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aux Brandon Sanderson: The Rithmatist
By Samantha Nelson May 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: May 17-19
By AV Club Staff May 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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music The crowd-funding conundrum: The line between bringing fans closer and taking advantage
By Jonah Bayer May 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Rectify ends its haunting run just as it seems to get going
By Emily St. James May 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv “Illusion, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money”: 20 inept magicians in pop culture
By John Semley, Danny Gallagher, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Joel Keller, Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv The Simpsons: “The Saga Of Carl/Dangers On A Train”
By Robert David Sullivan May 20, 2013 | 4:05am
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tv The Borgias: “Relics”
By Les Chappell May 20, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv Family Tree: “Treading The Boards”
By Erik Adams May 20, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv Game Of Thrones (newbies): “Second Sons” (for newbies)
By David Sims May 20, 2013 | 2:45am
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tv Game Of Thrones (experts): “Second Sons” (for experts)
By Emily St. James May 20, 2013 | 2:30am
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games Mobile Game of the Week: Star Command (iOS)
By Luke Larsen May 19, 2013 | 10:43pm
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tv North America
By Rowan Kaiser May 19, 2013 | 9:00pm
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film Cannes 2013, Day Four: The Coen brothers return to the festival with a folk-rock flashback
By Mike D'Angelo May 19, 2013 | 7:39pm
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tv Saturday Night Live: “Ben Affleck; Kanye West”
By David Sims May 19, 2013 | 3:00pm
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tv Farscape: “Bone To Be Wild”/“Family Ties”
By Alasdair Wilkins May 19, 2013 | 3:00pm
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tv Fox apologizes for canceling The Cleveland Show by letting Seth MacFarlane creep into the Simpsons finale
By Erik Adams May 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Orphan Black: “Entangled Bank”
By Dennis Perkins May 19, 2013 | 2:00am
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tv Doctor Who: “The Name Of The Doctor”
By Alasdair Wilkins May 19, 2013 | 1:00am
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tv The Twilight Zone: “The Fugitive”/“Little Girl Lost”
By Zack Handlen May 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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film Cannes 2013, Day Three: Cheers for the young stars of The Selfish Giant, jeers for the new films by Hirokazu Kore-eda and Arnaud Desplechin
By Mike D'Angelo May 18, 2013 | 3:17pm
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tv Shark Tank — “Week 25”/“Week 26”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent May 18, 2013 | 6:30am
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tv Borgen: “Decency In The Middle”
By Emily St. James May 18, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv Nikita: “Til Death Do Us Part”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent May 18, 2013 | 2:45am
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tv Maron: “Marc's Dad”
By Kyle Ryan May 18, 2013 | 2:30am
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aux We bid farewell to The Office and met HIMYM's mother this week on The A.V. Club
By David Anthony May 17, 2013 | 10:40pm
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aux There's already been a jewel heist and a gun scare at this year's Cannes
By Sean O'Neal May 17, 2013 | 10:11pm
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aux Game Of Thrones is already thinking about its end date
By Sean O'Neal May 17, 2013 | 9:39pm
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aux Here's a timely reminder that "never-nudes" aren't just something Arrested Development made up
By Sean O'Neal May 17, 2013 | 8:47pm
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aux Spike Lee directing a movie about a 1990s gold prospector
By Sean O'Neal May 17, 2013 | 7:23pm
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aux Caption Contest: Star Trek Into Darkness goes through the looking glass
By Josh Modell May 17, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux David O. Russell and Leonardo DiCaprio get hip to the "assassinating JFK" trend that's so hot right now
By Sean O'Neal May 17, 2013 | 6:37pm
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aux Watch a hot Soul Train line groove to Daft Punk's "Get Lucky"
By Marah Eakin May 17, 2013 | 6:05pm
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aux John Slattery smooth-talks his way into directing some of the best character actors around in his feature debut
By Sean O'Neal May 17, 2013 | 5:36pm
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music Destroy This Place shows how press releases can get it right
By Kyle Ryan May 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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film With Beavis And Butt-head Do America, Mike Judge skewered the idiocy of cinematic adventures
By Mike D'Angelo May 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Superchunk's Laura Ballance has hearing issues, won't be touring with the band anytime soon
By Marah Eakin May 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux NOT OPTIONAL: Maron, Nardwuar, and a book about Bazooka Joe
By Kyle Ryan May 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Last Vegas
