Новости за 02.08.2018

Despite all evidence to the contrary, like the fact that the app that drives its entire business has been shut down multiple times, that the service is no longer as useful as it was just a few weeks ago, and that the company’s stock has recently had some disastrous turns, MoviePass parent company Helios And Matheson…

Jaden Smith, the young actor, musician, artist, and starchild of the endless cosmos, is known for tweeting fascinatingly bizarre nonsense. Somehow, even amidst the oceans of indiscernible garbage and bot-ridden missives barfed onto Twitter each day, Smith stands out. He is king of Mystery Mountain, figuratively…

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.

Over the past week, the world has been enthralled by the saga of Jerome Jacobson, an ex-cop who rigged the McDonald’s Monopoly game and spent years distributing winning game pieces to friends and strangers as part of a scam that supposedly netted him somewhere around $24 million. To make it even more dramatic,…

Thanks to some interesting choices this spring, the discussion during today’s Fox executive session at the Television Critics Association summer press tour turned to the network’s Last Man Standing revival. There was a certain business sense to the whole deal, given that the Tim Allen-led “comedy” is produced by Fox’s…

Why does Nintendo even bother? It spends millions of dollars every year developing new Super Mario games, convincing people to spend $80 on Nintendo Switch controllers, and producing new stuffed toys based on Pokémon, when all it really needs to do is come up with new ways to sell people the same games they’ve been…

The CW’s Charmed reboot is scheduled to debut this fall with an all-new trio of actresses—Madeline Mantock, Melonie Diaz, and Sarah Jeffery—harnessing the Power Of Three. Jane The Virgin’s Jennie Snyder Urman is behind this reimagining of Constance M. Burge’s popular WB series, which has already received some…

Robert Englund knows he’s “too old” to play horror icon Freddy Krueger anymore, and has resigned himself to playing “old doctors and shit” in his twilight years. That said, he still thinks there’s a place for Freddy in the modern horror landscape, and he’s got a vision for the character that transcends a single actor. …

Mission: Impossible Fallout, the sixth movie of the spy franchise which hit theaters last weekend, has been blowing people away with its incredible action. One of the best sequences in the movie is a motorcycle and car chase through the streets of Paris. Here’s how it was pulled off.

Because why should Charlize Theron have all the fun, Jessica Chastain is preparing to kick some asses (or, more accurately, put a bullet through some asses) in the upcoming action movie Eve. And because you also have to make your own opportunities in this life, Chastain will also produce the film under her shingle…

Greetings, fellow kids! After about 15 minutes of browsing skate lingo glossaries online, we’ve decided to spare ourselves—and you—the indignity of attempting to use said terminology as if we had any idea what we were talking about. Instead, we’ll just let you know that Crystal Moselle, director of the 2015…

When it started, The Venture Bros. was an unsubtle parody of Jonny Quest, centering on a super-scientist, a burly bodyguard, and a couple of rambunctious teens who love a good adventure but are also just a hair too naïve to really survive for long on their own. Calling it a Jonny Quest parody now is almost comically…

It’s been five years since Vampire Weekend released Modern Vampires Of The City, but frontman Ezra Koenig might finally be ready to release something other than the Netflix anime he made with Jaden Smith. As reported by DIY, Vampire Weekend has just signed a new record deal with Sony, and the company has announced…

With the third season of HBO’s animated series Animals just around the corner, The A.V. Club jumped into a swan boat on Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles with creators Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano to talk about the upcoming slate of episodes. While on the water, we learned Bob Balaban loves to rap, Jameela Jamil is a…

Last week, we reported that Kelsey Grammer had taken a break from doing Transformers movies and playing amoral lawyers to consider rebooting his old sitcom Frasier. The actor was just in “the exploratory stage” regarding how to go about restarting the series, but still, the tossed salads and scrambled eggs were…

Donald Trump Jr. isn’t shy about the things he hates—things like accurate descriptions of socialism, Hollywood being mean to his papa, legible depictions of Barack Obama, and, last but far from least, visible skin imperfections.

Most of us seek out new movies by genre or actor or filmmaker. Every now and then, though, a production studio emerges that demonstrates a certain quality or POV that makes them a go-to for film fans. Blumhouse, the horror studio behind hits like Get Out and The Purge franchise, is one such company, and the still…

How on earth has it taken seven years for a WarioWare game to end up on the 3DS? If anything, a sweeping, deranged retrospective like WarioWare Gold shows this Swiss army knife of a device was tailor-made for the series. Nintendo has always used WarioWare as a testing ground for all the wacky input gimmicks it…

On this day in 1924, James Baldwin, writer, essayist, and eloquent commentator on the interwoven oppressions of race, sex, class, and sexuality in America, was born in New York City. And to commemorate the occasion, director Barry Jenkins has unveiled the trailer for If Beale Street Could Talk, the follow-up to his …

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Our beloved freelancer and Wiki Wormhole scribe, Mike Vago, has published his fifth book and first novel. It’s called Selfdestructible, and it’s available on Amazon now.

The 2008 Pixar classic WALL-E has a pretty straightforward message: Take care of the Earth or it will become a trash-filled environmental disaster zone. But in this new 12-minute video, Matt Patrick a.k.a. MatPat of the YouTube channel The Film Theorists complicates things by digging into the…

Pop Chart Lab’s latest creation is a scratch-off poster commemorating 49 essential graphic novels. Thy stylized covers are drab and grey at first, but when you scratch them off as you collect the comics, they reveal more color and surprising details. Get it for 20% off this week (including any bundled frames or poster…

So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters across the nation, and arriving in increasingly high volumes on streaming platforms like Netflix. How’s a voracious moviegoer to keep up? That’s where The A.V. Club comes in. The first week of every…

Explaining that even she needs to do better when addressing the issue of male sexual assault, Samantha Bee brought on a surprise guest to help out on last night’s Full Frontal. And, sure, Bee’s un-ironic #MenToo hashtag is meant more to redress the fact that she talks more about “lady stuff” than, say, making those…