Movies
Freeform Radio: The Movie
Doing radio without commercials, underwriting, or government subsidies.
Stillborn Utopia
Masdar City is an $18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It's empty.
Video Game Violence: A Scientific 'Consensus' Cracks
Reel violence does not lead to real violence.
Friday A/V Club: A Haunted-House Triple Feature for Halloween
Au Secours!, There It Is, and The Live Ghost.
Nightcrawler and Horns
Jake Gyllenhaal brings the creepy, Daniel Radcliffe gets lost in a failed fright flick.
Birdman and Fury
Michael Keaton at his high-flying best, Brad Pitt bogged down in the mud of war.
Whiplash and The Judge
J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller jazz it up, Downey and Duvall go to court.
The Surprising Power of Subtitles
From Jesus on a bed sheet in Tagalog to Rasputin rapping in Ukrainian
Video's Gutenberg Moment
How the VX1000 camera revolutionized news, documentaries, and porn.
The Equalizer and Jimi: All Is by My Side
Denzel Washington kickstarts a franchise, Andre Benjamin illuminates a Hendrix biopic.
Friday A/V Club: That Time Jane Jacobs and Marshall McLuhan Made a Movie Together
Killing the Spadina Expressway
The Maze Runner and A Walk Among the Tombstones
More teen dystopia, and some middling Liam Neeson crime action.
Friday A/V Club: A Soviet Filmmaker Adapts a Post-Apocalyptic Ray Bradbury Story
Forget The Day After. This is the great nuclear-war movie of the early '80s.
The Skeleton Twins and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Them)
Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig get serious, Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy sail the sea of heartbreak.
Wetlands and The Longest Week
A wild German import, and a limp Woody Allen tribute Jason Bateman can't quite save.
That Time the President, the FBI, and a Moonlighting Supreme Court Justice Tried to Dig Up Dirt on a Movie Star
When LBJ ordered an investigation of George Hamilton.
The Year Armond White's Historical Perspective Broke
A film critic offers a strange take on recent American history.
