Новости за 24.08.2018

The upcoming sci-fi thriller Await Further Instructions just released its trailer, and things are not looking good for this family. The A.V. Club saw the film at the Cinepocalypse Film Festival and called it “a dark little parable” with a “wild ending”—something for fans of The Twilight Zone’s bleaker episodes.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. Because it’s 1998 Week here at The A.V. Club, we’re looking back at some of the movies of that bygone year.

His entertaining new abduction thriller Searching comes out this weekend (and goes nationwide next week), and there’s the ongoing drama over what’s going to happen with Star Trek 4, but John Cho isn’t just sitting around waiting for Quentin Tarantino to let Sulu unleash a string of f-bombs in space.

A lot of the buzz surrounding Netflix’s latest TV original, The Innocents, seems focused on comparing the show to Stranger Things. From a corporate perspective the comparison is smart. It’s a straightforward way to reel in an audience that might otherwise shy away from genre shows with sci-fi influences. Outside that…

It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of a few precious minutes of your rapidly depleting leisure time with some pop culture ephemera pulled from the depths of YouTube.

It’s Friday, which means we’re all amped for the weekend. But nobody is likely more excited than people who love to get up in arms about things they couldn’t give a shit about if the politics were reversed, because they get more excited than anyone, anywhere, about anything. Fire up the hypocritical outrage machine!

“Slate’s breakout political history podcast is back for a second season, this time tackling the Clinton impeachment saga blow by blow. The sexual relationship between Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky came to light a generation after Watergate assumed an air of mythology, forcing Americans to again…

While the Bond franchise hunts for a new director (and maybe even Daniel Craig’s successor), Amazon is hoping to move from niche programming to blockbuster productions with the help of a different household name. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, from Lost alums Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland, presents the fifth screen…

Andrew Bujalski’s delightful new comedy, Support The Girls, goes behind the curtain of a fictional Hooters-esque ‘sports bar with curves,’ the aptly named Double Whammies. The film follows general manager Lisa, played by Regina Hall, as her optimism towards her job is continuously tested over the course of one trying…

This post discusses major plot points from Crazy Rich Asians.

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What are the challenges of being married to a Berserker Orc? Hum, the central protagonist of Boom! Studios’ Coda, is a former bard married to a woman created for the sole purpose of wreaking havoc on the world in the name of a dark lord, and he’s desperate to find a cure for the fury that instinctually overtakes her…

Since 1980, confessed murderer and J. D. Salinger fanatic Mark David Chapman has enjoyed the treatment he deserves— serving time. First, he was imprisoned in Attica, and now he’s in the maximum security Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, New York, where he reportedly enjoys reading and writing short stories. There,…

It was only two days ago we reported director Danny Boyle had dropped out of directing the next James Bond film, over the old “everyone walks away clean” reason of creative differences. But there’s still a release date of November 2019 producers want to keep, which means the race is on to find a replacement.

Of the many lessons I’ve learned the hard way in my life, one of the hardest has been this: Never take a job for the story. Sure, you’ll win every game of “two truths and a lie” at every icebreaker function for the rest of your life if you take a job on The Jerry Springer Show, as I did when I was 22 years old and…

This week’s question is in honor of 1998 Week here at The A.V. Club:

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Recently, we reported on Winona Ryder’s revelation that she and Keanu Reeves may have accidentally gotten married on the set of Bram Stoker’s Dracula all those many years ago. While those nuptials appear to have been less than official, it’s clear from this recent press junket interview for their new film Destination…

Over the course of his brief political career, Donald Trump’s tactics have been generously called “thuggish.” His puffed-up bravado and thinly veiled, clumsy threats directed at opponents are like cheap imitations of the mobster characters of classic cinema. As a citizen it is, to say the least, embarrassing.…

Early in Operation Finale, a docudrama about the capture of fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann (played by Ben “Man Of A Thousand Nationalities” Kingsley), Eichmann endures a grilling from Mossad and Shin Bet agents, who’ve just grabbed him outside the Argentina home where he’s been hiding in fairly plain sight for 15 years.…

Look, nobody needed a remake of Suspiria, Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo masterpiece, but at least the one we’re getting comes from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. From what we’ve heard and seen, the casting, gore, and horror are all on point, making for what sure looks like one of the year’s best horror…

Some fast food giants try, with just a whiff of desperation, to make you forget what they are. We have salads now! they cry; we are putting bacon in our tacos, y’all love bacon right? they plead. But Taco Bell knows exactly what it is, and what it is, is a place where you go at one in the morning when you are really…

Dril has released a book of his shitty tweets. It’s 420 pages, obviously, and features a bunch of original images from the broader Dril-verse. He’s promised a second book of new material early next year.

Castle Rock is part of the recent wave of excellent Stephen King adaptations that includes last year’s cinematic takes on It and Gerald’s Game. What sets Castle Rock apart, and what might generally push viewers over the love-hate divide, comes down to how distracted they’ll be with picking up on the plethora of Easter…

Ariana Grande illustrates once again that she is an unparalleled pop chameleon on Sweetener, while KIN splits the difference between late-period Mogwai and the band’s previous film work, and Midori Takada & Lafawndah pair up for the tightly conceived and elegantly performed Le Renard Bleu. Plus Interpol, The Lemon…

Are farts funny? History has long tussled with this question, and it won’t be answered today. However, if farts are or can be funny, then they are certainly funny in the story of “Paul Flart,” a 31-year-old security guard at a Florida hospital who has quietly documented his many, many farts on Instagram for the past…

There was some major anxiety among Laura Kinney fans when Marvel announced that the she would be stepping down from the Wolverine role and going back to her old X-23 codename in a new solo series. Tom Taylor’s run on All-New Wolverine gave Laura a new sense of purpose as she took over for the deceased Logan, and…