Новости за 11.02.2020

One of the reasons there are so few romantic comedy sequels is because we don’t always want to think about what would realistically happen after “happily ever after.” To address such concerns, the follow-up to Netflix’s 2018 hit To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before cleverly gives just that to its teen protagonist. In the…

If you’ve already tried this, rest assured that you’re not alone: Yesterday, a tweet quickly went viral claiming that NASA declared February 10 “the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull.” Cue a plethora of Twitter users pulling off magic tricks in the middle of their kitchens by…

When Jason Ritter and Rachel Matthews went in to audition for voice roles in Frozen 2, they didn’t quite know what they were getting themselves into. Well, aside from the fact that they were auditioning to be in the follow-up to the Disney mega-hit that permanently lodged “Let It Go” into our collective minds. But…

The “Dancing Baby” GIF represents a happier, more innocent time. It reached its apex in the back half of the 1990s, waving its chubby little arms in the air and hopping around on sausage-link legs on Ally McBeal before falling into disuse around the dawn of the new millennium. Before nü-metal and Napster reigned…

Following a string of mass shootings last summer, Universal and Blumhouse scrapped plans to release political satire The Hunt—a decision that arguably spurred more controversy than the film itself might have, had it been released as planned in September. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film, based on a script…

Anyone who’s read Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity or seen the cinematic adaptation starring John Cusack can tell you: Rob Gordon is into top 5 lists. High Fidelity’s protagonist chronicles everything from his top 5 songs about death to his top 5 side one, track ones. The most consequential top 5 he creates, though,…

Last night, President Donald Trump tweeted out a scene from HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David’s long-running, reliably hilarious cringe comedy. In it, Larry cuts off a burly, bearded biker who furiously threatens our bald hero. But once Larry pops on a bright red MAGA hat, the biker softens, encouraging him to…

The Japanese company Sanrio is responsible for some of the cutest creations in popular culture, and Gudetama is one of its strangest characters, an anthropomorphic egg yolk who just wants to lay around in its soft egg white and eat other food. It’s a design that rivals Baby Yoda in terms of pure lovability, so it…

Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s Something That May Shock And Discredit You is three eloquent books in one: memoir, essay collection, and treasure trove of cultural analysis, all coming in under 250 pages. Ortberg is as nimble a storyteller as they come, so the shifts from painful personal revelations to pithy observations…

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Taika Waititi is getting a little writing help from someone great—more specifically, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, the writer and director of the Netflix rom-com Someone Great. Per Variety, Robinson has joined the writing staff of Thor: Love And Thunder, Waititi’s highly-anticipated sequel to Thor: Ragnarok, in which…

Halfway into February might seem like an odd time to run a list of our most anticipated movies of 2020. But let’s be real: The first few weeks of just about any year tend to be a pretty dire time for moviegoing, give or take the odd unseasonable January triumph or low-profile arthouse gem. Hollywood, as a rule, mainly…

Just ahead of today’s New Hampshire primary, the Bernie Sanders campaign held a rally featuring a performance by The Strokes. Aside from providing us with a very good poster that sees the back of Sanders’ head and his name turned into a Strokes-indebted, ‘70s-style album cover, the rally also saw the band perform a…

Last September we learned that Jason Bateman, then-fresh off his Emmy win for Ozark, was in talks to direct and star in Ryan Reynolds’ remake of Clue for 20th Century (née Fox, may it rest in peace). According to the latest update from Variety, Bateman’s commitments to the Netflix drama have taken him off the project,…

The first season of Altered Carbon was an inventive if uneven (not to mention wildly expensive) slice of cyberpunk silliness, mashing up the whodunit genre with sci-fi conceits and over-the-top, hero’s-journey theatrics. And now, the season season is upon us, which looks to answer the proposal of, “What about more of…

Netflix will remain dedicated to its studies of human nature, Shakespeare, and Gillian Anderson—Deadline reports the streamer has renewed Laurie Nunn’s Sex Education for season three. It’s hardly a surprising move, given that Netflix was recently touting Sex Education’s viewership.

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Little America has quickly become one of Apple TV+’s best-received series, even if, unlike The Morning Show, the majority of the star power is behind the scenes. Oscar nominees Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon co-produce the show along with The Office’s Lee Eisenberg, Orange Is The New Black alum Sian Heder, and …

You’d think that, for a guy who’s spent the last several years hilariously breaking down the most absurd elements of American governance, the U.S. citizenship test would be a breeze. After all, while those wishing to become U.S. citizens have to study 100 questions as part of the civics portion, only ten are asked on…

This 24th Bachelor season kicked off with a mega-ton of drama, but it was a good kind of drama. Former Bachelorette Hannah Brown showed up out of nowhere, threatening to usurp the whole operation, to the consternation of the twentysome women Pilot Peter had just agreed to start dating. In the end, Hannah had to depart…

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

After what Deadline says was an “intense bidding war,” Netflix has come away with what could be a pretty big project: A feature-length documentary about murdered rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle from Ava DuVernay that apparently went for somewhere in the “high eight figures.” That’s a lot of money, but this project…

John Brannox is a weak man—or, at least, a soft one. Though he hides behind an air of seriousness (and John Malkovich’s charisma), it’s increasingly clear that he’s struggling to meet the challenge of the papacy. The church is beset on all sides, and Brannox’s lack of self-confidence, justified though it may be, has…

Last night’s Oscars didn’t have a host, which meant there was a little more time here and there for presenters to do little comedy routines. There were generally pretty good, like Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus doing a fun bit about how they don’t know what a cinematographer does or the tour de force that Maya…

Last night’s Oscars ceremony was pretty good, if only because Parasite won Best Picture and Rian Johnson wore Porg cuff links, but apparently those of us who watched it live are members of a small and exclusive club with only about 23.6 million members. Now, that number may sound really high, but almost 30 million…