Новости за 09.08.2018

As teased back in March, Netflix has officially announced Patriot Act, a new talk show from comedian Hasan Minhaj that will premiere on October 28. The weekly show already has a 32-episode order, which a press release says is “unprecedented,” and it makes Minhaj the first Indian-American host of a weekly comedy show…

Ken Marino’s newest movie Dog Days tells an interconnected story between people of Los Angeles and their dogs, as they uncover life lessons and form new relationships—it’s basically Love, Actually with dogs. Ahead of the film’s premiere, we sat down with the cast—Marino, Eva Longoria, Adam Pally, Vanessa Hudgens, Nina…

Everybody has at least a mild interest in true crime stories these days, but those tend to revolve around horrifying acts of violence or chilling mysteries about people who have disappeared and left heartbroken families behind. One kind of true crime story that doesn’t get nearly enough attention, meanwhile, is…

It’s been three years since Appleton, Wisconsin punk trio Tenement released its sprawling, grandiose double album Predatory Headlights—and we would know, as we named it one of our best albums of 2015 so far in June of that year. The band has released another studio album, The Self-Titled Album, two movie soundtracks,…

The grim, apocalyptic stakes of the Cold War had a lasting effect on the genre of science fiction, which turned from occasionally offering an optimistic view of the future to almost exclusively speculating about how fucked the human race was. In his newest video, YouTuber Ryan Hollinger attempts to suss out which work…

Summers, as we all know, are for hula-hooping and twisting to some really boss surf rock with the gang. If you, between gulps of malted milk at the soda shoppe, ever wonder where these traditions came from, you’re in luck: The Royal Ocean Film Society has put together a video all about early ‘60s beach party movies.…

Back in June, Sony pulled Spider-Man-adjacent superhero spin-off Silver And Black from its schedule, a few months after hiring a couple screenwriters and penciling it in for release in February (which seemed very unlikely at the time). Getting pulled from the schedule is far from a death sentence, since it seemed like…

Yesterday, the film world united in one big, “wait, what?,” when the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences announced the creation of a new award for “Best Popular Film,” a.k.a. the Consolation Oscar for Dum-Dum Movies. It was a return to the Oscars’ roots, where in 1929 the Academy gave out awards for…

It sounds like an easy enough cash grab, making a PG-13 Screen Gems horror picture about the Slender Man, the contemporary folktale told beside the modern-day campfire of the internet. But Slender Man actually has rough terrain to creep through; it could easily stumble into manic anti-technology paranoia (the message…

Weezer songs have always had a sense of humor, but ever since the general public refused to recognize the greatness of Pinkerton and its inescapable emotions, Rivers Cuomo and the rest of the Weezers have shied away from anything too real or serious. Because of that, it seems like modern Weezer’s destiny is to become…

Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s new documentary RBG—an effusive celebration of the life and career of Supreme Court Justice/feminist hero/meme Ruth Bader Ginsberg—made its home debut on digital services earlier this week, ahead of its Blu-ray and DVD release on August 28. To commemorate the occasion, we’re teaming up…

Logan Paul’s proven time and again that not only can he take a nutshot (or 10), but that he’s stupid enough to do just about anything, whether that be blatantly disrespecting an entire culture or giddily filming the time he stumbled upon a suicide victim while wearing a Yoda hat. Despite making a documentary that will…

If you haven’t heard yet, Double Dare returned to Nickelodeon earlier this summer, the cable network’s second attempt at reviving the family game show. While the basic formula remains the same—two teams compete to win prizes by answering trivia questions and completing the notoriously smelly obstacle course—they’ve…

This year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival was already shaping up to be excellent, and today’s announcement of the fest’s famed Midnight Madness section adds two sequels we’ve been talking about quite a bit on The A.V. Club: The world premieres of David Gordon Green’s Halloween and Shane Black’s …

Back in the Food Network’s heyday, people went nuts for celebrity chefs. If you had some on-screen charisma, a repertoire of top-notch recipes, and a back pocket full of fun catchphrases, you could build yourself a little celebrity-chef empire that spilled out from the television screen into brick-and-mortar Michelin-…

Margot Kidder, actress and advocate for mental health issues, died back in May, of what was then reported simply as “unknown causes.” Now, that death has officially been ruled a suicide.

Scales restaurant in Portland, Maine, received its usual seafood delivery last Friday, but noticed an outlier among the lobsters: a rare “cotton-candy” blue lobster that the restaurant says is literally one in a million. Scales’ chefs named the 1.5-pound lobster Blue Betty—we all know what happens when you name an…

Based, as the opening credits pronounce, on “some fo real, fo real shit,” Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman is a riotous mess of contradictions: a true story that seems too outrageous to actually be true, a period piece that’s also a red-alert bulletin on current affairs, a very funny comedy about the very unfunny business…

Rockstar Games has released a couple of trailers for Red Dead Redemption II already, but they were both centered on the story and the general tone of the game’s Wild West setting. Finally, with just a few months to go before we get what will hopefully be another heartbreaking ode to the pointlessness of cowboy…

It had seemed, for a brief moment, as though Mike Cernovich had pivoted away from far-right nationalism and conspiracy-fueled hate-mongering to pontificate on the blockchain. That all ended when the Twitter pundit and Pizzagate pusher loped back into headlines by successfully getting James Gunn fired from Guardians O…

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You’d be forgiven for furrowing your brow at David Gordon Green, perhaps best known for directing the 2008 stoner comedy Pineapple Express, directing a new Halloween sequel. But, if you’re familiar with the 43-year old’s work, this is just the latest pivot in a career filled with them. He’s impossible to pin down,…

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In 100 Episodes, The A.V. Club examines the shows that made it to that number, considering both how they advanced and reflected the medium and what contributed to their popularity and/or longevity. This entry covers Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., which has run for five seasons and 11o episodes from 2013 to now,…

Coming out to a standing ovation and wearing some snazzy red, white, and blue socks, CNN’s chief White House correspondent and journalist singled out for perhaps the most abuse from the Trump administration (although it’s a footrace), Jim Acosta sat down with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday’s Late Show. Noting that…