Новости за 24.06.2020

Citing “personal issues,” Ubisoft creative director Ashraf Ismail said on Twitter today that he is stepping down from his role on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The reference ties, no doubt, to a Sunday tweet from a woman who said he’d deceived her about his marital status while they were in a one-year relationship.

It was nearly four years ago that we raised our eyebrows at Tumple, a self-described “cult” that was born from Facebook shit-posting groups, communicated using a mangled form of English, and charged $2,000 a month to learn about their “mystic sex practices.” Now, after a year-and-a-half of reporting, OneZero’s Emilie…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Jon Stewart’s Irresistible headed for home-viewing platforms—and with November 3 on the horizon—we’re looking back at other films about elections or political…

Willam Belli—stage name: Willam—is much more than just a former RuPaul’s Drag Race competitor. He’s been a working actor in Hollywood for almost 20 years, with had stand-out roles in everything from Nip/Tuck to A Star Is Born, and just nabbed two Daytime Emmy nominations for his work both on-screen and off in the…

Last week, Chris D’Elia became the subject of numerous allegations of sexual abuse and predatory behavior after a young woman named Simone Rossi shared her troubling experience with the comedian—whom she accused of “grooming” her when she was just 16 years old. Most of the allegations involved young women, some of…

Ken Burns, a national treasure so precious that Nicolas Cage should really make an adventure movie about trying to find him, has done something quite rare for him: He’s made a film that’s under 10 minutes long. (Under 10 hours long is rare for KB.)

Page Six is a well-established gossip rag that for too long has reported on celebrity news that the people of the world just don’t need to know about. On Monday, though, it published an article that taps into a universal market, covering a story that will appeal to every possible reader: A Zoom bat mitzvah hosted by …

Over the past month, the entertainment industry has been experiencing an overdue reckoning with its treatment of the Black community in waves. The most current wave we’re witnessing is taking place in the comedy world as veteran comedians use this time to think deeply about the years (decades, in some cases) of…

That headline probably reads like a joke, but Colin Farrell literally calls Jessica Chastain a “loose cannon” in the trailer for Ava, a new action-thriller from The Girl On The Train director Tate Taylor. And with that sentence, you have almost everything you need to decide whether or not this movie is of interest to…

J.J. Abrams, he of the mind-bending sci-fi and spy thrillers, is using Apple’s bottomless budget to tell a different kind of story. A coming-of-age story with music, Little Voice is a collaboration between the Bad Robot honcho and the team behind Broadway’s hit adaptation of 2007's Waitress, Sara Bareilles and Jessie…

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When Adventure Time ended roughly two years ago, it did so with a finale that encapsulated almost everything that made the Cartoon Network series so special: music, comedy, a light smattering of cosmic horror, and an overriding sense that the show’s magic relied less on showcasing the fights and follies of any one set…

Excel, the spreadsheet software we must all deal with at some point in our life, is old person technology. Even when it’s used by a kid, it remains old person technology. This is unavoidable, given that it’s a program used to sort letters and numbers into little boxes, mostly for record-keeping purposes. Unless users…

Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s next season is undergoing a major rewrite, according to co-star Terry Crews. The actor, who plays Lieutenant Terry Jeffords on the hit NBC series, told Access Online that showrunner Dan Goor has thrown all of the completed scripts for season eight out in response to the Black Lives Matter…

Sure, Apple TV+ has Fraggle Rock and HBO Max has Elmo, but Disney+ isn’t quaking in its boots, not with the Muppets to help them weather this puppet renaissance. Next month, the streamer will launch Muppets Now, an “unscripted” series that finds the gang mingling with a host of different celebrities. It’s the first…

[Note: This article contains spoilers for the first several hours of The Last Of Us Part II.]

In his 1998 review, Roger Ebert called the heist thriller Hard Rain “a documentary about wet actors at work.” This, and not much more, is what Force Of Nature offers as well. The film opens with a fistfight in the rain, two angry men bludgeoning each other while Mel Gibson tries to get a clean shot from the balcony…

Phoebe Bridgers’ Punisher, the follow-up to 2017's excellent Stranger In The Alps, is, per our enthusiastic review, “a musical monument to our dissociative age” that’s “feather-light and lush enough to run your fingers through.” It’s also one of the year’s best records, which has allowed the rising singer-songwriter…

Netflix is not new to the cooking competition party; this is where a lot of the platform’s less polarizing content resides. What makes the forage-focused Crazy Delicious stand out among the competition surplus is the level where these self-taught aspiring chefs deliver round after round. The stakes are high: Whoever…

On January 13, 1983, halfway through its first season, the low-rated but critically acclaimed NBC sitcom Cheers aired “Let Me Count The Ways” and changed television forever. Written by Heide Perlman and directed by James Burrow, the episode follows Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) when she’s struck by grief after…

When it comes both to reading John Bolton’s new book and interviewing John Bolton about said book, well, somebody’s got to do it. The infamously conservative and war-happy advisor, ambassador, and glumly mustachioed cheerleader for killing millions of brown people with nuclear fire appeared for four full segments on…

I’m committed to my male partner and he’s committed to me. (I’m a woman.) But we both understand we need to flirt and that we will both want to sleep with someone else at some point. We live together, we have a dog, and neither of us believes in marriage. We plan to purchase a house in the coming months. Here’s the…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, June 24. All times are Eastern.

It’s been a month since we checked in on George R.R. Martin, who dared to suggest back in March that he had been spending his coronavirus lockdown working on The Winds Of Winter—a.k.a. the next Song Of Ice And Fire book, the basis for HBO’s Game Of Thrones, which he’s been “working on” for nearly a decade. He said he…

There may be a plucky newcomer on the streaming block (and another coming soon), but let’s not forget about the older streaming video platforms that paved the way for competitors like HBO Max and Peacock and Quibi to come along—Platforms like Amazon Prime, which also has some new things coming this month. Those new…