Новости за 13.04.2020

In Netflix’s new rom-com Love Wedding Repeat, a bride enlists her doting brother, played by Sam Claflin, to drug an unwanted wedding guest, played by Poldark’s Jack Farthing. Huge ethical stumbling blocks aside, the drugging is intended to knock out Farthing’s character, thus rending the wedding quote-unquote…

Considering that every delivery meal and trip to the grocery store has now, in 2020, become the equivalent of playing COVID Russian roulette, it’s a good idea to mess around with new recipes that make proper use of the ingredients you’ve already got at home. For those of us who like our education mixed with a bit of…

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker is now available on home video, marking an end to what Disney dubbed “The Skywalker Saga,” so it seems like this must be the perfect for everyone to try and process their feelings about Disney’s sequel trilogy. Earlier this month, we saw the animated version of Colin Trevorrow’s unused Episode IX script

We know that Fred Armisen is a master of many voices and accents, thanks to his plethora of Saturday Night Live characters, his wide variety of Documentary Now! performances, his multitude of voiceover work in everything from Big Mouth to PBS Kids’ Nature Cat. But a new highlighted video on the Netflix Is A Joke YouTube channel

Though it feels like it happened five years ago at this point, it was really only last month that Gal Gadot and a bunch of her celebrity friends attracted the ire of social media users around the globe for their (sometimes literally) tone-deaf rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Now, even though it would be…

Bob Iger had barely put away his CEO desk plate when the pandemic hit the U.S. and devastated entertainment, tourism, and just about everything else under the sun. As Disney attempts to navigate its many properties through the crisis, Iger is stepping up to lead once again in hopes that his 15 years of experience will…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Antlers, a horror movie adapted from a story by Nick Antosca, is not hitting theaters. In its absence, we’re looking back on other movies based on short stories.

Nothing humanizes a movie star faster than seeing them screw up a take, get flustered, and drop an unintentional F-bomb in frustration. It’s as true today as it was in the Golden Age of Hollywood, though it’s rare you ever get to see any of the on-set screw-ups from that time period—for some reason, Orson Welles opted…

If, for no particular reason, you feel a strong urge to pretend for a couple of hours that it’s still the early ‘00s, there may be no quicker brain-rewiring tool than spending some time with the music of Homestar Runner. The web cartoon that gave us Trogdor, Teen Girl Squad, and Strong Bad, the gravely-voiced luchador…

The people at Netflix are clearly aware of the situation at hand, as evidenced by that Tiger King special hosted by Joel McHale. Streaming content is hot quarantine fuel, though not so precious a resource (yet) as to necessitate Netflix immediately releasing a pandemic edition of Love Is Blind (this time will come, as…

Ryan Murphy is an executive producer of Circus Of Books, a new documentary named after the family-run hub for gay pornography it chronicles. This isn’t merely a celebration of Circus of Books, but rather a deeply personal look into the straight couple, Karen and Barry Mason, that’s been running it for more than 35…

Our hosts begin this week patting themselves on the back for predicting that the Tiger King reception would go from sugar to shit. They also despair over having neglected to spotlight sourdough starter fever in its nascent stages, as sourdough is now definitely A Thing, and they failed to deem it one. That oversight…

Decades before Disney began cannibalizing its library and pooping out “live-action remakes” for fun (?) and profit, there was Splash—the somewhat horny and occasionally disturbing live-action remake of The Little Mermaid that we truly deserve (honorable mention: that one episode of Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre…

Given the current state of the world, moving to a remote mountain town isolated from the rest of humanity doesn’t sound like the worst idea. Before pulling the trigger on that real estate purchase, though, you might want to check out a recent Reddit AMA from Brent Underwood, the proud owner of Cerro Gordo, a…

In 1982—a full decade before the release of Reservoir Dogs—Quentin Tarantino was a young cinephile eager to interview John Milius for a planned book. Over on the website for L.A.’s New Beverly Cinema (which Tarantino also owns), the filmmaker shared a portion of his first conversation with Milius, who earned an Oscar…

The Baby Boomers control pretty much all the important aspects of daily life. This is disconcerting for all sorts of reasons, but probably the easiest way to understand that we should be wary of how old peoples’ opinions shape the world is by taking a quick look at the way they use the internet. In some cases, their…

It’s Monday (or so we’re told), and Warner Bros. is kicking the week off with something pretty exciting: Our first official look at Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel. While the previous logo artwork left us confused about the film’s actual title—is it... Dunc?…

Film after film has been kicked down the road thanks to COVID-19, a virus we feel pretty comfortable hating with every fiber of our being. (Why couldn’t it be one of those nice viruses, like viral videos or Chalamet Fever?) Isolating ourselves in our homes to slow the spread and flatten the curve of infection means…

Some fictional characters, like Harry Potter and the rest of Hogwarts, age along with their audiences. Others, like a certain quartet of irradiated amphibians, do not, choosing instead to luxuriate, as we all wish we could, in the carefree abandon of their teen years—it’s hard to imagine a 46-year old Leo landing…

In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the same. What Are You Reading This Month?

Over the course of its first two seasons, HBO’s Westworld pushed back against the idea of any one character strictly a hero or villain. The show made this explicit with the reveal that Jimmi Simpson’s good-natured white hat William was actually just Ed Harris’ brutally violent Man In Black as a younger man. We saw…

In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.

It’s rare that a stand-up special takes the world by storm, or at least by the relative storm that a stand-up special is capable of, but Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette from 2018 definitely took the world of comedy specials by storm—to the extent that the special, which involved Gadsby questioning whether she even wanted to…

If you’re stuck at home watching TV, you’ve no doubt been lulled into a state of carefully engineered patriotic torpor by the endless spectacle of corporate commercials touting their worker “heroes” who don’t have the luxury of binging all of Deep Space Nine in a week. As John Oliver noted on a blistering main story…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, April 13. All times are Eastern.