Новости за 10.04.2020

In the eternal struggle to invent new ways to slack off during work, technology remains our most powerful weapon. Right now, with so many people forced to work from home, this has become even clearer. If we’re going to find exciting, innovative ways to avoid having to do shit we really don’t want to do ourselves,…

Someday our national nightmare will not be such that we can’t create and enjoy cinematic ones, so, for those who miss shrieking beneath a shower of popcorn in a crowded theater, here’s some good news: The much-discussed Hellraiser reboot and the James Wan-produced adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot continue to…

Nobuhiko Obayashi, the former experimental filmmaker and ad man turned mainstream studio director whose eccentric, colorful style was a shot in the arm for the Japanese film industry in the late 1970s and ‘80s, has died. Obayashi had been battling lung cancer for years, far outliving his initial life expectancy—in…

There’s nothing quite like a group text with funny people, a digital haven where you can lose yourself in roundabout conversations, running bits, and typos that then become running bits. One can rarely share the subsequent laughs with the uninitiated, due either to a lack of context or an abundance of bad taste, but…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: No Time To Die won’t be hitting theaters, but you can still enjoy some vintage 007 action.

As part of Saturday Night Live’s new “Stories From The Show” series on YouTube, comedian John Mulaney sat down recently to reflect on his time spent as a writer and very occasional performer on the late night institution. Beginning with his audition alongside future comedy stars Donald Glover, Ellie Kemper, and Bobby…

Queenly rivalries are a part of the fabric of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and season 12 had been serving us a real doozy in the form of The People vs. Aiden Zhane. But, after Brita’s “Let It Go” lip sync finally sent the sleepy queen home, where can the drama go from here? If fans stuck around for last week’s Untucked or…

Thus far, one of Quibi’s more promising properties is the long-awaited revival that we have yet to see. Since announcing the return of Comedy Central’s six-season favorite Reno 911!, the short-form streaming platform has remained quiet about the premiere date of the seventh season. Now, after a solid teaser and three …

If a comprehensive history of DreamWorks Animation is ever written, the 2016 semi-musical Trolls may figure into it as a pivotal text, despite its ignominious toy-shelf origins and not exactly record-breaking box office (and now a sequel that has been forced to bypass most theaters entirely due to a pandemic). The…

Ever since this whole coronavirus business got started, people have been making allusions to The Stand, Stephen King’s sprawling modern epic about a deadly global pandemic and the fates of the individuals spared by the disease. It’s an easy comparison to make considering governmental ineptitude and human selfishness…

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…

For as good as a lot of Mountain Goats’ latter-day releases are, some will assert that the band has never surpassed the passionate home recordings singer John Darnielle cranked out in the ‘90s and early ‘00s. Transcendental Youth rips, but one can’t fully grasp Darnielle’s breadth without luxuriating in the ambient…

In Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell At Happy Hour, Ross Mathews dishes on his life being celebrity adjacent. The one time Tonight Show intern, frequent E! red carpet correspondent, Celebrity Big Brother runner up, and RuPaul’s Drag Race judge has been around the “standing next to really…

San Francisco is a city filled with iconic landmarks, but for book lovers, there’s always been one place that stands out among the rest. City Lights Bookstore opened in the city’s North Beach neighborhood in the early 1950s and, along with Vesuvio Cafe across the street, quickly became the number one hangout for…

Just last month, Netflix canceled RuPaul’s feel-good comedy-drama AJ And The Queen. However, it’s important to remember the famous old wives’ tale: “If you pluck one RuPaul project, two more grow in its place.” Case in point: Today, VH1 announced the newest addition to the Drag Race franchise, RuPaul’s Secret…

After The Circle established Netflix’s reality bonafides, the streamer successfully pivoted to horny trash with Love Is Blind. Now, they’re looking to blow the likes of Temptation Island out of the water with Too Hot To Handle, a reality series with a premise as simple as it is brilliant: Bring the hot people…

Fran Lebowitz, as those familiar with the writer and speaker might expect, has a lot of instantly memorable things to say about this specific moment in time. Thanks to a recent interview with The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman, a bunch of those thoughts are now on record, providing us with a wealth of quotes on topics…

The recent history of Disney as a film studio has primarily involved a rotation of brands: Marvel, Star Wars, Disney Feature Animation, Pixar, and their stable of lavish remakes all rotate around the release schedule, occasionally finding room for a big-budget fantasy or low-budget family movie with less name…

Dieter Laser, the veteran German actor perhaps best known for orchestrating The Human Centipede’s grotesque, meme-spawning raison d’etre, has died. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor’s wife told media on Friday that her husband died in Berlin on February 29, though a cause of death is unknown. He was 78.

Over on Twitter, I learned about a thing called “resets.” Resets are those annoying, wonky moments at the beginning of an episode, or the beginning of an act break after a commercial, where the characters re-iterate or re-state the plot, conflict, or goal as it is up until that point. If you binge a show created in…

There’s a reason music industry titans Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, and Queen Latifah all signed on to executive producer a biopic about gospel group The Clark Sisters: They’re your favorite singer’s favorite singers. The new Lifetime movie The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel provides a deeper look at the…

It’s one of the quirks of Jerry Seinfeld’s career that, for as massive as it’s been, he’s got fewer stand-up special and albums than just about any other artist of his stature. (Three of the former, two of the latter, although you could probably cut two or three new specials out of his collected Seinfeld cold opens.)…

The actor: Don Cheadle’s career follows an arc that every actor dreams of. Granted, it wasn’t a short arc, but after kicking off his career in the ’80s, he soon began working nonstop, taking what roles he could get—including a stint on the short-lived Golden Girls spin-off, The Golden Palace—and gradually building a…

PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor has, as Seth Meyers put it on Thursday’s stay-at-home Late Night, lately found herself in the unenviable journalistic position of being “part of the story.” That story being, in this case, Donald Trump’s daily coronavirus press briefings, where responsibly spaced…

Patrick Dempsey can juggle. That’s become an increasingly big part of his public persona over the years, and it’s also the reason I’ve seen Made Of Honor so many times. Whenever I come across this film on TV, I remember there’s a charming juggling scene so I stick around to watch that. And then I remember there’s a…