This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t

it is now administrative policy that congress will react to every new event like this

The consequences for lying us into Iraq were not only “nothing” but outright rehabilitation of Bush as a “compassionate conservative” who was part of a noble dying breed so why should anyone waste the time justifying this one

“the full wrath of American justice” has recently been practicing for this by kidnapping sick kids and small business owners who are the wrong color

If Gerard Butler and Jason Statham teamed up they could make the Avengers: Endgame of January divorced dad movies

had the sexiest year imaginable

Going in on a classic

The Testament Of Ann Lee (2025)

fashionable so-called socialist won’t hang out with me or return my calls, more like asocialist

doing my grandmother proud by pressing everyone I know about having their black eyed peas this morning

Great lowkey NYE movie: Jafar Panahi’s debut The White Balloon

Been learning to draw and embroider this year and wow does it feel good to have more Making hobbies to balance out the Consuming hobbies

youtube ads sound like they're bullying jesus why does jesus keep hitting himself

WAKE UP DEAD MAN

we're still alive and kickin' and we'll keep kickin' for as long as we can

If nothing else, if not for the AV Club's Random Roles, there's a decent chance we'd never have had the opportunity for Curtis Armstrong to tell his story about working on the Gary Busey film "Quigley".

I'm done writing for 2025, so it's time for the ol' Year In Review Roundup. Let's start with one of the defining moments of the cultural year: When Princess Mononoke went back to theaters at the peak of the AI Ghibli wave www.avclub.com/studio-ghibl...

At least someone’s enjoying the weather

This is a great story, and yet another reminder that -- for something that felt like a fun goofy feature when it launched -- as we lose more and more actors, the AV Club's "Random Roles" has turned out to be an amazing oral history project.

Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...

somehow has the same energy as the Die Hard Christmas note, which was written in blood on a corpse

I'm closing out the year not with movies but with games, making the case for all things Blue Prince (even the heartbreaking randomness that can end run after run) www.avclub.com/blue-prince-...

got the Iron & Wine guy on the wifi

The job all of us want: drowning in an ever-complicating series of run-ins with eccentric goobers with silly names

Deeply grateful that my debut for the AV Club was in support of such a huge piece of work, alongside industry pros like Jacob and Brandon. A lot of fun to read through, too.

Your must-read for today.

If you’re not following Jacob’s writing, you should be!!

I'm done writing for 2025, so it's time for the ol' Year In Review Roundup. Let's start with one of the defining moments of the cultural year: When Princess Mononoke went back to theaters at the peak of the AI Ghibli wave www.avclub.com/studio-ghibl...

Met my girlfriend's family today and found out her brother plays D&D3.5. Immediately asked if he'd seen the module that stats out Saddam Hussein.

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

if we have to have gendered bathrooms we should at least have signage for them that look like vague ads for said gender

Went to the 90s for the holidays

wrote about how James Cameron used the tropes & imagery Western in the Avatar films and how his adaptation of the genre reduces it of its complexity www.avclub.com/james-camero...

When it’s 75 on Christmas you gotta hike

Yes my parents got a custom painting celebrating their local celebrities

Home Alone is a movie about how having a gold tooth is awesome but kind of a liability

The best thing I could give to you this year, pop culturally, is the experience of watching The Rehearsal episode “Pilot’s Code” for the first time

My final review of the year covers The Plague, which shrinks the masculine hardships, bottled-up pain, and explosive release of Claire Denis’ Beau Travail into the world of preteens www.avclub.com/the-plague-r...

extremely important PSA

in case you missed it, I got sad on main about the most important movies of the year:

happy holidays from our warm little clubhouse to yours

in case you missed it, I got sad on main about the most important movies of the year:

Welcome back to the stage of history

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

In a year that made us feel like we were standing by, dumbstruck, as the world fell apart, I wrote about the 2025 movies that bore witness to all that was taken from us www.avclub.com/2025-cinemat...

It had already been quite a year for Paramount/CBS when I put this together last month www.avclub.com/the-running-...

just learning about Army intelligence officer and Satanic high priest Michael A. Aquino, who wrote a LOTR book from the perspective of The One Ring with the best cover I've ever seen