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This pandemic has given everyone a lot of time to do things that nobody should ever really have time to do, like…
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Orson Bean, a veteran actor and comedian whose credits ran the gamut from his regular Tonight Show appearances to a…
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Sep 17 2019
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The nobly-named Ansel Elgort and Oakes Fegley play the same guy in The Goldfinch: Theo Decker, who loses his mom in…
May 20 2019
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The time has come for a dragon showdown. Now that they’ve seen everything Drogon has to offer within Game Of Thrones,…
Feb 12 2019
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First they gave us hot, young Dumbledore. Then they teased Batman’s hot, young Alfred Pennyworth. And now, please…
Jul 31 2018
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The Hobbit movies are bad, by any stretch of the imagination. A decade after creating one of the great film epics in…
Feb 23 2018
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This week’s question comes from A.V. Club Editor Sean O’Neal:
Sep 15 2017
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Recently, writer and podcaster Matt Wallace took to Twitter to share a pretty devastating theory that may prove all…
Aug 24 2017
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For lovers of fantasy novels, a good map is a near-essential component of a good book. A map not only provides…
May 10 2016
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When Richard Russo published Everybody’s Fool last week, he joined the club of authors who waited more than a decade…
Nov 20 2015
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The behind-the-scenes featurettes included on DVDs and Blu-rays are usually little more than promotional fluff, an…
Nov 5 2015
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Howdy! Senior writer Jason Heller here. Just wanted to let you know that Fantastique, The A.V. Club’s monthly…
Oct 7 2015
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By virtue of his participation in such projects as Sherlock, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Peter Jackson’s Hobbit tril…
Aug 4 2015
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Bilbo wasn’t kidding about that road going ever on and on. Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy—which already expands a…
Jun 2 2015
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There’s a universe in which The Hobbit trilogy was a single, fun adventure film with thematic and character…
Apr 10 2015
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It should be clear to anyone who’s seen either The Lord Of The Rings or The Hobbit films that the laws of physics…
Feb 13 2015
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Since no inch of geekdom goes unexplored in our modern age, lawyer and author James Daily runs a website called Law…
Jan 20 2015
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Scarcely a month after the release of The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, someone has recut the nearly…
Jan 5 2015
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It’s not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole.…