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On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian protesters and militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Still filled…

On Monday, we started counting down our top 50 films of the 1990s, which we tabulated by blind votes among the…

One of the most gratifying parts of working at The A.V. Club is the community that’s built up around our content. As…

Yesterday, we launched our retrospective on the best films of the 1990s, as determined via democratic acclaim among…

Few talk about the ’90s as a filmmaking renaissance on par with the late ’60s and early ’70s, but for many of the…

Warning: As this Inventory deals with some highly dramatic moments, each entry contains spoilers.

At its heart, Treme is a show about hope. As a series based around those who chose to stay in or return to New…

When Taken hit screens in 2008, it benefitted from the shock of the new. Not that its content looked particularly…

A grim chord played in a minor key and sustained for the length of a novel, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is…

For Mary and Paul Bland, the protagonists of Eating Raoul, the world never stops offending. A sexless but happily…

“When the time comes, you can let that rip,” Antoine tells Jennifer, one of his students, after she throws some…

“I hate endings.” — The Doctor

“The eyes of the man in black,” Robert E. Howard writes of his pulp hero Solomon Kane, “were cold but deep; gazing…

Yesterday, we dusted off our highly proprietary Oscar-O-Meter™ device and asked it what it thought of the first half…

Forged from the molten fire of Mount Haleakala, calibrated to the thump of a proud eagle’s heart, oiled with the…

1. Bobby (2006)
For all the complaints made about the Academy Awards, they remain the highest honor a film can…

Wendell Pierce trying to cheat a cab driver can only mean one thing: It’s time for another season of Treme, David…

Pay attention to the verb tense Amy uses for the voiceover at the beginning of “The Power Of Three.” I think it…

In The Catch-Up, a longtime fan and a newcomer discuss a TV show, movie, book, music, or other pop-culture item. In…

Tough guys don’t age gracefully, but that’s only really a problem if they try to age gracefully. Sylvester Stallone…