Новости за 05.07.2018

Earlier this week, we reported that AMC had chosen a replacement moderator for its Walking Dead panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, tapping frequent Talking Dead guest Yvette Nicole Brown to take over the spot recently vacated by Chris Hardwick. (Hardwick stepped away from the panels at the same time that AMC…

Robby Müller, the Dutch cinematographer who shot such modern classics as Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas (1984), Lars Von Trier’s Dancer In The Dark (1996), and a number of films by indie stalwart Jim Jarmusch, has died. As The Guardian reports, Müller died at home in Amsterdam after a long illness. He was 78.

The French documentarian and writer Claude Lanzmann, whose 1985 magnum opus Shoah stands as the medium’s definitive meditation on the Holocaust, has died. One of the greatest documentaries ever made, the nine-and-1/2-hour film took more than a decade to complete; it was the pièce de résistance of a long career. A…

We love a good procedural here in the United States, almost as much as we love cigars, bananas, and other similarly shaped objects, but Netflix is developing a TV show for Austria, Belgium, Finland, and Hungary that sounds so much like an American procedural that we’re a little offended that the idea didn’t come from…

After wrapping up his turn as the sociopathic Lee Russell on HBO’s Vice Principals, Walton Goggins has spent 2018 taking on a couple villainous roles—Vogel in the rebooted Tomb Raider film, and Sonny Burch in this week’s Ant Man And The Wasp. He’s also had more time to focus on Mulholland Distilling, a spirits company…

Nobody needed a sequel to The Shining, but Stephen King gave us one in 2013 with the underwhelming Doctor Sleep, which pivoted from the ghostly, existential horrors of an isolated hotel to (checks notes) a band of horny carny vampires. Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Hush) is currently adapting it, but if you’re…

Recently, Scarlett Johansson signed on to play real-life crime boss Dante “Tex” Gill in Rupert Sanders’ Rub & Tug, despite the fact that the real Gill—who died in 2003—was a transgender man. To make matters worse, Sanders also directed Johansson in Ghost In The Shell, in which she portrayed a character who was…

This is admittedly less exciting than it used to be, but if you haven’t gotten your hands on an SNES Classic yet (and you definitely should!), it’s back in stock for $80 at Walmart right now, with free shipping.

Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson are tough dudes, which is why they’re the only dudes tough enough to get their spin-off from the Fast And Furious movies, but that also means that they need a suitably tough villain to face off against. Short of having them fight Ultron or some other CG-heavy baddie, Universal seems to…

We’ve written at length about 2014's Unfriended, a movie that earned our love largely by being significantly better than the low bar initially set by its premise—found-footage horror about a bunch of unlikable teenagers hanging out and dying on Skype. Buoyed by similar word-of-mouth success, the film’s sequel has been…

The #resistance—that loosely connected group of people ideologically opposed to the Trump administration—has had its share of strange bedfellows, from morally outraged lifelong Republicans to billion-dollar corporations willing to take a stand against human rights violations. But, as reported by The Daily Dot, it…

Elaine Benes was a woman ahead of her time in so many ways. The latest example: She foretold the coming of McDonald’s new breakfast menu item, Muffin Toppers, in a Seinfeld episode 21 years ago. Muffin Toppers, for those not in the know, are the top halves of muffins detached from their softer bases. Or, as Benes put…

One of the most common complaints about any streaming service—especially as more and more content becomes spread out across different outlets—is that all of this stuff is just too darn cheap. Month after month, some people still have money left over for things like food and medicine, which is simply not ideal in 2018.…

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Ahmed Best, the actor who portrayed the much-despised Jar Jar Binks in the also-despised Star Wars prequels, has been fairly open and self-deprecating about his experience with the franchise. As recently as last year, he was giving good-natured interviews about how he dealt with the abuse he received, and saying he …

Artists have always had a complicated relationship with critics, but that’s gotten immeasurably worse in a culture where a) everybody now has a public platform and b) everybody has a direct line to the artist. Despite getting mostly positive notices for The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson, for example, has seen his movie (and…

Tomorrow, Netflix unleashes White Fang on the world. The latest reimagining of Jack London’s classic novel—who can forget Randal Kleiser’s take starring a baby-faced Ethan Hawke—Netflix’s White Fang trades live-action for animation, giving Oscar-winning director Alexandre Espigares an all-star voice cast that…

Many Americans on the leftward end of the political spectrum had trouble mustering up much enthusiasm for the 4th of July this year, given that their country hasn’t given them a lot to be proud of since, oh, November 2016. One of those Americans who spent the day deep in contemplation was apparently, of all people,…

The Adventure Zone podcast has been delighting listeners for years thanks to its blend of exciting fantasy storytelling and sharp comedy, and it’s moving into a new dimension with the release of a new graphic novel from First Second. Clint, Griffin, Justin, and Travis McElroy team up with artist Carey Pietsch to adapt…

One of the biggest criticisms leveled against the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that the films are too similar—that they, for example, too frequently end with the hero battling some (usually) forgettable supervillain or army in an orgy of CGI destruction. There’s some validity to this, but it overlooks how varied these…

Back in 2012, Donald Trump posted a video online criticizing Sacha Baron Cohen for dumping “ashes” on Ryan Seacrest during a prank on the Oscars red carpet. The then-real estate mogul and professional blowhard called the comedian a “third-rate character” who he wishes would have been “punched in the face so many times …

Helming a late-night show is one of the great feats of comedy—to show up, more or less, five days a week; deliver a timely monologue; riff spiritedly with your bandleader; do a couple stupid skits or games and seem to enjoy them; and then endure a gauntlet of press-touting interviews, all broadcast nation-wide.…

Three and a half years after the hack that exposed thousands of employees’ personal information, 50 screenplays for upcoming Sony films, and the existence of a Men In Black/21 Jump Street crossover, Sony Pictures is once again scrambling to mop up a digital leak. But this time, the hack is less sinister and more cringe…

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With 126 local dimming zones, Dolby Vision HDR support (that’s the good one), and built-in Chromecast, Vizio’s 2017 P-Series XLED TVs are stunners, and you can grab the 55" version from Walmart for $700 right now, which is at least $100 less than elsewhere on the web.