Новости за 21.02.2020

Now that Mr. Robot has concluded, creator Sam Esmail is moving on to his next major project: a star-studded look at the Watergate scandal, per Variety. Sure, there isn’t exactly a shortage of Watergate content, but we’d never begrudge the public a bedazzled nugget of political scandal to distract from our current…

When composer Matthew Van Ness commits to a bit, he doesn’t half-ass it, even a little. Here he is, singing every single instrument and choral part in John Williams’ “Duel Of The Fates” from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. The hooded stuff at the beginning is funny, and the overall effect is very cool, but what we’re…

Cory Finley’s follow-up to 2018's excellent Thoroughbreds is Bad Education, a comic exploration of the Roslyn academic scandal that hit Long Island in the early 2000s. Today, HBO dropped a new teaser for the original film, which will debut in April.

Amy Poehler and Mike Scully really sought to assemble a comedy cast of thousands when they put together Duncanville, now airing on Fox. Sure, you’ve got Ty Burrell and Poehler’s IRL BFF Rashida Jones, but the cast also boasts Wiz Khalifa, Betsy Sodaro, and—for one episode, Alice Cooper. The A.V. Club sat down with…

Comedy duo Nick Ciarelli‏ and Brad Evans, who previously lit up the political sphere with their “Bloomberg Dance,” are now targeting pandering “get-out-the-vote” campaigns with a new parody that skewers both clueless celebrities and the byzantine technologies that, as the Iowa caucus demonstrated, do little more than…

Just about every Pixar movie transports audiences to a shiny new world of wonder: the depths of the ocean, the deepest reaches of space, the inside of the human brain. But the key to the studio’s enduring popularity may be the way it tethers those meticulously crafted backdrops to stories of relatable emotion and…

COVID-19, a new strain of coronavirus, while certainly a spooky major headline story in early 2020, still seems like it’s not something the average American needs to worry over at the moment. That’s not to say it isn’t a nastily infectious virus, but it still only has around a 2% fatality rate, so the odds certainly…

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther run has had a fascinating evolution since beginning in 2016, with a shaky first year that saw Coates still acclimating to comic-book storytelling. Eventually he got the hang of writing a superhero book and the series significantly improved, taking a massive leap for the second volume…

Earlier this week, AMC just casually, quietly released a new Breaking Bad short, like this is something they do every day. No big deal. So hey, here’s Jesse Plemons and the voice of Laura Fraser in one more (final?) chapter of the Todd And Lydia Nightmare Variety Hour.

It was roughly five years ago that the Mandela Effect—the phenomenon of shared false memory—was popularized when people began claiming we once lived in a parallel universe where the the Berenstain Bears were actually called the Berenstein Bears. A similar moment occurred a few years later when a whole slew of people…

Fans of Grey’s Anatomy may remember Jerrika Hinton as Stephanie Edwards, the intensely driven resident who bowed out of the show in 2017, after appearing in a staggering 111 episodes. She’s had a few jobs since, including roles in Servant and on Here And Now, but has really made her mark with Hunters, where she plays…

Star Wars seems to be in a bit of a holding pattern. The Force Awakens was generally liked but not well-loved; The Last Jedi proved to be quite divisive; The Rise of Skywalker was generally disliked but not loathed. The Mandalorian received mostly positive reviews, but if anyone here watched Star Wars Resistance,…

Brahms, the murderous doll with the angelic porcelain face, is not yet a horror icon on par with Freddy, Jason, or even that indecorous Annabelle. But Brahms: The Boy II makes a half-valiant, half-misguided attempt to continue the legacy of The Boy, a minor hit from four years ago, which involves addressing (or, for…

The lead-up to the release of BTS’ latest LP, Map Of The Soul: 7, has been nothing short of madness. Since announcing the arrival of the much-anticipated follow-up to Map Of The Soul: Persona, the K-pop superstars have stoked excitement by releasing three track— “Interlude: Shadow,” “Outro: Ego,”and “Black Swan.”. (We…

Early on in the second season of Altered Carbon, an off-world fight scene in a bar, complete with samurai swords and energy guns, gives the appearance of business as usual. But rather quickly, the Netflix show reveals exciting updates to the sleeve technology that allowed hero Takeshi Kovacs to take out his evil…

George Lucas did not invent franchise filmmaking. The first movie sequel, The Fall Of A Nation, came out way back in 1917. King Kong had a sequel. Dracula and Frankensten had a ton of them. Billy Jack, the first sequel to The Born Losers, was the biggest hit of 1971. A few years before Lucas masterminded The Empire…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, February 21, and Saturday, February 22. All times are Eastern.

College is a time for experimentation. Be it styles, habits, or even entire belief systems, when you’re young and questioning everything, it only makes sense to try on a variety of different ideas and actions to see what fits. Most of us grow out of it (and into a more routine lifestyle and thought process) as we get…

The Academy Awards were handed out almost two weeks ago, which means it’s the perfect time for Donald Trump to chime in with his stupid and worthless opinions that mean absolutely nothing. Sure enough, Trump recently shared his thoughts on Parasite’s historic Oscar run at one of his rallies, and it turns out that his…

We’ll say this about Parasite’s North American distributor Neon: It knows how to strike when the iron is hot. Earlier this month, it expanded the film’s theatrical rollout to 2,000 or so locations, even though it is already available to buy digitally and on Blu-ray, bringing in an extra $5.6 million over this past…

Boyle: “Did I ever tell you the story of my Jimmy Jab humiliation?”
Debbie: “No. You pretty much never talked to me ‘til today.”

How’s this for a cinematic recipe: Take two parts ultraviolence and witty, pop-culture-laden dialogue a lá Tarantino, add a generous dollop of Sam Raimi-esque gonzo Looney Tunes attitude, and mix it all up in a blender made in Russia until it’s hard as nails and infinitely more colorful. That’s about what you can…

In case you needed further proof that the ‘90s never died, Archers Of Loaf just released their first new song in 22 years—presumably in honor of finally reuniting and announcing a new string of tour dates for the first time in nearly a decade. This comes from Stereogum, which doesn’t say if this track (called “Raleigh…

Talk about a reveal: It was announced Thursday that RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars season five will air on Showtime instead of VH1.