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tv What non-2016 pop culture did you finally get around to this year?
By Nathan Rabin, Caroline Siede, Nick Wanserski, Esther Zuckerman, Josh Modell, Joe Blevins, Becca James, Sean O'Neal, Sam Barsanti, Alex McLevy, Matt Gerardi, William Hughes, Jesse Hassenger December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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games Hyper Light Drifter blended past and present to become 2016’s most beautiful game
By Nick Wanserski December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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tv Barry remembers when a future president actually cared about America
By Dennis Perkins December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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film Trollhunter follow-up The Autopsy Of Jane Doe is pretty, but a little stiff
By Katie Rife December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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film Pedro Almodóvar directs his new melodrama, Julieta, like a tense thriller
By Mike D'Angelo December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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tv Justice League Action does right by DC superheroes with a joyful premiere
By Oliver Sava December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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aux Diego Luna spent most of Rogue One staring at Alan Tudyk’s balls
By William Hughes December 16, 2016 | 2:52am
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aux CBS’ Superior Donuts will open its doors in February
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2016 | 2:33am
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tv Mouse hunts cat in the teaser for Billions season 2
By William Hughes December 16, 2016 | 1:50am
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aux Mom’s Allison Janney to play Tonya Harding’s mom
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2016 | 1:31am
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aux Julia Roberts is headed to TV
By William Hughes December 16, 2016 | 1:12am
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aux Freeform picks up The Lonely Island’s Alone Together
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2016 | 12:49am
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aux Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell are making a musical about musicals
By Sam Barsanti December 15, 2016 | 11:22pm
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aux Florida paid Pitbull $1 million to promote its “Sexy Beaches”
By William Hughes December 15, 2016 | 11:12pm
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aux The A.V. Club rode Chicago’s decked-out Holiday Train
By Marah Eakin December 15, 2016 | 11:10pm
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aux Frankie Cosmos and Sam Kogon make short film chock-full of sci-fi references
By Joe Blevins December 15, 2016 | 11:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Craig Sager
By Clayton Purdom December 15, 2016 | 10:46pm
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aux Facebook to take steps against fake news and take away YOUR GUNS!!!
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2016 | 10:46pm
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aux Let’s get this over with: 100 Christmas songs at the same goddamn time
By Clayton Purdom December 15, 2016 | 10:34pm
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aux Amazon to give Unsolved Mysteries some long-overdue updates
By Joe Blevins December 15, 2016 | 10:18pm
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aux Netflix renews Haters Back Off, sending a pointed message to haters everywhere
By Sam Barsanti December 15, 2016 | 10:16pm
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film Should they still make Christmas movies?
By Sean O'Neal December 15, 2016 | 9:59pm
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aux Fox News was 2016’s most-watched cable network
By Sam Barsanti December 15, 2016 | 9:56pm
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aux 50 Cent to either get rich or die trying in Den Of Thieves
By Joe Blevins December 15, 2016 | 9:53pm
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aux This Occupy Avengers #2 exclusive drowns Hawkeye and Red Wolf in the desert
By Oliver Sava December 15, 2016 | 9:26pm
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aux Roland Emmerich may direct an adaptation of Dark Matter
By Esther Zuckerman December 15, 2016 | 9:18pm
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aux Kick back, relax, and listen to Neil Gaiman read “The Raven” by firelight
By Joe Blevins December 15, 2016 | 9:00pm
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aux An unreleased Studio Ghibli film is coming to the U.S.
