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As Ready Player One’s Ernest Cline is to outdated pop culture references, Andy Weir is to the science of space. The…
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“Don’t you kids ever get tired of picking through the wreckage of a past generation’s nostalgia?” Ready Player One’s…
7/08/20 5:41PM
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While opinions on the quality of Ernest Cline’s breakout novel Ready Player One have been contentious since the day…
12/07/18 1:00PM
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As usual, there was no shortage of worthy contenders for The A.V. Club’s list of the best movie scenes of the year.…
11/20/18 12:55PM
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After a blockbuster November, during which HBO got the biggest movie of last year (Paddington 2, obv.), things are…
6/28/18 6:00AM
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Conventional wisdom holds that the best movies of any given year tend to arrive sometime between Labor Day and…
4/17/18 2:18PM
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Apparently it pays to be a reliable filmmaker who has directed some of the most critically acclaimed and…
4/06/18 10:18AM
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It was a long time ago, in a universe not so unlike our own, that two men entered the pop-culture firmament with…
4/05/18 11:25AM
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Get ready for a blast of crazy pop-culture nostalgia: Remember when pop culture references weren’t considered a…
4/03/18 2:51PM
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Against all odds, Steven Spielberg made Ready Player One into a pretty good movie, and since it’s also making some…
4/02/18 12:53PM
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Critics like to opine about how Hollywood needs to start taking more risks and nurturing fresh and original ideas,…
3/30/18 2:00PM
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“Garry Shandling made groundbreaking TV comedy by showing the things that are usually left off TV. We take such lack…
3/30/18 1:30PM
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For the first season of their podcast 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back, RiffTrax head honcho Michael J. Nelson and…
3/30/18 11:00AM
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On today’s episode of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to…
3/28/18 12:30PM
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Broadly defined, a set piece is a thriller within a film, a self-contained showstopper-slash-showcase whose success…
3/27/18 9:03PM
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Ready Player One is all about paying homage to the things you love with little regard for what anyone else thinks,…
3/26/18 7:00PM
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Is it possible for a Hollywood blockbuster to look both soulful and soulless, depending on where the light strikes…
3/20/18 10:00AM
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Reddit can be an exceedingly strange place, but many of its strangest corners can be explained as something much…
3/16/18 10:28AM
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If the advance word from SXSW is accurate and Steven Spielberg has created a reminder for grumpy readers that yes,…