Новости за 11.05.2018

Look, we know people have leaned—for understandable reasons, but still—a little hard on the old “this is the darkest timeline” gag of late. But we have to admit that this one feels pretty surreal to type: Just a day after abruptly canceling three of its most well-regarded single-camera sitcoms—including fan favorite…

Because a movie already packed with hardcore character-actor types is still a movie that could add another one of those figures, Quentin Tarantino has spun the wheel of “charismatic edgy guys” he keeps in his study and come up with the name “Timothy Olyphant” to add to his next film.

“I guess that’s what life has come to mean to me: It’s not ever quite right, but that’s okay,” Scott Hutchison told us in 2016. Josh Modell, our devoted ambassador to Frightened Rabbit, had asked him what he liked best about his job. Scott (forget journalistic practice; “Hutchison” doesn’t feel right for someone who’s…

We won’t lie to you, we were a little disappointed when we couldn’t get the money together to buy that clown motel out next to the old miners’ graveyard. But now a new, even more exciting way to fritter away a mountain of cash that we don’t actually have has come along: Anybody want to pool some funds and buy the…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week: A new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull has us thinking back on stellar movies made from stage plays.

Former professional basketball player Baron Davis had a lengthy, noteworthy career on the court. He was a two-time NBA All-Star, led the league in steals on two separate occasions, played for six different NBA franchises, and on this day 11 years ago, he entered Andrei Kirilenko’s nightmares and never left. During our…

“[7] is ruled by an aggressively capricious energy that cuts some songs off abruptly (‘Lemon Glow,’ ‘Girl Of The Year’), redirects others at whim (‘Dive’), and lets others accumulate and wash away slowly (‘Black Car,’ ‘Last Ride’). The roar of deadpanned, shoegaze-y opener ‘Dark Spring’ for example, evaporates…

Looks like you’ve seen the last of former Green Beret Bryan Mills running around punching goons and muttering things about special sets of skills—on the small screen, at least. Who knows if someday Liam Neeson will decide it’d be fun if, say, his character’s third cousin twice removed was Taken Yet Again?

The second season of Atlanta, subtitled Robbin’ Season, ended with the stunning, tentatively optimistic “Crabs In A Barrel.” After weeks of hard truths and consequences, an embattled Earn (Donald Glover) comes perilously close to losing it all. The finale sees Earn flailing, as usual, while Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry)…

Last night, Solo: A Star Wars Story premiered for the first time in Los Angeles to an audience of fans, critics, and people related to the second unit director, all waiting to see if Ron Howard was able to successfully salvage the troubled production. Early (spoiler-free) social media reactions are in, and Howard will…

Movie studios have long understood that PG-13 is the ideal rating for maximizing the number of butts in seats. But what if, as a filmmaker, your art requires you to maximize the number of butts on-screen? This video from Slate looks at how films do their best to include as much of the good shit (cursing, violence,…

FX’s Atlanta is one of those shows that can go from hilarious to haunting in the span of a few minutes without betraying the authenticity of its story or characters. This masterful control over the show’s tone comes from the top-down, thanks to the successful partnership of creator and star Donald Glover and the…

In an interview at this year’s CrimeCon convention in Nashville, Oxygen senior vice president of development Cori Abraham told The A.V. Club that the network’s switch to an all-crime format last summer was driven, at least in part, by its “women who kill” series Snapped—and more specifically, by the success of the…

In preparation for the season five premiere of Arrested Development, the Bluths have returned to our computer screens to reassert themselves as America’s favorite dysfunctional family. How will they do this? By being named “Family Of The Year,” of course. How will they guarantee they’ll win the award? By giving it to…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…

Cold War (Grade: A-), from Polish writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski, is a haunted postwar epic in miniature, like a novel written with the careful, precise economy of a short story. Tracking the ups and downs of a tumultuous love affair against seismic shifts in the cultural landscape, it condenses a decade of plot…

It’s amazing what a pair of googly eyes and a smile can do. In her new Drawn & Quarterly children’s book, The Mushroom Fan Club, Elise Gravel turns fungi into adorable critters by giving the mushrooms facial expressions that create different personalities. Gravel’s book is an informative guide intended to inspire kids…

Some of Netflix’s true-crime series start with a fascinating case, then expand their focus to engage with larger social issues: Making A Murderer and corruption, for example, or The Keepers and institutional memory. However, in its newest binge-worthy miniseries, Evil Genius: The True Story Of America’s Most…

Sure, the most recent Bourne movie was a dip in quality, and some other recent spy-game offerings, like Red Sparrow, weren’t as fun as we wanted them to be. But maybe there’s a simple solution staring us in the face: Get Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Marion Cotillard, and Penelope Cruz to be your kickass spies.

Six albums and 14 years in, Baltimore duo Beach House has well-established itself as masters of dream pop, with each release gradually refining and evolving its unmistakable sound: a transportive pulse of organs and swooning melodies drawing from psych pop, shoegaze, and more. Singer-keyboardist Victoria Legrand and…

Ex-competitive eater and former wing-eating champion of the world Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti knows how to put food away, as evidenced by his list of eating-related world records. After putting him through the wringer with a couple of food-related challenges, we sat down with Bertoletti to talk about his lengthy…

Ex-competitive eater and former wing-eating champion of the world Patrick “Deep Dish” Bartoletti knows how to put food away, as evidenced by his list of eating-related world records. After putting him through the wringer with a couple food-related challenges, we sat down with to talk about his lengthy, illustrious…

In the second episode of Showtime’s adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels, patriarch and noted monster David Melrose (Hugo Weaving) keeps watch over his carefully isolated kingdom. It’s 1967, and the elder Melrose looks out over the expanse of his property in France, taking in the sunshine and the…

Of the many compliments that can be hurled at Atlanta, the highest has to do with the show’s tendency to dramatically shapeshift from week-to-week. It’s a horror anthology. It’s an indie comedy. It’s a commentary on contemporary black life. It’s a high-art after-school special about the grave consequences of fashion…

Two days after his family and bandmates reported him missing and expressed concern for his “fragile state,” Scottish police confirm that Scott Hutchison, frontman for the indie-rock group Frightened Rabbit, has died, various outlets are reporting. A body was reportedly found yesterday at 8:30 p.m. local time in Port…