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aux Do bookstores make you poop? The Japanese have a theory
By Mike Vago August 2, 2020 | 6:30am
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aux R.I.P. Wilford Brimley
By William Hughes August 2, 2020 | 5:40am
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aux Tell us about your pop culture weekend: July 31-August 2
By The A.V. Club August 2, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv Maybe this week Perry Mason will give us the Rhys/Maslany face-off of our dreams
By Allison Shoemaker August 2, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux Lena Dunham talks about living through COVID-19—and its aftermath
By William Hughes August 1, 2020 | 11:13pm
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aux "How to talk about Ween?" and other questions raised by Sassy's '90s "Are you a poser?" quiz
By William Hughes August 1, 2020 | 9:40pm
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aux Netflix is rolling out video speed controls
By William Hughes August 1, 2020 | 7:16pm
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aux Brad Garrett, Lea Thompson declare Ellen staff mistreatment "common knowledge"
By William Hughes August 1, 2020 | 5:40pm
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tv The Umbrella Academy restructures The Commission
By Caroline Siede August 1, 2020 | 1:00pm
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music What are your favorite first 10 seconds of an album?
By The A.V. Club, Patrick Gomez, Cameron Scheetz, Alex McLevy, Randall Colburn, Laura Adamczyk, Gwen Ihnat, Sam Barsanti August 1, 2020 | 1:00pm
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aux Donald Trump declares war on TikTok
By William Hughes August 1, 2020 | 3:08am
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aux Succession is real as Rupert Murdoch's son bails on News Corp board
By William Hughes August 1, 2020 | 1:55am
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aux Watch the moment Charlize Theron pulled the trigger on becoming Imperator Furiosa
By William Hughes August 1, 2020 | 12:19am
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aux Netflix announces film version of cult gaming favorite Beyond Good & Evil
By William Hughes July 31, 2020 | 11:33pm
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aux Auction of Fyre Fest merch will only accept payment in the form of cash or credit
By Allison Shoemaker July 31, 2020 | 10:03pm
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aux Sure, Courteney Cox will come back to watch all her friends get murdered in Scream 5
By William Hughes July 31, 2020 | 9:58pm
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aux The Goldbergs' Bryan Callen accused of sexual assault and misconduct
By Shannon Miller July 31, 2020 | 9:12pm
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film Kerry Washington on why she made a documentary about the ACLU
By Marah Eakin July 31, 2020 | 7:30pm
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film Ever seen a vampire bowl? You will in Fright Night Part 2
By Katie Rife July 31, 2020 | 7:00pm
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music Beyoncé’s Black Is King is an unfettered celebration of Blackness
By Shannon Miller July 31, 2020 | 7:00pm
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aux This supercut of every "fuck" said in Uncut Gems offers an inadvertent summary of 2020 so far
By Reid McCarter July 31, 2020 | 5:34pm
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music 5 new releases we love: Land Of Talk goes deep, Mahalia remixes longing, and more
By Alex McLevy, Shannon Miller, Randall Colburn, Patrick Gomez July 31, 2020 | 5:00pm
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aux Bryan Singer's alleged negligence on X2 set nearly caused the main cast members to quit
By Randall Colburn July 31, 2020 | 4:54pm
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aux Dozens allege NBC boss Paul Telegdy engaged in racist, sexist, and homophobic behavior
By Patrick Gomez July 31, 2020 | 4:45pm
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games The Problem with Blaseball
By Garrett Martin July 31, 2020 | 4:38pm
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aux Get pumped for The Matrix 4's premiere with this 2003 news report featuring Reloaded cosplayers
By Reid McCarter July 31, 2020 | 3:53pm
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tv Kermit The Frog on Muppets Now and the challenges of working with an ex
By Marah Eakin July 31, 2020 | 3:30pm
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aux If Amy Adams can't win an Oscar playing people, she'll get one playing a damn dog
By Randall Colburn July 31, 2020 | 3:06pm
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tv Get some classical music and 3 dozen eggs: Taskmaster’s Alex Horne has a task for you
By William Hughes July 31, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux A priest wants to warn you of the seven deadly sins... through pictures of goats
By Reid McCarter July 31, 2020 | 2:32pm
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aux A bunch more stars are getting into this whole "filming stuff in quarantine" plan
By Alex McLevy July 31, 2020 | 2:13pm
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aux HBO's docuseries about the NXIVM sex cult gets a teaser, premiere date