By Sean O'Neal May 17, 2013 | 4:45pm
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aux Get involved, Internet: Help bring a 9-foot Hulk statue (and some computers) to a Chicago-area public library
By Jess Greene May 17, 2013 | 4:10pm
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aux It's time for the speculation about Christopher Nolan directing a James Bond film to begin again
By Sean O'Neal May 17, 2013 | 3:56pm
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film Cannes 2013, Day Two: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi chases A Separation with another stunning drama
By Mike D'Angelo May 17, 2013 | 3:38pm
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tv How The Office became one of the greatest television series about the American dream
By Emily St. James May 17, 2013 | 3:30pm
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aux Zombieland fans successfully kill Amazon pilot with their hatred
By Sean O'Neal May 17, 2013 | 3:13pm
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film Sarah Polley on laying her family history bare in the new documentary Stories We Tell
By A.A. Dowd May 17, 2013 | 3:00pm
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aux Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #23 jumps forward a year for an exciting new status quo
By Oliver Sava May 17, 2013 | 3:00pm
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tv Babylon 5: “Confessions And Lamentations”/“Divided Loyalties”
By Rowan Kaiser May 17, 2013 | 3:00pm
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aux Fall TV previews: The CW embraces the awesomeness of staring
By Erik Adams, Emily St. James May 17, 2013 | 1:00pm
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tv The Office: “Finale”
By Erik Adams May 17, 2013 | 5:30am
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tv A fan and a newbie catch up on the first season of The Venture Bros.
By Zack Handlen, Emily St. James May 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Straight outta Denmark, it's Borgen! And the crowd goes wild!
By Emily St. James May 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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film What are your favorite and least favorite cultural baits and switches?
By Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, David Anthony, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Sonia Saraiya, John Potter May 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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aux The Dice Man infiltrates podcasting, Casey Wilson chokes up on The JV Club, and Kumail vs. Maron
By Genevieve Koski, Dan Telfer, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Trip Cook, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Austin Bernhardt, Oliver Sava, Scott Gordon, Colin Griffith, Matt Kodner, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris May 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Elementary: “The Woman”/“Heroine”
By Myles McNutt May 17, 2013 | 4:50am
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tv Scandal: “White Hat's Back On”
By Ryan McGee May 17, 2013 | 4:30am
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tv Hannibal: “Fromage”
By Molly Eichel May 17, 2013 | 4:00am
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tv The Big Bang Theory: “The Bon Voyage Reaction”
By Oliver Sava May 17, 2013 | 3:45am
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tv The Vampire Diaries: “Graduation”
By Carrie Raisler May 17, 2013 | 3:25am
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aux You missed buying a portrait of a naked Bea Arthur by a mere $1.9 million
By Sean O'Neal May 16, 2013 | 10:36pm
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aux Watch the opening scene of Casino Royale recreated with Legos
By Kevin McFarland May 16, 2013 | 10:15pm
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aux The end is really nigh in the new Queens Of The Stone Age animated music videos
By Kevin McFarland May 16, 2013 | 9:50pm
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aux Prepare for The Office by reading all our coverage of it
By David Anthony May 16, 2013 | 9:40pm
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aux USA picks up comedies that are not Happy Endings, keeps you hanging on about Happy Endings
By Sean O'Neal May 16, 2013 | 9:21pm
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aux Check out drawings of Morrissey as Superman, Robert Smith as Plasticman, and Ian Curtis as Batman
By Marah Eakin May 16, 2013 | 8:45pm
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aux Chicago, we're doing another super-secret comedy show, and it goes on sale tomorrow
By Josh Modell May 16, 2013 | 8:25pm
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aux Date Movie's Friedberg and Seltzer to next point out the existence of the Fast & Furious franchise
By Sean O'Neal May 16, 2013 | 8:22pm
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aux Watch (or maybe don't watch) Wayne Coyne cover Bowie while wearing a laser thong
By Marah Eakin May 16, 2013 | 8:00pm
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aux Henry Rollins says he won't be playing any "old music"—or maybe any music at all—any time soon
By Marah Eakin May 16, 2013 | 7:05pm
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aux Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Shaun Of The Dead with a day-by-day photo diary from Edgar Wright
By Marah Eakin May 16, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux HBO orders Mike Judge's Silicon Valley to series
By Sean O'Neal May 16, 2013 | 6:29pm
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aux The Internet does not believe that making Melissa Joan Hart a movie star is worth $2 million
By Sean O'Neal May 16, 2013 | 5:56pm
