Новости за 22.04.2020

It’s Earth Day, meaning Nat Geo’s got a whole day of earth-friendly programming planned. Usually, the channel’s big finale is its live broadcasts from around the world, which bring viewers at home into contact with wildlife experts, endangered species, and once-in-a-lifetime moments, all in real time. That’s not…

In news that’s going to make fortysomething dudes everywhere ask, “What is a Post Malone?,” wildly popular singer Post Malone will be performing some Nirvana covers this Friday to help raise funds for coronavirus relief. Hey, if it makes you feel better, he’s got the name of a relatively obscure Nirvana song tattooed…

Nothing spices up a boring work meeting like having a late-night talk show host show up and yell at your boss. This week, the employees of the Palo Alto-based software company TIBCO were treated to just that, as Conan O’Brien used some insider information to virtually crash their Zoom call. After immediately declaring…

The State’s left us with no shortage of incredible sketches—“Monkey Torture,” “Taco Man”—but few were as ambitious and fully realized as “Porcupine Racetrack,” a sketch we once described as “a little bit My Fair Lady, a little bit West Side Story, a little bit The Sting” and a perfect encapsulation of the troupe’s…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: The Janelle Monáe thriller Antebellum was supposed to hit theaters. In its absence, we’re looking back at films starring musicians.

We’ve now reached the point of isolation where the newest online offerings feel like truly special events. Considering Netflix’s slate of May premieres, the sentiment holds up pretty well. Take Paramount’s sought-after rom-com The Lovebirds, which was originally meant to premiere at SXSW: Even without a theater to…

It’s both a good time and a truly bittersweet time to be a fan of Vida. Yes, the show is coming back—its third season premieres April 26 on Starz—but it also happens to be the show’s last season, something that’s sad to both the show’s hardcore fans and to the team that put the whole thing together.

Nobody, except maybe @dril, is better at Twitter than Ice-T, the musician, actor, podcaster, and author who regularly tweets about video games, good nuts, bagels, and the Dumb Fucks for whom he has no patience, often with a photo of him looking effortlessly chill attached for good measure. But nobody’s as terrifyingly…

It was exactly one year ago that we reported on Abigail Disney’s criticisms of executive salaries at her namesake company. Yesterday, the grand-niece of Walt Disney took to Twitter to once again speak out against the company’s executives, this time for benefiting from massive bonus schemes as 100,000 workers had their…

With so much of the world’s workforce currently conducting business over video chat, an unofficial competition has begun to see who can create the most elaborate prank to freak out their friends and coworkers. We’ve already seen one guy make it look like he’s walking in on himself in a meeting, and another go so far…

2020 was going to be a big year for Brea Grant, and it may still be yet. But for now, the actress, writer, and director is recalibrating after having two films—one she wrote and stars in, and another she wrote and directed—delayed by the cancellation of this year’s SXSW and Tribeca Film Festivals. And although she’s…

As Westworld heads into the homestretch of its third season, HBO has officially ordered a fourth installment of the popular sci-fi series. The penultimate episode of season three is set to air this Sunday, April 26, likely setting the table for a potentially explosive finale—if the final minutes of last week’s episode…

The second high-definition remake of a 90s-era Square Enix role-playing game coming out this month is much more faithful to the original than Final Fantasy VII. Beneath Trials of Mana’s cartoonish 3D makeover and questionable voice acting, it’s the same simple, satisfying action RPG it’s always been.

When Penny Dreadful ended its third season in 2016, show creator John Logan announced that the show was finished. It had run its course, and its stories had been told. As it turned out, though, Logan had more ideas in the tank.

If you aren’t used to seeing headlines like this by now, you aren’t paying attention. Retail businesses are struggling all over due to the COVID-19 pandemic and California’s iconic record store chain, Amoeba Music, is only the most recent to turn to their loyal customer base and ask for some support. This week, Amoeba…

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Many people are wondering how they can help out during the pandemic—whether it’s buying meals for frontline workers or the homeless, sending masks to communities in need, or buying gift cards from their favorite small businesses. A24, the studio behind some of the best films of the past several years, is taking its…

A League Of Their Own is one of the greatest sports movies of all time, but hiding within the true story that inspired that film is another, equally remarkable one: A romantic relationship between two women that remained secret for over six decades. That story is the subject of the new Netflix documentary A Secret Love…

Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of the only people in the White House more concerned with addressing the COVID-19 crisis than with covering Donald Trump’s ass, and has routinely found himself in the position of having to address bold-faced lies and misleading claims without pissing off his sloppy boss. If you’re looking for…

Reality competition shows are usually about surviving, dating, or singing. Maybe even a combination of all three. But sometimes, reality television has tried to enter the realm of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Sometimes it’s worked, other times it’s failed spectacularly.

Chris Hemsworth’s talent lies mostly in comedy, but his looks and physique have all but ensured a career of glowering he-man roles. Nonetheless, the Marvel veterans behind Extraction really should have known better. The film, which is exactly as generic as its title, casts Hemsworth as Tyler Rake, a name that follows…

When actor/comedians Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz first met, it was over a slice of pizza in New York. They made each other laugh, decided to work together, and a partnership was formed. Years later, the two have performed their two man long-form improv show damn near everywhere, including Carnegie Hall, and…

(Note: This piece contains specific plot details about the ending of the Hulu mini-series Little Fires Everywhere.)

Little Fires Everywhere has gone from a slow start to a straight-up explosive drama in its eight episodes. There is a lot to unpack when it comes to the heartrending conclusion of the show but first, a question to my fellow book readers: Are you just as startled after finishing the episode to discover the show…

Much as either would hate to admit it, Betty Friedan and Phyllis Schlafly are mirror images of each other. Betty’s book, The Feminine Mystique, addressed the very housewives that Phyllis believes she’s representing. They’re even of the same social class, education, and race, considering the original readership of The…