By Randall Colburn July 31, 2020 | 2:06pm
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games The Best Games of July 2020
By Garrett Martin July 31, 2020 | 1:30pm
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tv In its season two premiere, The Umbrella Academy reinvents itself for the better
By Caroline Siede July 31, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Our critics pick their favorite movies, performances, and scripts of the year so far
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife July 31, 2020 | 12:00pm
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aux Dan Levy is as proud as a Canadian is permitted to be about Schitt's Creek's Emmy haul
By Dennis Perkins July 31, 2020 | 11:05am
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film William Shakespeare invented every romantic comedy trope we love today
By Caroline Siede July 31, 2020 | 11:00am
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games In Carrion, it’s good to be The Thing
By William Hughes July 31, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv The Umbrella Academy reconvenes, The Muppets take Disney+, and Beyoncé Beyoncés
By Allison Shoemaker July 31, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux Beyoncé drops music video for "ALREADY" hours ahead of Disney+'s Black Is King
By Patrick Gomez July 31, 2020 | 4:39am
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aux Former Ellen employees accuse producers of sexual misconduct and harassment
By William Hughes July 31, 2020 | 4:31am
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aux Bryan Cranston reveals he had COVID, reminds you to "keep wearing the damn mask"
By William Hughes July 31, 2020 | 3:41am
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aux Billie Eilish is an anime romantic in the video for "my future"
By William Hughes July 31, 2020 | 2:01am
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aux Amazon picks up Regina King's directorial debut, One Night In Miami
By William Hughes July 31, 2020 | 1:29am
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music Peek through the bushes at Whitmer Thomas for this week's House Show
By Marah Eakin July 30, 2020 | 11:00pm
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aux This year's VMA nominations include some new "quarantine" categories
By William Hughes July 30, 2020 | 10:23pm
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aux Ellen DeGeneres finally responds to allegations about toxic work environment on her show
By Sam Barsanti July 30, 2020 | 10:15pm
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aux Luca Guadagnino teams up with Seth Rogen for Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood adaptation
By Sam Barsanti July 30, 2020 | 9:27pm
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tv Dickinson director Silas Howard on how he focuses on “the mess, not the message”
By Danette Chavez July 30, 2020 | 8:30pm
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aux Say your prayers before watching this exclusive Kriya trailer
By Katie Rife July 30, 2020 | 8:25pm
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aux Here's a handy primer on why humans don't have exoskeletons
By Andrew Paul July 30, 2020 | 7:52pm
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aux Splinter Cell is coming back… as a Netflix animated series from John Wick writer Derek Kolstad
By Sam Barsanti July 30, 2020 | 7:45pm
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aux TIFF's 2020 lineup includes directorial debuts from Regina King, Halle Berry, and Viggo Mortensen
By Randall Colburn July 30, 2020 | 7:26pm
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film Dreamy and atmospheric, The Velvet Vampire added a subversive edge to its sexy slow burn
By Katie Rife July 30, 2020 | 7:00pm
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aux Say buon giorno to Pixar's Luca, a coming-of-age adventure set in Italy
By Sam Barsanti July 30, 2020 | 6:08pm
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aux This is 2020: The Weeknd will throw an augmented-reality concert on TikTok
By Shannon Miller July 30, 2020 | 4:53pm
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tv The Umbrella Academy's Robert Sheehan and Justin H. Min on their characters' special connection
By Cameron Scheetz July 30, 2020 | 4:30pm
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aux SpongeBob prequel show surfaces at CBS All Access along with the full original series
By Sam Barsanti July 30, 2020 | 4:07pm
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aux A poorly conceived Catwoman offers a disappointingly backwards story
By Caitlin Rosberg July 30, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Time is a flat circle as Neil Young turns old anti-Bush song into anti-Trump song
By Reid McCarter July 30, 2020 | 3:52pm
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aux Watch a trailer for Kajillionaire, Miranda July's first feature in 9 years
By Randall Colburn July 30, 2020 | 3:45pm
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games Why We Love Kero Kero Bonito's "Bugsnax" Song, and More Videogame Anthems
By July 30, 2020 | 3:45pm
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aux Can you turn your favorite movie into an #AmITheAsshole Reddit post?
