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Tom Bradley Jr.
2 days ago
"Oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI, forget it." As if you needed another reason to love the immortal
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Patron saint of integrity, "Weird Al" Yankovic declined "a nice pile of money" to star in AI ad
Patron saint of integrity, "Weird Al" Yankovic declined "a nice pile of money" to star in AI ad
https://www.avclub.com/weird-al-yankovic-ai-commercial-exit
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Erik Adams
5 days ago
On this, the Mel Brooks centennial, allow
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and I to say comedy… now more than ever!
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Crosstalk: Is 2026 the start of a comedy comeback?
Crosstalk: Is 2026 the start of a comedy comeback?
https://www.avclub.com/crosstalk-best-of-2026-so-far-state-of-comedy
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Danette Chavez
6 days ago
We're nearing the end of
@avclub.com
's best-so-far week, but we couldn't close things out without this look at the state of comedies by
@erikadams.bsky.social
and
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
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Jacob Oller
7 days ago
Another objectively true best-of list from me and your pals at The A.V. Club
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The best films of 2026 so far
The best films of 2026 so far include scrappy horror hits, ambitious first films, surreal daydreams, and at least one bicycle fight.
https://www.avclub.com/best-films-2026-so-far
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The A.V. Club
14 days ago
For this month's Film Trivia Fact Check,
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
looked into a persistent rumor around the origins of A.I.'s ending.
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Did Steven Spielberg wish for a different A.I. ending?
The Blue Fairy makes David's dream come true in A.I., but only one filmmaker can take credit for dreaming her up.
https://www.avclub.com/film-trivia-fact-check-ai-artificial-intelligence-ending-steven-spielberg-stanley-kubrick
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World's Funniest Wife™ Katie McVay topped herself with another remarkable season of Redeemed, Not Refined. Channeling Alan Partridge's lore and joke density, her Christian Mommy Podcaster alter-ego delivered the year's sharpest and funniest satire. So proud of what she's pulled off!
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Redeemed, Not Refined
Comedy Fiction Podcast · Weekly Series · A podcast for the modern Christian woman living in this mixed-up world. Hosted by Lizzie Beth Fluke. Performed, written, and produced by Katie McVay.
https://bit.ly/3QebNy1
14 days ago
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Sam Barsanti
21 days ago
Who? đź‘€
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Listen I'm Scary OK
about 1 month ago
if you want to hear me utter the phrase “Women Gone Biblin’” this is the episode for you
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Justin Baragona
about 1 month ago
"But apolitical is a political choice, and by excising whatever fangs comedy has, Allen is producing a show that is in the best interest of those in power and his bottom line. Comics Unleashed is late night enshittified, which is exactly what CBS wants."
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Wait: What is Comics Unleashed, exactly?
Wait: What is Comics Unleashed, exactly?
https://www.avclub.com/comics-unleashed-byron-allen-stephen-colbert-late-show
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Listen I'm Scary OK
about 1 month ago
wrote a new Gruesome Details about the visible and the invisible
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Humanity, live
Flow acts as a technical term for the smoothness and continuity of the movement of goods, people, and information… When energy and resources, goods and data,...
https://buttondown.com/katiemcvay/archive/humanity-live/
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Jason Bailey
about 1 month ago
Undoing the repost and quote-posting to note that this has an utterly exquisite kicker
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Erik Adams
about 1 month ago
As more details about CBS' post-Colbert plan (or lack thereof) rolled out, I thought, "I bet this is the type of rabbit hole
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
would enjoy tumbling down." And wouldn't you know it? I was right.
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Wait: What is Comics Unleashed, exactly?
Wait: What is Comics Unleashed, exactly?
https://www.avclub.com/comics-unleashed-byron-allen-stephen-colbert-late-show
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The A.V. Club
about 2 months ago
It's Infinite Jest made infinitely more Jeff.
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Great Job, Internet!: Complete your bookshelf with a copy of Infinite Jeffs
Great Job, Internet!: Complete your bookshelf with a copy of Infinite Jeffs
https://www.avclub.com/great-job-internet-infinite-jeffs
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Listen I'm Scary OK
3 months ago
sorry to bring this up right now but my podcast is out???
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Redeemed, Not Refined
Comedy Fiction Podcast · Weekly Series · A podcast for the modern Christian woman living in this mixed-up world. Hosted by Lizzie Beth Fluke. Performed, written, and produced by Katie McVay.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/redeemed-not-refined/id1805712906
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2 months ago
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Oscar Goff
2 months ago
Tickled to make my AV Club debut, in a sense, as source for the connection between NETWORK’s Howard Beale and A CHRISTMAS STORY’s Ralphie Parker. Thanks
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
for the shout!
