Новости за 15.05.2020

We wake from our nightmares every morning to the glow of our smartphones, which promptly tell us how many people are dead, how many are unemployed, and how none of this will ever end. Hope is in short supply, so, please, cling to the fact that the world’s last Blockbuster is not only still open, but determined to ride…

The Star Trek spinoffs keep on coming as CBS All Access announces a new voyage. Per Variety, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a new series for the network’s subscription streaming platform, will star Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike. The story…

Yes, the warm glow of the theatrical event feels distant as ever right now, but your TV would like to remind you that what it lacks in size it makes up for in sheer quantity. Hulu, for example, is positively brimming with fresh content in June, when it will debut everything from searing arthouse fare to heart-swelling…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: We’re dusting off a Watch This tradition and looking back on unsung summer blockbusters—the big movies that opened to critical scorn or audience indifference…

Welcome to a brand new episode of Film Club, The A.V. Club’s weekly movie-discussion series. The original Friday The 13th film was released on May 9, 1980 to middling reviews but staggering financial success, grossing $59 million on a estimated budget of $550,000. 40 years on and a dozen films later, the…

In these uncertain times, why wait another minute to give your friend a compliment? In a recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Adam Sandler admitted that in the middle of a screening of Sonic The Hedgehog a couple months ago he took out his cell phone and called Jim Carrey in order to tell him how good he was in the…

What’s funny right now? Some circumstances, surely. Some television shows and movies, yes. But can a stand-up deliver a solid set to viewers separated from them by thousands of miles and amorphous amounts of digital space? Even when we’re allowed to go back to comedy clubs, will half-capacity rooms feel the same, and…

One of the highlights of Apple’s first batch of original shows was Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, a breezy, half-hour comedy about game developers from It’s Always Sunny’s Rob McElhenney. A second season of the series is already in the works, but an entirely new episode written, filmed, and edited in quarantine will…

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…

Living in quarantine is never going to be much fun, but for people with shitty roommates it must be especially difficult. This certainly seems to be the case for those who are currently sharing their homes with ghosts, entities that are notoriously bad about not keeping quiet at night (when some people have to work in…

The passing of Jerry Stiller earlier this week had a profound effect on many people in the comedy community, including, of course, his former Seinfeld castmates, many of whom paid tribute to the comedy legend on social media. Joining the fray yesterday was actor Michael Richards, who created an Instagram account for…

It’s been a big week for Mad Max: Fury Road, which saw a gripping oral history of its grueling creation chased by news of an upcoming Furiosa-based prequel from director George Miller. If you’re as excited by all of this as we are—we did name it the best film of the 2010s—then you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a…

Earlier in the week, Netflix released a neon-piped teaser for its new South-African drama Blood & Water. Garnering early comparisons to Elite and Gossip Girl, Blood & Water throws a humble teen into the garish world of wealth and frivolity, which she must diligently navigate in order to solve her family’s greatest…

In the 53 years since the Patterson-Gimlin tape shocked the world with indisputable, not-at-all fake video evidence of the Sasquatch’s existence, we haven’t heard much from the big stinky ape. After years spent watching cryptozoologists chasing the sound of breaking twigs on Discovery Channel series and being…

The actor: Though he’s best known for playing a character beloved by millions of people around the world, Bill Farmer isn’t a guy who gets a lot of time on screen. He’s voiced both Goofy and Pluto for over 30 years, as well as a number of other Disney characters, including Horace Horsecollar and Practical Pig. He…

The Wrong Missy, the latest offering from Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions, opens with a blind date from hell. Tim (David Spade) has come to a flatly lit bar to meet Missy (Lauren Lapkus). He is a paper-pusher who looks old enough to be her dad. She is a psychopath who carries a giant Bowie knife in her purse…

Midway through Top Gun, the highest-grossing movie of 1986, there’s a scene where the film briefly abandons all sense of narrative and plummets into a sort of ecstatic erotic delirium. Tom Cruise’s Maverick and Anthony Edwards’ Goose, our two heroes, play a game of glistening beach volleyball against Val Kilmer’s…

Concluding their interview with California Representative Katie Porter (D-CA), Desus Nice sent out the warning, “Don’t be on the wrong side of history, she’s coming for you.” If anyone had any doubts about that statement after seeing Porter’s appearance on Thursday’s Desus & Mero (and they really couldn’t), a quick…

It’s the job of a critic to approach every new assignment with an open mind, allowing for the potential of a film, any film, to surprise you and re-invigorate your love for the medium. Sometimes, this imperative is a banner you wave with great enthusiasm. Other times, it’s more like a stress ball you squeeze, your jaw…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, May 15, and Saturday, May 16. All times are Eastern. 

Six seasons, several murders, one penis on a dead girl’s phone, countless basket tosses of a cheerleader, and about a million lies later, and we have finally arrived at the series finale of How To Get Away With Murder. Not every dangling string gets tied up, but I never really expected that from a show that tends to…

Mothers, lock up your meteorological phenomena; there’s a lightning thief in town. Variety reports today that Disney+ has begun development on a TV series adaptation of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series of YA mythology hits. Riordan announced the news himself on Twitter this afternoon, including the fact that the…

Jerry Stiller died this week, ending a legendary comedy career, of which his role as Frank Costanza on the TV show Seinfield was only one small part. Still: It was a pretty damn good small part, as Stiller delved—with never-ending vigor—into every petty grudge, grievance, and idiosyncratic delight that made George…

We fully support a wholesome, good time, and one Nickelodeon mainstay is ready to deliver: Per Variety, the cast of SpongeBob Squarepants will come together for a virtual table read in The Stars Of SpongeBob Fan Favorites Special. Bikini Bottom enthusiasts are asked to head over to NickPlay.com and vote for the scene…