• film Rob Schneider’s The Chosen One is a redemption fantasy gone awry By Nathan Rabin December 18, 2012 | 6:00pm
• film Rock stars rescue faded actors (and Colonel Sanders) in the Austin Powers lead-up The Phynx By Nathan Rabin December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
• film Losing our edge?: 14 panicky works about growing older By Nathan Rabin, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
• tv The Simpsons (Classic): “Treehouse Of Horror IV” By Nathan Rabin December 16, 2012 | 8:00pm
• aux Read This: Our sister publication The Onion profoundly, profanely covers the latest unspeakable tragedy By Nathan Rabin December 15, 2012 | 5:35pm
• film Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career By Nathan Rabin December 14, 2012 | 7:00pm
• film Eight Crazy Nights proves that it’s not worth spending Hanukah with Adam Sandler By Nathan Rabin December 14, 2012 | 6:00pm
• aux The best podcasts of 2012 By Genevieve Koski, Aaron Frank, Nathan Rabin, Dan Telfer, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Steven Moore, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Colin Griffith, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
• aux Kids! Enjoy Alien's light-hearted mayhem with this commercial for its action figure By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 8:15pm
• aux Scott Aukerman picks his favorite Comedy Bang! Bang! episodes By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 7:30pm
• aux The memoir of Kiss drummer Peter Criss is endearingly needy and sleazy By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
• film Garbo sneezes!: 26 genuinely effective movie taglines By Nathan Rabin, Parker Winship, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Alison Willmore, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, David Sims, Tasha Robinson December 12, 2012 | 6:00pm
• tv “…And Introducing Chewbacca’s Family!” Case File #30: The Star Wars Holiday Special By Nathan Rabin December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
• aux Matt Selman, the writer of last night's episode of The Simpsons, explains the A.V. Club cameo   By Nathan Rabin December 10, 2012 | 7:15pm
• film A Tyler Perry academic conference applies highbrow criticism to a lowbrow empire By Nathan Rabin December 10, 2012 | 7:00pm
• aux The best comedy albums of 2012 By Marah Eakin, Nathan Rabin, Kyle Ryan, Steve Heisler, Steven Moore, Erik Adams, David Sims, Tuyet Nguyen, Scott Gordon, Genevieve Koski December 10, 2012 | 5:00pm
• film Big Stan is a prison-rape comedy made worse by its commentary By Nathan Rabin December 10, 2012 | 4:00pm
• film Jon Lovitz will kick your ass: 20-plus unexpectedly badass performances from established non-badasses By Nathan Rabin, Steve Heisler, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Tasha Robinson December 10, 2012 | 6:00am
• tv The Simpsons (Classic): “Rosebud” By Nathan Rabin December 9, 2012 | 8:00pm
• aux MATES and Superego return, and Neil Hamburger celebrates New Year’s Eve  By Genevieve Koski, Nathan Rabin, Dan Telfer, Kevin McFarland, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Scott Tobias, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Austin Bernhardt, Oliver Sava, Scott Gordon, Colin Griffith, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 7, 2012 | 6:00am
• aux Drink in the fantastical whimsy of the Manic Pixie Dream Prostitute!   By Nathan Rabin December 6, 2012 | 11:15pm