Новости за 17.02.2020

A big draw of the original Fantasy Island series was seeing who would step off the charter plane at the beginning of each week’s episode. To create a similar feeling for his 2020 horror movie remake, co-writer/director Jeff Wadlow and his team assembled an eclectic cast that includes The CW star Lucy Hale, beloved…

Dogs can’t act. Apologies to the many great “animal actors” of Hollywood, but they can’t. That’s okay—they have other skill sets, and it doesn’t take much to make watching a dog entertaining. Filmmakers have relied on well-trained pooches and careful editing to craft canine-centric narratives (the Lassie approach) or…

The Mandalorian 500-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle | $7 | Amazon

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For the final novel published during her lifetime, Jane Austen set out to write “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” Unlike the noble underdogs of Pride And Prejudice and Sense And Sensibility, Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, entitled young woman whose problems are largely of her own making. “The real…

Brenda Hernández Jaimes is the founder and host of Ellas podcast, which is devoted to fostering conversations with the inspiring Latinas paving the way for the next generation. Diana Cabuto, soon to be featured in the Netflix series Gentefied, was brought up in a female-centric Mexican household before moving to the…

Escape the villain, get the girl, complete the mission. It’s a pretty standard routine for secret agents in spy stories, especially if you’re a British stud with a license to kill. But the new Dark Horse Comics series, BANG!, doesn’t stick to the routine. Written by Matt Kindt with art by Wilfredo Torres, colorist…

Like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and other anti-hero dramas before it, Narcos: Mexico invites audiences to watch along as some very bad people do some very bad things, all for their own personal gain of money and power. But, of all the crime bosses and drug traffickers Narcos introduces us to, there’s one that feels…

Poor Tina. All she wants is to be the perfect big fish to Kaylee, the nerdy fourth grader placed under her weeklong tutelage. That surely isn’t that much to ask, right? Right!? Yet that just isn’t going to happen, as the two utterly fail to hit it off. “A Fish Called Tina” gives us a good old-fashioned descent into…

A 2-port Anker USB-C charger that powers two MacBooks at once, a $37 Dutch Oven, a Sonic the Hedgehog Monopoly board game, and an extensive list of Presidents Day Sales kick off Monday’s top bargains.

It’s Presidents Day in America today, the annual celebration that sees our collective populace vaguely acknowledge the existence of a couple of members of our country’s largely mythical roster of good elected leaders—and the frothing hordes of bad ones that seem ever-more-determined to outnumber and overwhelm them by…

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It’s a new decade, and we should start it off right. Given that doesn’t seem to include a fair and reasonable primary season, how about we just throw a damn party instead? Once more, The A.V. Club is heading down to the annual bacchanal that is SXSW, and we’re throwing a shindig to celebrate, as we always do. This…

Although it will undoubtedly earn such labels before long, Amazon’s Hunters shoots past timeliness or political relevance to tell a story that’s compelling and cathartic. Set in late ’70s New York, the action-packed drama from David Weil uncovers a secret history of resistance to forge a path toward reclamation. Al…

Last Week Tonight returned this week, and Sunday’s show saw John Oliver back at it, somehow making a 20-minute segment about a seemingly intractable problem simultaneously infuriating, dispiriting, educational, inspirational, and entertaining. That even though, as Oliver pointed out when highlighting the English…

Here’s the difference between you and me. You need this whole thing to make some kind of sense that you can live with. I just want it to end.

The risk of anchoring a season of Supergirl around the theme of technology is that it’s easy for that concept to get real nebulous real fast. The word I wrote down most in my notes tonight was “sure.” Toyman Jr. used Obsidian lenses to download his consciousness into a laptop? Sure! You can’t destroy the DEO servers…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, February 17. All times are Eastern.

No one on the good ship Avenue 5 seems to be very good at what they’re supposed to do, which is not necessarily good news for anyone hoping to survive this voyage. But the stakes are probably lowest for Jordan the stand-up comic, whose failure to deliver a tight five still ends up anchoring a big portion of the…

“You think I’m gonna fuck that doll?”

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“Do you really think so?” “I’m just saying things.”

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“Catch And Release” is a fairly typical second episode of a season for a serialized show like Homeland. The initial rush of plunging us back into the characters’ lives has passed, and now it’s time to lay the groundwork for what’s to unfold the rest of the way. The writers need to download a lot of information, and…

A little atmosphere goes a long way. “The Haunting Of Villa Diodati” is an episode you could pick apart on a number of different levels, but it’s so engagingly spooky that it’s easy to put aside those concerns while you’re watching it. This is a top tier take on a Doctor Who haunted house mystery, one that blends…

Despite the three-week gap between episodes, Batwoman hasn’t lost any of the momentum from “An Un-Birthday Present.” The new Beth’s unnatural, splitting headaches while in Kate’s care threatens Beth’s life, Alice’s life, and Kate’s moment of happiness. So far, Batwoman has done well when there are super high stakes,…

Watching the premiere of Fox’s Duncanville, it can be easy to forget that series co-creator Amy Poehler voices both both Duncan and his mother. It’s a testament to Poehler’s abilities to play children, clearly honed when she was playing the hyperactive Kaitlyn on Saturday Night Live. Now Poehler’s joined creative…

We haven’t heard much from Adele in the last few years. Her last album, 25, came out all the way back in 2015, and after that she pulled off a shocking Grammys upset, suggested that she might never want to tour again, had to get emergency surgery after damaging her vocal cords, and then… probably continued to do…