Paramount has opted to ground its latest expansion of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Bari Weiss isn’t making any friends at CBS News, as veteran correspondents suggest that she take her job "more seriously" because it isn't "part-time."

Kevin Costner’s beleaguered, unfinished passion project, Horizon, was hit with another lawsuit, this time from unpaid costume fees.

As debates about the necessity of sex scenes still flit around the discourse, the new Avatar movie benefits greatly from not being prudish.

The performer is expected to go to trial in 2026.

The former Charlie Cale suggests that we all should have been less surprised about her departure from the series.

The meta-remake of Anaconda uses low expectations to its advantage, allowing its stars' charisma to carry the comedy. Our review:

After a week of grainy cellphone footage, the real Doomsday teaser with Steve Rogers is online.

Half kitschy deconstruction of the biopic, half tearjerking crowdpleaser, Song Sung Blue is just weird enough to work. Our review:

Based on the same novel as Edge Of Tomorrow, All You Need Is Kill offers a different spin on an endlessly repeatable idea.

In trying to kill the segment, media wunderkind Bari Weiss has made Inside CECOT one of the most-discussed 60 Minutes reports of the year.

By most surface-level metrics, you would assume that the anime industry is in a sort of Golden Age. Read more here: www.avclub.com/anime-indust...

The medieval renaissance that’s taking over the publishing industry at the moment feels like something brand new.

Let this be a lesson to all aspiring artists: Originality will not help your 48 Hrs remake get made.

These aren’t just calculated weepies, designed to dislodge easy tears by exploiting real deaths. The tears will come, but they’re just as likely, maybe more likely, to be furious as mournful.

He's Chevy Chase, and you're not, and sometimes that means Lorne Michaels is going to go with Bill Murray.

Jim Jarmusch goes home for the holidays with his three-part family drama Father Mother Sister Brother, out this week. Our review:

This month's Women Of Action celebrates the 25th anniversary of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which welcomed the West to romantic action.

By most metrics, 2025 was an ascendant year for anime. So why are so many studios still struggling?

The big winner at this year's IGAs was disqualified and stripped of its awards.

On a recent trip to New York, Rhett Miller took a break from touring with The Old 97’s to drop by Chelsea Studios and join us for an all-new season of A.V. Undercover. Watch his full cover of Nick Lowe's "Cruel To Be Kind" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXiI...

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

60 Minutes journalists argue that the piece was rigorously vetted and that Weiss' decision was a political one.

No one in any of this year's lady knight books is waiting for someone else to determine or change their fate.

The first public footage from Christopher Nolan's epic offers glimpses of Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland.

For the most affecting movies of the year, a death at the end wasn't a spoiler, but the film's very foundation.

I Love LA heads to New York in a busy season finale. Our review: www.avclub.com/i-love-la-se...

Matt Schimkowitz walks us through some of the best scenes of 2025 🐸 See our full list of the year's best scenes here: www.avclub.com/best-film-sc...

Paul Feig has always seemed a little uncomfortable with exploitation, but he makes some progress with this thriller.

A typically mixed bag.

Donkey Kong Bananza is just a lot of fun. See our full list of the best games of 2025 here: www.avclub.com/best-games-2...

Ryan Coogler’s vampire masterpiece has an abundance of cultural, communal, and spiritual ideas that intertwine just as poignantly with music and joy as they do with loss and violence. See why Sinners is one of the best films of the year: www.avclub.com/best-films-2...

Just another spectacular, near-ceaselessly entertaining fantasy epic that shames 90% of its big-ticket competition.

On TV this week: More Stranger Things, The Copenhagen Test, and the season finales of Pluribus and Heated Rivalry.

The 25 best films of 2025

Although politics have made it unclear what is and is not a 2025 game, this was still a good year for board games

The top comics of 2025 you don't want to miss

Film editor @jacoboller.bsky.social walks you through his top 5 films of 2025. Head here to see The A.V. Club's top 25 films of 2025: www.avclub.com/best-films-2...

The comedy streaming service's CEO and talent walk us through their very good year. Read more here:

Read on for The A.V. Club‘s favorite series of 2025.

What happens when our lack of attention span collides with the all-consuming nature of "black hole" games?

On a new track with EsDeeKid, Chalamet raps, "Since 2017, I'm livin' the dream, I'm gettin' the cream, I'm livin' on theme, I'm doin' my things, It's Marty Supreme."

Here are the 10 best anime series of 2025.

Our 16 best television episodes of 2025 include audacious left turns, comforting moments, harrowing deaths, and a coked-up barfly or two for good measure, that really left a mark.

The building's exterior now elegantly reads, "The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts." The change is likely illegal and temporary (assuming the rule of law ever makes a comeback). www.avclub.com/donald-trump...

Comedian Nate Bargatze trades the stage for family comedy about a dad forced to do the one thing all dads hate: Parenting their children.

From faith-restoring phone calls to time-distorting needledrops, these are the best film scenes of 2025:

The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants, the least memorable of the series' films, feels like a victim of budget cuts and studio notes. Our review:

The show's resident Iceberg That Sank The Titanic is capsizing his sketch comedy career and leaving the show.

In a breakout year for anime, the best shows of the year lived up to the medium's increasing influence.