...and it’s not bowling. She put those whiskey shots back like a champ, though.

“Save your promises, Agent Ford.”

The paranoia that underlaid the professional changes and interpersonal conflict of Mindhunter’s season-two premiere continues to seep through its second episode, and even the show’s most square-jawed paragon of midcentury masculinity is rattled. That, of course, would be Bill Tench, whose no-nonsense exterior only…

Yes, David Fincher did return to direct the season two premiere of Netflix’s Mindhunter. But if you’re going in expecting a dramatic set piece like the hostage negotiation that opens up the series, let us be the first to disabuse you of that notion. It may seem strange to say as much about a season that opens with an…

How did you envision the future 25 years ago? When Corin Tucker hollered, “I’m the queen of rock ‘n’ roll!” two years into Sleater-Kinney’s tenure in 1996 the idea of a “girl band”—a label the band sarcastically threw back into its critics’ faces on All Hands On The Bad One in 2000—as titans of rock was unlikely…

What do you get when you combine a post-apocalyptic survival thriller with a high school horror flick with a sweet queer romance with punk rock attitude? You get Riot Girls, the debut feature from XX director (she did the segment “The Box”) and former Rue Morgue editor Jovanka Vuckovic.

Some films are made to last, and some just aren’t. A telltale sign of the latter is an overabundance of topical jokes that go stale faster than the bags of popcorn being munched upon in the theater. This plague is particularly endemic in movies whose target demographic tops out in junior high. A sequel to a movie…

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on Spotify.

Gangland heavies have been shooting and stabbing their way across the screen since the earliest days of narrative filmmaking, but mob movies that focus on women are vanishingly rare. Some of the best and most well-known films in the genre—Goodfellas, The Godfather, The Untouchables—barely have women in them at all.…

Although it may seem that way in retrospect, Y2K was not an entirely made-up crisis. Despite the multi-billion-dollar efforts of engineers around the world, some technological issues did arise on January 1, 2000, including a handful of very scary nuclear power-plant glitches in Japan. (On a less life-or-death note,…

As anyone who’s spent longer scrolling through a streaming service’s library than actually watching something on said service knows, there’s just too much goddamn content these days. And while the sheer number of genre movies currently being produced around the world is a sign of a healthy ecosystem, it’s also an…

Deeply isolated and too poor for anyone from outside to take much of an interest, the rolling hills of Appalachia provide the perfect haven for outcasts. Shaded by acres of woods atop one of the region’s many mountains, you can live—and worship—in near-perfect privacy, a state of being that appeals to fringe…