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Lizzie already set Orban on a path to political destruction. Praeger U is next.
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3 months ago
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Listen I'm Scary OK
3 months ago
if you want more Orban talk, and an exciting now-in-flux back half of a fictional world, check out the second season of my podcast
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Listen I'm Scary OK
3 months ago
now is a great day to listen to the new season of Redeemed, Not Refined, my fake Christian podcast
www.katiemcvay.com/redeemed-not...
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Listen I'm Scary OK
3 months ago
OK yesterday was a bad time to bring this up but Lizzie Beth Fluke is back from Hungary
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The only good podcast is back
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3 months ago
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Listen I'm Scary OK
3 months ago
IT IS A HOLY WEEK MIRACLE. Lizzie Beth Fluke’s Redeemed, Not Refined resurrects next week!!! Catch up on the first season before season 2 starts:
www.katiemcvay.com/redeemed-not...
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The A.V. Club
4 months ago
Film Trivia Fact Check is back for subscribers! In this new installment,
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
untangles a web of possible fiction around Spider-Man 2's surgery scene.
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Spider-Man 2's hospital horror show swung from test shoot to final cut
Doc Ock's Evil Dead-inspired surgery from Spider-Man 2 showed the production and audience how well his tentacles worked.
https://www.avclub.com/film-trivia-fact-check-spider-man-2-doc-ock-test-shoot
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Angie Han
4 months ago
lol
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Danette Chavez
5 months ago
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
got the jump on what will almost certainly become a (disturbing) bit of film trivia
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Jacob Oller
5 months ago
we crunched some numbers
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Melania's budget could've paid the salaries of every fired Washington Post employee, three times over
An incomplete breakdown of Jeff Bezos' financial priorities, weighing one piece of propaganda (Melania) against 300 journalists.
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Aaron Rupar
5 months ago
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
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Mi Ra SOUL
5 months ago
If you want to understand Sam Raimi’s films better,
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
has you sorted out. Great piece.
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The A.V. Club
5 months ago
The A.V. Club is launching a subscription plan. Subscribers will enjoy all of the same great articles that will remain free to all to read, as well as subscriber-only perks. Learn more about our subscriber-only benefits and participate in a poll about what you want from a subscription here ⬇️
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The A.V. Club subscriptions are here, along with our 2026 reader survey
The A.V. Club subscriptions are here, along with our 2026 reader survey
https://www.avclub.com/av-club-subscriptions-launch-reader-survey
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The A.V. Club
6 months ago
James Cameron's high-tech epic keeps getting further and further away from his technological obsessions.
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Spoiler Space: James Cameron keeps upending what Avatar means
With Avatar: Fire And Ash, James Cameron puts humans back at the center of a story once tied together with technological advancement.
https://www.avclub.com/spoiler-space-avatar-fire-and-ash-james-cameron-technology-humanism
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Jacob Oller
7 months ago
We finally watched 'em all! Here is The A.V. Club's best 25 films of the year, unassailable and fully correct as always:
www.avclub.com/best-films-2...
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The A.V. Club's 25 best films of 2025
The best films of 2025 are a last angry hurrah from a film industry consolidating and capitulating at a frightening pace.
https://www.avclub.com/best-films-2025
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Jeff Schroeck
7 months ago
Online music peaked with the Myspace band page format 04-06. Just a few songs to sample before you decided whether or not to see a band or buy their record
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Omar Uddin
7 months ago
I think about this all the time. Selling my physical music collection—thousands of CD’s, carefully cultivated over almost three decades—is one of my biggest regrets as an adult.
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Dropping Apple Music saved me from becoming a lean-back listener
Dropping Apple Music saved me from becoming a lean-back listener
https://www.avclub.com/quit-streaming-music-2025-apple-spotify
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The A.V. Club
7 months ago
With Wrapped season in full swing, there's never been a better time to take yourself off streaming.
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Dropping Apple Music saved me from becoming a lean-back listener
Dropping Apple Music saved me from becoming a lean-back listener
https://www.avclub.com/quit-streaming-music-2025-apple-spotify
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Angelos Tzelepis
7 months ago
I love this piece. Though I quit Spotify probably 12 years ago for different reason, I am very intentional about music. Playlists, bands, listen to albums as cohesive works. I manage a huge library in iTunes, and I own everything.
