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aux What are you reading in August?
By Randall Colburn, William Hughes, Marah Eakin August 17, 2020 | 1:00pm
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aux John Oliver knows jury duty sucks—just not for the reasons you think
By Dennis Perkins August 17, 2020 | 10:32am
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tv Bella becomes obsessed with another author in the penultimate I May Destroy You
By Sulagna Misra August 17, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv Courtney B. Vance and Aunjanue Ellis on Lovecraft Country’s premiere and the fear of living while Black
By Marah Eakin August 17, 2020 | 2:05am
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tv Lovecraft Country is better than an allegory—it’s fan fiction
By Joelle Monique August 17, 2020 | 2:00am
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aux Taylor Swift asks fans to bring down U.S. president with controversial "vote early" message
By Sam Barsanti August 16, 2020 | 10:36pm
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aux Elizabeth Debicki to play Princess Diana on The Crown
By Sam Barsanti August 16, 2020 | 8:22pm
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aux Jim Lee offers reassurances about DC Comics' future, teases new Batman book by John Ridley
By Sam Barsanti August 16, 2020 | 7:12pm
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aux CBS All Access might become Paramount+ because originality is overrated
By Sam Barsanti August 16, 2020 | 5:01pm
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music For better or worse, Napster changed the music industry forever—and made Radiohead global superstars
By Patrick Gomez August 16, 2020 | 5:30am
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film They cheer and they lead: Bring It On ushered cheer culture into the mainstream
By Shannon Miller August 16, 2020 | 5:05am
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aux The Y2K bug ended up being the millennium’s biggest anticlimax
By Mike Vago August 16, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux Tell us about your pop culture weekend: August 14-16
By The A.V. Club August 16, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv You are now entering Lovecraft Country
By Allison Shoemaker August 16, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux Ryan Reynolds asks rampaging Canadian teens to please not kill his mom
By William Hughes August 16, 2020 | 12:09am
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aux R.I.P. Days Of Heaven's Linda Manz
By William Hughes August 15, 2020 | 8:27pm
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aux George Miller thinks there's a decent chance Furiosa became a tyrant
By William Hughes August 15, 2020 | 5:33pm
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film "We're uncool": Almost Famous and High Fidelity celebrate music—but they're warnings, too
By Erik Adams August 15, 2020 | 5:00pm
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music Oops, they did it again: The 15 best songs to hit the Billboard Hot 100 in 2000
By Alex McLevy, Patrick Gomez, Gwen Ihnat, Shannon Miller, Randall Colburn, Erik Adams, Cameron Scheetz August 15, 2020 | 1:40pm
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aux What pop culture just screams 2000 to you?
By The A.V. Club, Alex McLevy, Randall Colburn, Cameron Scheetz, Sam Barsanti, Patrick Gomez, William Hughes, Danette Chavez, Shannon Miller, Katie Rife, Marah Eakin, Erik Adams, Gwen Ihnat August 15, 2020 | 5:45am
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aux Tig Notaro to replace Chris D'Elia in Zack Snyder's Army Of The Dead
By William Hughes August 15, 2020 | 4:12am
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aux Don't worry, Twitter: Murderous demon doll still A-okay
By William Hughes August 15, 2020 | 2:30am
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aux Blazing Saddles premieres on HBO Max with a context disclaimer
By William Hughes August 15, 2020 | 1:08am
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film Ugly revelations complicate the Ren & Stimpy story retold by Happy Happy Joy Joy
By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2020 | 10:35pm
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film Lossy, translated: Why filmmakers embraced digital video in 2000
By Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 9:45pm
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tv A charming cast fleshes out the thin premise of Teenage Bounty Hunters
By Gwen Ihnat August 14, 2020 | 8:52pm
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film A subterranean subculture comes to light in the eye-opening documentary Dark Days
By Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 8:25pm
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aux Marge Simpson to Trump adviser Ellis: "I teach my children not to name call, Jenna"
By Shannon Miller August 14, 2020 | 7:56pm
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aux An open thread for your fan fic about the glorious library fox
By Allison Shoemaker August 14, 2020 | 7:00pm
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aux Ridley Scott misted Brad Pitt’s abs with Evian before Thelma & Louise love scenes
By Allison Shoemaker August 14, 2020 | 5:59pm
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tv Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence on Ted Lasso and the importance of heart in comedy
By Marah Eakin August 14, 2020 | 5:30pm
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aux Mamoudou Athie and Phylicia Rashad open the Black Box in an exclusive first look
By Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 5:15pm
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tv Why Freaks And Geeks is the teen show that endures
By Danette Chavez August 14, 2020 | 5:00pm
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aux Margo Price has performed the gentle, acoustic version of "WAP" we all knew was coming
By Reid McCarter August 14, 2020 | 3:35pm
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music 5 new releases we love: Miley Cyrus is back, baby, and it's the '80s all over again
By The A.V. Club, Cameron Scheetz, Baraka Kaseko, Shannon Miller August 14, 2020 | 2:30pm
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games How '80s House Came to Define the Sound of the Sega Genesis
By Dia Lacina August 14, 2020 | 2:15pm
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aux Two guys recreated The Fast And The Furious for less than $100, and it's wonderfully awful
By Reid McCarter August 14, 2020 | 2:05pm
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music Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Lift Your Skinny Fists… remains the band’s most prophetic work
By Andrew Paul August 14, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Revisiting the Dark Knight trilogy and its impact on the evolving style of Christopher Nolan
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 12:00pm
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aux Paula Pell and John Lutz crack up SNL pal Seth Meyers about cracking the Mapleworth Murders
By Dennis Perkins August 14, 2020 | 10:32am
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aux Bless his heart, Jason Derulo thought Cats was "gonna change the world"
By William Hughes August 14, 2020 | 5:01am
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games The original Crazy Taxi is a lost time capsule of the year 2000
By Sam Barsanti August 14, 2020 | 5:00am
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film Edward Norton made his directorial debut by walking a priest, a rabbi, and a Dharma into a Y2K rom-com
By Caroline Siede August 14, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv Meet Ted Lasso and some Teenage Bounty Hunters
By Allison Shoemaker August 14, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux Sufjan Stevens teams up with "Renegade" dancer Jalaiah Harmon for "Video Game"
By William Hughes August 14, 2020 | 4:12am
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aux Dolly Parton on #BlackLivesMatter: "Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!"
