Новости за 29.05.2018

Finally, someone out there is brave enough to talk about our nation’s ongoing epidemic of irresponsible heart transplants where the heart turns evil and takes over its recipient: Netflix announced today that it’s casting Uma Thurman as one of the leads in its upcoming supernatural drama Chambers, which sounds like…

It has been nearly a year since we last heard about Todd McFarlane’s plan to resurrect Spawn as a new “dark R” superhero movie, but now it looks like the adaptation of the iconic ‘90s comic is actually moving forward with a big-name star grabbing the absurdly huge cape and demonic chains. According to Deadline, Jamie…

It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the waning hours of your productivity with some pop culture ephemera pulled from the depths of YouTube.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week, as the galaxy’s most popular smuggler returns to the big screen in Solo: A Star Wars Story, we’re taking a look at some of our favorite movies about charismatic crooks and cons. 

The very first photo in Lizzy Goodman’s recent oral history, Meet Me In The Bathroom, is of Stewart Lupton smoking a cigarette, framed by enormous angel wings. It’s a fitting image to begin Goodman’s story of New York’s rock rebirth in the early 2000s—a story that really began several years earlier, when the…

After a downright disastrous run-up, Arrested Development’s fifth season is now available on Netflix. If you weren’t turned off by that now-infamous New York Times interview or that ho-hum fourth season, you’re likely going to want to celebrate this batch of episodes, and what better way than with some frozen bananas?…

It’s always fun when a phone number or website URL mentioned in a movie or TV show actually works, as the How I Met Your Mother fans who spent hours watching the Slap Bet countdown know, but nothing is as soul-crushing as testing out a phone number or URL you heard in a movie and realizing that it doesn’t go anywhere.…

Just hours after Roseanne Barr posted a racist “joke” about former Obama administration adviser Valerie Jarrett, ABC has canceled the well-received Roseanne revival. The announcement came in a very brief and very clear comment from ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey: “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is…

Director Susanna White’s new film, Woman Walks Ahead, follows the relationship between famed warrior and holy man Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes) and his confidant and portrait painter Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain). Set in the late 19th century, Woman Walks Ahead uses the dispossession of the Lakota people’s…

David Sedaris is now 61, and his latest collection of essays meets aging and death head-on. The first sentence of the first chapter tells the reader that, despite a whole industry telling you otherwise, there are few joys in hitting middle age. Sedaris has always written darkly comic material, but in Calypso he…

When could $100 million possibly be disappointing? When, and perhaps only when, you’re talking about one of the biggest blockbuster franchises of all time. Solo, Disney’s attempt to engineer an origin story for the most devil-may-care smuggler in the galaxy far, far away, predictably topped the box office this…

The taxonomy of internet animals is ever-changing. For years, we’ve attempted an agreement over basic terms, speaking the Esperanto of “good boys,” “doggos,” and “floofs.” We’ve settled, too, on behavioral classifications involving “boops” and “borks,” “bleps” and “sploots.” No less important is our own forecast from…

The Bluth family is not renowned for its strong memories. Even when they’re not intentionally trying to scrub something from their brain pans, they’re blanking on the name of their kid’s girlfriend or forgetting (multiple times) a surprise party for their mother. It’s a function of their shared narcissism, the…

Like someone butchering “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” at karaoke, Lucasfilm’s THX (or THUD) “Deep Note” intro exists solely to pummel your sonic sensibilities into oblivion. The ambient build, the acceleration, the endless, spine-rattling climax, and slow fade all serve to evoke a spaceship’s launch into space,…

Back in 2016, we reported that Zack Snyder was interested in making an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead once he had finally finished with Justice League. Snyder said he appreciates the original book as “a thesis on the creative process and what it is to create something,” prompting us to theorize that his…

Fan speculation and theorizing used to be an optional indulgence when it came to our favorite TV shows, but Westworld has quickly turned this type of supplemental reading into a necessity. How else are we supposed to know what the hell is going on? This week’s jarring switches to widescreen were particularly…

David Sedaris’ long literary career continues with the publication of Calypso, a new book of essays out today. It’s both his warmest and darkest book to date, commingling his typical observational humor with a more introspective examination of family, aging, and death. Sedaris answered our 11 Questions, discussing…

Hype can be especially lethal when it’s applied to horror movies, but now that three separate members of the A.V. Club staff have all seen (and really liked) Hereditary, we feel confident when we say: This movie is going to fuck you up. Not only is it artfully shot and wonderfully acted, the story contains some …

This morning Roseanne Barr tweeted what was, even by the low standards of her own Twitter account, a uniquely bad and tasteless joke. (Here it is: “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” meaning Obama administration advisor Valerie Jarrett.) She pretty quickly deleted the tweet, apologized for it as…

It may be even harder to get into the swing of things post-long weekend today, especially if you’re a caffeine fan: Starbucks is closing 8,000 stores nationwide to under racal bias training after the incident in which two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia branch. Participating stores will close around 2 or 3…

This coming weekend, The Lonely Island will perform at the San Francisco comedy festival Clusterfest in what they’re billing as their “first concert ever.” But, before that, they’ve got to do what any musician worth their salt does before a big show—they’ve got to warm up. That’s exactly what they were doing Sunday…

Whether it’s thanks to an anarchic spirit inherited from the country’s lawless origins or simply an excess of world-class craftspeople left idle in the lulls between American blockbuster productions, Australia tends to excel at low-budget genre movies. Take Melbourne’s own Leigh Whannell, best known as James Wan’s …

Fantasy stories typically break from reality to create spectacular worlds, but the new Dark Horse Comics miniseries, Modern Fantasy, seeks to fold relatable real-world struggles into a story inspired by Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy adventures. Written by Rafer Roberts with art by Kristen Gudsnuk, the title…

We’ve certainly heard a lot about Secretary of the Treasury (and King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword executive producer) Steven Mnuchin since his appointment last year. Other, non-Mnuchin sources have detailed his misuse of public funds, inner turmoil over allowing a heroic abolitionist’s face on American money, and …

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