Новости за 02.05.2020

God bless The New York Times, which, from its front page, to its Opinion page, to the even crappier parts of its Opinion page, has never shied away from a chance to freak the American people well and truly out. Hence, today, a new report from the Grey Lady, detailing the potential danger of “murder hornets,” which are…

[Note: This article contains spoilers for the 2015 Kentucky Derby. No, we weren’t expecting to write that sentence today, either.]

2020 has been a fascinating year for watching celebrities figure out, in painfully obvious real-time, exactly how much worth their star power has in a world without anything to actually star in. From genuine, life-saving charity efforts, to acts of near-literal communion, to the soul-sucking spectacle of the Twitter sing-a-long

Not every ’80s kid saw Just One Of The Guys in theaters, but many of them likely watched it more than a few times on HBO, where it appeared to be on a constant rotation throughout the decade. Billed as a teenaged Tootsie (really, a Yentl), the 1985 movie starred Joyce Hyser as Terry, a somewhat superficial popular…

Gasp! A funny Tonight Show bit! That might be the cabin fever talking, sure, but Jimmy Fallon’s ongoing soap opera sketch The Longest Days Of Our Lives remains a highlight of the late-night coronavirus computer-cam wars these days. It helps that the sketch plays to one of the traits that made Fallon one of the most…

The vaunted podcast-to- film pipeline has struck again this week, with Variety reporting that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are producing an animated adaptation of Maxmium Fun’s scripted series Bubble for Sony. The satirical podcast centers on a group of friends living in a futuristic “corporate utopia,” who use a gig…

Season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race is arguably its most competitive yet. The queens have delivered all season, and several have gone home for missteps that would barely register in previous installments. Early on, Gigi and Sherry dominated the game, but recent stumbles have leveled the playing field, clearing the way for…

HBO has made its continued friendship with Issa Rae official: The cable network has renewed the Emmy-nominated comedy Insecure for a fifth season. The renewal comes only three weeks after the fourth season premiere. “We’re thrilled that Issa, Prentice, and the whole Insecure team will be getting back together for a…

Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services and our own archives to…

Sam Lloyd has died. Best known for his role as sad-sack lawyer/a capella enthusiast Ted Buckland on long-running NBC sitcom Scrubs, Lloyd was a veteran character actor with more than 60 credits to his name, across a 30-year career. Lloyd was diagnosed with cancer last year; numerous members of the Scrubs family…

Well, it’s official: COVID-19 has done what Russian mobsters, armored private SWAT soldiers, and Common never could: Knocked John Wick off his game. Collider reports today that John Wick: Chapter 4—Latin Subtitle Pending has now been officially delayed, moving from its scheduled spot in May 2021 to May 27, 2022.

Tweak the hairstyles, adjust the fashions, and swap out the digital video for good ol’ fashioned celluloid, and The Wretched could pass for something you might have gone to see on a warm Saturday night in the ’80s or rented a decade later from Blockbuster. There’s nothing self-consciously retro about this modest,…