Новости за 11.11.2018

There are often much easier answers to the big questions on TV than there are in life. Most of us spend years looking for certainty, reassurance, some psychological clue that we’re doing...the right thing, the safe thing, whatever. Homecoming is a reminder: Even dreams have unexpected ends.

Our weekly thought-starter asks you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, big or small, you can email them to us here.

Recently, Playboy Germany published a brief interview with film composer Ennio Morricone in which he dismissed Quentin Tarantino as a “cretin” whose films are “trash.” This was a surprising slam, since Morricone earned his first non-honorary Oscar for his work on Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, but Playboy Germany also…

At the beginning of October, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero teased that she was working on a plan to release a little-seen film that her late husband, iconic filmmaker George Romero, had filmed in 1973. She wouldn’t say much else, but now author Daniel Kraus has had a chance to see the long-buried film, and he is extremely …

Legendary composer Ennio Morricone, the man behind all the music you hum when you find yourself in a Wild West standoff, seems to be a bit of a grump. A few years ago, he denounced virtually the entirety of modern film soundtracks, saying he has “suffered a lot” from watching movies that hire “amateur” composers who…

With more than 5.7 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or trying to determine what sources in the historical record the Bangles used in their song “Walk Like an Egyptian.”

Last week, Pete Davidson took a passing shot at the appearance of wounded former Navy SEAL and current Texas Republican Congressman-elect Dan Crenshaw. Specifically, he made a joke about how Crenshaw’s eyepatch (received when an IED blew up in his face during Crenshaw’s third combat tour in Iraq) made him look like a…

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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, November 11. All times are Eastern. 

Fans of the John Wick franchise know that there are really only two ways a violent confrontation with Baba Yaga can end: Either he shoots you in the head—he shoots so many fucking people in the head!—or, if you’re a featured player, he does that thing where he stabs you, then pulls you real close so he can whisper all …

Every few years since the 1960s, the White House has taken time out of its busy schedule to pick out a group of distinguished American citizens—artists, scientists, poets, etc.—to name as the recipients of the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, one of the highest governmental honors in American civilian life. Often, it’s…

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