Titanic All of Harry Burns' sweaters and sports coats in When Harry Met Sally have finally been rankedThe A.V. Club - Shannon MillerAlmost 30 years after its release, a vital character within When Harry Met Sally is getting the attention it deserves: Harry Burns’ fashion. GQ recently took the time to rank every single one of his outfit
Music 5 new releases we love: A luminous rap record, a rejuvenating prelude to summer, and moreThe A.V. Club - Kelsey J. Waite, Katie Rife, Randall Colburn, and Clayton PurdomPivot GangPhoto: Michael SalisburyThere’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your
Energy End the week meditating on the energy of these smug, blanket-destroying dogsThe A.V. Club - Reid McCarterIt’s possible to get away with just about anything if you’re cute enough. Take, for example, the dog who chewed through a blanket belonging to The Washington Post’s Mary Beth Albright only to be rewarded
Movies Composer Disasterpeace on video games, It Follows, and Under The Silver LakeThe A.V. Club - Baraka Kaseko and Marah EakinChiptune composer Richard Vreeland, a.k.a. Disasterpeace, got his start making music for dozens of indie video games, like Fez and Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake. He’s recently made the jump to composing
Lizzo Lizzo loves herself, and learns to love somebody else, on the empowered yet tender Cuz I Love YouThe A.V. Club - Katie RifePhoto: Atlantic RecordsCuz I Love YouBCuz I Love YouBBCuz I Love YouArtistLizzoLabelAtlantic RecordsThree years after breaking into the popular consciousness (if not the Billboard charts) with “Good As
Super Mario Boy howdy, here's a goldarn bluegrass cover of Super Mario World's "Athletic Theme"The A.V. Club - Reid McCarterIn the most unexpected country crossover since LL Cool J and Brad Paisley joined forces to solve racism, the banjo-pickin’, fiddle-playin’ boys of Nashville’s The Hit Points have covered Super Mario World’s
Ava DuVernay Ava DuVernay's Central Park Five Netflix series gets a searing new trailerThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnIn 1989, a group of Harlem teenagers were coerced into confessing to the rape and assault of a Central Park jogger, serving years in prison before being retroactively exonerated. The response to the incident
Chris Hemsworth It's okay, Chris Hemsworth felt "underwhelmed" by pre-Ragnarok Thor, tooThe A.V. Club - Shannon MillerChris Hemsworth has never shied away from honest critique of his own work, and his turn as the God Of Thunder has never been immune to his brand of thoughtful candor. In fact, during an interview with
R.I.P. Lorraine Warren, author and paranormal investigatorThe A.V. Club - Randall Colburn Lorraine Warren, the chronicler of supernatural and psychic phenomena whose work inspired The Conjuring franchise, has died. Her son-in-law, Tony Spera, confirmed the news to Patch. She was 92.Read more...
Internet Enjoy this soul-warming story of the internet helping a man reunite with his stolen pet ratThe A.V. Club - Alani VargasAnimals, they’re (almost) always at our sides ready to give unconditional love at every turn. So when things happen to these dearest beasts, a part of you might get lost. Well, for a homeless man in Australia,
Movies Baby Groot briefly transforms the Galaxy (and the Marvel action machine) into one big dance floorThe A.V. Club - A.A. DowdLike lots of superhero sequels, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 basically begins with a flurry of action. The Guardians, those mismatched intergalactic goofballs for hire, have gathered on a giant helipad
Kill Bill R.I.P. Lone Wolf And Cub creator Kazuo KoikeThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnManga legend Kazuo Koike has died after a struggle with pneumonia, according to a post on the author’s Twitter account. The influential Lone Wolf And Cub and Lady Snowblood creator creator was 82. Read
Taylor Swift Now that our brains are completely broken, here's Taylor Swift outfits as Mueller report redactionsThe A.V. Club - Reid McCarterNow that the Mueller report is publicly available and America has collectively agreed that everything about its process was completely fine and Donald Trump is now a good president, the nation has had
Gina Rodriguez Gina Rodriguez is on the rebound in the hilarious but rushed Someone GreatThe A.V. Club - Kayla Kumari UpadhyayaNetflix is doing the work to inject life back into the rom-com genre, and its latest effort in that field is Someone Great, an NYC-set heartbreak story written and directed by Sweet/Vicious creator Jennifer
Game of Thrones "Game Of (Leslie) Jones" is how we should all be watching Game Of ThronesThe A.V. Club - Shannon MillerThere are certain people with whom you simply can’t watch Game Of Thrones. And then there’s Leslie Jones and her spot-on dragon impressions. Equipped with ribs and love for Arya Stark, Jones joined Seth
