Новости за 29.08.2018

It’s been like four years since Dwayne Johnson first hinted that he was finally getting into the superhero game, announcing that he’d be playing the villainous Black Adam in some sort of upcoming movie based off of D.C.’s Shazam line of comics. Said declaration led to some raised eyebrows a few years later, though, as…

If you subscribe to the notion that there’s a nobility inherent in suffering, then there’s nobody in the Looney Tunes universe more noble than doomed pursuer Wile E. Coyote. Sure, other LT villains get almost as much crap piled on their heads, but the difference here is context: Even at his word-mangling cutest, Elmer…

According to The Hollywood Reporter, only 48 percent of MoviePass subscribers are satisfied with how the company has been operating, at least in comparison to other movie-based subscription services like Netflix. That’s down from 83 percent just a few months ago, with the data coming from 1,558 moviegoing people…

Grady Hendrix’s Paperbacks From Hell was one of the non-fiction treats of 2017, a smart, funny look back at the horror paperback boom of the 1970s and ’80s, when all you needed was some gorgeous cover art and a blockbuster to rip off and you, too, could be a gory publishing mastermind. We noted in our review of…

It’s not even autumn yet, but Spotify is ready to declare a winner in the contentious battle for Song Of The Summer. According to Spotify’s data, Drake’s “In My Feelings” was by far the most-streamed song of the last few months, with Spotify users streaming it 393 million times between June and August. That’s clearly…

In what will certainly prove to be a tough blow for the world of nostalgic masturbation, HBO has announced today that it’s removing its storied collection of softcore erotica and sexually explicit documentaries from its roster of content. According to The L.A. Times, the decision—which covers such “Aw, gee, Mom, we…

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Showtime series Who Is America? ended by turning a Trumper into a terrorist and Sarah Palin into a cheap punchline, but that wasn’t enough for the premium cable network. Baron Cohen has said that the show is done and that he won’t be coming back for more, but Showtime itself isn’t quite so ready to…

Science-fiction filmmaking has become so consumed by “world-building”—that screenwriter buzzword for constructing elaborate and often pointless mythologies—that some big-ticket sci-fi/fantasy movies feel like they’d be better off spinning off some smaller elements into their own, more modest stories. That’s how Kin…

The proverbial produce aisles of review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes are about to get a little more well-stocked, as the site has expanded the eligibility requirements for being a Tomatometer-eligible critic. In other words, that means more people’s reviews will now count toward the “Rotten” or “Fresh” rating on…

Good news, true “I Want To Believe”-ers: BBC America is planning a full marathon of The X-Files (that is, the nine original seasons and both movies), set to kick off on Monday, Sept. 10.