Новости за 15.04.2020

If you took Harry Potter, put it in a paper bag with The Wire, and shook it vigorously, you’d get the basic idea behind Selah And The Spades—a film that, to its credit, is only partially defined by those two elements. It takes place in the ubiquitous YA setting of an elite boarding school; at Haldwell School for…

Sam Raimi’s 50 States Of Fright had yet to debut on Quibi when we did our initial roundup of reviews, but you can be damn sure we’d have discussed “The Golden Arm” if it had. The episode of Raimi’s horror anthology, which brings to life folk tales native to the United States, is currently cracking up folks online…

Mindy Kaling is back in the TV game, and this time she’s telling horny teenage girl stories, as one should. Netflix released the trailer for Kaling’s coming-of-age comedy Never Have I Ever, which follows the high school hijinks of Devi, a sophomore who is eager to lose her virginity, be some version of cool, and climb…

Any Bravo viewer knows who Reza Farahan is. The longtime hub of the network’s Shahs Of Sunset is a frequent guest on Watch What Happens Live, sometime guest on the network’s NYC Pride float, and is generally known for being one of the best, funniest, and wittiest talking heads on the whole network. He’s also one of…

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.

The news is pretty awful these days, what with the global pandemic, a looming financial crisis, and a contentious presidential election. It’s safe to say that no amount of autotuning or “tooning out” will make the content much easier to swallow. So, let’s travel back to a simpler time, when the news was delivered in…

Any true hot wing lover has an opinion on which type of chicken delivery vehicle they prefer: the drum, or the flat. While many wingheads agree that the flat is the superior product, it’s also a messier proposition, consumption-wise. The drum satisfies some sort of primal caveman instinct for a lot of people, but it…

While it may feel totally redundant to re-litigate the many merits of Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite nearly nine weeks after snagging four Oscars, it’s still pretty incredible to watch the film reach new milestones and further cement its impressive legacy. For example: Just one week after its Hulu debut, the Academy’s Best…

Like so many other organizations, the Chicago Humanities Festival has had to make some adjustments to its spring lineup as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But we don’t have to worry about CHF going on hiatus—in fact, The A.V. Club has partnered with the Chicago Humanities Festival on a new event scheduled for …

“Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set future generations free of them.”—Shirley Chisholm

After taking a quick detour to the moon and back with 2018's First Man, La La Land and Whiplash director Damien Chazelle is returning to the world of troubled jazz guys as the producer and director of Netflix’s new miniseries, The Eddy.

The filth peddlers at Pornhub love to lend a helping hand, and not just when it comes to getting you off. In years past, they gave away a $25,000 scholarship and helped raise money for bee preservation, so it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that the porn juggernaut is finding a way to provide more than just sexual…

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As we hit the third Wednesday of the month without new comics, there’s an intense hunger among readers for something new to fill the void. Today, Panel Syndicate feeds the starving masses with the surprise launch of Friday, a new “post-YA” series by writer Ed Brubaker, artist/letterer Marcos Martín, and colorist…

Kimmy’s back, babies! And she’s bringing all her best pals along for a brand new, interactive special on Netflix. The streaming service has announced a May 12 premiere date for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy Vs. The Reverend via a short teaser and a handful of first-look images:

Thom Yorke was originally set to come through the United States at the end of March, on a brief tour with his group Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes for a series of live performances. Instead, as we know all too well, the world devolved into a series of scenes which, were they to be arranged into a montage, would probably be…

Last fall, nearly a year after the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, top Rockstar executive Jennifer Kolbe sent out an email to staff with a list of bullet-pointed initiatives to improve Rockstar’s culture.

The internet, like a 12-year-old, cannot be stopped from finding new ways to make dick jokes. The greatest form of communication ever created will continue to be used primarily to giggle at wieners, maintaining the grand tradition of our species no matter how difficult a time we’re all going through right now.…

The documentary It Started As A Joke begins as a chronicle of the 10th and final Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, an independent fest started on a lark by Bob’s Burgers’ Eugene Mirman. As explained by comics like Kumail Nanjiani and Kristen Schaal, Mirman is essentially a founding father of the Brooklyn comedy scene…

Now seems like a good time to develop a desperation index for pandemic streaming content, with the low end being something like “Watched every episode of Tiger King in two days,” and the high end is “Binged an entire season of The Bachelor in one sitting, only leaving the couch to retrieve snacks and/or visit the…

Kenneth Copeland’s been flexing his prosperity gospel grift for decades now, his unhinged gesticulations, signature roar, and claims of divine interaction having made him a superstar of the Christian right. But, hoo boy, this guy’s really come alive in the age of the coronavirus, as he’s made news both for his…

“They’ll never stop The Simpsons! Have no fears, we’ve got stories for years.” Depending on how you feel about Matt Groening’s animated sitcom these days, those words, from season 13’s “Gump Roast” episode, were either a promise or a threat. But they’ve turned out to be just as prophetic about The Simpsons as the show…

Seeing as how Gloria Steinem is probably the most well known figure of this series, her episode has the largest shoes to fill, so to speak—and Rose Byrne really delivers. Byrne has always had an uncanny ability to mimic real people: Her Rebecca Skloot from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks movie was eerily perfect,…

With every passing day, the coronavirus pandemic creates new, horrible problems for the world to deal with. Most of these are related to the sorts of things we’ve all been expecting—economic collapse, political fallout, and constant reminders of how essential robust social welfare programs and well-funded, free health…

With Little Fires Everywhere careening towards its end next week, the penultimate hour delivers an emotional courtroom showdown along with some long overdue confrontations to amp up the stakes for the finale, which will finally answer the season-long mystery of who burned down the Richardson mansion while Elena was…