By William Hughes August 14, 2020 | 3:23am
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film Forgettability is the superpower of Netflix's new Jamie Foxx vehicle Project Power
By Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 1:25am
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aux Oh, nice, The Other Two and South Side are both moving over to HBO Max
By William Hughes August 14, 2020 | 12:30am
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music Watch Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn absolutely rip it up in this week's House Show
By Marah Eakin August 13, 2020 | 11:00pm
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film Björk crooned her way to victory at the greatest Cannes Film Festival of all time
By A.A. Dowd August 13, 2020 | 11:00pm
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aux Amazon announces Welcome To The Blumhouse horror movie series
By Sam Barsanti August 13, 2020 | 10:57pm
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aux Fortnite is going to war with Apple over how much money it takes in the App Store
By Sam Barsanti August 13, 2020 | 9:23pm
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aux An influencer's unraveling is playing out as an interactive horror story on Instagram
By Randall Colburn August 13, 2020 | 9:07pm
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aux Cardi B to “WAP” critic Carole Baskin: “Girl, you killed your goddamn husband”
By Shannon Miller August 13, 2020 | 8:44pm
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tv 10 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm that show the dangers (and pleasures) of spite
By Randall Colburn August 13, 2020 | 7:56pm
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aux Disney+ and Lego are making a new Star Wars Holiday Special
By Sam Barsanti August 13, 2020 | 7:45pm
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games In Y2K, Deus Ex taught gaming the true meaning of Liberty
By William Hughes August 13, 2020 | 6:52pm
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aux Get Involved, Internet: Help fund a twisted (and hilarious) new documentary from the Found Footage Festival
By Randall Colburn August 13, 2020 | 6:51pm
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aux The old ice cream jingle was racist, so Good Humor asked RZA to write a new one
By Sam Barsanti August 13, 2020 | 6:03pm
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games Apple Pulls Fortnite from App Store, and Epic Games Sues Apple in Response
By Garrett Martin August 13, 2020 | 6:00pm
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aux Dennis Quaid adopts cat also named Dennis Quaid
By Andrew Paul August 13, 2020 | 5:48pm
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film The Broken Hearts Club said gay love stories didn’t need to be tragedies anymore
By Patrick Gomez August 13, 2020 | 4:36pm
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aux AMC locations are offering 15-cent movie tickets, in case that's how little you value your life
By Sam Barsanti August 13, 2020 | 4:22pm
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aux Herman Cain tweeted from beyond the grave... to attack Joe Biden
By Andrew Paul August 13, 2020 | 4:05pm
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aux The Office's Leslie David Baker received racist DMs after announcing a Stanley spin-off
By Shannon Miller August 13, 2020 | 3:54pm
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aux Oh, to be a cat in a plastic container sailing around a bathtub
By Reid McCarter August 13, 2020 | 3:31pm
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aux Woman who is obviously a vampire receives driver's license that's just a photo of a chair
By Reid McCarter August 13, 2020 | 2:31pm
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aux Robert Pattinson is an unholy preacher in Netflix's Devil All The Time trailer
By Randall Colburn August 13, 2020 | 2:08pm
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games Grounded Turns Honey I Shrunk the Kids Into a Backyard Survival Game
By Holly Green August 13, 2020 | 1:00pm
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games Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 Changes Insensitive Trick Name; Chipotle Gives Out Free Copies and Burritos
By Joseph Stanichar August 13, 2020 | 12:30pm
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tv Book 3 is Infinity Train’s best, most challenging season yet
By William Hughes August 13, 2020 | 11:00am
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aux Jason Sudeikis gives Stephen Colbert Biden lessons, explains why Ted Lasso isn't so farfetched anymore
By Dennis Perkins August 13, 2020 | 10:14am
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tv The gap year: 24 hours of Y2K TV
By The A.V. Club, Sam Barsanti, Patrick Gomez, William Hughes, Gwen Ihnat, Alex McLevy, Shannon Miller, Katie Rife August 13, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv Infinity Train’s third season is now boarding
By Allison Shoemaker August 13, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv The Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. showrunners reveal the plan behind that grand series finale
By Alex McLevy August 13, 2020 | 3:00am
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tv Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. ends with massive spectacle and a bittersweet goodbye
By Alex McLevy August 13, 2020 | 3:00am
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aux Amazon hastily retracts "Please don't say bad things about Amazon" podcast policy
