Новости за 18.06.2020

As a general rule, I don’t like cop shows. Until recently, I made one exception.

Earlier this week, the Library of Congress announced the Boccaccio Project, a commissioned series of ten classic and depressingly morbid musical compositions from various artists inspired by the current COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine.

Hollywood has Pete Davidson fever (for some reason), and now Davidson is set to team up with another Saturday Night Live cast member whose various successes in life are often accompanied with a “for some reason.” According to Variety, Davidson and SNL’s Colin Jost are set to star in Worst Man, which is apparently a…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Pixar’s Soul was supposed to hit theaters. In its absence, we’re looking back on other cinematic depictions of the afterlife.

Back in the autumn of 1999, Kevin Bacon starred in an eccentric Hollywood ghost story called Stir Of Echoes. The movie had the distinct disadvantage of opening in the immediate wake of The Sixth Sense, a bona fide cultural sensation to which it bared a superficial resemblance. Unfair though the comparisons were (a kid…

Dave Franco, brother of James and budding movie star in his own right, will soon debut his directorial debut, an intimate horror flick called The Rental. Franco co-wrote the film with indie wunderkind Joe Swanberg, whose Netflix series Easy featured Franco in a recurring role, and, like a good husband, cast his wife, …

The Snyder Cut is real, or at least HBO Max is throwing a giant bat-shaped aircraft carrier full of money at Zack Snyder so he can make a theoretically “better” version of Justice League, and now Snyder has dropped the first real tease for what we can expect from his new cut of the movie—or, more specifically who we…

Bella Thorne may not be the biggest movie star in the world, but she’s already better known to a generation of young fans than many more established marquee names. She leveraged her early success on the Disney sitcom Shake It Up into not only a music career and a series of film and TV roles (The DUFF, Amityville: The…

Yesterday, Twitter released an audio recording/posting function that presents an exciting new way for the internet to make jokes, share thoughts, or, more likely, just act like total assholes to one another. Thankfully, Liz Phair has decided to take advantage of the first of these possibilities by sharing a song about…

According to Deadline, Kristen Stewart has signed on to star as Princess Diana in Spencer, a drama from Jackie director Pablo Larraín that sounds like it might as well be a spiritual sequel to his 2016 film. That one was all about Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of her husband’s assassination, and while this…

Jennifer Lawrence has steered clear of social media for the most part, telling BBC Radio 1 in 2014 that she would “never get Twitter.” She softened on that at some point, revealing to InStyle a few years later that she does, in fact, use social media, but only to watch. “I’m a voyeur,” she said.

Oh, Rickrolling. Just when we think we can give you up, you prove to us, time and time again, that you will never let us down. That said, we feel we may have officially finally witnessed the inevitable climax to the decades-long meme.

As we’ve seen before, the pandemic offers the most enterprising of grifters a rare chance to turn global misery into money. It also allows non-scumbags, like the filmmakers who just found a clever way to get their indie movie to number one at the box office, an opportunity to take advantage of a horrible time to far…

Remember sports? We understand if you don’t, since it’s been approximately 79 years since the last time we witnessed an actual game that wasn’t marble racing. We vaguely remember a musclefest that involved an orange ball and, at times, a bracket of some sort. What was that thing called? Foosball? In any case, there is…

“Every time you lose, you damage the brand.” It’s the best of Cars 3 and the worst of it in a single line.

Is James Bond a gay icon? Despite his (often) problematic, womanizing ways, why do so many queer people cite the “Double-O” agent as a childhood idol? Those are the million-dollar questions that inspired us to launch our new video series, Why We Love, with an episode dedicated to the mainstream action heroes that…

Tomorrow marks the proper release of Phoebe Bridgers’ sophomore album, Punisher—stay tuned for our review—but the singer’s gone ahead and dropped it a day early.

Late in Death In Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh’s third novel, the narrator recalls an incident with her dog, Charlie. One day she let Charlie loose in a park, where the pet soon shoved its face and rolled around in what the narrator at first thought was a dead animal, but which turned out to be shit. “I stood back…

If reality TV had been a thing in the early ’90s, Tori Spelling’s reign as queen of the Lifetime movie may never have happened. Google her name, and page after page of tabloid headlines come up, each tied to a different talk show appearance or Tori-centric reality (or faux-reality) TV series. Many of the latter have…

In a pre-Lebowski world, Fast Times At Ridgemont High’s Jeff Spicoli was the cinematic standard for the California holy fool stoner. Buoyed by privilege and billowing van-fuls of weed, the quintessential surfer dude rankled martinet teachers like Ray Walston’s Mr. Hand simply by living on a planet where the rules are…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, June 18. All times are Eastern.

The shelf-life of memes can be terribly perilous things. One day, you’re on top of the world, right up there with Pagliacci jokes and the plums in the icebox. The next day, you’re little more than so much used Impact font. So, hey: Here’s to “Steamed Hams,” the 24-year-old TV scene that keeps on giving—and often in…

Good news for fans of comedy, chaos, and people being forced to pretend that other people are sandwiches: The CW has announced that it’s going to be broadcasting seasons of the U.K.’s excellently smart-stupid Taskmaster, starting this fall.

Now, this is how you do a film noir homage. Unlike last week’s Area 51 caper, which mostly used a fun intro and the tweaked title card as set dressing to then tell a standard-issue S.H.I.E.L.D. story, this week’s throwback aesthetic commits fully to its premise, going far beyond mere black and white imagery to utilize…

We’ll own up to it, folks: We’ve really dropped the ball, as a community, when it comes to Deep Blue Sea canon. Sure, we can quote you chapter and verse on Renny Harlin’s 1999 original—a shark ate him, hat is like a shark’s fin, etc. But we didn’t even know that Deep Blue Sea 2—released a scant 19 years after the…