Новости за 09.06.2018

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This morning in Los Angeles, Electronic Arts kicked off E3 2018 with a press conference in which they announced a new Star Wars game, an Unravel sequel, and took a longer look at BioWare’s upcoming RPG Anthem, which is out next February.

The upcoming BBC His Dark Materials adaptation is filling up on mutant DNA all of a sudden; earlier this year, we reported that Logan star Dafne Keen would star in the film in the central role as Lyra, and now we’ve learned that a Professor X—if not necessarily the one Keen starred alongside in James Mangold’s…

Danny Kirwan, whose songwriting talents and guitar skills helped transition the frequently fractious Fleetwood Mac from its earlier, blues-based roots to the rock-pop mega-outfit it eventually became, has died. Kirwan—who served as the band’s guitarist, singer, and occasional frontman from 1968 to 1972—was 68.

Depriving us all of the abduction comedy, murderous board games, and smarmy, Peter Serafinowicz-voiced floating cubes we’ve come to expect from the two-season series, TBS has announced that it’s canceling People Of Earth. This, despite the fact that the network actually handed the series a renewal order last fall,…

With its vibrant color scheme, superficially wacky characters, and Florida setting, Claws appeared to be the perfect summer show when it premiered in June 2017. But as its first season unfolded, the TNT drama revealed itself to be more Venus flytrap than Southern blossom. The uniformly great performances—including…

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…

I love monsters of all sorts, but some of my favorites are the traditional monsters from Japanese folklore collectively referred to as yōkai. These creatures vary wildly in size and temperament from anthropomorphized household objects like karakasa—a lost umbrella with one eye and a long, floppy tongue that hops…

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Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas has devoted its entire first season to a wryly comic dissection of the justice system in America, and the ways in which some forward-thinking people are working to rethink the current policing model. Always guided by the soft-spoken yet uncompromising Cenac, the HBO series—recently and…

Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where the film promos and teasers glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, destined to be lost in time, like tears in the rain. (Time to click.) Today, we’ve got Damien Chazelle trying to eke drama out of one of the most notable success stories in all of human history, some…

Shonda Rhimes has just announced her first new show since making the big move to Netflix, with Variety reporting that the Shondaland mastermind is adapting a version of New York Magazine’s recent piece “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People” for the screen.

Quentin Tarantino is apparently bound and determined to cast basically everybody in his latest film project, the sprawling Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Just today, Tarantino announced that Al Pacino was signing on to the film’s cast for his first collaboration with the Kill Bill director; that came after a wider…

Quentin Tarantino is apparently bound and determined to cast basically everybody in his latest film project, the sprawling Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Just today, Tarantino announced that Al Pacino was signing on to the film’s cast for his first collaboration with the Kill Bill director; that came after a wider…

“What’s going on with John Lasseter?” remains an open question in Hollywood at the moment; the Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar CCO—whose work on Toy Story and Pixar’s other CGI charmers has been foundational for American animation over the last 20 years—took a mostly talked-around leave of absence last year…

It makes a certain inevitable sense that Kanye West would be a Rick & Morty fan. First—and, we’ll admit, it gets harder to remember this part with every passing day, as the platonic image of the show’s “Pickle Rick!”-screaming fanbase continually threatens to overshadow its actual merits—the Adult Swim series remains…

Does Hereditary live up to the hype? Or is its scariness a matter of personal taste? On this edition of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd (who has been raving about the movie since the beginning of the year) and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss the Sundance horror sensation, which gives…

Stranger Things and Hellboy star David Harbour seems like a pretty cool guy; he does funny commercials, he helps kids take senior photos, he’s apparently happy to let Twitter retweets dictate every aspect of his day-to-day life. But a dark question lurks beneath all of Harbour’s charming antics: Does he act handsome …

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.