Новости за 21.07.2020

According to Deadline, Billy Eichner of On The Street fame is working with producer Tom McNulty to develop a biopic about Paul Lynde from Bye Bye Birdie, Bewitched, and (for many, many years) Hollywood Squares. The two of them have big plans for this, meaning it won’t be a straightforward account of Lynde’s life, with…

Is it possible for someone to truly earn forgiveness if they refuse to forgive themselves? That’s the question that looms over Amulet, the feature directorial debut of the actor Romola Garai, best known perhaps for her role in Atonement. Were that title not already taken, it would perfectly fit Amulet: “Before your…

“R.I.P. Cable TV” reads the splashy headline of an in-depth new Variety story detailing the slow collapse of broadcast TV in the streaming age. Though some sources defend the medium’s staying power—dads never miss a Yellowstone—there’s ample evidence, such as the fact that MTV has resigned itself to just playing …

The term “simp” has really come into its own over the past year or so, probably because there are just so many examples out there. When it comes to the world of comic books, however, it’s pretty safe to say that Archie Andrews is, quite simply, the simpiest of the simps. But this isn’t something we thought of…

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.

In Marjane Satrapi’s biopic Radioactive, which depicts Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike) making scientific discoveries with glamorously backlit hair, there’s a flash-forward to the bombing of Hiroshima that includes an all-time-bad visual pun. We are shown the interior of the Enola Gay, then the Little Boy bomb, then a…

Hey, remember deepfakes? You know, the nascent, creepy AI programming that allows people to insert pretty much anyone’s face onto the heads of others, thereby potentially destroying our last vestiges of truth in service of Nic Cage memes and nonconsensual pornographic forgeries? Well, we’re happy to report today that…

There’s a fairly well-known quote, often misattributed to Albert Einstein, that goes something like: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. It’s become a more recognizable concept during the pandemic, as many of us find ourselves caught in repetitive cycles without a daily …

We can only imagine the sheer force of will it takes to sit down, as Traffic’s Dave Mason just did, and rerecord the 1968 single “Feelin’ Alright” with a performance that doesn’t make those words come across as sarcastic or cruel. And yet, Mason has managed to pull it off, offering the world a …

In Netflix’s new original series Cursed, Knives Out alum Katherine Langford is Nimue, better known to some throughout the course of history as The Lady of The Lake. A fey summoner who is tasked with delivering the Devil’s Tooth (think: the sword that eventually lands in the stone) to Merlin, Nimue is the courageous…

Hot on the heels of an oral history unpacking the movie’s creation and cult status, Edgar Wright’s hyper-caffeinated Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is ringing in its 10th anniversary with a proper reunion. Only Kieran Culkin and Brie Larson are missing from the core cast of super-powered lovers and exes, with Michael…

Like festive cookies, fuzzy Santa hats, and clumsy conversations around the dinner table, there are certain things that loudly signal the holiday season. Another Yuletide staple is the classic Hallmark Channel holiday rom-com, a cinematic vehicle for cheesy dialogue and predictable storytelling. Often depending on a…

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Over 25 years after they appeared together in The Pelican Brief, Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington are reuniting for another intriguing thriller: Leave The World Behind, from Mr. Robot’s Sam Esmail. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the new thriller—based on an upcoming novel by Rumaan Alam—sparked a bidding scuffle…

The least-important problem of 2020 might be Nintendo’s newfound reticence to hype its games, but it’s still worth taking a moment to recognize how unusual—and even potentially positive—a situation this is.

Children may be able to intuit psychic disturbances before they arrive, like animals behaving strangely as a storm starts to develop far away. Danny Torrance scrawls REDRUM on a bathroom mirror before his family moves to the Overlook Hotel, knowing what horrors lie in wait. Haley Joel Osment claims to see the dead all…

It must be frustrating for authors and bands with terrifyingly devoted followings that, no matter how hard they work, nothing they release can ever top the fevered energy that goes into fan fiction inspired by their books and albums. Consider My Immortal, an infamous mash-up of Harry Potter, mid-‘00s mall punk and…

If you’re finding thrillers best described as “Hitchcockian” in short supply these days, allow us to direct you to The Bay Of Silence, the latest from Zus & Zo director Paula van der Oest.

There’s nothing overtly frightening about Pew—even its unknown narrator’s sudden appearance in a small Southern town is initially viewed as more of an opportunity than a threat by the townspeople. But once these good folks have clutched the ostensible protagonist to their communal bosom, Catherine Lacey’s third novel…

At this moment, it might feel counterintuitive to marvel at the natural and technological wonders of what science journalist and Radiolab director of research Latif Nasser dubs our “dynamic yet precarious planet.” But, in addition to underscoring the many ways in which the world sucks right now (and always has) so…

John Lewis died at the age of 80 last week, depriving America of a civil rights hero (and plain hero) just when it needs such inspirational figures most. But The Late Show’s host Stephen Colbert and very socially distanced bandleader Jon Batiste (back home in New Orleans) spent a thoughtful and heartfelt nine minutes…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, July 21. All times are Eastern. 

Some ideas are just too good to be slowed down by anything, even the coronavirus, which must be why production on the prequel to Grease that we first heard about a million years ago is starting to pick up speed—it was last April, but it might as well have been a million years ago. According to Deadline, Paramount has…

As I May Destroy You’s Kwame, Paapa Essiedu has undergone one of the show’s most jarring transitions. When the show began, he was a confident but quiet dude, scrolling Grindr to find anonymous hookups in between punishing sessions as a fitness instructor. In the show’s fourth episode, “That Was Fun,” though, Kwame…

This week’s episode, “Happy Animals,” gets I May Destroy You back on track, chronologically. Arabella is still attending Theo’s support group, which has helped her articulate not only her own struggle, but the system that her struggle exists within. She explains that all of these women are viewed as crazy by men…