversial episode to be the fifth TV Roundtable Readers' Choice selection!
By Emily St. James August 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Hear an exclusive single from Toronto band The Darcys
By Kayla Reed August 16, 2013 | 3:00pm
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music On “Pyrrhic,” Julianna Barwick invokes the loneliness of Iceland
By Colin Joyce August 16, 2013 | 3:00pm
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film Vincent Gallo plays a Muslim terrorist on the run—yes, really
By A.A. Dowd August 16, 2013 | 3:00pm
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tv The Daily Show - Week of August 12-15, 2013
By Kevin McFarland August 16, 2013 | 8:40am
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tv Graceland: “Smoke Alarm”
By Genevieve Valentine August 16, 2013 | 8:05am
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tv Phineas & Ferb meet up with the world of Marvel Comics, and all 10-year-olds go wild
By Emily St. James August 16, 2013 | 5:15am
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aux How much liberty should biographers take with their subjects’ lives?
By Jason Heller August 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Separating art from its creators
By John Semley, Annie Zaleski, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Joel Keller, Brandon Nowalk, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Matt Wild, Sonia Saraiya, Marah Eakin, Mike Vago August 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux East Of West #5 combines romance and apocalypse with spectacular results
By Oliver Sava August 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv NTSF: SD: SUV::: “Burn After Killing”
By Kevin McFarland August 16, 2013 | 4:30am
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tv Childrens Hospital: “Country Weekend”
By David Sims August 16, 2013 | 4:15am
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tv Wilfred: “Distance”
By Kenny Herzog August 16, 2013 | 2:30am
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tv Owner's Manual
By Scott Von Doviak August 15, 2013 | 11:00pm
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aux Coolio auctioning off royalty rights to all his songs in order to fund his new cooking career
By Marah Eakin August 15, 2013 | 11:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Valentin De Vargas of Touch Of Evil and The Magnificent Seven
By Phil Dyess-Nugent August 15, 2013 | 10:38pm
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aux A.C.O.D.
By Kevin McFarland August 15, 2013 | 10:20pm
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aux Oh hey, Orson Scott Card also wrote about Obama becoming Hitler and commanding an army of gang members
By Sean O'Neal August 15, 2013 | 10:01pm
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aux Beak-lieve it or not, last night’s Duck Dynasty première made ca-bill history
By Erik Adams August 15, 2013 | 9:27pm
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aux The Wind Rises
By Kevin McFarland August 15, 2013 | 9:00pm
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tv Orange Is The New Black: “Tall Men With Feelings”/“Fool Me Once”
By Myles McNutt August 15, 2013 | 9:00pm
