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music Who’s the superior Santa announcer: The Jackson 5 or Springsteen?
By Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Laura M. Browning December 23, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv The least essential TV of 2015
By Gwen Ihnat, Kevin Johnson, Lisa Weidenfeld, Joshua Alston, Zack Handlen, Vikram Murthi, Molly Eichel, Erik Adams, Alex McLevy, Danette Chavez, Emily L. Stephens, Dennis Perkins, Dan Caffrey December 23, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Tensions rise on The Expanse
By Zack Handlen December 23, 2015 | 4:04am
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tv Girlfriends’ Guide perfectly depicts the dissolution of a marriage
By Gwen Ihnat December 23, 2015 | 4:00am
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aux Nicolas Cage returns a National Treasure he had no part in stealing
By Danette Chavez December 22, 2015 | 9:57pm
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aux Netflix picks up Mindhunter series from David Fincher and Charlize Theron
By Danette Chavez December 22, 2015 | 8:35pm
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film A grim arthouse director made a comeback by embracing self-parody
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 22, 2015 | 7:00pm
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film A bigger chimichanga is better in this new Deadpool teaser
By Danette Chavez December 22, 2015 | 6:48pm
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aux James Cameron reminds everyone he’s still working on those Avatar sequels
By Danette Chavez December 22, 2015 | 6:12pm
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music Radiator Hospital says goodbye with the heartbreaking “Our Song”
By David Anthony December 22, 2015 | 6:00pm
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tv Everyone’s trying on F Is For Family and everything burns down anyway
By Dennis Perkins December 22, 2015 | 6:00pm
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aux Gus Van Sant to direct new miniseries about fight for LGBT rights
By Danette Chavez December 22, 2015 | 5:07pm
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tv Lazy, overstuffed storytelling makes for a messy Jessica Jones massacre
By Oliver Sava December 22, 2015 | 4:17pm
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aux A bigger, badder, and better Krampus digs deep into the title character’s mythology
By Dan Caffrey December 22, 2015 | 4:00pm
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aux Rdio is gone, and with it a bunch of A.V. Club music content
By Alex McLevy December 22, 2015 | 3:00pm
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aux DC cuts short an incredibly promising Justice League United run
By Shea Hennum, Oliver Sava, merged-5876237249237173262-z3or5dc, Tegan O'Neil December 22, 2015 | 3:00pm
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games The 5 Biggest Changes in Dota 2’s 6.86 Patch
By Suriel Vazquez December 22, 2015 | 12:34pm
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games The Best New Gaming Hardware and Peripherals of 2015
By Jason D'Aprile December 22, 2015 | 11:15am
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tv Happy Christmas: 9 British TV specials to stream this holiday season
By Kyle Daly December 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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games Our favorite games of 2015, part two
By Patrick Lee, Nick Wanserski, Drew Toal, Ryan Smith, Samantha Nelson, Derrick Sanskrit, John Teti December 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv The year in outrage: 24 times 2015 totally lost its shit
By William Hughes, Katie Rife, Alex McLevy, Danette Chavez, Sam Barsanti December 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv The Expanse colonizes the furthest reaches of TV’s holiday calendar
By Alasdair Wilkins December 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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music On Commitment, Bobby Darin became a folkie radical
By Miles Raymer December 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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music Who has the merriest “Little Christmas,” Judy Garland or Frank Sinatra?
