Новости за 30.03.2020

It feels like it happened a decade ago now, but the third season of Netflix’s surprisingly good Castlevania series just premiered earlier this month, and yet… those damn vampires are already getting ready to come back so they can steal men’s souls and make them their slaves. Mankind may ill need something as spooky as…

It’s likely true that every filmmaker’s got a handful of dusty scripts sitting in a desk drawer somewhere that will never be produced, but it’s rare that fans ever get a chance to read one of those scripts and wonder at what might have been. Fans of Spike Lee are getting that chance this week. The writer/director took…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: The teen superhero movie New Mutants, from Fault In Our Stars director Josh Boone, has been postponed again. In its absence, we’re looking at YA adaptations. 

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has infused modern life with an air of uncertainty. And on Behind The Bastards, Robert Evans and guest Jamie Loftus (My Year In Mensa, Robot Chicken) remind us that whenever there’s chaos, grifters will always try to profit. In this timely episode, Evans outlines some “remedies” that…

Adding to the abundance of streaming content currently available to viewers riding out the coronavirus quarantine, the Hasbro toy company has generously uploaded the first 15 episodes of the classic animated series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Nothing will make you more inspired to do the right thing during this…

Tony Hale is chicken. No, sorry. He’s a chicken. Hale stars in Archibald’s Next Big Thing, a Netflix and Dreamworks Animation show that he also created. Its second season just hit the streaming service and finds Hale’s Archibald once again taking on life with an uplifting “yes and...” mentality, producing a positive…

Steven Universe Future’s final episodes brought Steven and the Crystal Gems’ story to an epic close. They also reinforced one of the most important concepts that shaped Rebecca Sugar’s approach to creating the show ever since she first had the idea for the series. Steven Universe and Future were both sublime in the…

Eager as we all are to discover new ways to entertain ourselves at home, it was only a matter of time before someone started recording themselves rapping children books and uploading the results to YouTube. With the sense that all of this must come to pass eventually, then, we are here to present you with Wes Tank…

The spring (and possibly summer) movie release schedule might have taken a hit, but TV keeps marching on. This April, several alums of big-screen franchises like The Avengers and Star Wars find their way (in some cases, back) to the small screen to defend their children, undermine our civil liberties, or go on the lam…

Another major upcoming album has been delayed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following last week’s delays of new albums from HAIM and Lady Gaga, Sam Smith has announced that their highly-anticipated new studio album, To Die For, has also been delayed. In a thoughtful statement posted to Twitter, Smith revealed…

In these dark days, in the Great Time Of Uncertainty, humankind is being tested. Now is the time when the best and worst of humanity will emerge—worst, as in how quickly we stop showering because who fucking cares. But also the best, as in the stunning feat of virtual ingenuity known as iHeartRadio’s Living Room…

Joe Exotic, if the Netflix docuseries Tiger King is anything to go by, is a terrible person. Aside from the obvious issues with keeping wild animals captive for profit, Joe seems to have emotionally and physically manipulated his husbands with drugs and probably put a hit out on his big cat world nemesis, Carole…

Westworld is playing a different game in season three—Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sci-fi drama (née Western) is much more forthcoming in its storytelling, and more restrained in its number of timelines and perspective-shifting flashbacks. As Zack Handlen notes in his review of the third episode, “The Absence Of Field

It’s Monday, in case that wasn’t immediately clear—and hey, no judgment here. The days and hours are all blurring together, there are only so many puzzles to do, and even Netflix has begun to lose its allure. Thankfully, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman has an exciting opportunity if you can just…

It begins with the most tired of clichés: the body of a dead woman. Five children make the discovery near a river one hot afternoon, smelling the corpse before they see its “dark mask seething under a myriad of black snakes.” But the associations the trope stirs up—a serial killer on the loose, an obsessive detective…

Now that digital communications are all the rage, the quarantined masses are reconnecting with the friends and former colleagues once lost to time and proximity. That’s true for the celebs, too, apparently, as Hollywood beefcake John Krasinski used his new good-news-only YouTube show to have a chat with his old Office…

So, far, the final season of IFC’s Brockmire has rocketed viewers into the not-so-distant future of the 2030s, an unnervingly dystopian vision of AI surveillance, catastrophic climate change, and—worst of all for Jim Brockmire (Hank Azaria)—baseball’s near extinction. Now, the man who reluctantly accepted the job of…

Resident Evil 3 peaks early, with a true night of the living dead. The first hour or so of the game unfolds within the early stages of what could colloquially be called the zombie apocalypse, on the streets of a city overrun with shambling, ravenous, reanimated corpses. You creep down alleys, take shortcuts through…

During a time when we could all use just a little more magic, Netflix has announced a second season of its coming-of-age comic book-to-TV adaptation, Locke And Key. The streaming giant made the announcement through the show’s social media on Monday morning.

It’s not until the very end of its premiere episode that it becomes clear what kind of show Belgravia is going to be. When it opens, the new miniseries from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes is a sweeping wartime romance set in 1815 Brussels against the heady backdrop of an infamous real-life ball held just two…

The Resident Evil 3 remake doesn’t come out until Friday, and yet, somehow, there’s already a modification available that turns its towering murder-monster Nemesis into a sexy, thong-wearing biofreak. Does this set some kind of record for unorthodox internet horniness? We can’t say for sure, knowing that there are…

The plot: I’m not sure the world was crying out for another film in the vein of Kids, Bully, or Havoc—a genre of entertainment we’ll charitably dub Kids Do The Most Fucked-Up Things! But that’s what We is, and it since it’s not bound by any of the pesky sense of decorum you might find in American movies—even those…

Unlike his other late-night cohorts, John Oliver brought the second of his socially distanced Last Week Tonight episodes to us on Sunday not from a tub, rumpus room, or sofa, but from the sterilely spooky reaches of “a blank, white void full of sad facts.” Where is John Oliver’s void? Well, there’s no audience, no…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, March 30. All times are Eastern. 

Three episodes in, and it’s safe to say that the third season premiere wasn’t a fluke. Westworld has reinvented itself; in leaving the park, it’s streamlined its focus, simplified its approach to narrative, and become far less withholding in terms of thrills. And while I can see being disappointed in this if you were…