Новости за 05.09.2018

In the battle for New York, Danny Rand, a.k.a Iron Fist (Finn Jones), emerged as the most improved of Marvel’s The Defenders (which, given where the curly-haired warrior started, is saying both a little and a lot). The barefoot billionaire and living weapon—and all the other sobriquets that make up his Daen…

A 500-person Emirates flight from Dubai was quarantined for hours at John F. Kennedy Airport on Wednesday morning after several passengers found a fever grabbing hold of them tightly. As news outlets tried to cull details from the abundance of ambulances and police cars encircling the plane, they went online for…

During an appearance at Dragon Con this past weekend, Ant Man And The Wasp star Evangeline Lilly completed her personal version of jury duty—answering questions about the Lost finale. But rather than hem and haw about the objective quality of the hit series’ conclusion, Lilly instead forced fans to confront their own…

In Solo: A Star Wars Story, little Han meets Chewbacca after he gets thrown into a cell while trying to ditch the Imperial military and join up with Woody Harrelson’s crew of smugglers. The implication from the soldiers is that they’re expecting the imprisoned Wookiee to eat Han, not realizing that the two of them are…

There was a new trailer released today for the upcoming sequel/“alternative reality”-set continuation of the Halloween franchise. It was a solid preview for the movie—but also, it was a treasure trove for sharp-eyed fans keeping a close watch for any callbacks to the prior films.

Next week, season five of BoJack Horseman will premiere on Netflix and, judging by the trailer, this season will find our equestrian protagonist returning to those same self-destructive cycles of abuse he seems incapable of escaping. But before we dive into the questions we have going into this new season—like, “What…

Yesterday, Oscar winner, activist, and all-around delightful person Brie Larson managed to turn our attention from the endless cycle of bad news with a tweeted promise to break the Internet on Wednesday with a little help from Entertainment Weekly.

Asia Argento’s lawyer, Mark Jay Heller, has released a lengthy statement regarding the recent New York Times investigation into allegations that the actor agreed to pay $380,000 to Jimmy Bennett, a former co-star who claims Argento sexually assaulted him in 2013 when he was 17 years old. In the statement, titled “Asia…

In news that should surprise precisely nobody, a study reported on by Bloomberg says that telecom companies have already begun throttling video apps like YouTube and Netflix now that Donald Trump’s FCC has killed net neutrality. Using an app called Wehe that monitors when data speeds are actively slowed down by…

In the past few weeks Kanye West has set out on something like an image rehabilitation tour. Step one was to apologize (kinda, mostly, sort of) for that whole “slavery was a choice” thing. With that out of the way Kanye was free to move on to steps two and three: wearing very small sandals, and following that up by…

Actor Piper Perabo was one of more than 20 people arrested yesterday at Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing. The Covert Affairs actor aligned herself with organizers of the Women’s March, and a video posted to Perabo’s Twitter account shows her and several other women being forcibly removed, with one…

For two artists that don’t sound or act much alike musically, the parallels between the careers of Paul McCartney and Paul Simon are substantial. Both Pauls started in pop music as teenagers, wound up playing in extremely popular and influential bands, released a prodigious amount of great material with those bands…

In case you were worried that House Of Cards was kidding around about this whole “We fired Kevin Spacey’s predatory ass and then killed off his character” business: Here’s Robin Wright, reenacting one of the political thriller’s most infamous scenes, the season-three-opener in which then-President Frank Underwood…

The Peabody Award-winning Serial was bonafide podcasting phenomenon in its first season, which, by investigating Adnan Syed’s involvement in the 2000 murder of his high school girlfriend, helped usher in the true crime boom in which we currently find ourselves. Now, as HBO gears up for its own docuseries on Syed, the…

In Kidding, the new Showtime dramedy that re-teams Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry 14 years after Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, family entertainment has a dual meaning. Carrey stars as Jeff Pickles, a children’s television host with Fred Rogers’ lilt and Sesame Street’s merchandising might, who’s become a…

Every fall a new roster of gaming goliaths slugs it out for dominance in the pre-Christmas rush of major releases, and 2018 is no different. This year sees new entries of massive annualized shooters, an obligatory Assassin’s Creed, as well as long-awaited new additions to the Smash Bros. and Red Dead Redemption …

Some days it’s hard to feel like you’ve accomplished anything with your life. You look at those around you and, knowing it’s not healthy to compare achievements, nonetheless feel like there’s so much more you could be doing to truly make your mark on the world.

Film aspect ratios are usually discussed by audiovisual enthusiasts (hey, that’s us!) eager to wax lyrical about the look and texture of a particular format. But film formats aren’t just of interest to A/V geeks—they’re relevant to history buffs and film historians, too. In this new 12-minute video…

The biggest revelation of “Henry Deaver,” the penultimate episode of Castle Rock’s uneven first season, isn’t the identity of Bill Skargård’s The Kid. It’s the atrocity visited upon André Holland’s Henry when he went missing as a child.

That Henry—let’s call him Henry I—was missing for days. But he was imprisoned for…

Since debuting in April 2011, HBO’s Game Of Thrones has slowly become the defining television phenomenon of this decade, dominating the pop culture conversation in a way no other show has since the glory days of The Sopranos. It was one of a number of shows angling to step into the mob drama’s place, along with …

After catching up of everything that happened in Trump World since he was on vacation—a president under multiple criminal investigations is trying to stick a puppet justice on the Supreme Court, by the way—Stephen Colbert welcomed his first guest, amiable, boy-next-door “comedy guy” John Krasinski. The Late Show host,…

I’m a cis woman in my mid-40s, and my significant other has a cuckolding fetish. My first response was “Oh, hell no!” But if I’m willing to have a threesome, how much further of a stretch is it, really? He does have some experience with this varsity-level kink, so he knows what to expect. I’ve asked him some…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, September 5. All times are Eastern.

If you were near the internet this weekend, there’s a decent chance you caught wind of the “saga” of former Cosby Show regular Geoffrey Owens, who picked up national attention after the U.K.’s Daily Mail ran an article about how incredibly wacky it is that working actors have to sometimes do jobs that are not actually …

[The following contains some spoilers for Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan on Amazon.]