Новости за 23.07.2020

In the event that you’re somehow not emotionally fatigued by the idea of watching a group of people stuck in a house during a global quarantine, we come bearing good news: CBS has confirmed a premiere date for Big Brother: All-Stars. This development may also prove favorable for those who are simply desperate for any…

If anyone knows the struggles of turning a life into a work of art, it’s Marjane Satrapi. The Radioactive director first came to the forefront of the media world with her graphic novel Persepolis, which told the story of her childhood in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. Now, she’s adapted the life of…

AMC Theaters boss Adam Aron can breathe a slight sigh of relief this morning, because he’s not going to have to bar future Warner Bros. films from screening at his theaters like he did for Universal. That was because NBCUniversal was making plans to release more big movies on streaming even after theaters reopen, …

Almost Famous isn’t about musicians so much as it is fans of music. Its most memorable scene, the “Tiny Dancer” singalong, revels in the unifying power of a good song. And then there’s the Topeka house party, where Billy Crudup’s glowing rocker sees himself through the eyes of his fans—buzzing on acid, he stands…

A new tourism campaign from Inspired By Iceland has just forced us to question what, exactly, the Nordic country is up to. The ad, entitled “Let It Out!,” shows a variety of people screaming over pandemic-related frustrations before they’re transported to Iceland. We’re told that each tormented shout recorded on a…

Amazon is formally getting into the Brian K. Vaughan business, with the streamer/online delivery company/all-consuming retail giant announcing this morning that it’s picked up a TV adaptation of Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s Image Comics series Paper Girls. Centered on a group of the titular tweens, whose efforts to pick…

Over the nearly 30 years since Nirvana released “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the track has been covered in pretty much every way imaginable. By our own records, the last decade alone has seen such creative interpretations of the song as: “Child Rocking It On Drums,” “Uncomfortable Major Key Renditions,” “New Jack Swing…

Though one of her earliest film roles was in 2011’s Scream 4, it took some time for Alison Brie to feel ready to jump back into horror. After all, once you’ve been killed by Ghostface, you’ve already accomplished a milestone for the genre. So what convinced her to dive back in with an indie horror from a first-time…

“Most of the things I had planned this summer didn’t end up happening,” said Taylor Swift, parroting nearly every person on the planet who has been impacted in even the slightest way by the pandemic. Some of us have been utilizing this unexpected bit of downtime to pick up a new skill while others apparently have the…

If the previous trailer for Bill & Ted Face The Music teased the journey of Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s bumbling time-travelers—leaping to the future to steal the song that will save the world from their future selves—this latest look at the sequel explores what’s on deck for their daughters, played by Samara…

San Diego Comic-Con and Mystery Science Theater 3000 are like peanut butter and chocolate at The A.V. Club, where we breathlessly followed news of the MST3K revival from the (virtual) con floor back in 2016. And just because both of them are technically canceled this year doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate them...right?…

On July 23, 2010, there was a ripple across the pond. During production of the seventh series of the U.K.’s The X Factor, five young lads—Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson—failed to make enough of an impression on the judges to advance to the next round as individuals. But in a…

Maybe it was the simple fact that watching a member of the Trump family speak for 20 minutes didn’t make viewers’ brains attempt a fail-safe shutdown in self-defense, but Stephen Colbert’s Wednesday Late Show interview with Mary Trump made for gripping television. The clinical psychologist (who clearly took her own…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, July 23. All times are Eastern.

Lesson to all the pot sellers—and also, now that we think about it, members of The Gorillaz—out there on the internet tonight: Never try to make Clint Eastwood seem cool. This is per The Hollywood Reporter, which notes that Eastwood has just launched a set of lawsuits against multiple companies accused of using his…

Ah, the time loop episode. A proud mainstay of genre TV, the conceit has proven remarkably fecund through the years, creating some of the finer outings for the series that have chosen to employ it. Buffy The Vampire Slayer had an awfully good one, though it only lasted for part of the episode. The X-Files’ version of…

Today, in news that reminds us that there’s apparently going to be a twenty-twenty-two, somehow: Deadline reports that Netflix’s Royals-watching smorgasbord The Crown won’t be back for more than a year after it airs its fourth season later this year. Amazingly enough, this gap year is not due to the COVID-19…

Edgar Wright is no stranger to the supernatural, obviously. Shaun Of The Dead was his big breakout movie, and god knows the cast of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World are still spooOOOOoookily charming on social media. (Sorry.) Now Wright is apparently getting back to his preternatural roots, with Collider reporting that the …

Suggesting that, yes, we might someday get to see Matthew Rhys get his full Raymond Burr on and strut around a courtroom with his thumbs tucked in the armholes of his vest—TM our regular reviewer, Alison Shoemaker—HBO has announced that it’s renewed Perry Mason for a second season. It’s not the most shocking twist the…

Some of the hype surrounding Disney+’s release of Hamilton might have abated, but that doesn’t mean the streaming service isn’t still going hard for men in elaborate, semi-ridiculous coats: The company’s August offerings feature not just one, but two films about circus ringmasaters, Hugh Jackman’s 2017 P.T. Barnum…

Some of the best horror movies are like home invasions, with the horror as the invader and some other genre playing the part of the home. Think you’re watching the gentle story of a lonely widower holding fake auditions to find a new wife? Think again, because out come the needles and piano wire. Horror is definitely…

There was something low-key nefarious about the early days of reality TV, when producers would aggressively mislead and sometimes out-and-out lie to contestants about what they were getting themselves into. There was Joe Millionaire, the show where women competed for the hand of a millionaire who was actually a…