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Dropping Apple Music saved me from becoming a lean-back listener
Dropping Apple Music saved me from becoming a lean-back listener
https://www.avclub.com/quit-streaming-music-2025-apple-spotify
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Reaction Shots (John Barrett)
7 months ago
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
delivers a piece that mirrors my experience. I wasn’t a lean-back listener but I have too many musician friends getting screwed and dropping the streamers - especially Spotify (how’s running ICE recruitment ads working for ya,dipshits?) a has been easy-peasy. Mighty fine:
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Dropping Apple Music saved me from becoming a lean-back listener
Dropping Apple Music saved me from becoming a lean-back listener
https://www.avclub.com/quit-streaming-music-2025-apple-spotify
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Saloni Gajjar
7 months ago
Emma is such an incredible writer with elite taste & I am so bummed we are not coworkers anymore!!! a huge loss for us at AVC!
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emma keates
7 months ago
Last month, I was laid off from The A.V. Club. Still trying to figure out what comes next after officially becoming a
#MediaLayoffVictim
, but in the meantime feeling very thankful to have spent 3 years writing for a publication I grew up reading and loving <3
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M.K.
8 months ago
More bookishness from
@avclub.com
: with Horrors Week ongoing,
@salonig.bsky.social
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
& book clubbed the dark academia fantasy Katabasis
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The A.V. Club descends into hell to discuss R.F. Kuang's Katabasis
The A.V. Club descends into hell to discuss R.F. Kuang's Katabasis
https://www.avclub.com/katabasis-rf-kuang-book-club-amazon
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Danette Chavez
8 months ago
I'd never heard of the Rock Bottom Remainders before reading this piece by
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
, but I've been poring over all the band photos in Getty Images ever since
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Stephen King's literary rock band remains a top-shelf celebrity side project
The Rock Bottom Remainders, Stephen King's literary rock band, has been the gold standard for vanity projects by totally eschewing vanity.
https://www.avclub.com/rock-bottom-remainders-stephen-king-literary-rock-band-side-project
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The A.V. Club
8 months ago
We got the jump on Horrors Week last Friday with this astute feature by
@schimkowitz.bsky.social
on the many modern retellings of Frankenstein.
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We keep building Frankenstein's monster to keep from being alone
The movie monsters inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein have recently embodied the modern terror of solitude.
https://www.avclub.com/frankenstein-movies-loneliness-poor-things-ai
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HANGMAN PAGE
9 months ago
fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:
help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/
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HBO Max | Feedback
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Rebecca Watson
9 months ago
Taking a break from fascism today to talk about Ed and Lorraine Warren, the weird con artists behind "The Conjuring" film franchise. It turns out the real scary monsters were humans all along
skepchick.org/2025/09/the-...
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The True Horror Behind “The Conjuring”
Way back before I was living under an actual authoritarian theocracy, I enjoyed making videos about, well, relatively inconsequential bullshit. For those who are new here, I do what I do today beca…
https://skepchick.org/2025/09/the-true-horror-behind-the-conjuring/
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The A.V. Club
10 months ago
32 action franchises have been summoned to a tournament of champions. One will win the title belt. This is the first round of The A.V. Club's action franchise bracket:
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What's the greatest action franchise of all time?
Round One: Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to follow along in our 32-combatant tournament to find the best action franchise.
https://www.avclub.com/best-action-franchise-bracket-tournament-round-one
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Jacob Oller
10 months ago
Very excited to launch this big ol' tournament, which I've been working on for a while and will feature folks like
@brndnstrssng.bsky.social
and
@sinacolad.bsky.social
. Stay tuned for daily features breaking down some killer series!
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The A.V. Club
10 months ago
Get ready for a weeklong slugfest at The A.V. Club: Starting Monday, September 1, the biggest action film franchises will be battling it out in our bracket. You can have your say in the reader poll.
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Vidiots
11 months ago
Physical media forever 📼
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Vidiots Launches Initiative to Preserve Rare VHS, with 1,500 Tapes Identified So Far
Vidiots and BAVC are partnering to digitize rare VHS from Vidiots' legacy collection — starting with the first 100 of 1,500 titles.
https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/vidiots-vhs-preservation-rare-titles-1235140522/
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William Hughes
12 months ago
Love 2 write about The News Of The Day in a calm, sober, and impartial fashion
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G/O Media sells Kotaku and says it's "winding down"
G/O Media sells Kotaku and says it's "winding down"
https://www.avclub.com/g-o-media-sells-kotaku-winding-down
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LT
about 1 year ago
Feels insane to have to clarify this, but Jezebel does not use AI. So if you'd like to support journalism written and edited by humans, consider subscribing if you haven't already
www.jezebel.com/unprecedente...
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