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film Star Trek Into Darkness
By A.A. Dowd May 16, 2013 | 5:36pm
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film Star Trek Into Darkness
By A.A. Dowd May 16, 2013 | 5:20pm
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tv Gilmore Girls: “Love, Daisies And Troubadours”
By David Sims May 16, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux How I Met Your Mother’s final season will take place across one weekend
By Erik Adams May 16, 2013 | 4:31pm
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film Cannes 2013, Day One: Sofia Coppola offers the first misfire of the festival
By Mike D'Angelo May 16, 2013 | 4:15pm
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film Laura Palmer lives—however briefly—in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
By Eric Thurm May 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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music A song with a long title succinctly encapsulates ’90s power-pop
By David Anthony May 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Reese Witherspoon, Jena Malone, and Martin Short are also joining Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice
By Sean O'Neal May 16, 2013 | 3:47pm
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aux Here's an exclusive clip of Bill Pullman talking about Spaceballs
By Josh Modell May 16, 2013 | 3:35pm
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aux And that's why you don't watch the new Arrested Development episodes out of order
By Sean O'Neal May 16, 2013 | 3:03pm
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aux Here's an exclusive first look at Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart
By Brandon Sanderson May 16, 2013 | 3:00pm
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tv Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: “By Inferno’s Light”/“Doctor Bashir, I Presume?”
By Zack Handlen May 16, 2013 | 3:00pm
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aux Fall schedule analysis: See, The CW's schedule makes sense once you realize Mary, Queen of Scots, was a vampire
By Emily St. James May 16, 2013 | 2:30pm
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aux You have three days left to watch the Onion pilot that Jeffrey Tambor calls one of his "three tremendous loves"
By Josh Modell May 16, 2013 | 2:10pm
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aux Listen to a bluegrass-tinged track from Shakey Graves, a.k.a. Friday Night Lights' "The Swede"
By Marah Eakin May 16, 2013 | 2:00pm
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aux Fall schedule announcement: The CW banishes the last vestiges of The WB to the margins
By Erik Adams May 16, 2013 | 1:45pm
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aux Fall TV previews: CBS unleashes the awesome power of the Internet
By Erik Adams, Emily St. James May 16, 2013 | 1:00pm
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games Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine (Multi-Platform)
By Cameron Kunzelman May 16, 2013 | 8:00am
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tv Psych: “Dead Air”
By Kevin McFarland May 16, 2013 | 7:10am
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tv Nashville : “A Picture from Life's Other Side”
By Emily St. James May 16, 2013 | 7:10am
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tv Supernatural: “Sacrifice”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent May 16, 2013 | 5:15am
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film Frances Ha
By Ben Kenigsberg May 16, 2013 | 5:06am
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film Black Rock
By A.A. Dowd May 16, 2013 | 5:05am
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film Pietà
By A.A. Dowd May 16, 2013 | 5:05am
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film Augustine
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 16, 2013 | 5:04am
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film Erased
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 16, 2013 | 5:03am
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film The English Teacher
By Ben Kenigsberg May 16, 2013 | 5:02am
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film 33 Postcards
By Mike D'Angelo May 16, 2013 | 5:01am
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tv The Middle: “The Ditch”
By Will Harris May 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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film State 194
By Mike D'Angelo May 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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film Noah Baumbach on how Frances Ha helped him see New York City with new eyes
By Drew Fortune May 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Last call for “That’s what she said” jokes: The Office is closing
By Erik Adams May 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv James Urbaniak on Venture Bros.’ return and Hal Hartley’s Lord Of The Rings
By Tasha Robinson May 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Arrow: “Sacrifice”
By Alasdair Wilkins May 16, 2013 | 3:50am
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tv Modern Family: “Games People Play”
By Donna Bowman May 16, 2013 | 1:30am
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aux Nicki Minaj is leaving American Idol now, too
By Marah Eakin May 15, 2013 | 10:20pm
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aux Fall schedule analysis: CBS projects the strength of Scar during the "Be Prepared" number in The Lion King
By Emily St. James May 15, 2013 | 10:20pm
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aux For just $10,500, Game Of Thrones nerds can buy an actual Night's Watch watch
By Marah Eakin May 15, 2013 | 9:40pm
