Created by and starring real-life best friends Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson, Comedy Central’s Detroiters follows a pair of small-time ad men trying to make it in the Motor City. The second season, which wraps up August 16, saw Sam and Tim get into hijinks all around the city: They met Detroit hero and legendary…
With the third season of HBO’s animated series Animals just around the corner, The A.V. Club jumped into a swan boat on Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles with creators Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano to talk about the upcoming slate of episodes. While on the water, we got Matarese and Luciano to list their five favorite…
Writer-director Vaughn Stein and actor Simon Pegg collaborated on a new noir thriller Terminal, an interconnected tale of crime, revenge, and murder, set against the backdrop of a sprawling metropolis. In honor of their new film, we asked the pair to list their personal favorite cinematic demises, which include deaths…
Jim O’Heir is most recognizable as parks department punching bag, and eventual mayor for the city of Pawnee, Garry “Jerry” Gergich on Parks And Recreation. Given that Gergich is a perennial screwup, we had O’Heir come up with five famous Jerrys or Garys that aren’t the absolute worst.
After wrapping up his turn as the sociopathic Lee Russell on HBO’s Vice Principals, Walton Goggins has spent 2018 taking on a couple villainous roles—Vogel in the rebooted Tomb Raider film and Sonny Burch in Ant Man And The Wasp. He’s also had more time to focus on Mulholland Distilling, a spirits company based out of…
Kulap Vilaysack made her mark in comedy with scene-stealing guest spots on Parks And Recreation, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and Happy Endings, and by creating the Seeso (RIP) original comedy Bajillion Dollar Propertie$. Her latest project, Origin Story, is a feature-length, autobiographical documentary in which she embarks…
Reggie Watts is a performer that defies categorization. He’s an actor, comedian, game-show host, late-night band leader, improvisational musician, and now, electro-pop star. Earlier this year, Watts dropped Casual High Technology, the debut album from his collaborative side project Wajatta with DJ and producer John…
The A.V. Club caught up with Beach Slang frontman James Alex and his tour manager, Charlie Lowe, to talk about the band’s favorite songs to cover live, a list that includes entries from The Plimsouls, The Modern Lovers, and The Replacements.
In the midst of a couple reunion shows, Rachel Haden, Tony Maxwell, and Anna Waronker, better known as That Dog, talked to us about their favorite guilty pleasure TV shows, from The Bachelor to Law & Order: SVU.
In the midst of touring the country, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno took time off to talk to us about their favorite 5 pieces of pop culture set in L.A., from The Hills to Adventures in Hollywood.
Filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour is Saudi Arabia’s first female director. Her feature film debut, 2012’s Wadjda, received critical acclaim and became the country’s first official Oscar submission (for Best Foreign Language Film) although it wasn’t nominated. Now al-Mansour’s following up her debut with Mary Shelley, the…
USA’s dystopian sci-fi series Colony is officially in its third season, and the Bowmans and their allies are in a world of trouble beyond the walls of the Los Angeles bloc. In honor of the new season, we spoke with Tory Kittles and Alex Neustaedter to find out their favorite alien stories from pop culture. The list…
USA’s dystopian sci-fi series Colony returns tonight for its third season with the Bowmans and their allies fending off the mysterious Hosts, the (alien?) forces that control humanity. In honor of the new season, we spoke with stars Sarah Wayne Callies and Josh Holloway to find out their favorite aliens from pop…
Hank Azaria is one of the most versatile voice actors working today, having lent his voice to Eddie Brock from the ’90s Spider-Man cartoon, Zoidberg’s uncle from Futurama, and, of course, dozens of characters (most controversially, Apu) from The Simpsons. In honor of his show, Brockmire, which he stars in and…
Steven Pinker is a psychologist, linguist, and author whose new book, Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, And Progress, attempts to ease your general feelings of despair by using science to prove that things in the world are generally getting better. We had Pinker recommend five books about…
With over 20 years of marriage and a dozen films together, it’s clear that William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman work as well on screen as they do off it. For their new project, Macy directs and co-stars with Huffman in the coming-of-age film Krystal. In the video above, we had Macy and Huffman talk about their…
CBS’ Mom, which recently celebrated its 100th episode, is reliably chugging along thanks in no small part to the combined strengths of its leads, Allison Janney and Anna Faris. We asked the pair, as well as their Mom castmates, to rank history’s greatest TV moms.
Shaggy’s new collaboration with Sting, 44/876, is out later this month, marking his return to music after almost a decade away. We asked Shaggy to give us his all-time favorite reggae tracks, which include songs from Yellowman, Gregory Isaacs, and Bob Marley.
Katie Couric’s new documentary series, America Inside Out With Katie Couric, is hoping to bridge the growing political divide in the United States by traveling across the country, interviewing people about divisive issues, and trying to find common ground. In honor of the new documentary, we asked Couric to list her…
Loosely based on writer-director Nijla Mu’min’s upbringing in Oakland, the new film Jinn follows Summer, a carefree 17-year-old black girl (Zoe Renee), whose world changes when her mother (Luke Cage’s Simone Missick) suddenly converts to Islam. At the SXSW premiere of the film, we asked Mu’min and the Jinn cast to…
