Новости за 01.05.2020

Over one hundred countries are experiencing some form of lockdown, the global economy is in free fall, and the last time you saw your loved ones was probably over a frozen Zoom screen. If you aren’t already mired in sadness, here comes HBO’s I Know This Much Is True to fully extinguish any spark of levity you might…

Netflix’s next original documentary is enough to make any braggadocios D.A.R.E. graduate clutch their pamphlet in shock. Have A Good Trip: Adventures In Psychedelics takes a surreal look into the world of ingesting acid, ‘shrooms, and the like. Here’s Netflix’s official synopsis:

Simpler Times seeks to excavate and luxuriate in the pop culture relics of yesteryear by sifting through the staticky depths of the Internet Archive’s VHS Vault.

Welcome to a brand new episode of Film Club, The A.V. Club’s weekly movie-discussion series. Though some states are permitting theaters to begin re-opening with restrictions, it will be sometime before moviegoers flock back to theaters. There are still concerns about the health risks of large public gatherings, and…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Black Widow postponed, we’re looking back on the best performances by Scarlett Johansson.

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos is releasing a new memoir—Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage—on May 5. As she urges at the book’s beginning: “Join me on the path of resistance—of the art that will set us free,” a familiar theme for Amos, who has written songs about 9/11, #MeToo, and the climate…

Gilbert Gottfried could read Oh, The Places You’ll Go! and we’d all collapse into heaving sobs, so, yes, even a big lug like John Cena can make magic with Dr. Seuss’ heart-tugging children’s book.

Back in 2016, when Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff’s novel that blends supernatural terror with the even more terrifying racial politics of midcentury America, was first released, we immediately noted that it had “the basic structure of a season of serialized TV, with each chapter functioning as a type of short story…

Everybody’s dealing with the unique stresses of the coronavirus pandemic in different ways. Some are getting through a difficult time by connecting with friends and family digitally while others spend evenings and weekends stuck at home enjoying new hobbies. Alex Jones, champion of truth, justice, and truly awful …

Much as we all may love and remember about Invader Zim, there’s so, so much more to the series that ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor—because animation, like all creative processes, is a vicious business in which one must sometimes kill their darlings. Just because something doesn’t make it to air doesn’t…

Elon Musk must be high again. After weeks of downplaying the COVID-19 crisis, the union-busting Cybertruck creator is punctuating his recent comments about California’s shelter-in-place being “fascist” by amplifying bad-faith conspiracy mongers and (squints) regurgitating the “Star-Spangled Banner” in a series of…

What makes a good reality show judge? Ross Mathews has given this a lot of thought. As a frequent panelist on RuPaul’s Drag Race and its many iterations, the author, comedian, and Celebrity Big Brother veteran knows what it takes to be both pithy and picky, and has brought both a sense of universal justice and a sense…

Social media “challenges” have always been pretty stupid and can sometimes even border on life-threatening, but we’ve officially crossed some sort of line in the sand here. According to Insider, users on the video-sharing app TikTok have taken to pissing their pants on purpose in a desperate attempt to garner more…

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…

Every so often, a comedy talent emerges that is so unique, so unbelievably funny that audiences can help but fall in love. Usually, it’s some young upstart, fresh off a stint at one of the country’s more popular comedy theaters, ready to make their mark on the world. It’s very rarely a struggling character actor in…

I’ve been covering indie games here at Kotaku since 2016 and sharing all sorts of fantastical worlds with readers. Some are loud and flashy. Others are moody. Some of the best have come from the mind of developer Cosmo D. In February, I showed off his next game, Tales From Off Peak City. In the lead up to its official…

Five years after taking us for “One Last Ride,” Parks And Recreation returned to NBC’s Thursday night lineup—for one night only, and with the purpose of raising money for charities like Feeding America and The National Alliance on Mental Illness while once more immersing viewers in the lovable yet infuriating environs…

The enormous success of Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians paved a clear path towards a number of already confirmed sequels. There’s no telling when they will actually materialize (an unknown that precedes the current state of the world, to be clear), but that didn’t stop scammers from targeting hopeful actors with a fake…

Getting older drives men to weird places. Some cope with ink or dye. Others splurge on sports cars. And of course, there’s the timeless ritual of chasing someone half your age, as though the attention of youth might somehow restore it. For Georges, the unmoored fortysomething divorcé Jean Dujardin plays in the…

George Clooney and his producing partner, actor and writer Grant Heslov, are throwing their weight behind Trial By Media, a six-part Netflix docuseries about the media’s role in amplifying public perception of memorable criminal trials. Like the streamer’s excellent Dirty Money docuseries, Trial By Media doles out…

In Hollywood, Holland Taylor plays Ellen Kincaid, a casting and acting expert at Ace Pictures who’s looking to shake things up both personally and professionally. It’s a great role for Taylor, who has spent over 50 years of her life on screen, and who understands the ins and outs of the Hollywood system—as well as the…

Each evening, in cities across the world, people head out onto their balconies and front steps to bang pots and pans together, yell, and applaud to show appreciation for the health-care workers risking their safety to help combat COVID-19. Weeks into the pandemic, it’s become a familiar sound—familiar enough,…

There is a tremendous amount of silence in “Shattered.” Sure, there’s Kiner’s pulsating, ominous score that surges throughout the episode. And sure, there’s plenty of dialogue–mostly about clarity (on what to do and where to go next), regret (Bo-Katan’s weariness of the causalities and commodities of war, including…

You know the meme by now. For roughly eight years, the internet’s sought to ring in the month of May with memes of a tight-curled, turn-of-the-millennium Justin Timberlake declaring not that it’s gonna be me, but rather it’s gonna be May, a gentle jab at his overwrought delivery on the No Strings Attached…

And, just like that, we’ve reached the home stretch of Riverdale’s fourth season! With the COVID-19 pandemic halting production across the board, the show’s planned final three episodes have been shunted off to TV purgatory, and we’ve found ourselves at this chapter’s penultimate offering. While “Lynchian”…