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Ken Jennings seems surprised at Mayim Bialik's Jeopardy! departure
AV Club,
We’ll take “a series that just keeps landing itself in the headlines” for $200, please. Earlier this month, former Jeopardy! co-host Mayim Bialik announced that “Sony has informed me” that she would no longer be hosting the syndicated version of the stalwart trivia competition moving forward (a.k.a. the main version… Read more...
Kanye West apologizes in Hebrew to Jewish community for antisemitic outbursts
Ahead of the long-delayed release of his upcoming collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign, Vultures, Kanye West is apologizing to the Jewish community for a dizzying number of anti-semitic rants that have drastically marred his career over the past year. Read more...
The holiday box office was pretty merry for The Color Purple, middling for Aquaman
Even if most cities didn’t have a white Christmas this year, it was a green Christmas at the box office this year. With three major releases all slated on Christmas day—that’s The Color Purple, Ferrari, and The Boys In The Boat—families were keen to leave eggnog and wrapping paper behind to watch Adam Driver drive… Read more...
How Ferrari's controversial CG crashes play a crucial part in the story
There’s a scene in Michael Mann’s Ferrari where beleaguered, self-obsessed car-manufacturer Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is looking over race car designs alongside his son, Piero, whom he had with his mistress, Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley), and has been raising in secret—from both the public and his wife, Penélope… Read more...
I'm a coxswain. Here's what I think of the rowing in The Boys In The Boat.
There are very few things rowers love more than watching other people row badly. Annual “Head Of The Charles Destruction” and other boat crash videos regularly rack up thousands of views on YouTube. Many rowers I’ve met love to reference in regular conversation an infamous incident where a team rowed directly into a… Read more...
Mad about Mario, Freddy, and bloaters: Here's why video game adaptations finally clicked in 2023
In a series of special year-end roundtable discussions, The A.V. Club looks back at the stories that made the biggest impact on pop culture in 2023. Read more...
Remembering the stars we lost in 2023
In 2023, we mourned the loss of a number of groundbreaking directors, visionary actors, and generational musicians who made an indelible impact on pop culture during their time on Earth. From Norman Lear to William Friedkin, from Matthew Perry to Paul Reubens, from Tina Turner to Tony Bennett, The A.V. Club pays… Read more...
How to Disappear Your Partner’s Ugly Sweater
The New Yorker,
It’s not about the sweater. It’s about me not being able to get over how much I hate the sweater.