Новости за 19.06.2018

Last week, we reported that Alex Kurtzman would be stepping in to replace Star Trek: Discovery showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg (who just announced that they’re leaving the show in the midst of production on its second season). According to Deadline, though, that’s just a small part of Kurtzman’s new …

Last week, we reported that Alex Kurtzman would be stepping in to replace Star Trek: Discovery showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg (who just announced that they’re leaving the show in the midst of production on its second season). According to Deadline, though, that’s just a small part of Kurtzman’s new …

Hank Azaria’s Brockmire is fueled by alcohol, which led the show’s second season to New Orleans, the city that best embodies Brockmire the man. Las Vegas is only a distant second, according to Hand Azaria. He and Tyrel Jackson Williams discuss shooting Brockmire in New Orleans, the most appropriate place for the show.

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.

Following the lead of Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane—who followed up his tweet about being “embarrassed” to work for Fox with a $2.5 million donation to NPR and its L.A. affiliate, KPCC, earlier today—a growing chorus of Fox creatives are criticizing the company for its role in such craven lies as “it’s not an…

The sanitized, dead-eyed milieu of corporate America will never not be a prime subject for satire, as evidenced by the enduring legacy of comedies like The Office and Office Space. Still, no amount of satire can capture the numbing mundanity of the office better than stock photography, which is, like any corporation,…

As its protagonist, the ex-con Cristiano (Aristides de Sousa), roves from job to job in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa’s Araby lingers at the threshold of one story after another. The point (both social and existential) is that the thresholds remain uncrossed, and that his life is…

Q: How many members of a ska band does it take to change a light bulb? A: 10—one guy to drop the bulb, and nine others to stand around yelling, “Pick it up pick it up pick it up!”

Emmys voting is currently underway, which means that a ripe crop of fantasy Emmys ballots and “who will win/who should win” speculation is on its way. Fueling those predictions will be today’s nominations for the TCA Awards, the annual honors bestowed by members of the Television Critics Association (like our own Erik…

A GrubHub driver in Anaheim, California, has been suspended after a customer reported that a laptop was taken from the front desk of an office. NBC 4 Los Angeles reports that 10 minutes after Austin Johnston, CEO of Busy Events Production Company, met a delivery person outside his business, an employee noticed that…

Assembling video game trailers is tricky business. With the ever-increasing scope and complexity of games, it can be difficult to begin to communicate what a project is in the narrow confines of a sizzle reel. Some publishers stick confidently to what they have and wrap it in a flashy package to get audiences…

By all accounts, John Travolta’s new John Gotti biopic, Gotti, is terrible. It’s been widely panned by critics, earning a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, and didn’t even make it into the top ten at the box office on its opening weekend. But the marketing team behind the film is determined to turn things around. They’ve…

Spoiler alert: Major plot points for Hereditary—including the ending—will be revealed below.

The Zellner brothers’ upcoming comedy/drama/Western hybrid Damsel is out to re-write two narratives: First, as yet another entry into the ongoing de-Twilighting of Robert Pattinson, and second, as a subversive counter-narrative to the Western cliché of the damsel in distress. That’s about all we’ll elaborate on that…

British sitcoms have been increasingly making their way across the pond—and not just old episodes of Are You being Served? that your mom watches on Sunday afternoons while casually mentioning she’d find it a hoot if you called her “mum.” There’s a robust market for distinctly British humor, and it’s about to get some…

Twitter typically fights among itself, users dunking on users dunking on users in an ouroboros of social-media frustration and anger. Sometimes this is justified; sometimes it isn’t. But one thing always remains true within its never-ending, tersely worded battlefield: the only way to unite Twitter—to accomplish a…

Toward the beginning of Boundaries, beleaguered single mom Laura (Vera Farmiga), her shiftless father Jack (Christopher Plummer), and her oddball teenage son, Henry (Lewis MacDougall), set off on a multi-state West Coast road trip in Jack’s old Rolls-Royce. An hour into the journey, they carelessly run out of gas.…

Mark Millar is a major force in Hollywood, making bank on film adaptations of his creator-owned comics Wanted, Kick-Ass, and The Secret Service (which became Kingsman on screen) and playing a significant role in superhero movies by writing the comic-book source material that inspired Marvel’s Avengers franchise and…

Last week, writer and comedian Keaton Patti showed how bots can be a force for good when he said he fed 1,000 hours of Olive Garden ads to a machine and asked it to write one of its own. The result was an absurdist nightmare in the mold of Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine, a terrorscape where the “pasta nachos” are “warm…

Last week, writer and comedian Keaton Patti showed how bots can be a force for good when he fed 1,000 hours of Olive Garden ads to a machine and asked it to write one of its own. The result was an absurdist nightmare in the mold of Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine, a terrorscape where the “pasta nachos” are “warm and…

Bruce Springsteen is no stranger to auctions. Just a few years ago, he was busy auctioning off his mom’s homemade lasagna to raise money for the Stand Up For Heroes charity event, because that’s what you do when you’re the Boss. Hell, just last night he appeared at the opening of a bowling alley, simply because it’s…

In an experience that she shares with many actors (and people from all walks of life) before her, Heather Locklear has had her struggles with addiction and mental illness. As The Los Angeles Times reports, that struggle has grown more serious: On Sunday, Locklear was reportedly taken to a Los Angeles hospital for a…

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When PSY’s “Gangnam Style” dropped in 2012, everything about it felt ephemeral. Funny enough to warrant attention yet unpredictable enough to sink its hooks, it lodged into the American psyche with the sensory magnetism of Beyoncé’s hand rotations in “Single Ladies.” With the globally accessible YouTube as its medium…