Новости за 20.07.2020

Asking people to stay home didn’t work, reminding them that simply wearing a mask can significantly reduce the spread of the virus didn’t work, and the looming threat of a second full-on lockdown doesn’t seem to be working, but maybe letting everyone know that we’ll never ever get to see Christopher Nolan’s Tenet if…

Conner O’Malley informed us on the last episode of his “Bike Talk Show” that that the network talk show brass were “trying to put a bullet in [his] head,” but that hasn’t stopped the mad genius—who you can currently see in Hulu’s Palm Springs—from taking his berserk brand of rage comedy to the streets. Also not…

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage in the United States, leaving the nation’s movie theaters either shuttered or operating at limited capacity. But at the Minneapolis-area home of Rifftrax’s Kevin Murphy, the cinema is alive, well, and safely socially distanced.

Continuing to corner the market on angry, roughly-rendered mentors with potential hearts of gold, Jake Johnson is settling into his next animated role rather comfortably. Netflix released the trailer for Hoops, an adult animated comedy about a high school basketball coach who aims to turn his shoddy team around and…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: We look back on highlights of the DTV action craze—some of the coolest, wildest, and most entertaining action movies to skip theaters entirely.

Welcome to Ask Kotaku, the new weekly feature in which Kotaku’s rank and file weigh in on the burning questions of our time. Each query is a crucible on which nerds and giants clash, monumental contests of wit, that...well, OK. This is just another excuse to talk vidya games. You down?

Some people just really know how to tell a story, you know? They paint a picture. It’s like you’re really there. James Baldwin. Anton Chekhov. Dorothy Parker. And this guy:

TikTok’s a great place to watch celebrities debase themselves, toilets smoke, and teens piss their pants. It’s also become, in the absence of Tumblr, a gathering place for the world’s extremely online witches. Search #WitchTock on the app and you’ll find more than two billion posts, so, you know, when some drama goes…

For some, discussing the world’s greatest ills doesn’t make for the best dinner conversation. For actor Diego Luna, it’s those tough subjects that provide the ideal centerpiece for a meal among brilliant friends. Pan Y Circo (Bread And Circus), a seven-part Amazon Prime series created by the Rogue One star, gathers…

There are so many reveals in “Brainwave Jr.” it’s hard to know where to begin. Henry Jr. is Starman’s nephew? Brainwave killed his own wife? Courtney’s dad is still out there? Pat and Barbara met over a banana split?!?

The first three episodes of this gleefully lascivious podcast, in which Vanity Fair writer Lili Anolik and The Rialto Report host Ashley West document the rise and fall of underaged ’80s porn goddess Traci Lords, dropped last week. And while the show calls itself a “real-life noir,” these eps make it seem more like …

Malorie will feel familiar. When Malorie recites her mantra—“Don’t get lazy”—it will feel familiar. Because Josh Malerman’s Bird Box sequel is, by and large, a story about face coverings—the people who swear by them, and those who don’t. Though written well before a pandemic swept the globe, Malorie’s depiction of a…

The latest video from All Gas No Brakes, a channel devoted to chronicling the highest highs and lowest lows of life in modern America, sees host Andrew Callaghan hanging out at a Fourth Of July party that feels like a Bosch painting dripped out of a canvas and took form in the real world. To tackle the immensity of…

Us old timers recall In Living Color with a fondness Gen Z probably reserves for SpongeBob or whatever the hell those kids grew up on. Although not as prolific as SNL, the FX sketch comedy series remains iconic—not only for its characters, but for the massive stars it spawned, including Jennifer Lopez and Jim Carrey,…

Whoever said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it obviously didn’t have a Spotify account. For as much as having a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 may mean or have meant, in terms of cultural impact, if no one is listening to that song in a few years’ time, well, did it really, in…

Beavis and Butt-Head are back, babies, and what better time for these two knuckleheads to reenter the culture than in 2020, the absolute dumbest of all years. While we wait for Mike Judge’s iconic morons to return to the small screen, a new video has popped up online giving us a very unofficial sneak peek at what the …

Keanu Reeves is continuing to be most excellent, as the beloved actor has written a 12-issue comic book series titled BRZRKR in which he’s also depicted as the eponymous superhero. Keanu is a superhero. It is canon. Per USA Today, Reeves collaborated on the new comic book series with artist Alessandro Vitti and Matt…

When future generations look back at the ultra-wealthy tech moguls who have destroyed their world—if they’re able to look back at all with their necks frozen in place by the plasma-slurping carotid extractor braces they’ll be legally obligated to wear as part of a communal sacrifice of life-giving juices that ensures…

John Oliver dedicated last night’s Last Week Tonight to addressing COVID-19 misinformation and the “gentle” ways in which one can encourage the conspiracy-minded among us to better vet the news sources they scroll by on Facebook. Joining him was a slew of celebs, including Catherine O’Hara, Billy Porter, Paul Rudd,…

Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, one of the most groundbreaking and influential animated films of all time, opens with an iconic motorcycle chase through the neon streets of Neo-Tokyo, a beautiful cyberpunk Metropolis built on the ruins of old Tokyo. The rest of the city, as explained in the opening text, was wiped out in an…

He does, actually. After a few weeks off to regroup, read the newspapers, and wearily decide which ongoing health, social, and/or Constitutional crisis to focus on, Last Week Tonight and John Oliver decided that your conspiracy-loving uncle who drives by hospitals screaming “Hoax!” at exhausted frontline medical…

Well, that’s a stark difference in tone—and is it ever welcome. It’s an odd thing to say about an episode that begins with Della (Juliet Rylance) finding the dead body of someone very close to her in circumstances that are more than a bit traumatic, and odder still to say about a series that begins with a dead baby…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, July 20. All times are Eastern. 

“That’s what the common man wants to read over his grits. The United States standing up to bullies.”

Despite keywords pointing to the contrary, this is not a story about a Donald Trump rally. On Sunday, Kanye West held his first campaign event since announcing his 2020 presidential bid earlier this month. Over the course of his hour-long, rambling speech, West—wearing a bullet-proof vest—discussed his thoughts on…