Новости за 27.08.2018

Guillermo del Toro’s Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark has cast some people to get scared, tell stories, and be in the dark. André Øvredal will direct Michael Garza (Wayward Pines), Austin Abrams (The Walking Dead), Gabriel Rush (Moonrise Kingdom), Austin Zajur (Fist Fight), and Natalie Ganzhorn (The Stanley Dynamic)…

Last month, a New Yorker exposé sent CBS stock tumbling after revealing a pattern of sexual misconduct from president Les Moonves that bled into the network’s lax company culture. CBS is currently undertaking its own independent investigation, but now it will need to contend with a shareholder class action lawsuit…

In February, Victoria Beckham squashed the dreams of anyone hoping for a great excuse to bust out their Union Jack platforms and pompom ponytail holders when she flatly denied that a Spice Girls reunion tour was in the works. “I’m not going on tour. The girls aren’t going on tour,” she told British Vogue. That was…

Asia Argento came under fire last week after a New York Times report alleged that the Italian actress agreed to pay $380,000 to a former co-star, Jimmy Bennett, who claims she had sexually assaulted him in 2013, when he was only 17 years old. On Tuesday, Argento denied the allegations, but says her ex-boyfriend, the…

Last year, DC Comics released six one-shot specials that featured DC superheroes and villains interacting with Looney Tunes characters. Elmer Fudd hunted Batman, the Martian Manhunter fought Marvin the Martian, and Lobo became the latest fool to chase down Road Runner. This goofy experiment has since become a…

Last year, it was announced that modern horror maverick Mike Flanagan (Hush, Gerald’s Game) would helm a “modern re-imagining” of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 horror novel The Haunting of Hill House for Netflix, though, aside from the casting of actress Carla Gugino and Game of Thrones’ Michiel Huisman, details have been…

NBC’s weepy mega-hit This Is Us really likes making people cry, killing its dad, and when possible, doing both at once. Luckily, it also likes great actors, which is no small part of why it’s so good, despite the whole dad-killing obsession.. Theirs is a crowded field—Mandy Moore was so good last season, Susan Kelechi…

Pretty much since Titanic premiered and rocketed to the top of box office charts, people have been debating whether or not Jack could have survived at the end of the film. In fact, an entire episode of Mythbusters was dedicated to figuring out if the floating door that saves Rose’s life could have supported both their…

American Horror Story is a series already burdened by excess, so it’s a bit exhausting to hear that the upcoming Apocalypse will fold in characters and plotlines from both Murder House and Coven, not to mention task Sarah Paulson with reprising her roles from both of those seasons in addition to playing an entirely…

This time last week, our box office report headline was “Crazy Rich Asians is a hit, duh.” That’s an apt, well-deployed “duh”—the movie greatly outperformed expectations, but as our own A.A. Dowd put it, “Hollywood once again underestimated the appeal of a crowd-pleaser starring people of color and the desire of an…

After its initial debut on the coasts, Sundance darling Madeline’s Madeline opens in dozens of locations across the U.S. this weekend, including at Chicago’s own historic Music Box theatre. (You can see a full list of cities, which also includes places like Austin, TX, Denver, CO, and and Atlanta, GA, here.) We’ve…

There is no shortage of podcasts relying on improv. Among those series that create off-the-cuff scenes and narratives, the fun is often less about the story and more about seeing what can be constructed in the moment, catching bursts of laughter when the players are entertaining themselves just as much as the…

[Note: This story contains plot details of Sharp Objects.]

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It’s a shame that Dead Cells’ launch was overshadowed by poor ethics in game journalism, because it’s a terrific game that you really ought to play. The physical Switch release is $5 off its usual $35 on Amazon right now, with an extra $.61 coupon that you can clip.

Last night, HBO released a new sizzle reel full of goodies old and new: Mahershala Ali in that True Detective trailer! Meryl Streep’s Big Little Lies hair! Flight Of The Conchords and My Brilliant Friend! Peter Dinklage making a “whoops” face in My Dinner With Hervé! But fuck all that interesting shit, we’ve got three…

Last night, HBO released a new sizzle reel full of goodies old and new: Mahershala Ali in that True Detective trailer! Meryl Streep’s Big Little Lies hair! Flight Of The Conchords and My Brilliant Friend! Peter Dinklage making a “whoops” face in My Dinner With Hervé! But fuck all that interesting shit, we’ve got three…

DJ Ready Red (née Collins Adams Leysath)—the pioneering DJ and producer who worked with Houston rap outfit Geto Boys from 1988 to 1991—has died of an apparent heart attack. The news was announced via an Instagram video from Geto Boys’ Willie Dennis (otherwise known as Willie D) and later confirmed by Pitchfork.…

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Who Is America?, the Sacha Baron Cohen series Showtime called “the most dangerous TV show ever,” anchored its season finale with a terrorist attack. A fictional one, sure, but the man involved, a man who one might assume knew he was being filmed, pressed a button that he was told would result in the death of a…

“Backwards-like” is a frustrating episode of Insecure because it covers a lot of ground we’ve seen before. Molly and Issa may be in new stages of their lives, but “Backwards-like” proves the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Even though Molly has the job she wanted and Issa is finally making her Daniel…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, August 27. All times are Eastern.

After the tightly-plotted highs of the season’s three part opener, “The High Cost Of Loathing” slows things down… a bit. The episode is still jam-packed with stuff, following the adventures of the Monarch, Hank, Dean, and Rusty as they go about their various routines, intersecting in some places and not intersecting…

The big moments are easier than the smaller ones, at least when it comes to storytelling. The beginning and ending of a story are when writers are able to make decisions that have lasting impact; decisions that either tantalize us with possibility or satisfy with a strong resolution. Which makes season finales…

Mahershala Ali is here for creepy crimes in the trailer for season three of HBO’s True Detective. This clip is predictably light on details, but it is very mysterious. The show returns in January.

Mahershala Ali is here for creepy crimes in the trailer for season three of HBO’s True Detective. This clip is predictably light on details, but it is very mysterious. The show returns in January.