"Oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI, forget it." As if you needed another reason to love the immortal @alyankovic.bsky.social. www.avclub.com/weird-al-yan... by @schimkowitz.bsky.social via @avclub.com

On this, the Mel Brooks centennial, allow @schimkowitz.bsky.social and I to say comedy… now more than ever!

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

Another objectively true best-of list from me and your pals at The A.V. Club www.avclub.com/best-films-2...

For this month's Film Trivia Fact Check, @schimkowitz.bsky.social looked into a persistent rumor around the origins of A.I.'s ending. www.avclub.com/film-trivia-...

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! bit.ly/3QebNy1

Who? 👀

if you want to hear me utter the phrase “Women Gone Biblin’” this is the episode for you

"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." www.avclub.com/comics-unlea...

wrote a new Gruesome Details about the visible and the invisible buttondown.com/katiemcvay/a...

Undoing the repost and quote-posting to note that this has an utterly exquisite kicker

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.

It's Infinite Jest made infinitely more Jeff.

sorry to bring this up right now but my podcast is out??? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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!

Lizzie already set Orban on a path to political destruction. Praeger U is next.

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

now is a great day to listen to the new season of Redeemed, Not Refined, my fake Christian podcast www.katiemcvay.com/redeemed-not...

OK yesterday was a bad time to bring this up but Lizzie Beth Fluke is back from Hungary

The only good podcast is back

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...

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. www.avclub.com/film-trivia-...

lol www.avclub.com/breaking-bad... by @plumberduck.bsky.social

@schimkowitz.bsky.social got the jump on what will almost certainly become a (disturbing) bit of film trivia

we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...

I'm fact checking again

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

If you want to understand Sam Raimi’s films better, @schimkowitz.bsky.social has you sorted out. Great piece.

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James Cameron's high-tech epic keeps getting further and further away from his technological obsessions.

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...

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

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. www.avclub.com/quit-streami...

With Wrapped season in full swing, there's never been a better time to take yourself off streaming.

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. www.avclub.com/quit-streami...

@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:

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!

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

More bookishness from @avclub.com : with Horrors Week ongoing, @salonig.bsky.social @schimkowitz.bsky.social & book clubbed the dark academia fantasy Katabasis www.avclub.com/katabasis-rf...

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 www.avclub.com/rock-bottom-...

We got the jump on Horrors Week last Friday with this astute feature by @schimkowitz.bsky.social on the many modern retellings of Frankenstein. www.avclub.com/frankenstein...

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know: help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/ tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...

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-...

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: www.avclub.com/best-action-...

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!

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.

Physical media forever 📼

Love 2 write about The News Of The Day in a calm, sober, and impartial fashion www.avclub.com/g-o-media-se...

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