Новости за 01.12.2018

Capitalizing on our shared loves of dreamy pop ballads, 2000s-era female-led comedies, and being pretty much completely over Pete Davidson, Ariana Grande has just shattered YouTube’s record for most views in a single day with her new music video, “Thank U, Next”. The video—directed by Hannah Lux Davis—is a loving…

Chance The Rapper continues to make it very clear that he’s not fucking around on the topic of Chicago politics and civic life; fresh off his donations to the city’s schools, his critiques of mayor Rahm Emanuel, and his purchase of local news site Chicagoist—once a mainstay of street-level city reporting, back before…

It’s like our grandpa always told us (often unprompted, and at increasingly loud volumes over the years): If you call Joy Behar a bitch on national TV, they don’t let you lead a parade in Nashville anymore. Rap-rocker/human TruckNutz commercial Kid Rock found himself running afoul of that conventional wisdom this…

After five months off the air at Viceland, TV’s most illustrious—not to mention gleefully enthusiastic—talk show hosting duo finally has a premiere date set for their big return, with Desus Nice and The Kid Mero announcing this week that their “new” Showtime series Desus & Mero will land on premium cable on February…

If there’s one amazing thing about this season of DuckTales, it’s its willingness to really push its narratives in wildly unexpected directions. Who would have expected that Scrooge’s most defining behavior–being bitter and angry at Christmas for just existing–would just be an act for the guy to party in the past with…

2018’s best film music is about reinvention. We may be doomed to an endless parade of reboots, remakes, and sequels, both spiritual and otherwise, on our theater screens—a problem that, to be fair, is not a new one for Hollywood—but thankfully we’ve got visionary composers and performers who can mold familiar themes…

Founded this year by former Mophie executives, Nimble makes phone chargers built from recycled aluminum and plant based plastics, shipped in scrap paper recycled boxes, and paired with the company’s promise to recycle a pound of e-waste for every product sold. Plus, they have great specs and look really cool.

Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.

From the Douche, to The League’s Ruxin, to basically every single character he’s ever played on Kroll Show, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and every talk show appearance ever, Nick Kroll traffics in aggressively comedic jerks. (Actually, he’s reportedly really good in a serious role as a real-life Nazi hunter in this year’s …

George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President Of The United States, former head of the CIA, and, by necessity, a much-discussed, often-mocked figure in modern pop culture, has died. Bush was 94; his wife, former First Lady Barbara Bush, died earlier this year.

Fox and the producers of its popular science program Cosmos have both issued statements today in regards to recent allegations of sexual misconduct against host Neil deGrasse Tyson, stating that they’re investigating the charges raised in a recent report posted to the website Patheos. In it, author David G. McAfee…

Let’s pause for a minute to consider the backslide.

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Stephen Hillenburg died this week, with animation fans worldwide expressing their sadness at the loss of the endlessly creative, wonderfully goofy creator of SpongeBob SquarePants. Now, Vice reports that one particular effort to pay tribute to Hillenburg’s enduringly/endearingly weird legacy is picking up quite a bit…

In terms of fandom passion, persistence, and indifference to things like budgets, plausibility, or (occasionally) good taste, it’s safe to say that the U.K.’s Doctor Who lovers can give the Star Trek crowd a run for their money most any day. There are plenty of other parallels, too, beyond a dedication to cheapie…

In what we have to assume was an effort to ensure that the set of The Mandalorian—Jon Favreau’s new streaming-only attempt to add a little bounty hunting Western grit to the shiny Star Wars universe—will now smell authentically like a bag of old leather that a sick dog has been sleeping on, we’re happy to report that…

Clara’s Ghost is a film that’s difficult to put in a genre box: Our own Alex McLevy called it a “cracked dramedy” after seeing it at this year’s Cinepocalypse festival, and the film’s trailer swings between comedy, drama, and full-on horror, with a little Haley Joel Osment to boot. What we do know is that…

In what’s apparently a bid to capitalize on our collective nostalgia for a time when we could all appreciate the works of Joss Whedon sans eyeroll—and, perhaps not coincidentally, for an era when its website was just a dumb place to post college pictures, and not the ineptly run online battlefield where the 21st-…

Ariana Grande’s online faithful have been buzzing about the video for her not-a-diss-track diss track “Thank U, Next” since clips emerged of the singer parodying a number of early-’00s rom-coms on set. Today, the clip for the clever, defiant single officially dropped, bringing with it some vibrantly realized parodies…

Zoe Kazan stars in the Coen brothers’ western anthology film The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs as Alice Longabaugh, a women traveling West with her brother when a tragic event sets her on a new course. In honor of the film, we sat down Kazan to talk Buster Scruggs, her character, and working with the Coens for the first…