Новости за 30.05.2020

Well, it’s that time once again, folks: America finds itself forced to stare into the mirror and contemplate the racial inequality and police violence buried deep within its heart, debating whether to flinch its eyes away uncomfortably after the death of yet another unarmed Black man in police custody. The death of…

One more knock-on effect (out of god knows how many) of the COVID-19 shutdowns in Hollywood: Disrupting a perfectly good TV character send-off. That’s the case, apparently, for actress Cush Jumbo and her The Good Fight character Lucca Quinn, with Jumbo announcing this week that she’s departing the CBS All Access…

Trying and failing to come up with a single worse person to be in charge of steering the country through yet another eruption of protests after the caught-on-video murder of an unarmed black person by a white police officer, Jimmy Kimmel frustratedly asked his viewers of Donald Trump, “Is this who you want leading…

America finds itself in a state of well-earned unrest tonight, as people outraged by the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd—which occurred on May 25, 2020, roughly 8 minutes and 45 seconds after police officer Derek Chauvin began kneeling on his neck—continued streaming onto the pandemic-shuttered streets of a…

If Drag Race fans will pardon a lift from another reality favorite, it’s make it work time. Faced with a global pandemic, can Ru and the Drag Race team put on a finale spectacular with no crew, no live audience, and minimal cameras and lights? The producers, crew, and cast of season 12 pulled together an impressive…

Roughly a week after Universal Studios Orlando announced its own plans to re-open later this summer—alongside a blunt reminder that there’s no amount of hand-washing, temperature-checking, and line-avoiding that can totally negate the COVID-19 risk imposed by cramming thousands of people together in a theme park on a…

With Broadway currently shut down along with much of the country, the 2020 Tony Awards, which were to air Sunday, have been delayed. It’s unfortunate on multiple levels, not in the least because the Tonys have been such a beacon of hope and positivity during dark times in the past. With that in mind, it seems…

We’ve given—rightly—a lot of crap to Universal’s various attempts to modernize its classic monster properties over the last few years, as the studio desperately tried to flail its way into an MCU-style mega-franchise with Tom Cruise, Mummy Hunter somehow occupying the Iron Man role. Cruise aside, though, we have to…

Today, in news that doesn’t do much to assuage our bone-deep certainty that Tom Cruise is going to die up there: Elon Musk’s SpaceX suffered another one of those high-impact oopsies that have become part of its stock in trade of late. Per TechCrunch, today’s pyrotechnic whoopsiedoodle involved a static fire test for…