Новости за 31.08.2018

Attendees at this year’s Venice Film Festival were granted front-row seats to witness headline writers the world over being handed a big red bow for their coverage of the premiere of Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s new film A Star Is Born, when a giant metaphor struck the building in which it was being held.

Bearing an uncanny resemblance to a famous person can be a blessing. Just ask any Elvis impersonator. But can you imagine going through life getting weird looks because you look like a widely reviled politician, or an actor whose career was ruined by scandal, or—let’s say—a notorious, recently deceased cult leader…

These are the best Labor Day sales happening right now, so you can spend the money you’ve made from all your labor. Keep checking back, as we’ll continue to add more throughout the holiday weekend.

Eminem surprised music fans last night with the surprise release of Kamikaze, a new album whose title refers to someone about to kill themselves by dive-bombing into an enemy. Fitting, then, that album guest Bon Iver has decided to dive-bomb the track he appears on, blowing it up into a very public disavowal.

“With his newest LP, Negro Swan, Dev Hynes explores the contradiction of a high-visibility life without ownership or control of how your actions are interpreted and the boundaries one must make to reclaim them. The world he’s created continues his story from Freetown Sound: a sharing of his life’s traumas as he goes…

He’s been a wisecracking pilot. He’s been a Star Wars droid. He’s been a drugged-out weirdo in a postapocalyptic world who tries to trap teen boys in a den of iniquity. (Yeah, that last one was kind of weird, but he made it work.) And now, Alan Tudyk gets to play a psychotic killer sapping others’ sanity—again.

Vanessa Marquez, an actress best known for her recurring role as Nurse Wendy Goldman on the first three seasons of ER, has died. Marquez was shot and killed by South Pasadena police officers yesterday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 49.

Over the course of four movies, the alternate reality of the Purge has slowly taken shape: a dystopian America in which, for one night of the year, all crime is legal. It’s an appropriately blunt political allegory for our own time—which often reads like satire itself— making the Purge arguably the most relevant…

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Over the past half century, Batman has had a significant presence in nearly every form of media, from comics to TV shows to movies to video games, each of which offer their own, sometimes conflicting interpretation of the DC hero. But one of the most enduringly beloved iterations of the Dark Knight is the one that…

Earlier this morning, we got a look at the final trailer for The Predator before the film comes out on September 14. And we have to say, compared to the trailers that were released prior to it, this one is much, much better. Give whoever cut this trailer the afternoon off—and let’s run down the ways it succeeds.

Earlier this month, Wil Wheaton decided to take part in a little protest called #DeactiDay. The plan was for a bunch of people to delete their Twitter accounts because, among other reasons, the social media platform had refused to oust hate-spewing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Despite having been on Twitter since…

The chair of the California Democratic Party set off a social-media spark yesterday that’s ignited a full campaign urging diners to boycott burger chain In N Out. Eric Bauman tweeted a link to a Los Angeles Magazine story that reveals In N Out donated $25,000 to the California GOP this week, ahead of what’s expected…

Wild Nothing returns to glorious form on Indigo, while Danny Brown and the Bruiser Brigade Reign Supreme on their Twitch-only stream, and jazz improvisers Szun Waves conjure a bright New Hymn To Freedom. Plus: the latest from Thou, Troye Sivan, Big Red Machine, and Muncie Girls.

In any political regime, there are people who benefit and people who suffer. The proportions may vary, but even the worst administrations are advantageous to a select population. Hydra’s takeover of the United States in Marvel’s Secret Empire event threw the country into chaos, but Steve Rogers is discovering that…

No one would call Anna Calvi’s music tame. This is an artist who announced herself in 2011 with the rousing drama of “Desire” and the sweeping, Morricone-inspired vistas of “Love Won’t Be Leaving,” who took the stage in flaming red silk, expressive riffs sparking from her sunburst Telecaster. It was enough to make…

The actor: David Alan Grier was already a Tony-nominated actor (for playing Jackie Robinson in the musical The First) before making his big-screen debut in the Robert Altman drama, Streamers, but he’s spent most of his career alternately resisting and listening to the siren song of comedy. A bit part in one Keenen…

While it’s understandable that late-night hosts need to take a few weeks off and recharge their satirical batteries in the summer (or, in Jimmy Fallon’s case, think up new ways to fart around with movie stars and Silly String or whatever), that leaves the rest of us looking for some comedic relief from the daily crush…

With the rom-com officially back in vogue thanks to summer hits like Crazy Rich Asians and Netflix’s Set It Up, it’s hard not to think back on the genre’s most recent heyday, the 1990s. The era of Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, and Nora Ephron defined our modern idea of what a rom-com looks and feels like, but the actual…

Less than a year after the release of his critically underwhelming 2017 effort Revival, Eminem mildly shocked the musical world by dropping an unexpected album, Kamikaze, on the internet tonight. The album—available to stream right now on Spotify—is 13 tracks of Marshall Mather’s typical bluster, culminating in an ode…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, August 17, and Saturday, August 18. All times are Eastern.

It’s been almost a year since the New Yorker published Ronan Farrow’s first major exposé on Harvey Weinstein, in which three women came forward, on the record, to accuse the Hollywood mega producer of sexual assault. Farrow eventually won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the topic, which finally codified decades of…

Once upon a time, those who wished to experience Disneyland the way god intended it—drunk—had precious few options available to them. You could drink before you got there, sure, but then you’d run the risk of a tragic mid-line loss of buzz. You could try to smuggle in some booze, too, but then you’re potentially…

The Little Stranger, a strange little haunted-house yarn from director Lenny Abrahamson (Room), creeps into theaters this weekend as quietly as a cold breeze slipping in through a cracked window. Normally, when a studio goes to great lengths to hide an upcoming release—prohibiting reviews until the eleventh hour,…