By Gwen Ihnat, Alex McLevy December 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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music Drive-By Truckers cover Greg Lake
By David Anthony December 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Monday Night Raw hosts the Slammys, so excitement gets the night off
By Kyle Fowle December 22, 2015 | 5:32am
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tv All’s Well That’s Well-Proved as the Holiday Baking Show concludes
By Myles McNutt December 22, 2015 | 4:57am
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tv Making A Murderer: The bruising conclusion
By Josh Modell December 22, 2015 | 4:43am
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aux President Obama to hitch a ride in the season premiere of Comedians In Cars
By Danette Chavez December 21, 2015 | 10:30pm
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aux Here’s what’s coming to Netflix in January
By Danette Chavez December 21, 2015 | 9:43pm
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aux James Franco to remake Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? for Lifetime
By Danette Chavez December 21, 2015 | 8:18pm
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music The Traveling Wilburys came to terms with death on “End Of The Line”
By Marah Eakin December 21, 2015 | 7:00pm
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film A nostalgic doc celebrates one of the craziest chapters of the video-store era
By Katie Rife December 21, 2015 | 7:00pm
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aux Here are the first official photos of Dolph Lundgren in Kindergarten Cop 2
By Danette Chavez December 21, 2015 | 6:48pm
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tv In its season finale, The Man In The High Castle twists reality
By Scott Von Doviak December 21, 2015 | 6:03pm
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tv Sue has it out with Frank on a thoughtful, funny F Is For Family
By Dennis Perkins December 21, 2015 | 6:00pm
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tv Josh is in for big changes as Transparent reaches its halfway point
By Eric Thurm December 21, 2015 | 6:00pm
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aux Seann William Scott almost scooped Crank from Jason Statham
By Nowah Jacobs, Benjamin Cannon, Dennis DiClaudio, Colin Griffith, Marnie Shure, Erin Vogel, Rebecca Bulnes December 21, 2015 | 6:00pm
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aux Donald Trump weighs in on that Miss Universe blunder
By Danette Chavez December 21, 2015 | 5:44pm
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aux Exclusive Valiant preview: Faith grows up with her own solo miniseries
By Oliver Sava December 21, 2015 | 5:33pm
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aux UPDATED: The Force Awakens sets new box-office record, surprising absolutely no one
By Danette Chavez December 21, 2015 | 4:58pm
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tv The Greatest Gift Of All! is a Christmas that’s as “real” as “Stephen Colbert”
By Erik Adams December 21, 2015 | 4:00pm
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aux The Midwest’s almost-war was settled when Ohio and Michigan squared off in 1835
By Mike Vago December 21, 2015 | 3:00pm
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aux The Comedy Of Existence probes the layers of Groucho Marx’s one-liners
By Ryan Vlastelica December 21, 2015 | 2:00pm
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games William Gibson's Game MEG 9 has Giant Robots, Sci-fi Philosophy
By Jason D'Aprile December 21, 2015 | 11:27am
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tv The reveal of Scotty’s killer doesn’t clear up anything on The Affair
By Gwen Ihnat December 21, 2015 | 7:30am
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film The devastating 45 Years is as much a ghost story as a marriage drama
By A.A. Dowd December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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film Michael Moore wants to make America great again with Where To Invade Next
By Mike D'Angelo December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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music The definitive takedown of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
By Kevin Warwick December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv The best TV performances of 2015
By Kate Kulzick, Allison Shoemaker, Caroline Siede, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Gwen Ihnat, Eric Thurm, Joshua Alston, Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Genevieve Valentine, Erik Adams, Alex McLevy, Noel Murray, Brandon Nowalk, Les Chappell December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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games Our favorite games of 2015, part one
By Joe Keiser, Zack Handlen, Anthony John Agnello, Sam Barsanti, William Hughes, Matt Gerardi December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv It’s WWE Week! No, it really is
By LaToya Ferguson December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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music Wham! and Jimmy Eat World ponder what happened “Last Christmas”
By Gwen Ihnat, Danette Chavez December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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film The best movie trailers of 2015
By A.A. Dowd December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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music When Bundled Bowels met Gruesome Toilet: The 2015 year in band names
By Kyle Ryan December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Making A Murderer gets fishier in episodes 5 and 6
By Josh Modell December 21, 2015 | 5:34am
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tv A dense Homeland finale ends season five in an elegiac fashion
By Joshua Alston December 21, 2015 | 4:15am
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tv Into The Badlands reveals much but surprises little
By David Kallison December 21, 2015 | 4:00am
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aux Tina Fey is done explaining her jokes to the internet
By Sam Barsanti December 21, 2015 | 3:12am
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tv Flesh And Bone finally gets onstage in an overstuffed “Full Dress”
By Molly Eichel December 21, 2015 | 3:05am
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aux Matt Damon politely tries to support his friend’s silly comic book movie
By Sam Barsanti December 21, 2015 | 1:59am
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aux Supergirl may soon get a Bizarro visitor
By Sam Barsanti December 20, 2015 | 11:35pm
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aux Next season of Game Of Thrones might have less rape
By Sam Barsanti December 20, 2015 | 9:48pm
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aux J.J. Abrams talks about those voices [REDACTED] heard in The Force Awakens
By Sam Barsanti December 20, 2015 | 8:56pm
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aux Surrender to the big hooks of a brand new Cheap Trick single
By Mike Vanderbilt December 20, 2015 | 8:17pm
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tv Homer finds the inspiration to be a good dad—and it’s in bar form!
