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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
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aux Star Wars gets the Bad Lip Reading treatment with help from celebs
By Rob Dean December 17, 2015 | 9:00pm
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aux Disneyland and Disney World ban all Star Wars blasters
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2015 | 8:52pm
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aux Pizza Hut has its own, ill-advised “hip” clothing line now
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2015 | 8:28pm
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aux Now live: The Serial Serial, “19 Days In Shit Pants”
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2015 | 8:27pm
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aux MRA Dilbert says what Scott Adams is actually thinking
By Rob Dean December 17, 2015 | 8:23pm
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film Hugh Jackman takes Taron Egerton under his wing in the Eddie The Eagle trailer
By Danette Chavez December 17, 2015 | 8:13pm
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aux J.J. Abrams points out that Star Trek Into Darkness could’ve been worse
By Victor Beigelman December 17, 2015 | 7:50pm
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aux Home Alone’s Kevin McCallister has grown into a bitter, maladjusted adult
By Joe Blevins December 17, 2015 | 7:41pm
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music John Darnielle promises that we can all make it through “This Year”
By William Hughes December 17, 2015 | 7:00pm
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film A musicologist goes off the grid in the melancholy Song From The Forest
By Noel Murray December 17, 2015 | 7:00pm
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film Tina Fey bumbles through Afghanistan in the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot trailer
By Matt Wayt December 17, 2015 | 7:00pm
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aux Raise questions about yourself and the world around you with a Wookiee sex line
By Rob Dean December 17, 2015 | 6:58pm
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aux Sharon Stone to play a Hollywood agent in The Disaster Artist
By Danette Chavez December 17, 2015 | 6:40pm
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aux Star Wars’ BB-8 gets his own redemptive, Behind The Music-style special
By Joe Blevins December 17, 2015 | 6:13pm
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aux Exclusive Marvel preview: Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! pounces into a new solo series
By Oliver Sava December 17, 2015 | 5:30pm
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aux Oh, Hello’s Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland stopped by Seth Meyers
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2015 | 5:00pm
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film Tom Courtenay and Andrew Haigh on monogamy, religion, and 45 Years
By Sam Fragoso December 17, 2015 | 5:00pm
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aux Netflix’s Fuller House will open its doors in February
By Danette Chavez December 17, 2015 | 4:00pm
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tv Starbuck leaves home to find it on Battlestar Galactica
By Zack Handlen December 17, 2015 | 4:00pm
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tv Power and responsibility fuel Jessica Jones as it becomes a revenge fantasy
By Oliver Sava December 17, 2015 | 4:00pm
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aux The live-action Little Mermaid movie snags a new director
By Danette Chavez December 17, 2015 | 3:30pm
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games Wintry mix: 12 video game songs in the spirit of the season
By Nick Wanserski, Zack Handlen, Anthony John Agnello, Derrick Sanskrit, William Hughes, Matt Gerardi, Patrick Lee December 17, 2015 | 3:00pm
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aux Of course, the International Space Station will screen The Force Awakens
By Danette Chavez December 17, 2015 | 2:30pm
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aux Celebrate 10 years of “Lazy Sunday” with this brony-friendly tribute
By Joe Blevins December 17, 2015 | 2:02pm
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tv A music supervisor’s “treasure hunt” found the ’70s tunes of Fargo season 2
By Joshua Alston December 17, 2015 | 2:00pm
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games The 10 Best StarCraft Characters
By Suriel Vazquez December 17, 2015 | 11:00am
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aux Power-pop justice is served as Cheap Trick enters the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall Of Fame
By Mike Vanderbilt December 17, 2015 | 9:44am
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tv On American Horror Story: Hotel, time is running out
By Emily L. Stephens December 17, 2015 | 7:04am
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film The Chipmunks go somewhere cheap for The Road Chip
By Jesse Hassenger December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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film Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s chemistry gives Sisters a reason to exist
By Katie Rife December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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film The low-budget Bruce Willis actioner Extraction is enjoyably crummy
By Noel Murray December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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aux The year in swag 2015: A video showcase, part 2
By John Teti, Josh Modell December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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film The urgent Son Of Saul is a Holocaust drama like no other
By A.A. Dowd December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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film The Rocky series became a Stallone biography with a great new ending
By Jesse Hassenger December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Sheldon finally has his first Big Bang (Theory)
By Caroline Siede December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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film The 20 best films of 2015
By A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Katie Rife, Nick Schager, Adam Nayman, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Noel Murray, Jesse Hassenger December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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film The best of film 2015: The ballots
By A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Katie Rife, Nick Schager, Adam Nayman, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Noel Murray, Jesse Hassenger December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Disney created an inviting Santa-centered universe in the Prep & Landing specials
By Noel Murray December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv KISS Army AWOL case file #51: KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park
By Nathan Rabin December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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tv Survivor caps off a great season by crowning a satisfying winner
By Carrie Raisler December 17, 2015 | 4:38am
