Новости за 26.07.2018

It’s of the nature of American TV to want to propagate itself. Given how soul-crushingly hard it can be to find a project that the wider watching public can connect with, once you’ve got one, you inevitably want to keep it going—even if the source material you’ve been basing it on runs out after the first or second…

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elizabeth Banks has finalized the core cast of the Charlie’s Angels reboot she’s directing. We already knew that Kristen Stewart would be playing one of the eponymous angels, and now we also know that she’ll be joined by Naomi Scott (Jasmine from the live-action Aladdin movie) and…

In a tantalizing glimpse of what TMZ might look like if it were run by Wes Anderson, today the indie world spat out its collective rice-milk latte (almond milk’s bad for the environment, you know) with the reveal in a new Vanity Fair profile that Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams and Phil Elverum, the…

The business of health is built on other people’s problems. This simple fact is reiterated in one form or another throughout Kirby Dick’s muckraking exposé of the medical devices industry, The Bleeding Edge; we see it in regulatory buck-passing, excruciating side effects, and a level of corporatization that, in Dick’s…

The headline pretty much says it all: The Eric Roberts/RZA team-up we never really thought about before this very moment but now desperately need is happening. Deadline reports that The Abbot and the madman have both signed on for co-starring roles in the upcoming indie film Hard Luck Love Song, which the trade…

Traditionally, there are three ways to translate a book series to the big screen. You can make one movie per book (Harry Potter), you can cram a bunch of books into one movie (The Dark Tower), or you can squeeze multiple movies out of one book (The Hobbit). The Harry Potter method is usually the most popular, but…

Pictured above is Romeo. Romeo is a Sehuencas water frog. He is also a big-time loser who can’t get laid.

No matter what the subject matter or who’s holding court on it, there’s a certain comforting format you know you’re going to get with an ASMR video. It’s going to involve soothing, whispered tones; some faint sound effects; an overarching sense of quiet that permeates all aspects of the clip. That is still true, but…

I had reservations about Castle Rock, Hulu’s second J.J. Abrams-produced stab at the Stephen King canon. (How much of 11.22.63 did you stick around for?) As a self-proclaimed King purist, I rankle at bad interpretations of his work, even when they come from his own hand: He may be the most consistently solid authors…

The Simpsons will never end, even if a super-intelligent computer has to keep generating episodes long after humanity has been eradicated, but showrunner Al Jean has an ending in mind anyway. Speaking with Geek Tyrant, Jean reiterated an idea he first pitched on Twitter back in 2014, suggesting that the final episode…

Photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has made a career out of documenting the latter-day Neros whose massive wealth has allowed them to keep fiddling as American society burns all around them. Last week, Generation Wealth, Greenfield’s documentary follow-up to her acclaimed 2012 film The Queen Of Versailles,…

As Jemaine Clement teased at the very beginning of the year, Flight Of The Conchords really is returning to HBO later this year for an hour-long special with him and Bret McKenzie. The duo confirmed the return in a predictably low-key and jokey teaser video, which features the two of them deciding which of them is…

Last Jedi director Rian Johnson is a smart guy. So smart, in fact, that when he saw a faction of alt-right trolls launching smear campaigns against people in the entertainment industry, he took proactive measures to make sure they couldn’t mine any false outrage from his social media past. Specifically, he deleted…

Around 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, the spirits of Trump-hating Americans were briefly lifted after the former The Apprentice host and current president’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—an honor that, as we like to reiterate as often as possible, means nothing more than the recipient was willing to pay $30,000…

There might be no more iconic character in pop culture than Darth Vader, whose sloping, passionless mask you’ll see on the heads of children and adults every Halloween. What’s wild is that, as Nerdwriter points out in his latest video essay, Vader is barely in the original Star Wars trilogy. Of that trilogy’s 6 and a…

Vanessa Carlton’s heart-on-sleeve 2002 hit “A Thousand Miles” long ago floated up into the ether of popular culture, where it became free reign for memes, remixes, parodies, and references. And yet that does not exactly explain how it became such ripe fodder for hip-hop in particular. It’s hard to pinpoint an exact…

The world of fried chicken has not one but two new celebrity players this week: Yesterday, we reported that Shaquille O’Neal will host a show called Big Chicken Shaq in which he opens a fried-chicken restaurant, and today we bring you news that Peroxide Prince Guy Fieri is launching a chain of casual chicken…

Now that he’s spent multiple years playing buff soldier guys in patriotic films and TV shows and enjoyed success as director of A Quiet Place, John Krasinski is ready to return to the role that made him famous: The Office’s resident camera-looking, prank-playing, shaggy-headed Jim Halpert.

What Are You Listening To? is a weekly run-down of what A.V. Club staffers are streaming. Listen to these songs and more on our Spotify playlist, updated weekly with new stuff.

What Are You Listening To? is a weekly run-down of what A.V. Club staffers are streaming. Listen to these songs and more on our Spotify playlist, updated weekly with new stuff.

One-time actress and full-time “wellness” guru Gwyneth Paltrow is the subject of a lengthy and cerebral New York Times Magazine profile from writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who finds herself both fascinated and overwhelmed by the manicured beauty encompassing seemingly every physical aspect of Paltrow’s life. That seems…

Belkin’s WeMo Mini Smart Plug recently got native Apple HomeKit support in a firmware update, and Amazon’s marking the occasion with a $25 sale.

For about as long as there have been movies, there have been special effects. That’s no exaggeration: The medium was only a few years old when people began finding ways to toy with the reality of what the motion-picture camera was capturing, creating tricks from quirks in photographic science. A century later, the…

After ripping America’s gun-lovin’, race-baitin’, late-night host-attackin’ gun lobby shills the National Rifle Association for—among other things all but guaranteed to leave a blood trail—using their army of relentless right-wing propagandists to “make a bunch of people in pussy hats look like Vietnam,” Samantha Bee…

After ripping America’s gun-lovin’, race-baitin’, late-night host-attackin’ gun lobby shills the National Rifle Association for—among other things all but guaranteed to leave a blood trail—using their army of relentless right-wing propagandists to “make a bunch of people in pussy hats look like Vietnam,” Samantha Bee…