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aux Queen guitarist Brian May says he hates The Voice, surprises no one
By Marah Eakin May 21, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Listen to a bunch of rappers reference former NBA center Alonzo Mourning
By Kevin McFarland May 21, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Bid on newly hand-annotated first editions of books by J.K. Rowling, Yann Martel, and Nick Hornby
By Kevin McFarland May 21, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux There's a new Beyoncé song and it's great, of course
By Marah Eakin May 21, 2013 | 6:20pm
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film Thunder Road is one of the first, and finest, automotive action movies off the Hollywood lot
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 21, 2013 | 6:00pm
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music An early Walkmen song gets anti-nostalgic
By Josh Modell May 21, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Ang Lee backs out of FX's Homeland-esque Tyrant
By Caroline Siede May 21, 2013 | 5:55pm
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aux Listen to two tracks from Into It. Over It.'s Life Is Suffering 7-inch
By David Anthony May 21, 2013 | 5:45pm
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aux The Pogues' Shane MacGowan seeking dental help so that he can star in "Hollywood film"
By Marah Eakin May 21, 2013 | 5:35pm
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film Cannes 2013, Day Six: Michael Douglas plays Liberace in Steven Soderbergh’s swan song, Behind The Candelabra
By Mike D'Angelo May 21, 2013 | 5:28pm
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aux The Clash announce Sound System, the only box set that matters
By David Anthony May 21, 2013 | 4:40pm
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aux New celebrity singing show to feature singing celebrities impressing other singing celebrities by singing like other singing celebrities
By Matt Wild May 21, 2013 | 4:35pm
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aux Watch Zooey Deschanel sing, dance, be adorable a new She & Him video
By Marah Eakin May 21, 2013 | 4:25pm
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aux This previously unreleased version of The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" features Arthur Russell on cello, and it's great
By Marah Eakin May 21, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux The Wolverine
By Marah Eakin May 21, 2013 | 4:00pm
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music The Breeders’ Last Splash is a rallying cry for the weirdos and stereotype-flouters
By Annie Zaleski May 21, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux New releases include an alternative detective story and a new collection examining the collective urban subconscious
By Oliver Sava, Noel Murray May 21, 2013 | 4:00pm
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tv The Shield (Classic): “Greenlit”/“Homewrecker”
By Brandon Nowalk May 21, 2013 | 3:00pm
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tv Defiance: “Brothers In Arms”
By Rowan Kaiser May 21, 2013 | 10:20am
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tv Bates Motel: “Midnight”
By Emily St. James May 21, 2013 | 6:40am
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tv Grimm uses some cold bodies in a season-finale attempt to regain some of its lost heat
By Erik Adams May 21, 2013 | 6:22am
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tv Revolution: “Clue”
By Les Chappell May 21, 2013 | 5:20am
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tv Rectify: “Jacob’s Ladder”
By Erik Adams May 21, 2013 | 5:11am
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music The National: Trouble Will Find Me
By Josh Modell May 21, 2013 | 5:01am
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music French Montana: Excuse My French
By Chris DeVille May 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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music Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
By Chris Mincher May 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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music How does Chris Brown get away with it?
By Evan Rytlewski, Annie Zaleski May 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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music What do we mean when we call music pretentious?
By Jason Heller May 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Michael Cera on the evolution of George Michael Bluth and working in Arrested Development’s writers’ room
By Emily St. James May 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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tv Regular Show: “Cool Cubed”
By Alasdair Wilkins May 21, 2013 | 3:55am
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tv Adventure Time: “The Suitor”
By Oliver Sava May 21, 2013 | 3:50am
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tv Rules Of Engagement — “100th”
By Will Harris May 21, 2013 | 3:30am
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tv The Big C: “Finale”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent May 21, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv Motive
By Myles McNutt May 20, 2013 | 11:00pm
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aux Reggie Watts made a shot-for-shot Rick Astley remake to RickRoll you with
By Danny Gallagher May 20, 2013 | 11:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Ray Manzarek of The Doors
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 11:00pm
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aux Read This: Mitch Hurwitz details the rise, fall, and rise of Arrested Development for Rolling Stone
By Danny Gallagher May 20, 2013 | 10:45pm
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aux Clear History
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 9:23pm
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tv Mel Brooks: Make A Noise
By Phil Dyess-Nugent May 20, 2013 | 9:00pm
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aux The BBC renews Doctor Who, in case you thought it wouldn't for some reason
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 8:48pm
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aux Hear an excerpt from David Rakoff's posthumous novel read by Ira Glass and many others
By Kevin McFarland May 20, 2013 | 8:32pm
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aux Here's what that new Star Wars animated series will be about
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 8:21pm
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aux Dan Aykroyd offers scientific explanation for threatening the Ghostbusters universe with another sequel
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 7:45pm
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tv The Goodwin Games
By David Sims May 20, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Seth MacFarlane is officially too busy to host the Oscars and then take a lot of criticism for it again, thanks
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 6:52pm
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aux Stone Temple Pilots replace the ousted Scott Weiland with Linkin Park's Chester Bennington
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 6:12pm
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music With “Deceptacon,” Le Tigre captured the sound of youth in a song
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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film Walter Hill’s The Driver is all about work done well
By Nick Schager May 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux Justin Bieber reminds booing crowd that Chevrolet has deemed him a serious artist
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 5:02pm
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tv Batman: The Animated Series: Mask Of The Phantasm
By Oliver Sava May 20, 2013 | 5:00pm
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film A pint glass nicked from Forks, Washington, a.k.a. “Twilight, U.S.A.”
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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film A quiet scene from The Matrix demonstrates how to make exposition compelling
By Mike D'Angelo May 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Why the essential collection Bradbury Stories explains how to live forever
By Emily St. James May 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux In case you missed it, here's Fred Armisen saying goodbye to SNL with a bunch of indie-rock all-stars
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 3:40pm
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film Cannes 2013, Day Five : Takashi Miike schlocks it up, in a good way
By Mike D'Angelo May 20, 2013 | 3:37pm
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aux Commemorate Bill Hader's SNL departure with a bunch of gifs of Stefon's wedding
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 3:30pm
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aux Kanye West's new record, Yeezus, is, in fact, out June 18
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 3:20pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: Star Trek into slightly less profitable darkness
By Sean O'Neal May 20, 2013 | 3:13pm
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tv Peep Show: “Holiday”/“Marriage”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent May 20, 2013 | 3:00pm
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aux Watch "Diaper Money," The Lonely Island's new ode to adulthood
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 2:30pm
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aux Someone animated Patton Oswalt's Star Wars filibuster from Parks And Rec, and it's great
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 2:05pm
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aux Watch a new, Aisha Tyler-directed video about Silversun Pickups
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 2:00pm
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tv Veep: “Andrew”
By Robert David Sullivan May 20, 2013 | 8:30am
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tv Mad Men: “The Crash”
By Emily St. James May 20, 2013 | 7:55am
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tv Family Guy: “Road To Vegas/No Country Club For Old Men”
By Kevin McFarland May 20, 2013 | 6:45am
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aux Drew Magary: Someone Could Get Hurt
By Kevin McFarland May 20, 2013 | 5:01am
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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