Новости за 14.04.2020

Back in 2018, one-time child actor Leelee Sobieski said she didn’t know “why it’s legal for a child to act,” essentially calling a Hollywood “a gross industry” for how it forces children to be judged by their appearance. The psychological impact of show business on the young and impressionable has been explored time…

As reported by Vulture, Alex Trebek is getting ready to release one thing that we’ve all wanted form him for the past few decades: A trashy tell-all book about Jeopardy! and all of the behind-the-scenes drama that happens when the cameras aren’t on. Ken Jennings did what? The Watson computer was actually a man in a…

Kevin Smith will continue to play the hits following last year’s abysmal Jay And Silent Bob Reboot, with the filmmaker persisting in his years-long quest to make sequels to Mallrats and Clerks. Clerks 3, which will serve as a meta riff on the first film, seems to be well on its way, while Mallrats 2: Twilight Of The…

Visions of a burning house haunt a nameless fugitive in Scott Teems’ The Quarry. Played by Shea Whigham and referred to only as The Man, the outlaw heads south trailed by police helicopters and a guilty conscience. Desperation begets more desperation, setting the stage for a border-town tale of imposture, sin, and…

Just when you think this epidemic couldn’t possibly postpone or cancel one more thing, that unruly bastard managed to somehow block the simple joy of witnessing a brand new emoji make its internet debut for an entire year. An entire year. Per CNN, the Unicode Consortium—the non-profit that reviews emoji standards and…

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting stay-at-home orders have had a cascade effect on the entertainment industry, but there’s one thing we (well, some of us) can still count on: NBCUniversal is moving forward with an early preview of its Peacock streaming service for certain Comcast customers.

If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably found yourself sitting on your quarantine couch these past few weeks and wondering: “Hey, what’s Don McLean up to these days? I bet he has some insightful and relevant thoughts regarding the state of music in 2020.” Well, guess what, kids? You’re in luck! Don McLean…

Ask most toddler parents to spout a line or two from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and they’ll probably be able to do it. The animated show, which introduces viewers to the children of the characters from Fred Rogers’ Neighborhood Of Make-Believe, is all goodness and light, providing preschool age viewers with moral…

The unstoppable juggernaut that is ABC’s Bachelor franchise just got a little bit bigger: Last night the network premiered its latest spinoff, The Bachelor Presents: Listen To Your Heart. Yes, the inferred music reference is very much intentional, as this reality show crams together 20 single men and women (this being…

Conner O’Malley, a comedian whose greatest hits include helping “raise awareness for 5G” by smoking 500 cigarettes, boosting the economy with homemade Powerade, and hosting the world’s foremost aquatic talk show, has become the avatar of an increasingly unreal world. Words tinged with unhinged desperation, his voice…

This Friday, April 17 (or so the calendar says), all four members of the fictional band formerly known as The Oneders are participating in a very special That Thing You Do! reunion via livestream. The event, which will be hosted on Zoom (of course), is part of a charity drive to raise money for the MusicCares COVID-19…

Jerry Bruckheimer, who recently helped bring his Bad Boys franchise back to life, is an executive producer of Hightown, an 8-episode murder mystery that debuts on Starz next month. Today, the network dropped the first trailer for the series, which was slated to premiere at this year’s SXSW festival

Hey, we can’t claim to be immune to Netflix’s slate of glossy reality shows, but it’s still reassuring to witness the streaming platform continue to make space for the programming that has always existed in its purview. As evidenced by its fairly missed Marvel slate and current dreamy thriller Locke & Key, Netflix has…

Quibi, which is—according to various ads on TV, of all places—pronounced like “Quibbi,” has finally realized what everyone else has known for many years now: Watching TV shows on your phone sucks. The new streaming platform, which serves up “quick bites” (ugh) of original series, meant to be watched “on the go”…

Having, thus far, battled her way through two lip syncs and brushed off some harsh makeup critiques from fellow queens (and Nicki Minaj), is there any hurdle Heidi N Closet can’t overcome this season of Drag Race? If she has one Achilles’ heel, it might just be her own name; after all, RuPaul has never shied away from…

There is nothing good about the coronavirus outbreak, but, in such an absolutely shitty time, trying to find even the dimmest of silver linings might be one of the only things to get us through the day. So, in an effort to keep you from immediately going back to bed five minutes after waking up and reading the news,…

Pimp My Ride, the bygone MTV reality series in which garbage cars got stuffed with TVs and cotton candy machines, was unsurprisingly outed as a fraud a few years back. Not only were its gaudy additions often unsafe, but, despite a fresh coat of paint, the cars themselves remained as non-functional as they were…

Although the phrase “I have to return some videotapes” has since passed into digital-age incoherence, everything else about American Psycho is just as fresh 20 years on. After being passed on by everyone from Oliver Stone to Stuart Gordon, the task of adapting Bret Easton Ellis’ infamous 1991 novel eventually fell to…

Monday offered us our first look at Timothée “Sad Boy” Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, the protagonist of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune, as adapted by Arrival director and Academy darling Denis Villeneuve. Today, Vanity Fair is chasing that appetizer with a whole damn meal, peppered liberally with the story’s…

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.

Not even a pandemic-mandated video chat can stop Jack Black. Jack (a.k.a. Jables, J.B., the human rock dynamo-god), who traditionally kicks off his various Jimmy Kimmel Live appearances with a bombastic, acrobatic, and altogether rock-godlike grand entrance befitting his status as one half of the self-proclaimed…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, April 14. All times are Eastern. 

Why would someone want to make a game like the one we see in Dispatches From Elsewhere? Especially a game that made no money for the creator, sold nothing to the player and would require a whole lot of work? In the very specific case of this show (because remember, this is based on a real thing, the answer to that…

As reported by Rekindle art school in Seattle (via Kotaku), acting teacher and video game voice actor Rick May—best known for playing Peppy Hare in Nintendo’s Star Fox games and the Soldier in Valve’s Team Fortress 2—has died. May had a stroke earlier this year and had been rehabilitating at a nursing home, but while…

Last week I held out hope that Mike got through to Jimmy — that his speech about doing what he had to do to keep his loved ones safe changed the way Jimmy would approach the intersection of Kim and his work. Well, it did. But I should have known that the Jimmy who walked out of the desert wouldn’t be changed in a way…