Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...
A movie that makes it onto The A.V. Club‘s best films of the year list probably also includes at least one of the best scenes of the year. But a film also doesn’t need to be an indisputable success as ...
Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...
The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...
Podcasting has suffered a series of blows over the past few years: industry layoffs, the rise of AI-produced slop, and, perhaps most existentially, a growing focus on video platforms. But 2025 ...
Reader in 18th-century Literature and Director of Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature, Queen Mary University of London Reading is very subjective, but one thing most book lovers can agree on ...
The latest film from director Paul Thomas Anderson follows Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ageing hippie hero and a relic of a fictional noughties brigade, the French 75. Led by his lover Perfidia ...
From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world. While monitoring the burrow of a rare giant armadillo in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ...
In any given year, far more games are released than any one person could play, meaning you’re all but guaranteed to miss what would otherwise be some of your favorite games of the year. That held true ...
"Another story is about an otherwise 'normal' appearing teenager who started vomiting blood heavily. There was blood ...
A new underground industry has emerged where people are buying raw compounds for Ozempic, Botox, filler and skin-tightening treatments directly from Chinese suppliers — and injecting them at ...
The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...