Новости за 04.03.2020

We often feel it is our journalistic duty to regularly remind our readers that—somehow, some way—former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Blink-182's Tom DeLonge are still potentially our best bets at solving the long-standing mystery of extraterrestrial visitation on our planet. And while Americans can rest easy…

Remember the Dixie Chicks, the group of outspoken country songstresses who were unfairly sidelined by their industry for daring to get just a little political? Since making their disapproval of George W. Bush public back in 2003, the women have weathered substantial backlash and were later resigned to a forced respite…

If you’ve listened to any shows in Last Podcast Network’s roster, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the voices of Jackie Zebrowski, Natalie Jean, Holden McNeely, and Jake Young, hosts of Page 7 and Wizard And The Bruiser. Early last month, while the quartet was in Chicago for a live performance, we tested their bonds…

After watching Mike Bloomberg’s dipshit campaign (R.I.P.) try so hard and fail so hard at being funny over the last few months, Brad Evans and Nick Ciarelli’s viral “Bloomberg Dance” prank from late last year has revealed itself to be even more prescient than we could’ve imagined. A response of sorts to the very silly …

On a wet night at a station on the outskirts of the Chinese city of Wuhan, a man with cuts on his face is approached by a woman with a plastic see-through umbrella. He is Zhou Zenong (Hu Ge), the fugitive leader of a local gang of motorcycle thieves; she is Liu Aiai (Gwei Lun-Mei), an apparent ally. For Zhou,…

We’ll beat you to it: Yes, MTV’s The Challenge is still on. It’s also still wildly popular and, due to Viacom’s wealth of IP, also filled with more than just Real World and Road Rules alums. A slew of British reality stars and even veterans of Survivor and Big Brother now round out the cast, which, somewhat…

Created and written by Lena Waithe when she was in her early 20s, BET’s Twenties could be viewed as a fictionalized telling of the Emmy-winning writer’s early days in Hollywood. But Waithe and her series have a lot more on their mind than just giving us another comedic coming-of-age autobiography. At this winter’s…

Tech support scammers make money by preying on vulnerable internet users, freaking them out with fake malware alerts that lead to phony help lines where agents ask for money in exchange for a solution. While plenty of people know how to avoid these kind of scams, others are terrified of them, and can lose not just…

With Robert Pattinson headlining a cast that includes Zoe Kravitz and Colin Farrell, The Batman certainly seems like a Dark Knight movie for the Horny Era. That assumption was pretty much confirmed when director Matt Reeves revealed the first look at Pattinson in costume as the Caped Crusader via a short video that…

Hideo Kojima, the writer, director, and designer who’s led the creation of video games like Death Stranding and the Metal Gear Solid series, creates work that, for better or worse, is unlike anything else in the medium. The inspiration behind a lot of his games is pretty easy to spot: Metal Gear borrows heavily from…

It’s been one year since Alex Trebek shared his diagnosis of stage 4 pancreatic cancer with the world. The beloved Jeopardy! host has kept fans updated on his sometimes harrowing journey along the way, and his latest video update marks an exceptional milestone: In the video below, Trebek explains that only 18 percent…

One dry October morning in 2019, my father came to my apartment, already in tears by the time I opened the door, to tell me a family secret.

Maybe the real villain of No Time To Die is its very existence. After suffering numerous delays due to losing Danny Boyle (probably for the best, if we’re being honest) and Daniel Craig’s busted ankle, the additional script rewrites, an on-set explosion, and maybe some other stuff we’re forgetting but have no doubt…

Among Black creatives and their intended audience, there’s an ongoing debate about whether there is such a thing as being “authentically Black,” and if so, how that should be depicted onscreen. From the way African Americans talk (and code-switch) to how they wear their hair, to the cultural fact that sweet potato pie…

It takes less than 10 minutes for The Banker to establish its hack-biopic, based-on-a-true-story credentials. After a brief scene in 1965, in which we see a suited-up Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) steeling himself to appear before Congress, we skip back to his childhood in Texas circa 1939, where he’s a precocious…

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Eliza Hittman’s anticipated Beach Rats follow-up, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, has emerged as one of the most acclaimed films currently making the festival circuit. It was swimming in buzz at Sundance, where our own A.A. Dowd caught it, and went on to win the lofty Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film…

Amazon Studios is the latest big name to drop out of this year’s SXSW over coronavirus concerns, according to a new report from Deadline. The move comes just days after Twitter and Facebook also exited the 2020 edition of the festival in Austin. While Facebook has a major outpost in the Texas capitol, the absence of…

Bill Nighy—despite being one of our most prolific British character actors—has never been too fond of period dramas. “It’s the trousers,” he confided, though he also alluded to a fear that all the trappings of old English society would encumber his ability to give an authentic performance. But Nighy cast all of his…

YouTube channel Vinheteiro is a delight. Its videos consist of a Brazilian guy who refers to himself as “Lord Vinheteiro” playing music—mainly piano—while wearing a tuxedo and staring silently into the camera. He doesn’t normally speak at all, apparently because he considers his (normal-sounding) voice “very ugly,”…

Plainly speaking, First Cow is the story of two best friends who want nothing more than to make a living selling buttermilk biscuits. Because they have no milk, the men—industrious but penniless both—must extract it in secret from the only cow in the area, owned by a rich landowner uninterested in sharing his dairy.…

For years, Ben Affleck has perplexingly occupied two states of being so perfectly that he might as well be considered his own state of matter in physics—an actor repeatedly lauded by both audiences and critics alike and a sad-sack beach bum with a heinous full-back tattoo that those very same fans and critics can’t…

Taika Waititi just won an Oscar for his direction on Jojo Rabbit, but the Kiwi filmmaker is just as in demand in front of the camera as he is behind it. He’ll soon star in both James Gunn’s Suicide Squad and the Ryan Reynolds comedy Free Guy, but first he’ll appear in Seven Stages To Achieve Eternal Bliss, a Vivieno…

The Terrifics is the only title left standing from DC’s New Age of Heroes initiative, debuting multiple series featuring new heroes that had a very Marvel flavor like Damage (Hulk), The Curse Of Brimstone (Ghost Rider), and Sideways (Spider-Man). Marvel wasn’t putting out a Fantastic Four book for a few years, so DC…

As the co-creator turned sole helmer of Better Things, Pamela Adlon can count herself among TV’s auteurs. The actor/writer/director/producer has always been the creative force behind one of FX’s best dramedies. The mix of flustered and steely that is Better Things protagonist Sam Fox, who is a working actor and…