AV CLUB CONTESTS

It's hard to believe, but Joan Jett has rocking for nearly 40 years. With The Runaways and later The Blackhearts, as a solo artist and a producer for bands like Bikini Kill, Jett has made an unmistakable mark on the rock landscape with iconic songs, none more unforgettable than ...

Horror anthology films are having a bit of a moment, creating a vibrant cultivating ground for future feature directors as well as a showcase for collectives of proven low-budget horror filmmakers. The cult horror film festival hit Trick ‘R Treat is getting a sequel. The ABCs Of Death brought together ...

The A.V. Club and music marketplace Pop Market are giving away a couple of amazing LP bundles to loyal readers. First up is The Smiths: Complete Super Deluxe Set, only 4,000 copies of which were made. The massive box set features all eight Smiths LPs on both CD ...

As one of two founding brothers in Dire Straits, a solo artist, and a film composer, Mark Knopfler has been writing and recording songs for nearly 35 years. Knopfler’s latest record Privateering—the first double-album of his career—is out now on Universal, and we’ve got a one-of-a-kind ...

Matthew McConaughey’s career renaissance continues. After a string of acclaimed performance in Bernie, Mud, Killer Joe, and Magic Mike, McConaughey gets the chance at a transformative lead performance in Dallas Buyers Club, the story of a drug addict who tests positive for HIV, and begins smuggling non-FDA approved anti-viral ...

After a few years out of television, Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller returned to the major broadcast networks by adapting Hannibal for NBC. In its eerie and unsettling first season, it unwound the beginnings of the professional relationship between preternaturally gifted but tortured FBI consultant Will Graham and ...

Ocean’s Eleven and The Hangover looked like incredibly fun movies to film, with friendly casts enjoying the pleasures of Las Vegas to create wildly successful movies. Last Vegas is the latest attempt to turn a great excuse to hang out in a party city into a box-office draw, directed ...

After spending the better part of two decades in development hell, Orson Scott Card’s most famous novel Ender’s Game finally hits the big screen this fall. Gavin Hood directs Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, and Viola Davis in the futuristic sci-fi epic about ...

SyFy has begun dipping its toes into the realm of hard science-fiction once again. Since Battlestar Galactica ended, only a few blips like Caprica have carried the torch of a once prominent television genre now overrun by vampires, zombies, and superheroes. Defiance looks to stake a claim on the airwaves ...

Divorce is an increasingly ubiquitous aspect of American family life, so the burden on any film that centers on the topic is finding a new way to approach it. First-time director Stu Zicherman attempts just that in A.C.O.D., dealing with the childhood ramifications of divorce decades down ...

Hey New York (and other, lesser beings, if you're reading): The A.V. Club is co-presenting a screening of this fabulous-looking documentary Wakaliwood this weekend, and you can win tickets. The movie follows Ugandan filmmakers with Hollywood-sized dreams, who make action movies and then sell them on street corners ...

Moby doesn’t do a lot of live performances these days, but he has three upcoming in Los Angeles this week, October 2-4 at the Fonda Theatre, to celebrate the release of his new album, Innocents. By comparison, he only has one other 2013 date on his itinerary, a DJ ...

A remake of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name, We Are What We Are transports Jorge Michel Grau’s film of a ritualistic, fiercely insular family from a city in Mexico to a rural American setting. In the original, a father dies suddenly, leaving a mother, her two ...

Alfonso Cuarón went through production hell over the past seven years between the highly acclaimed Children Of Men and his latest film, the space thriller Gravity. He finally settled at Warner Bros. with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as two astronauts struggling to survive in the aftermath of an ...

Not content to merely collaborate on an infinite string of Expendables movies with other aging action heroes—and a few new ones—Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have teamed up outside of that series for an action film as dual leads. Stallone plays a professional prison breaker who gets thrown ...

Robert Rodriguez began his career with ultra-low budget action films like El Mariachi before hitting the big time with a family movie series (Spy Kids) and a creative peak collaborating with Frank Miller on Sin City. But his revival as an action director came courtesy of the fake trailer for ...

The Justice Department crackdown on illegal online poker hasn’t stopped the game from airing regularly on ESPN or generating billions of dollars. And that popularity occasionally translates into films about the allure of amassing and squandering massive fortunes through shady gambling. Runner Runner is the latest, with Justin Timberlake ...

Willie Nelson turns 80 today, and in celebration, The A.V. Club is giving away a deluxe Nelson-themed prize package. One big winner will get both a CD and a vinyl copy of Willie’s new album, Let’s Face The Music And Dance, a “Willie For President” t-shirt, a ...