By Andrew Paul July 30, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux Oh my heavens, we love this compilation of happy Antique Roadshow grandmas
By Reid McCarter July 30, 2020 | 2:33pm
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film Fear is contagious in the eerily timely psychological thriller She Dies Tomorrow
By Katie Rife July 30, 2020 | 1:00pm
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music It’s July (July!), so here’s 60 minutes of picaresque indie rock from The Decemberists
By A.A. Dowd July 30, 2020 | 11:00am
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aux On The Tonight Show, stay-at-home dad Ice-T has no time for your weak-ass COVID skepticism
By Dennis Perkins July 30, 2020 | 10:24am
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tv HBO Max is feeling a bit Frayed
By Allison Shoemaker, Danette Chavez July 30, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. confronts its past as the future starts to collapse
By Alex McLevy July 30, 2020 | 3:00am
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aux Ashley Judd wins appeal to pursue sexual harassment claim against Harvey Weinstein
By William Hughes July 30, 2020 | 2:18am
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aux R.I.P. Malik B., long-time member of The Roots
By William Hughes July 30, 2020 | 12:37am
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music Whitmer Thomas joins us for the funniest House Show yet
By Marah Eakin July 29, 2020 | 11:20pm
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aux Have a look at Brendan Gleeson's Donald Trump in this teaser for Showtime's The Comey Rule
By Randall Colburn July 29, 2020 | 11:04pm
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aux Rina Sawayama dubbed insufficiently "British" to receive the U.K.'s Mercury Prize
By William Hughes July 29, 2020 | 10:45pm
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tv The first few moments of Umbrella Academy's 2nd season promise an explosive return
By Gwen Ihnat July 29, 2020 | 10:00pm
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aux Ryan Reynolds, now $5,000 less rich, celebrates return of Vancouver woman's beloved teddy bear
By Randall Colburn July 29, 2020 | 9:03pm
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aux Strap the fuck in: Ken Burns' entire filmography is getting added to Amazon Prime
By Reid McCarter July 29, 2020 | 8:28pm
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film Galvanizing but ideologically narrow, The Fight is preaching to the choir
By Roxana Hadadi July 29, 2020 | 7:45pm
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tv Miracles are real: Girlfriends, Moesha, and other Black sitcoms are coming to Netflix
By Shannon Miller July 29, 2020 | 7:02pm
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film Blood is a drug in a stylish vampire movie from the director of Bad Lieutenant
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 29, 2020 | 7:00pm
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games Riot Games Will Regret Saudi Arabia's Sponsorship of League of Legends
By Garrett Martin July 29, 2020 | 6:00pm
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aux Succession's Nicholas Braun made an electro-punk song about COVID-19 antibodies—and it rips
By Randall Colburn July 29, 2020 | 5:32pm
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tv OWN’s David Makes Man is a bracing tribute to Blackness and boyhood
By Joshua Alston July 29, 2020 | 5:00pm
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aux Phoebe Bridgers screams for all of us in her new video
By Randall Colburn July 29, 2020 | 4:38pm
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aux Riverdale's Bernadette Beck feels her character is there "to fulfill a diversity quota"
By Shannon Miller July 29, 2020 | 4:38pm
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tv Scooter says he's producing Muppets Now because "no one else wanted the responsibility"
By Marah Eakin July 29, 2020 | 4:30pm
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aux Issa Rae and Jordan Peele team up to produce female identity genre movie Sinkhole
By Britt Hayes July 29, 2020 | 4:17pm
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aux The Zolas is a beautiful critique of the relationship between creator and muse
By M.L. Kejera July 29, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Reasonable Discussions: July 29
By The A.V. Club July 29, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Netflix reveals first look at Ratched, Ryan Murphy's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest fanfic
By Britt Hayes July 29, 2020 | 3:36pm
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aux Woman's obituary used to cement her position as world's foremost Tom Brady hater
By Reid McCarter July 29, 2020 | 3:05pm
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film The engrossing puzzle-box thriller A Girl Missing loses sight of its pieces
By Beatrice Loayza July 29, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux It's July 29, 2020, the day George R.R. Martin said we could imprison him if Winds Of Winter wasn't done
By Randall Colburn July 29, 2020 | 2:30pm
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aux Hideo Kojima invites you to ask him questions for "Hideo Musings"
By Reid McCarter July 29, 2020 | 2:12pm
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tv The Go-Go’s documentary reveals the dark side of the band’s sunny pop
By Gwen Ihnat July 29, 2020 | 1:00pm
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games Deadly Premonition 2 Fails Its Characters, and Thus Itself
By Holly Green July 29, 2020 | 12:05pm
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aux 5 new books to read in August
By Laura Adamczyk, Danette Chavez July 29, 2020 | 11:00am
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aux Trevor Noah mocks Trump for touting "Dr. Demon Sperm" when "Dr. Demon Semen" is right there
By Dennis Perkins July 29, 2020 | 10:26am
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aux This week in Savage Love: Friends in deed
By Dan Savage July 29, 2020 | 7:00am
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tv The Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. inch toward the finish line
By Allison Shoemaker July 29, 2020 | 5:00am
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aux Pokémon Go players spent nearly $20 million this weekend, and no, we have not gone back in time
By Sam Barsanti July 29, 2020 | 2:36am
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aux Universal and AMC Theaters are friends again (sort of)
By Sam Barsanti July 29, 2020 | 1:06am
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aux She Dies Tomorrow director Amy Seimetz files restraining order against ex Shane Carruth
By Sam Barsanti July 29, 2020 | 12:32am
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aux This year's Emmy nominations are at least slightly more diverse than last year
By Sam Barsanti July 28, 2020 | 10:24pm
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aux We give the return of Review's Forrest MacNeil 5 stars
By Randall Colburn July 28, 2020 | 9:07pm
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tv The Mandalorian, Zendaya, Rhea Seehorn, and more surprises and snubs from the Emmy nominations
By Danette Chavez July 28, 2020 | 9:00pm
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aux Lollapalooza to hold 4-night livestream festival this weekend with new and old performances
By Sam Barsanti July 28, 2020 | 8:21pm
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film Summerland is as pretty but one-dimensional as a postcard
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 28, 2020 | 7:50pm
