Новости за 14.09.2018

Netflix released the fifth season of BoJack Horseman today, filling the internet with the now periodic bursts of reflection, depression, and appreciation for funny talking animals and very stupid sign gags. Series creator Rapheal Bob-Waksberg has been doing a fair amount of press for the series this week, discussing…

“You haven’t changed at all!”

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We’re big fans of genre film festivals here at The A.V. Club. Fantastic Fest, Cinepocalypse, The Overlook Film Festival—there are too many to attend them all, but we do our best. So when we say the lineup for Beyond Fest has us pretty excited, please know we’re not just filling column inches. This shit is lit.

Piers Handling was right. This was a great year for the Toronto International Film Festival. I didn’t quite see any masterpieces, but as regular readers can attest, I have an annoying habit of tempering my enthusiasm at festivals, withholding that full rave out of fear of coming on too strong. Which is to say, plenty…

With a estimated content budget of $8 billion in 2018, Netflix is aiming to house a dizzying number (700!) of original series on its streaming platform by the end of the year. But even with all that content, the only crossover they’ve managed to pull of is Marvel’s The Defenders. So, we asked the stars of four of…

There are three sides to Nicolas Cage. There is Serious Actor Cage, who produces humane, Oscar-winning performances that mask a deep, boiling sea of emotion behind his bleary eyes. There is Left Behind Cage, in which he murmurs for awhile until they give him his check. And there is, well, Cage Cage, where viewers feel…

“Throughout the series, former ’90s TV star BoJack Horseman (Will Arnett) has been trying to redeem his worst actions, and also get back on top in the entertainment game. This season, it looks like both of those things might just happen, as he gets cast as brooding alcoholic anti-hero detective Philbert—a type that…

Four-plus seasons in, the greatest strength of BoJack Horseman is the understanding of the way things do and do not change. On one hand (or hoof, paw, or pseudopod depending on who you’re talking to) is the long-standing ethos of the show that broken things stay broken, and that people don’t change without a lot of…

The world is a vampire, sent to drain / the Smashing Pumpkins, of songs that don’t sound the same
So what do we get, for our pain? / Fulfilled desires, for new tracks that kinda bang [contort your pronunciation so that it works, the way 2 Chainz would]

Space, as the saying goes, is the final frontier. We’ve crossed the oceans and explored their depths. We’ve discovered new lands and set up camp in the hottest, coldest, and highest places on Earth. Antarctica, the Sahara, Everest. The skies. The moon. Humans are a species which, as Stephen Dunn once wrote, often…

What started off feeling like a less ambitious, more juvenile season of American Vandal slowly revealed itself to be something much greater and more unexpected. The saga of the Turd Burglar is not just about Mrs. Montgomery getting covered in shit or T-shirts launched with cat feces on them. It’s also about an entire…

Stephen Hopkins’ Judgement Night is a decent enough action-noir, but more people remember the soundtrack than they actually do the movie itself, which was shuffled out of theaters quickly due to poor box office return and a well-publicized shooting that unfolded during a screening. A new oral history of the soundtrack…

Mr. Peanutbutter is a character who never does anything halfway. We know this about him, having seen countless examples of where his ruthless exuberance and game-for-anything attitude can take us. He’s completely comfortable with his low level of celebrity, willing to take on any project that’s willing to employ him,…

How did it end up like this? The Killer’s debut single “Mr. Brightside” was the inescapable rock hit of 2004 and yet, in the 14 years since its release, the song has rarely been off the top 100 singles chart. In recent years, numerous publications have launched investigations into exactly what the fuck is happening…

When the revival of CBS newsroom comedy Murphy Brown was first announced at the beginning of this year, we opined that it was the rare sitcom that would actually feel timely and relevant in the era of “fake news” cries and Trump’s reckless war of words against the media. Obviously, its creator agrees.

Last night, Nintendo announced that just about all of the main Final Fantasy games from the PlayStation and PS2 eras were coming to their Switch console—except one. Missing from the line-up, despite the presence of Final Fantasy VII, IX, X, X-goddamn-2, and XII, was 1999's Final Fantasy VIII, a hilarious slight to a…

“I haven’t exactly been honest with you, Peter...”

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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?

The day that modern-day oracle (and FX president) John Landgraf warned us about is here: The Streamapocalypse, a date we’ve dubbed such because it’s absolutely packed with complete seasons of new and returning shows across multiple genres. Want to settle in for some big laughs? Netflix has a couple of options for you.…

There’s a hurricane bearing down on the southeast coast of the U.S. right now, a prospect that would be scary at any time, but which is especially worrying in the wake of the deaths that happened the last time a major storm took its toll on American territory. When weather like this threatens to hit, though, there are…

For a second there, it looked like Deadpool and Logan might be about to get a new buddy in the R-rated superhero club, as Sony’s standalone Venom movie was promising the potential for all sorts of “dudes get their faces eaten by an alien tongue monster” action. But alas, not even symbiotes can take on the power of the…

At last, death is coming for the Dunphys (and Pritchetts, and Tucker-Pritchetts). After 10 seasons of annoyingly easy, first-world-problem living, the cast of Modern Family is finally going to face a little goddamn tribulation and hardship, with Variety revealing that a “significant” character will be killed off on…

Kate Beckinsale’s career has a pretty clear dividing line running through it: There’s the period drama and romantic comedy stuff on one side, running the gamut from Much Ado About Nothing to the recent The Only Living Boy In New York, and then there’s the part where she kills the shit out of vampires and werewolves.…

Tim Allen has been on a big right-wing kick lately (or, you know, forever), with him noting in March of last year that the real Nazis are the liberals in Hollywood who think it’s bad for some reason when people are Republicans. Later, when his Last Man Standing sitcom was canceled, he argued that the show’s pro-man…

Lil Wayne’s album Tha Carter V has been stuck in limbo for just about four years, with a contract dispute between Lil Wayne and his old label Cash Money Records keeping the album stuck on the proverbial shelf. Earlier this year, though, Universal (Cash Money’s parent company) decided to quit messing around and settled…