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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
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tv Bill Burr’s comic rage finds a promising vehicle in F Is For Family
By Dennis Perkins December 18, 2015 | 6:00pm
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tv It’s the season of the Landecker on an explosive Transparent
By Eric Thurm December 18, 2015 | 6:00pm
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aux Read This: How Hollywood flubbed its adaptation of DC Comics’ Steel
By Joe Blevins December 18, 2015 | 5:57pm
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film Our film staffers search their feelings about The Force Awakens
By A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 18, 2015 | 5:31pm
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aux The Fuller House trailer becomes an even more terrifying threat with the right music
By Rob Dean December 18, 2015 | 5:21pm
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aux President Obama refuses to drink his own piss for our entertainment
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2015 | 5:19pm
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film Spoiler Space: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 18, 2015 | 5:05pm
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aux Laurence Fishburne to cameo, possibly offer Keanu Reeves drugs in John Wick 2
By Victor Beigelman December 18, 2015 | 5:05pm
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tv The 2015 A.V. Club Readers’ Poll results are in
By Cameron Scheetz December 18, 2015 | 5:00pm
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aux The Simpsons meets You’re Next in this claymation couch gag
By Rob Dean December 18, 2015 | 4:22pm
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tv Netflix joins the crime-doc parade with the gripping Making A Murderer
By Josh Modell December 18, 2015 | 4:08pm
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aux PJ Harvey announces first new album in five years
By Danette Chavez December 18, 2015 | 3:37pm
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aux Back in 1985, original MTV VJ Martha Quinn toured Rick Nielsen’s house
By Mike Vanderbilt December 18, 2015 | 2:01pm
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aux Violent Femmes announce first full-length album in 15 years
By William Hughes December 18, 2015 | 8:31am
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games Halo 5 is a step backward, but it’s a step in the right direction
By Matt Gerardi December 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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aux Grant Morrison’s Klaus makes Santa a hunky holiday action hero
By Oliver Sava December 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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film Big Short director Adam McKay on political comedy in “fucked-up times”
By Alex McLevy December 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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games Parasite Eve bottles the eerie feeling of not celebrating Christmas
By Anthony John Agnello December 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv After 12 years, Joel McHale is out of The Soup
By Dennis Perkins December 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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film What movie do you think is missing from our Best Of 2015 list?
By Caroline Siede, Kyle Ryan, A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Molly Eichel, Becca James, Adam Nayman, Alex McLevy, Brandon Nowalk, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Cameron Scheetz, William Hughes, Jesse Hassenger, Mike Vago December 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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music Cage The Elephant chills out on the radio-ready Tell Me I’m Pretty
By Philip Cosores December 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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music Pusha T stakes his claim for rap supremacy on Darkest Before Dawn
By Corbin Reiff December 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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music Baroness’ Purple is a triumphant epilogue to disaster
By Kevin Warwick December 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Elementary doesn’t quite add up “The Cost Of Doing Business”
By Genevieve Valentine December 18, 2015 | 5:59am
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aux Jeremy Renner to play Undefeated boxer Rocky Marciano
By William Hughes December 18, 2015 | 3:44am
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aux Ghostbusters character posters follow Star Wars’ lead, don’t feature any full faces
By Sam Barsanti December 18, 2015 | 3:16am
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aux Wincing Simon Pegg admits he didn’t like the new Star Trek trailer either
By William Hughes December 18, 2015 | 3:01am
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tv Sheldon and Amy go all the way in a charming, sweet The Big Bang Theory
By Kyle Fowle December 18, 2015 | 2:47am
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aux Sean Penn to play Andrew Jackson in HBO miniseries
By Sam Barsanti December 18, 2015 | 2:16am
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aux Hulu cancels The Awesomes
By William Hughes December 18, 2015 | 1:42am
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aux Inherent Vice’s Katherine Waterston to star in Ridley Scott’s new Alien movie
By William Hughes December 18, 2015 | 1:02am
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aux Netflix invents socks that pause your video for you when you fall asleep
By William Hughes December 17, 2015 | 11:47pm
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aux Fox developing spooky drama about ghost therapists in New Orleans
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2015 | 11:36pm
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aux The feds could seize that Wu-Tang album from Martin Shkreli
By William Hughes December 17, 2015 | 11:10pm
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aux UPDATE: A recent Nathan For You stunt is actually doing good in the world
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2015 | 10:55pm
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aux The guy who bought an ad to pitch a Die Hard sequel actually got a movie deal
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2015 | 10:31pm
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aux Nothing says Christmas like ClickHole’s Glengarry Glen Ross light display
By Joe Blevins December 17, 2015 | 10:17pm
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aux Drunk uncles to finally get the Jimmy Buffett musical they’ve been clamoring for
By Dennis DiClaudio December 17, 2015 | 9:42pm
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aux So where do those giant bows in car commercials come from anyway?
By Joe Blevins December 17, 2015 | 9:40pm
