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tv Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: August 12 - 14
By AV Club Staff August 14, 2016 | 5:28am
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aux 1996 saw the capture of one of America’s most notorious domestic terrorists
By Mike Vago August 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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tv The long, dark process of creating HBO’s The Night Of
By Will Harris August 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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tv Olympics and AMC talk shows are on—if anything can be said to be “on”
By Les Chappell August 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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aux The South Park guys blast into VR with a system that lets you smell farts
By William Hughes August 13, 2016 | 9:58pm
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aux Steven Universe writer gets hounded from Twitter by fans
By William Hughes August 13, 2016 | 9:14pm
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aux Read This: Edgar Wright live-tweeted Scott Pilgrim last night
By William Hughes August 13, 2016 | 8:20pm
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tv BoJack Horseman ties up its third season and runs toward an uncertain future
By Les Chappell August 13, 2016 | 8:00pm
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aux Bon Iver releases two songs off its just-announced new album
By William Hughes August 13, 2016 | 7:08pm
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aux R.I.P. Star Wars’ Kenny Baker
By William Hughes August 13, 2016 | 6:22pm
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film Hell Or High Water director David Mackenzie on making movies fast and loose
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 13, 2016 | 5:00am
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aux The Spice Girls were as much merchandising scheme as girl group
By Alex McLevy August 13, 2016 | 5:00am
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music Music from Moog to Muncie Girls
By Sean O'Neal, Kelsey J. Waite, Kyle Ryan August 13, 2016 | 5:00am
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tv Outcast moves onward and outward, but the evil remains
By Kyle Fowle August 13, 2016 | 3:01am
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aux Fake Joe Biden would be so fucking bummed by real Joe Biden’s summer playlist
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 11:17pm
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tv Steven Universe gets to “Know Your Fusion”
By Eric Thurm August 12, 2016 | 11:15pm
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aux Beer snobs smugger than ever as bad harvest affects pumpkin beer production
By Katie Rife August 12, 2016 | 10:37pm
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aux Michelle MacLaren to make her big-screen directorial debut, again
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 9:50pm
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aux Livestream the Power Morphicon convention this Sunday on Shout! Factory TV
By Mike Vanderbilt August 12, 2016 | 9:33pm
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aux Judge overturns conviction of Making A Murderer’s Brendan Dassey
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 9:05pm
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aux Read This: An under-the-hood look at the production of 1986’s Transformers
By Mike Vanderbilt August 12, 2016 | 8:30pm
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tv Like Vinyl before it, The Get Down’s first episode gets distracted by the wrong story
By Dan Caffrey August 12, 2016 | 8:22pm
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aux Woman recreates Misery, screams, “What kind of cockadoodie bookstore is this?”
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 8:18pm
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aux A DMX supercut catalogs Seinfeld’s many, many fictional girlfriends
By Joe Blevins August 12, 2016 | 8:00pm
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aux Here’s what U.S. Olympians looked like at their first Olympics
By Caroline Siede August 12, 2016 | 7:45pm
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aux Listen to Chesney Hawkes’ Warcraft-inspired “One And Only”
By Rob Dean August 12, 2016 | 7:30pm
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aux Jerry Seinfeld turned down a live Seinfeld reunion show
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 7:25pm
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aux Alia Shawkat to play Hamilton in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Drunk History
By Esther Zuckerman August 12, 2016 | 7:20pm
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aux Read This: In 2002, Black People Love Us artfully spoofed racial cluelessness
By Joe Blevins August 12, 2016 | 7:15pm
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music “El Scorcho” bridged the gap between Weezer’s Blue and Pink(erton) periods
By Danette Chavez August 12, 2016 | 7:00pm
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aux Starfire catches an alien flu in a Teen Titans Go! #17 exclusive
By Oliver Sava August 12, 2016 | 7:00pm
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tv Win The Walking Dead seasons 1-6 on Blu-ray
By Danette Chavez August 12, 2016 | 6:53pm
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aux Leslie Jones and Matthew McConaughey had an Olympics hang
By Esther Zuckerman August 12, 2016 | 6:45pm
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aux Thomas Gibson has been fired from Criminal Minds
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 6:32pm
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aux Fly through 50 years of comic-book films in just three minutes
By Rob Dean August 12, 2016 | 6:30pm
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aux Kirsten Dunst reminds the internet that her Suicide movie was here first
By Joe Blevins August 12, 2016 | 6:15pm
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aux Florence And The Machine release 3 songs from the upcoming Final Fantasy XV
By Dennis DiClaudio August 12, 2016 | 6:07pm
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games Lakitu, Navi, and Nintendo’s knack for bringing innovation to life
By Matt Gerardi August 12, 2016 | 6:00pm