By Sam Barsanti December 15, 2016 | 8:22pm
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film There’s an Arsenal of bad hairdos in this trailer
By Danette Chavez December 15, 2016 | 8:20pm
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aux Ten points—and this huge spider—go to Gryffindor
By Caroline Siede December 15, 2016 | 7:46pm
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aux Dolly Parton’s telethon raised $9 million for Tennessee wildfire victims
By Danette Chavez December 15, 2016 | 7:13pm
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aux iPhone owners can now play Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s first mobile game
By Matt Gerardi December 15, 2016 | 6:51pm
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aux In praise of Shane Black, the godfather of all badass Christmas action movies
By Clayton Purdom December 15, 2016 | 6:45pm
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film The Bronx Bull is definitely not a Raging Bull sequel, especially in this trailer
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 15, 2016 | 6:39pm
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aux Chicago’s Saved By the Bell diner to go on nationwide pop-up tour
By Randall Colburn December 15, 2016 | 6:37pm
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aux HBO isn’t coming for teen’s Game Of Thrones fan art
By Esther Zuckerman December 15, 2016 | 6:09pm
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aux Learn how to throw playing cards, Ricky Jay style
By Kevin Pang December 15, 2016 | 6:05pm
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aux The McDonald’s butt cup has reached its logical conclusion, and it is disgusting
By Clayton Purdom December 15, 2016 | 6:00pm
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aux Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer are getting Snatched in their new movie
By Esther Zuckerman December 15, 2016 | 5:54pm
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aux Today’s best deals: Bluetooth earbuds, Destiny, and more
By Shep McAllister December 15, 2016 | 5:51pm
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aux Read the scathing review of Trump Grill that inspired the president-elect’s new Twitter beef
By Marah Eakin December 15, 2016 | 5:25pm
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tv Silicon Valley’s Jimmy O. Yang is Abraham Lincoln’s wingman
By John Teti December 15, 2016 | 5:06pm
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aux NBC has a #Blessed new sitcom in the works
By Mike Vago December 15, 2016 | 5:05pm
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aux Method Man wrote a Christmas-themed Ghost Rider comic
By Dennis DiClaudio December 15, 2016 | 4:46pm
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tv Sneaky Pete picks up a new trailer and release date
By Danette Chavez December 15, 2016 | 4:29pm
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aux Here’s what’s coming to (and leaving from) Netflix in January
By Esther Zuckerman December 15, 2016 | 4:19pm
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tv Mozart In The Jungle takes a trip to Rikers in an admirable, messy episode
By Esther Zuckerman December 15, 2016 | 4:00pm
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games Super Mario Run Impressions: Is This How Mario Should Have Always Been?
By Jon Irwin December 15, 2016 | 3:42pm
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aux CBS adds The Honeymooners to its list of reboots
By Danette Chavez December 15, 2016 | 3:39pm
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film The Boss Baby wages war against puppies in new trailer
By Esther Zuckerman December 15, 2016 | 3:24pm
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aux The final frontier of Hamilton obsession is data analysis
By Joe Blevins December 15, 2016 | 3:00pm
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aux Facebook wants to take up even more of your time with original programming
By Danette Chavez December 15, 2016 | 2:42pm
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aux Jimmy Kimmel reveals how much (or how little) Oscar hosts get paid
By Dennis DiClaudio December 15, 2016 | 2:11pm
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aux Always remember that A Charlie Brown Christmas nearly didn’t happen
By Joe Blevins December 15, 2016 | 2:00pm
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games Xbox One Consoles Get a Price Discount for the Holidays
By Cameron Wade December 15, 2016 | 12:08pm
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games Super Mario Run Is Now Out for iOS Devices
By Garrett Martin December 15, 2016 | 11:52am
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games Critical Distance, the Games Criticism Curation Site, Is Holding a Fundraiser
By Paste Staff December 15, 2016 | 11:31am
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games Ancients and Autocracy: The Politics of Dota 2’s 7.00 Update
By Niv M. Sultan December 15, 2016 | 9:45am
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tv A Nashville “preview” kicks off the show’s CMT era
By Caroline Siede December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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games The year’s best video game puzzle reminds us no world is an island
By William Hughes December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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film Vikram Gandhi on finding Barry in Barack Obama
By Esther Zuckerman December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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music Miseducation case file #76: Lauryn Hill’s MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
By Nathan Rabin December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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tv The 35 best TV performances of 2016 (and one worst)
By Laura Adamczyk, Gwen Ihnat, Esther Zuckerman, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Alex McLevy, Danette Chavez, Marah Eakin December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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film The 20 worst films of 2016
By A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Katie Rife, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Noel Murray, Jesse Hassenger December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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film Will Smith goes glum for the twisty treacle of Collateral Beauty
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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film Neruda is possibly even bolder than Pablo Larraín’s other 2016 biopic, Jackie
By Mike D'Angelo December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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film The Bad Kids spends time with troubled teens who fall through the cracks
By Noel Murray December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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games Pt. 3—Final Fantasy XV doesn’t get better, but at least it gets weirder
By Patrick Lee December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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tv Shots fired as Designated Survivor ends on an effective cliffhanger
By Zack Handlen December 15, 2016 | 4:49am
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tv Rectify comes full circle in a gripping finale
By Erik Adams December 15, 2016 | 4:30am
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tv Ray McKinnon on saying goodbye to Rectify
By Erik Adams December 15, 2016 | 4:30am
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tv Modern Family goes back to school for one last dance
By Kyle Fowle December 15, 2016 | 4:09am
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tv Lee Daniels’ Star is a mess, but can it recover?