By William Hughes August 12, 2020 | 11:46pm
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music We're at home with Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn for this week's AVC Session
By Marah Eakin August 12, 2020 | 11:20pm
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aux Jonathan Pryce will be The Crown's final Prince Philip
By William Hughes August 12, 2020 | 10:18pm
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music The mountain music of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack eclipsed the movie
By Gwen Ihnat August 12, 2020 | 9:15pm
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aux Avatar: The Last Airbender creators exit Netflix's live-action retelling
By Randall Colburn August 12, 2020 | 9:08pm
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aux Bartees Strange vaporizes genre lines with his exhilarating new single "Boomer"
By Randall Colburn August 12, 2020 | 8:54pm
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aux Watch Steve Martin and the Schitt’s Creek cast bring poor Eugene Levy to tears
By Allison Shoemaker August 12, 2020 | 8:35pm
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aux Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch, and Lacey Chabert to star in Apple's Harriet The Spy animated series
By Shannon Miller August 12, 2020 | 8:35pm
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aux Beck partners with NASA for trippy visual album
By Allison Shoemaker August 12, 2020 | 7:40pm
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film Don’t overlook Hollow Man, Paul Verhoeven’s prescient slasher about male entitlement
By Vikram Murthi August 12, 2020 | 7:00pm
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aux HBO Max drops raucous trailer for teen road trip comedy Unpregnant
By Randall Colburn August 12, 2020 | 6:47pm
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music Grammy-winning virtuoso Jacob Collier discusses Djesse Vol. 3 and leaving genre behind
By Shannon Miller August 12, 2020 | 6:00pm
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aux Trixie And Katya are worried about their frequent flier statuses
By Marah Eakin August 12, 2020 | 5:30pm
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aux CNN tweet that sounds like Death Cab For Cutie lyrics now turned into Death Cab For Cutie song
By Reid McCarter August 12, 2020 | 5:26pm
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aux Elisabeth Moss adds another Blumhouse thriller to her busy schedule
By Britt Hayes August 12, 2020 | 5:02pm
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tv 10 episodes that show The Legend Of Korra stepping out of Avatar’s shadow
By Priyanka Bose August 12, 2020 | 5:00pm
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aux Here's a new Mulan teaser to remind you that it's debuting on Disney+
By Britt Hayes August 12, 2020 | 4:22pm
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aux Reasonable Discussions: August 12
By The A.V. Club August 12, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux You’ve never seen a coming-of-age story like A Map To The Sun
By Oliver Sava August 12, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World with audition tapes and old photos
By Reid McCarter August 12, 2020 | 3:48pm
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aux R.I.P. media mogul Sumner Redstone
By Britt Hayes August 12, 2020 | 3:38pm
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aux Watch Trump-quoting TikTok sensation Sarah Cooper guest host Jimmy Kimmel Live
By Randall Colburn August 12, 2020 | 3:32pm
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aux Revisit Nickellennium, a Y2K documentary featuring kids with no idea how bad it was about to get
By Reid McCarter August 12, 2020 | 3:27pm
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games Fall Guys is the first battle royale game absolutely anyone can kick butt at
By William Hughes August 12, 2020 | 2:10pm
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film The best movies of 2000
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Allison Shoemaker, Lawrence Garcia, Vikram Murthi, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Roxana Hadadi, Jesse Hassenger, Mike D'Angelo, Beatrice Loayza, Noel Murray, Charles Bramesco, Caroline Siede August 12, 2020 | 1:45pm
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games The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Demo Has Us Excited for the Full Game
By Cole Henry August 12, 2020 | 12:00pm
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games Remedy Announces Control: Ultimate Edition, Coming to PC, Current and Next-Gen Systems
By Joseph Stanichar August 12, 2020 | 11:30am
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aux Shut-ins Stephen Colbert and Laura Linney mail each other suspect baked goods
By Dennis Perkins August 12, 2020 | 10:14am
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anime Serial Experiments Lain: Peeling Back Layers of Queerness Through Y2K Technology
By Austin Jones August 12, 2020 | 9:56am
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tv Netflix’s High Score can’t settle on which history of video games it wants to tell
By Sam Barsanti August 12, 2020 | 7:00am
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aux This week in Savage Love: Married people
By Dan Savage August 12, 2020 | 5:15am
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tv Time to say G.O.O.D.B.Y.E. to the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
By Allison Shoemaker August 12, 2020 | 5:00am
