Новости за 26.11.2018

As another lackluster season of Saturday Night Live limps to a close, the sketch show took to Twitter to announce the hosts for its final three episodes of 2018. Claire Foy, the Crown actress who’s currently drawing Oscar buzz for her turn in Damien Chazelle’s First Man, will take the reins this Saturday, with brawny…

One would think that winning an Academy Award for best director would make it a little easier for you to get your projects off the ground. But, in a recent thread on Twitter, director Guillermo del Toro listed out the number of completed scripts that he has famously, for one reason or another, been unable to turn into…

Celebrities: They really are just like us! Take Rose Byrne, for instance, who thinks it’s totally okay if no one ever sees the Louis CK cringe-fest I Love You, Daddy. The film was shelved by its distributor The Orchard last fall following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, after numerous women…

Her candidate didn’t win, but Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Tennessee senate hopeful Phil Breseden this fall caused a massive spike in voter registration throughout the country. Now, the pop star is throwing her considerable influence behind a project, this one The Lobster filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ new movie, The…

If you’ve seen at least a dozen new movies this year, chances are you’ve probably laid eyes on the cutest dang dog to grace the silver screen since the pupper in John Wick. Her name is Olivia, and with supporting roles in Widows, Game Night, and Insatiable, she’s working just about as hard as Nicole Kidman (and every…

Apocalyptic thinking is all the rage in 2018, so rather than put out a holiday special this year, DC Comics is going in a very different direction for the DC Nuclear Winter Special. This one-shot contains short stories of heroes living in a variety of future scenarios, bringing in top talent to imagine how this…

While they both end up in front of audiences the same, live-action and animated movies go through drastically different development processes. We asked Ralph Breaks The Internet co-writer Pamela Ribon to shed light on some of those differences. The way Ribon explains it, a live-action movie screenwriter’s job is…

Are you tired of your more learned friends lording their book knowledge over you like some sort of pop-culture-loving rube? Do you often find yourself pivoting conversations away from works of great literature into the safer terrain of a sci-fi film you’ve watched a thousand times? Do you sometimes worry you’re kind…

We all had a brief chuckle when Confederate flag-loving rap-rocker Kid Rock teased a Michigan Senate run, then a spiraling onset of gut-roiling horror when we realized he’d probably win. The artist otherwise known as Bob Ritchie eventually revealed that the whole thing was a publicity stunt, but not before he forced…

Finally, a literary podcast that dares to broadcast what some book club members only do in private: not read most of the book. Instead, it engages Amazon ebooks at the critical junctures of the opening and finish, and at the 25-, 50-, and 75-percent marks. The rest is filled in by the playful imaginations of two…

Adam Conover’s TruTV educational comedy series, Adam Ruins Everything, returns tomorrow for its third season of myth-busting, with this season’s episodes ruining stuff like guns, sitcoms, and the video game industry. In the video above, Conover was kind enough to give us a sneak peek of next week’s episode, titled…

Here’s everything The A.V. Club reviewed over the long weekend, from The Little Drummer Girl and Romanoffs finales to a not-so-super outing for Supergirl. Read more recaps on our TV reviews page.

Robbing from its rich investors and giving to no one in particular—save for maybe fans of tedious voice-overs and speed-ramped hogwash—the newest iteration of Robin Hood failed to hit the bullseye over the Thanksgiving weekend. In fact, the lunkheaded action spectacle looks to be taking home a far different award:…

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker behind films like The Last Emperor and Last Tango In Paris, has died after a struggle with cancer. Per Variety, he was 77.

The condemned: The Toybox (2018)

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Let’s start at the restaurant. The Bob, Linda, and Teddy subplots tend to follow a straightforward formula: Linda and Teddy get worked up over something, Bob grumbles over them getting worked up over what is, in fact, nothing. This week’s example of the form is clever in giving us some actual mystery—just what is …

Supergirl wears its political and ideological leanings on its sleeve. That’s just part of the package when you watch the series, and to expect something else—especially four seasons in—is to simply expect a different show. Subtlety isn’t its particular brand of creative currency, but that only really becomes a problem…

A group of Republican politicians in Ohio recently made headlines for sponsoring a bill that would not only ban abortions, but also make the procedure punishable by life sentences in prison and even the death penalty. Many were quick to point out the irony of a group being “so pro-life they’ll kill…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, November 26. All times are Eastern.

The 2018 reboot of Charmed can sometimes be way too extra about reminding us that it indeed takes place in 2018. Sometimes, it’s cute and fun the way the sisters use social media and technology in their demon-hunting witchy lives. But sometimes, it’s just painfully exaggerated. The sisters might as well be shouting…

If “Chapter One” of Escape At Dannemora was about the power and sway of raw desire—how it invigorates and complicates a humdrum life—then “Chapter Two” is all about the ways that desire can be weaponized, can lead us to action, and, of course, to our ruin. Last episode focused on the affair between Joyce “Tilly”…

Blood. Pain. Swelling. Lumpiness. Sweat, tears, hair, and confusion. A young girl on the verge of young-womanhood could be forgiven for assuming that her body exists in a state of open revolt, as if it is attempting to throw off the yoke of personhood by showing how deeply displeased it is with the being who steers it…

“You were born to recap TV at a fourth-grade level!”

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It was a tantalizing hint of a sharp left turn, narratively speaking, for The Walking Dead: Walkers who can communicate! Ever since the tease that aired following Rick’s departure, where Rosita and Eugene were shown lying in the mud and listening wide-eyed as the herd of walkers passing by above them whispered “…

If there’s one thing we can consistently count on Claire and Jamie Fraser for, it’s the fact that they will always and forever be extremely horny for each other. They can barely get through the process of marking the boundaries of the 10,000 acres of land parceled out to Jamie by the governor of North Carolina—a deal…