By Molly Eichel December 15, 2016 | 4:06am
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aux John Waters’ lifetime of trashy brilliance is being recognized by the WGA
By William Hughes December 15, 2016 | 4:01am
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aux The National is donating its merch sales to Planned Parenthood, ACLU, and more
By William Hughes December 15, 2016 | 3:25am
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tv Survivor wraps up a strong season in a neat narrative bow
By Carrie Raisler December 15, 2016 | 3:17am
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tv Ragnar’s storm-tossed journey leads to his enemy’s door on a compelling Vikings
By Dennis Perkins December 15, 2016 | 3:00am
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aux R.I.P. Bernard Fox, Bewitched’s Dr. Bombay
By Sam Barsanti December 15, 2016 | 2:46am
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aux Two This Is Us writers want to resurrect the failed How I Met Your Mother spin-off
By Sam Barsanti December 15, 2016 | 1:12am
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aux Marvel adds more Kanye and Jay Z to its library of hip-hop variant covers
By William Hughes December 15, 2016 | 12:41am
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aux Apple’s AirPods are finally available, unless you’ve somehow lost them already
By Sam Barsanti December 15, 2016 | 12:17am
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aux Star Trek: Discovery finally finds its lead in The Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green
By William Hughes December 14, 2016 | 11:52pm
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aux Snoop Dogg, RZA, and Common will guest star in that hour-long Simpsons episode
By William Hughes December 14, 2016 | 11:33pm
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aux Legendary renames the Pokémon movie and its Pacific Rim and Godzilla sequels
By William Hughes December 14, 2016 | 10:43pm
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tv Another apocalypse is on the horizon in the trailer for season 4 of The 100
By Sam Barsanti December 14, 2016 | 10:42pm
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aux Stephen King reveals the real secret of terror: children
By Joe Blevins December 14, 2016 | 10:30pm
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aux Rachel Dratch tramples over “Margot Robbie’s Moment”
By Gwen Ihnat December 14, 2016 | 9:55pm
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aux One of this week’s Jeopardy! contestants died before her episodes aired
By Sam Barsanti December 14, 2016 | 9:44pm
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tv First Taken trailer shows off its particular set of skills
By Danette Chavez December 14, 2016 | 9:34pm
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aux Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger is getting her own biopic
By Esther Zuckerman December 14, 2016 | 9:30pm
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aux The Hollywood Reporter finds 7 white guys to weigh in on diversity in animation
By Esther Zuckerman December 14, 2016 | 9:30pm
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aux Starbucks launches online animated series with The Simpsons writing trio
By Randall Colburn December 14, 2016 | 9:10pm
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aux Emma Stone’s Cruella De Vil movie has found its director
By Sam Barsanti December 14, 2016 | 9:04pm
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aux Inside “fashwave,” the official celebration music of the alt-right
By Clayton Purdom December 14, 2016 | 9:00pm
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aux Take Springsteen’s ’57 Bel Air for a spin—or just keep it in your garage
By Mike Vanderbilt December 14, 2016 | 8:40pm
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aux Molly Ringwald to play Archie’s mom on Riverdale
By Sam Barsanti December 14, 2016 | 8:38pm
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aux Taran Killam to make his Broadway debut as King George in Hamilton
By Caroline Siede December 14, 2016 | 8:14pm
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aux “Why did they call it Joy?”: Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence roast each other
By Joe Blevins December 14, 2016 | 8:00pm
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aux Andrew Lloyd Webber claims he nearly discovered Rihanna
By Caroline Siede December 14, 2016 | 7:45pm
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aux Watch Alan Thicke rap with Ninja Turtles and more in these vintage clips
By Clayton Purdom December 14, 2016 | 7:30pm
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aux Emmy Rossum closes deal to return to Shameless
By Danette Chavez December 14, 2016 | 7:24pm
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aux Godzilla to stomp Tokyo for 96 hours straight on El Rey’s “Kaiju Christmas” marathon
By Mike Vanderbilt December 14, 2016 | 7:00pm
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aux Holy shit: Somebody edited 400 versions of A Christmas Carol into one coherent movie
By Clayton Purdom December 14, 2016 | 7:00pm
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aux Adam Driver wouldn’t mind skipping the trailers for Star Wars: Episode VIII
By Esther Zuckerman December 14, 2016 | 6:45pm
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aux Uber employees reportedly spied on celebrities, politicians, and exes
By Dennis DiClaudio December 14, 2016 | 6:25pm
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aux Today’s best deals: Mel Brooks, sous-vide, and more
By Shep McAllister December 14, 2016 | 6:15pm
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aux Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! nabs special guest host Tom Hanks
By Marah Eakin December 14, 2016 | 6:14pm
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aux Despicable Me 3 trailer pays homage to the ’80s
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 14, 2016 | 6:12pm