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film At summer’s end, some movies that don’t suck
By A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 12, 2016 | 5:54pm
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aux The CW passes on gritty reboots of Friday The 13th and Little Women
By Mike Vanderbilt August 12, 2016 | 5:42pm
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aux Limp Bizkit debuts black metal logo to attract whole new group of weirdos
By Katie Rife August 12, 2016 | 5:29pm
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tv Meet your friendly neighborhood weed man in HBO’s new High Maintenance trailer
By Rob Dean August 12, 2016 | 5:23pm
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film Eddie Murphy rebrands himself as a wise old chef in the Mr. Church trailer
By Dennis DiClaudio August 12, 2016 | 5:03pm
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aux Read This: Twitter has been failing its users for a decade by enabling harassment
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 12, 2016 | 5:00pm
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aux Leonard Cohen announces his 14th studio album, You Want It Darker
By Dennis DiClaudio August 12, 2016 | 4:48pm
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film Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard look hot, fight Nazis in the Allied teaser
By Esther Zuckerman August 12, 2016 | 4:40pm
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aux Werner Herzog analyzes Kanye’s “Famous” video while staring into the abyss
By Rob Dean August 12, 2016 | 4:30pm
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aux Syfy hires Grant Morrison and Crank’s Brian Taylor to adapt Brave New World
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 12, 2016 | 4:26pm
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aux Good news, nerds: All that book reading may help you live longer
By Alex McLevy August 12, 2016 | 4:07pm
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aux Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and a bunch of British comedians got their start on an obscure TV show
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 12, 2016 | 4:00pm
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aux Celebrities line up to kiss Simone Biles’ ass after her gold medal win
By Esther Zuckerman August 12, 2016 | 3:56pm
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games Ubisoft Introduces the Nosulus Rift, a Fart-Smelling VR Platform for South Park: The Fractured But Whole
By Kyle McKenney August 12, 2016 | 3:55pm
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games Red Bull Proving Grounds Offers Anyone a Chance to Compete in the Street Fighter V Pro Tour
By Kyle McKenney August 12, 2016 | 3:19pm
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aux Game Of Thrones’ Rose Leslie will be Haunted in Henry James adaptation
By Danette Chavez August 12, 2016 | 3:08pm
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tv X2 and Mr Potato Head: Here’s what’s on sale on Amazon today
By Marah Eakin August 12, 2016 | 3:00pm
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games The Most Interesting Cards In Magic: Eldritch Moon
By Cameron Kunzelman August 12, 2016 | 3:00pm
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aux Read This: #FeministAMovie catches Twitter at its worst
By Joe Blevins August 12, 2016 | 3:00pm
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games Games Workshop Gets Smart With the Battle For Vedros Warhammer 40,000 Starter Set
By Ian Williams August 12, 2016 | 2:15pm
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aux Here’s a salute to race walking, the weirdest Olympic sport of all
By Sam Barsanti August 12, 2016 | 2:00pm
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music On Fishing Blues, Atmosphere has crafted its most (cautiously) optimistic album yet
By Dan Caffrey August 12, 2016 | 2:00pm
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aux In its new video, Kitty Kat Fan Club proves “You Can Sleep On Top Of Anything”
By David Anthony August 12, 2016 | 1:45pm
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aux Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are officially Bad Boys For Life
By Danette Chavez August 12, 2016 | 1:41pm
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aux Watch all of Stanley Kubrick’s favorite movies get paired with the posters they inspired
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 1:00pm
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music Of Montreal’s latest is a deft balancing act
By David Brusie August 12, 2016 | 1:00pm
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aux There’s been some criminal behavior on the Criminal Minds set lately
By Danette Chavez August 12, 2016 | 12:00pm
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aux Jezebel solves Titanic’s biggest, sexiest mystery
By Marah Eakin August 12, 2016 | 12:00pm
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games Game Publisher THQ is Back (Sort of)
By Kyle McKenney August 12, 2016 | 10:10am
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games Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition turns a classic into unplayable madness
By Matt Gerardi August 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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tv Beautiful, boring hip-hop drama The Get Down tests the limits of binge-watching
By Joshua Alston August 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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tv The Great British Baking Show crowns a winner, possibly with a cake-crown
By Dennis Perkins August 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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aux John Lewis’ March is an essential read in a turbulent political climate
By Oliver Sava August 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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film John Rambo makes his dramatic entrance in First Blood
By Tom Breihan August 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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music Rhea Butcher on the depressing reason she hates Magic’s sexist “Rude”
By Marah Eakin August 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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tv What’s your favorite pop culture from 1996?
