Новости за 19.12.2018

As news of director Neil Marshall’s reboot of the Hellboy movies has come out, the main line has been about how this one will be scarier and more gritty than Guillermo del Toro’s slightly more fantastical adaptations of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy comics. While that seems like a fine approach for Hellboy, it did seem as…

Out this Christmas, Vice, explores the story about how Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), a bureaucratic Washington insider, quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush. Ahead of the Vice’s release next week, we sat down with Amy Adams, who plays Cheney’s wife Lynne, about her role.

On its surface, The Faculty is a conceptually clever if fairly unsurprising tweak on the Invasion Of The Body Snatchers formula: What if your high-school teachers had been taken over by aliens intent on taking over the world? That’s a sound premise for a horror movie. What makes The Faculty stand out is just how slyly…

Sometimes it can be shocking when one online platform seems to really know a lot about you, and other times it’s not shocking whatsoever because it turns out that Facebook is just an open fucking door and anyone can just take whatever information they want from it in the name of, say, the Trump campaign or—as …

Chronicling the slow, mournful fadeout of great artists: so hot right now. Just a couple of months after The Happy Prince, which focused on Oscar Wilde’s final years following his public disgrace, comes Stan & Ollie, the story of Laurel and Hardy as elderly borderline has-beens working the music-hall circuit. Apart…

Unlike some of the other live-action remakes Disney has made recently, which have been mostly inoffensive nostalgia-bait, Guy Ritchie’s take on Aladdin has had some issues. First, Disney had a hell of a time actually finding actors to star as Aladdin and Jasmine, followed by the surprising decision to create an…

Avoid the extended edition of this. Check out the director’s cut of that. Take a machete to the Star Wars universe. The history of movies is littered with recommendations on the best way to watch them. When it comes to the new biopic On The Basis Of Sex, improving the viewing experience could be simple: Just skip the…

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Rob Marshall has been at the helm of three of the most high-profile movie musicals of the 21st century—the Best Picture winner Chicago, Nine, and Into The Woods. His latest, Mary Poppins Returns, the long-gestating sequel to the 1964 musical fantasy film, hits theaters this Friday. In honor of the sequel, we sat down…

Berlin (Drawn & Quarterly) is an imposing book. It’s nearly two inches thick and the size of a hefty textbook, the kind that takes effort to read. The title aptly indicates exactly what the book is about: though there are more than a dozen characters that flow through the story, Berlin itself is the star of the show,…

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Now that everyone’s had a chance to peruse The A.V. Club’s best movies of 2018, it’s time to address a timeless question, lobbed our way every December: How could we include that film and not this other film? Some kind of answer lies in the deconstruction of our list. Ten critics, each with their own sensibilities and…

In a year defined by division, the one thing we could all agree on was movies. Just kidding! If anything, film discourse grew more contentious and fractured than ever in 2018, which began with a battle for the soul of the world’s most popular franchise and moved on from there to debates about the value of Netflix and…

Another day, another Trump intimate going down in flames, leaving Late Show host Stephen Colbert with plenty to joke about concerning former National Security Adviser and current future jailbird Michael Flynn. Coincidentally, Colbert had Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) booked to talk all things Individual 1 (as…

I’m a kinky single woman who keeps attracting the wrong men for me—specifically, submissive guys into face-sitting. I’m submissive myself, and face-sitting is not a turn-on for me. But the vast majority of men who hit on me have this fetish. I think it’s a size-related issue—a my-size-related issue. I’m a…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, December 19. All times are Eastern.  

It’s been 21 years to the day since Chris Farley died, taking with him one of the biggest comic presences of his generation, and adding a sad new chapter in the tradition of young, dead stars living the lifestyle he himself dubbed “fatty fall down, make funny.” A number of comics, from those who only knew him in…

Coincidentally marking the final day of shooting on HBO’s Veep in a way that we can’t help but think of as “appropriately grim” (or is that “grimly appropriate”?) series star Timothy Simons announced today that he’s developing a new project at the network, a comedy series about the wacky, laugh-a-minute world of…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is the eternal bridesmaid of the “obnoxious tech billionaire” upper class; neither as watchably stoner-trainwreck awful as Elon Musk, or as “What is this thing you hoo-man lifeforms call love?” awkward as Mark Zuckerberg. Jack’s just kind of there, a gormless punching bag for people unconvinced…

Ah, the Carlton Dance: Simultaneously an indictment of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’s endlessly lame, Tom Jones-worshiping Carlton Banks, and a tacit acknowledgement that his actor, Alfonso Ribeiro, actually had some significant swagger under all those high waisted khakis. The dance is an indelible part of the show’s…

Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski’s latest film is Cold War, the Palme D’Or-nominated love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-World War II Poland. In honor of the film, which recently made the Oscars shortlist for Best Foreign-Language Film, we sat down with Pawlikowski to talk about the…