Splatter films aren’t alone in having reached a point where filmmakers seem content to serve up the vague rudiments of a story, relying on viewers’ recognition of the tropes and disintere...
Sometime between when The Dismemberment Plan broke up and got back together, frontman Travis Morrison formed his own band, The Hellfighters. They released a full length on Barsuk in 2007, All Y’...
Last month, erstwhile 90s R&B staple Brian McKnight made a partly spiteful, wholly spit-take-inducing bid for renewed relevancy by previewing a song from a proposed "adult mix-tape" infor...
Most television viewing comes down to validation. The person tuning into a particular program often judges a program not necessarily on its quality but rather by their own relationship to the onscree...
Seeking to capitalize on the public clamoring for more pirate projects that is ostensibly happening, Warner Bros. has hired Guy Ritchie to direct a new version of Treasure Island, a project its been ...
As there is no more room in celebrity hell, the celebrity dead continue to walk the earth in hologram form—a resurrection made possible by recent, Tupac.0-heralded advancements in technology an...
“Episode 1-1” (season 1, episode 1; originally aired 1/22/2003) In which the show finds itself nearly cancelled before it even starts… It’s hard to imagine a television landsc...
Thanks to Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn continues to be one of the most talked-about-without-actually- attempting-to-say-his-name-out -loud-to-avoid-potential-embar rassment directors around, and now he m...
There are mash-ups that are meh, mash-ups that are fun, and then there are mash-ups that make you forget that this mash-up business is kind of getting tired and your head explodes in a cloud of joyou...
Having poached nearly every deceased Walking Dead character he could get his hands on—at least until Carl and Lori burn to death in the season premiere of our dreams—Frank Darabont is mov...
Moody British group The xx will follow up its highly acclaimed 2009 self-titled debut with a new album, Coexist, that will be released on Sept. 11. The record is produced by band member Jamie Smith, ...
Confirming what many have long suspected but didnt want to say anything because its not really their place, DC Comics has officially revealed that the Green Lantern is gay now, a change made as part ...
Noel Murray: We begin with an ending. And why wouldn’t we? Because in Joss Whedon’s universe, nearly everyone has a past to reckon with. There are months/years/centuries/millenn ia of hist...
Behold, the return of Amelie Gillette, a.k.a. The Hater, for a two-part Hatecast special. Joining Amelie is Hatecast all-star and Community writer Megan Ganz, and the two get right back into it as if...
Instantly saving the Madagascar 3 press junket from being a veritable trail of tears, Chris Rock paused from an interview with Hollywood.com to take a cell phone call from Jerry Seinfeld, thus inadve...
One of two houses that was used as the Eatenton residence in Steel Magnolias is for sale. For a mere $1.75 million, some southern belle with a passion for big hair and shooting birds out of trees can...
"The Gathering" (pilot movie; originally aired 2/22/93, TNT edit aired 1/4/98) If this is your first time watching Babylon 5, don’t start with the pilot. I’ve been a fan of Babylo...
We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club, and a lot of it’s too good to ignore. In Playlisted, we spotlight new music that’s slightly off the beaten path. Album: ...
ParametersCreator: Yoshio Ishii for NekoGames Platform: Browser Price: Free Half the fun of Parameters—the addictive new game from Japanese browser game genius Yoshio Ishii—is figuring ou...
No, we’re not getting into the original-comedy business like our siblings over at The Onion. At The A.V. Club, we do a fair amount of interviews and other articles related to comedy world, but ...
Rob Delaney had been a comedian for about six years when he created a Twitter account, but tweeting opened up a new world for him. Within two years, he was doing comedy full time, and now, four years...
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarra...
The A.V. Club has a smattering of local sites, and every day, writers in these locales are posting about music, films, and other events and news happening in their cities. Whether you live ...
As Game Of Thrones entered its second season, the biggest challenge facing the show was how to tell a story that spanned two continents and something like nine separate geographical locations in any ...
QUOTES OF THE WEEK “It sounds like Paddington Bear’s gay cousin.”—Sklarbro Country on Benedict Cumberbatch’s hopelessly British name “I’m a little much.̶...
“Honor Thy Marshal” is Eagleheart’s version of “Newsreaders,” a stellar episode of Childrens Hospital that turns the medical soap opera send-up into a Behind the Music-s...
In hopes that America’s appetite for beard-oriented entertainment has not been sated by three successive nights of Hatfields & McCoys—and presumably having run out of swamp people wil...
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I’m familiar with all of the ins and outs of the world of ballet, but as the father of a six-year-old daughter who’s preparing to embark on her f...
Disney has selected the man to replace the ousted Rich Ross (whose names superficial resemblance to rapper Rick Ross and all attendant bawse jokes were already covered here), with the studio picking ...
Capping off a day of writers being rewarded for their original achievements with shopworn nostalgia properties and Lionsgate approaching its films with the same strategies employed by chain restauran...
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