By Jesse Hassenger, Nathan Rabin, Will Feinstein, Laura Adamczyk, Kyle Ryan, Annie Zaleski, Gwen Ihnat, Joe Blevins, Zack Handlen, David Anthony, Becca James, Erik Adams, Alex McLevy, Sean O'Neal, William Hughes, Matt Gerardi, Dennis Perkins August 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Darth Vader crashes the Olympics with the new trailer for Rogue One
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 2:49am
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aux TBS is turning James Corden’s celebrity rap battle bit into a show
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 1:10am
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aux Lucasfilm reportedly thinks it can somehow cast a young Lando Calrissian
By Sam Barsanti August 12, 2016 | 12:55am
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aux NBC’s 2016 Olympics broadcast is the lowest-rated in years
By William Hughes August 12, 2016 | 12:00am
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tv Steven Universe and Peridot hunt their Road Runner
By Eric Thurm August 11, 2016 | 11:15pm
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aux Kevin Hart’s shitty rapper alter ego is releasing an album
By William Hughes August 11, 2016 | 11:06pm
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aux Netflix defends its decision to throw all that money at Adam Sandler
By Sam Barsanti August 11, 2016 | 11:00pm
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aux Stephen Colbert will probably host an election night special on Showtime
By Esther Zuckerman August 11, 2016 | 10:42pm
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aux Amazon picks up Hugh Hefner doc, slips into something more comfortable
By Alex McLevy August 11, 2016 | 10:23pm
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aux Nickelodeon is making a Rocko’s Modern Life TV movie
By Sam Barsanti August 11, 2016 | 10:00pm
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aux The Rock admits that the Fast 8 cast is one big, happy, candy-assed family
By William Hughes August 11, 2016 | 9:59pm
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aux Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah rebound from SNL with new Showtime gigs
By Esther Zuckerman August 11, 2016 | 9:55pm
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aux Showtime renews Ray Donovan and Homeland, sets Billions premiere
By Danette Chavez August 11, 2016 | 9:35pm
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aux Michael K. Williams wants to play Black Manta, because Aquaman’s gotta have a code
By Sam Barsanti August 11, 2016 | 9:01pm
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aux A pocket history of the French badass who inspired Sherlock Holmes
By Joe Blevins August 11, 2016 | 8:40pm
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aux The CW’s superhero shows are getting Dolph Lundgren and a musical episode
By Sam Barsanti August 11, 2016 | 8:23pm
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aux Jennifer Lynch to direct horror flick about a killer Halloween theme park
By Dennis DiClaudio August 11, 2016 | 8:00pm
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tv BoJack and Sarah Lynn go on an epic bender, and they bend until they break
By Les Chappell August 11, 2016 | 8:00pm
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aux No Green Lantern-style origin story for the Captain Marvel movie, wonder why
By Alex McLevy August 11, 2016 | 7:49pm
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aux The toaster of tomorrow has arrived, and it can print emoji on bread
By Joe Blevins August 11, 2016 | 7:35pm
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aux Joel McHale got Chevy Chase’s blessing to play him in the National Lampoon movie
By Dennis DiClaudio August 11, 2016 | 7:16pm
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aux John Green has some Olympic trivia he’d like to share with the class
By Joe Blevins August 11, 2016 | 7:00pm
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aux Greg Berlanti developing first animated DC superhero series with a gay lead
By Danette Chavez August 11, 2016 | 6:54pm
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aux #MakeAmericaBrannigan: The Futurama hero recites Trump’s best words
By Rob Dean August 11, 2016 | 6:35pm
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aux Margot Robbie says there was good reason for cutting Jared Leto’s Joker scenes
By Dennis DiClaudio August 11, 2016 | 6:13pm
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tv In his Summer Election Special 2016, Triumph is the satirist we deserve right now
By Dennis Perkins August 11, 2016 | 6:05pm
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music Stone Temple Pilots got weirder and better than anyone gives them credit for
By Alex McLevy August 11, 2016 | 6:00pm
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aux This Buster Bluth makeup tutorial deserves some nervous crying
By Joe Blevins August 11, 2016 | 6:00pm
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aux Read This: Mad’s violent Spy Vs. Spy was born of real-life Cold War paranoia
By Joe Blevins August 11, 2016 | 5:30pm
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tv Masters Of Sex breaks it off in the season 4 trailer
By Alex McLevy August 11, 2016 | 5:15pm
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aux Fans reimagine and pay tribute to Akira using CG animation
By Rob Dean August 11, 2016 | 5:00pm
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film Nerf and Machete: Here’s what’s on sale on Amazon today
By Marah Eakin August 11, 2016 | 5:00pm
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aux Green Day announces new album coming this October, streams first song
By David Anthony August 11, 2016 | 4:39pm
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aux Let’s all rejoice: Leslie Jones has landed in Rio
By Esther Zuckerman August 11, 2016 | 4:30pm