By Les Chappell December 20, 2015 | 8:00pm
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tv Adulthood isn’t for children’s eyes on F Is For Family
By Dennis Perkins December 20, 2015 | 6:00pm
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tv Collateral damage makes Making A Murderer hard to watch
By Josh Modell December 20, 2015 | 4:36pm
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tv Tina! Amy! Maya! The Boss! SNL brings out the big guns in a decent end to 2015
By Dennis Perkins December 20, 2015 | 8:52am
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tv Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 18 - December 20
By AV Club Staff December 20, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Our torrid winter Affair in the Homeland comes to an end
By Les Chappell December 20, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Forget the explanation and embrace the emotion of The Returned’s season finale
By Erik Adams December 20, 2015 | 4:20am
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tv Ash Vs. Evil Dead returns to the cabin in the woods
By Michael Roffman December 20, 2015 | 2:30am
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aux Read This: An interview with Lowell, from Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell
By William Hughes December 19, 2015 | 11:35pm
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aux The Beatles are finally coming to streaming services
By William Hughes December 19, 2015 | 10:23pm
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film Our writer finished the Star Wars marathon in less than 12 parsecs
By Alex McLevy December 19, 2015 | 9:53pm
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aux The Kinks’ Ray and Dave Davies reunited on stage last night
By William Hughes December 19, 2015 | 9:34pm
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aux Cinemax has commissioned a script for season three of The Knick
By William Hughes December 19, 2015 | 8:31pm
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aux Trent Reznor says new Nine Inch Nails is coming in 2016
By William Hughes December 19, 2015 | 7:57pm
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tv Frank institutes F Is For Family “take your sullen son to work day”
By Dennis Perkins December 19, 2015 | 6:00pm
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film Larry Fessenden’s podcast, a celebration of Spy Vs. Spy, and holiday ice cream
By A.A. Dowd, Marah Eakin, John Teti December 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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music Cage The Elephant’s Brad Shultz on the tactless misogyny of Deadeye Dick’s “New Age Girl”
By Marah Eakin December 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv “I Wish It Was Christmas Today” has grown from novelty song to holiday standard
By Dan Caffrey December 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Is this it for The Knick?
By Brandon Nowalk December 19, 2015 | 4:00am
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aux Amazon picks up and renews a whole mess of stuff
By William Hughes December 19, 2015 | 12:40am
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aux 26 percent of Americans think video games are a big dumb waste of time
By William Hughes December 19, 2015 | 12:00am
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aux Chicago, we’ve got another free comedy show coming this Saturday
By Katie Rife December 18, 2015 | 11:52pm
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aux Nicki Minaj reveals tiny doppelganger for her self-titled sitcom
By William Hughes December 18, 2015 | 11:14pm
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aux Arrested Development almost found anustart at Showtime instead of Netflix
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 18, 2015 | 10:37pm
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aux Warner Bros. threatens film snobs with 70mm Batman V Superman
By William Hughes December 18, 2015 | 10:26pm
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aux Yes, that was [REDACTED] playing a Stormtrooper in The Force Awakens
By Mike Vanderbilt December 18, 2015 | 10:18pm
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aux 30 percent of GOP voters in recent poll support bombing Aladdin’s fictional homeland
By Katie Rife December 18, 2015 | 9:26pm
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aux Unsettling sci-fi short Uncanny Valley speculates on the future of video games
By Chris Dart December 18, 2015 | 9:22pm
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aux Here’s what’s coming to Hulu in January
By Danette Chavez December 18, 2015 | 9:20pm
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aux Here’s Fargo season two in cartoon-cat form
By Josh Modell December 18, 2015 | 9:00pm
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aux This short documentary about a guy who hitchhiked across the country is amazing
By Chris Dart December 18, 2015 | 8:40pm
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aux There are two e’s in “Wookiee,” damn it: A message from The A.V. Club copy desk
By Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Laura M. Browning December 18, 2015 | 8:30pm
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tv Esquire gets its epic drama on in this Beowulf trailer
By Danette Chavez December 18, 2015 | 8:14pm
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aux Exclusive Vertigo preview: Last Gang In Town revives England’s revolutionary spirit
By Oliver Sava December 18, 2015 | 8:04pm
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aux Brian Posehn’s a cappella “Carol Of The Bells” is brutal, atonal, and wonderful
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2015 | 7:59pm
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aux Amazon renews The Man In The High Castle
By William Hughes December 18, 2015 | 7:23pm
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aux Read This: Get used to Jimmy Fallon ruling late-night television
By Joe Blevins December 18, 2015 | 7:20pm
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games Readers debate the pleasures and perils of extra lives
By Matt Gerardi December 18, 2015 | 7:00pm
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aux Yep, “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is still the worst
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2015 | 6:37pm
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tv Showtime’s new Twin Peaks promo is appropriately vague
By Katie Rife December 18, 2015 | 6:34pm
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film Anthony Hopkins is up to all sorts of shenanigans in the Misconduct trailer
By Alex McLevy December 18, 2015 | 6:11pm
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music The Stones went sci-fi with “2000 Light Years From Home”
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 18, 2015 | 6:00pm
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film Was there more to Spandau Ballet than “True”?
By Noel Murray December 18, 2015 | 6:00pm