Justin Bieber Lil Dicky recruits Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, every other famous person for Earth Day jamThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnViral rapper Lil Dicky has created this generation’s “We Are The World,” corralling roughly 30 artists for an Earth Day single that raises money for charity while taking the crown for the year’s most stupid
Movies Our new column on Hollywood hits launches with Stanley Kubrick’s gladiatorial smash SpartacusThe A.V. Club - Tom BreihanKirk Douglas wanted to be Judah Ben-Hur. At the time it came out, William Wyler’s Ben-Hur was the most expensive movie ever made. It was a huge, overwhelming production, cast with thousands of extras filmed
Stephen Colbert After a speed-read, Stephen Colbert gives his extended take on the Mueller reportThe A.V. Club - Dennis PerkinsThe Late Show tapes around five in the afternoon, so that gave Stephen Colbert and his staff (who one can only hope got at least an office pizza party) just six or so hours to obtain, read, and somehow
TV An erratic The Orville proves poor decisions aren't just for the youngThe A.V. Club - Nick WanserskiTV ReviewsAll of our TV reviews in one convenient place. If you read Savage Love or any other progressive, sex-positive advice column, you’ll occasionally come across comments from people who worry that
TV Ramy Youssef leads a thoughtful sitcom about clashing cultural values in RamyThe A.V. Club - Maggie Donahue Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20. All times are Eastern. Read more...
Johnny Depp Johnny Depp now being accused of trying to get Amber Heard kicked off of AquamanThe A.V. Club - William HughesWhen you spend enough time trawling through the loose garbage pile of rotting fish heads, angry former associates, and just general, all-purpose dirt-baggery that is the carny-heavy legal circus eternally
TV Sorry, Greyjoys: Game Of Thrones is still the piracy kingThe A.V. Club - William HughesWhile the various and assorted Greyjoys of the Iron Islands are the undisputed masters of piracy within the Game Of Thrones universe, they’ve never been able to hold a candle to the swashbuckling digital
TV Star Trek: Discovery looks to the future in an explosive finaleThe A.V. Club - Zack HandlenStar Trek: Discovery’s second season has been stronger than its first. The storytelling has been more cohesive; it’s arguably less surprising than the first season’s whiplash transitions between the Klingon
MoviePass MoviePass reportedly lost a ludicrous 90 percent of subscribers over the last 12 monthsThe A.V. Club - William HughesAs pop culture journalists—and not, say, medical school textbook authors, those high-flying hotshots of the written word—we really don’t get enough opportunities to use the word “hemorrhage” in our day-to-day
TV A clever Christmas Twilight Zone explains the effectiveness of “fake news"The A.V. Club - Noel MurrayThe first three episodes of the new Twilight Zone have all seen writers and directors wrestling with the legacy of Rod Serling’s original series, trying to figure out how to make a science-fiction anthology
Demi Moore Demi Moore to release "deeply candid and insightful" memoir later this yearThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiIf you’re a dedicated Demi Moore fan who has been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to read her memoir for the past decade or so, Page Six says you’ll finally be getting that chance later this year.
Nintendo What does the perfect video game controller look like?The A.V. Club - Dan NeilanIn the 40+ years since video game consoles first started appearing in people’s homes, video game controllers have gone through numerous, branching evolutions. Each of the major companies seems to have
Sundance This trailer for Sundance horror hit The Lodge plays out a bit like The Shining in miniatureThe A.V. Club - William HughesHere’s a nice little dose of later-afternoon nastiness for all you horror movie fans out there: The new trailer for Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s upcoming release The Lodge, about a young woman named
HBO HBO grits its teeth, responds to Trump's latest use of Game Of Thrones imageryThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiToday, a redacted version of the Mueller Report was released, granting lawmakers and the public a chance to finally see what the Trump administration itself believes is bland and inoffensive enough to
Stephen King Her Smell's Alex Ross Perry would also like to adapt a Stephen King storyThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnAfter Paramount’s Pet Sematary took Stephen King’s eviscerating classic in a bold (and disappointing) new direction, prolific writer, actor, and director Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip, Queen Of Earth)
