Новости за 01.06.2018

After facing widespread outcry from throughout the music industry, Spotify has officially stepped back from its controversial “hateful conduct” policy on artist curation. Spurred at least in part by the #MuteRKelly movement—which aims to reduce the public profile of the R&B singer, who’s been accused of abusive and…

Kelsey Grammer is branching out in his choice of TV acting gigs. Rather than playing an arrogant amoral politician like he did in Boss, or an arrogant amoral studio chief like in The Last Tycoon, or an arrogant amoral lawyer like in Partners, the actor is playing—actually, wait, the last one is pretty identical to his…

Earlier this year, Reggie Watts brought his adaptation of the British game show Taskmaster to Comedy Central. As the titular figure, Watts challenges celebrity contestants—the first season starred Lisa Lampanelli, Freddie Highmore, Ron Funches, Dillon Francis, and Kate Berlant—to perform simple but bizarre tasks in…

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. 

Brian De Palma has been the subject of renewed attention in recent years, despite not having released a film since 2013's Passion. (That’s thanks at least in part to the documentary De Palma, which provided an engaging window into the filmmaker’s career.) And now, it sounds like the director is ready to scare the crap…

FX has ordered a third season of its psychedelic brain-tickler of a superhero drama Legion, the network announced in a press release this afternoon. The renewal comes with praise for series creator Noah Hawley, with FX programming co-president Eric Schrier saying in a statement, “we are incredibly proud of Noah…

“On her last album, 2013’s The Worse Things Get…, Case adopted a more experimental, sprawling musical style, and we see some of that in the saxophone and rhythmic scat-like vocals on ‘Halls Of Sarah,’ and in the extended instrumental outro of ‘Curse Of The I-5 Corridor.’ This time around, however, Case’s restless…

There’s a lot going on in Pose, the new FX drama that explores the origins of New York’s ball culture, but little of it feels superfluous. The opening sequence alone is packed with introductions, finery fit for queens, a heist, choreography—and every entertaining bit of it is significant. Not a single stitch is…

This is a dumb marketing campaign. It is a deceptive marketing campaign. It is a (somewhat entertainingly) petty marketing campaign. But hey, we’re writing about it, so Papa John’s: 1, The Takeout: 0.

We’ve come a long way from The Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. Luxury, the likes of which we once fawned over, now rings a sour note in a society where wealth has become increasingly more concentrated. The conglomerates are converging, and the dream of achieving one’s own swimming pool of gold drifts further and…

Haifaa al-Mansour’s new film, Mary Shelley, tells the story of the world-famous novelist when she was know as Mary Godwin. Starring Elle Fanning as the titular author, the film begins when Godwin is just 18, and follows the events in her life that inspired her to write Frankenstein, jump-starting the science fiction…

Need something to tide yourself over until Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom comes out? Digital copies of the original Jurassic Park is on sale for $4 for Prime members, the same price as a time-limited rental.

Every two weeks, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it is Love And Rockets #5. Written and drawn by Jaime Hernandez (Whoa, Nellie!, Penny Century) and Gilbert Hernandez (Assassinistas, Blubber), this issue finishes a heartfelt journey down memory lane that builds on over 35…

When we reported back in February that the upcoming superhero film Silver & Black had found its screenwriters, we expressed more than a little skepticism that a movie which has only just hired its writers would be able to make a scheduled release date of February 8, 2019, at the time less than a year away. As it turns…

Lines can get quite blurry in American Animals, documentarian Bart Layton’s inaugural jaunt into the world of fictional filmmaking. Well, partially—the film combines interviews with Warren Lipka, Spencer Reinhard, Chas Allen, and Eric Borsuk, four college students who were quickly busted after an impulsive heist on…

In a way, Ye is what everyone wanted. The word “Trump” appears nowhere on the album. Kanye only acknowledges his risible claim that “slavery was a choice” obliquely, and with regrets (“I ain’t finna talk about it another four centuries”). He doesn’t attempt to fit the hateful rhetoric of his YouTube thought leaders in…

Plenty of people know about the perils of nostalgia, but what about the nostalgia of peril? That’s what Action Point leads with: Johnny Knoxville, done up in old-age makeup Bad Grandpa-style, fondly reminiscing over those halcyon late-’70s days of bodily injury, before so many “rules” (and, presumably, Ralph Nader)…

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…

Having spent the majority of his career directing documentary film, Bart Layton makes his feature debut with American Animals. Based on a true story, the film follows four young friends (American Horror Story’s Evan Peters, Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan, Glee’s Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson) who plot to steal millions from…

Mark Waid’s return to Captain America takes the name of Marvel’s Legacy initiative to heart, exploring the hero’s place in the present before jumping to the future to show how his legacy withstands the test of time. Steve Rogers previously joined a team of rebels to defeat a despot that had taken over the United…

Marvel or DC? When it comes to films, that answer is pretty clear. Though it’s had plenty of bumps along the way—Age Of Ultron, anyone?—the Marvel Cinematic Universe has proven itself to be clear-eyed, emotional, and just a lot of damn fun. The DC universe, on the other hand, is a slog, with iconic characters like…

[Warning: Spoilers for a movie that’s been out for a while now. If you haven’t seen Avengers: Infinity War yet, but are excited enough about it to not want any spoilers, what’s the hold-up?]

By the h’bhor of Vaksis, fantasy languages can be a great way to bring a sense of believable mystery to fictional worlds. Whether Game of Thrones’ guttural Dothraki, The Lord of the Rings’ lilting Elvish, or the garbled throat-clearing of Star Wars’ Wookie-talk, hearing characters speak in made-up tongues helps…

Following yesterday’s announcement that their new album The Now Now will be hitting stores at the end of this month, Gorillaz dropped a music video for their new summer single, “Humility.” While the track itself features the stylings of jazz and funk guitar legend George Benson, the video features none other than Jack…