Новости за 23.12.2018

There’s some good stuff in “Hostile Takeover,” sort of. Gregg Sulkin has a lot of fun as Chase plays negotiator and delivers an inspirational sports speech to a sleeping Gert, evoking Riverdale’s recent attempt to have Archie give a similar speech. (I don’t know how it took me this long to realize it, but Chase is …

Everybody is either sitting on a brilliant screenplay or knows somebody who is sitting on a brilliant screenplay (though the brilliance is probably debatable), and if you’d like to finally put your screenplay where your mouth is, here’s your chance. Monkeypaw Productions, the studio created by Jordan Peele that had a…

When future generations look up the word “mess” in some kind of high-tech VR encyclopedia, they will simply redirected to a separate volume that covers the production of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. He spent nearly two decades just trying to get the project off the ground, but then once he finally…

With Jonah gone (for now), there’s a lot of open narrative space on Runaways. What are the kids doing, with their parents’ boss dead? What are the parents doing? What does the next phase of the show look like? The answer, it turns out, is that Pride’s stable of corrupt cops has become a minor antagonist—a decision…

“Past Life” starts with the most important piece of information we could possibly learn: How the alien we now know as Jonah acquired the body of Julian McMahon. For about 20 years, the being had been in the body of an older man, positioning himself in the 1930s as a Dust Bowl preacher straight out of Carnivàle. In…

While Gunnar glasses are marketed towards gamers, they can be effective at reducing eyestrain for anyone that spends their day staring at a screen. The problem is that they’re typically pretty expensive, and rarely go on sale. Today though, you can grab a pair of MLG Phantom frames for $40 with promo code KINJAMLG.

Have you got plans for the timeless, never-ending void that falls between Christmas and New Year’s? I doubt it, so consider picking up the Orphan Black Complete Collection on Blu-ray for $44. There are far worse ways to spend your week than watching Tatiana Maslany effortlessly play a dozen different characters.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, December 23. All times are Eastern.

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Ensuring that fans of TV zombie action will now have to look elsewhere for their undead fix, Syfy announced today that it’s canceling Z Nation after five seasons on the air. Per THR, the network confirmed the news earlier today, after producer David Michael Latt—also the CEO of horror-studio/Sharknado factory The…

If Sacha Baron Cohen’s Golden Globe-nominated Showtime series Who Is America? really is finished—and honestly, we’ll believe it when we see it—there is at least one upside to the undercover show’s conclusion: Baron Cohen’s sudden willingness to do post-mortems on the series, the shooting of which is starting to sound…