Новости за 29.07.2020

Alright, everyone, hold on tight to the edge of your seats because it’s time to watch the shit out of some Ken Burns documentaries. Clear a few weeks off work, take out the loan you need to get an extra-loud subwoofer for your home theater system, and clear the kids out of the house because all the Burns you can…

The image of the lone lawyer fighting against a system of bureaucratic inaction, entrenched corruption, or immoral legality is a constant in our pop culture landscape. The shadow of Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch looms large, helping fuel our romanticized idea of the type of person who would take a stand when no one else…

While the preponderance of streaming platforms makes it a little easier to revisit old favorites like Cheers and Supermarket Sweep, some Black-led comedies have remained largely off the grid, to the dismay of their longtime fans. Fuzzy YouTube uploads may be enough to satiate a few wanting devotees, but others have…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Morbius has been pushed back to 2021, but you don’t have to wait that long to check out these other vampire chronicles and bloodsucker tales.

Succession’s Cousin Greg is one of the best characters on TV right now, and, if his interviews are any indication, the bumbling amiability that Nicholas Braun brings to the role seems to bleed over into his real life. Consider it something of a surprise, then, that the actor has spent his quarantine downtime recording…

The phrase “like nothing else on television” has earned its rightful place on the master list of hackneyed critical pull quotes, alongside such esteemed company as “fun for the whole family” and “… will leave you breathless.” That becomes a problem upon stumbling onto something like OWN’s coming-of-age drama David…

Albums from even the buzziest acts tend to evaporate in this culture of Too Much Content, but Phoebe Bridgers’ Punisher—one of our favorite albums of the year so far—continues to resonate, be it through TikTok memes or the endless replays of her videos and virtual performances. And her latest music video might be her…

The CW’s Riverdale may have more than enough scripted drama to go around, but it still seems to lack substantial storylines for its Black characters. Last month, Vanessa Morgan spoke publicly about the poor treatment of her character Toni Topaz even after becoming a series regular. Now, reoccurring guest star…

Poor Scooter. He spent years at the beck and call of the Muppets, getting everything from coffee to chicken feed as a production gofer. Just when it looked like he might be getting out for a career in tech, he was dragged back for the most recent Muppet films, and now he’s practically tethered to a haphazardly…

After netting three Emmy nominations for Insecure just yesterday, there’s even more good news for Issa Rae fans today. Deadline reports that Rae is teaming up with Jordan Peele to produce Sinkhole, a new genre film based on a short story by Leyna Krow. The project sparked a bidding war, with Universal ultimately…

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The Zolas, the graphic novel debut for both writer Méliane Marcaggi and artist Alice Chemama, is a historical work about the relationship between a creator and his muse. The creator in question: esteemed 19th-century French writer Emile Zola—and the muse is his wife, Alexandrine Zola. Through its stunning art, which…

I don’t think we’ve ever really covered much about L. Frank Baum’s famous stories about the land Oz here before, mostly because the stories (and the famous movie) are pretty thin on cars. But that’s not to say there aren’t any things like cars. In fact, in one of the later Oz books, there’s something that sure as…

Even in 2020 the existence of a Nurse Ratched origin story from Ryan Murphy inspires a little disbelief. This could easily be self-parody, and while the first photos from Ratched definitely read like a Ryan Murphy Joint (Finn Wittrock, everyone!), there’s still something kind of mystifying about this whole thing…

Having caught up to the white whale at long last, Moby-Dick’s Captain Ahab dies in a flurry of violence and one last address to a mortal enemy whose existence defines his life right up to its final moments: “To the last I grapple with thee,” he yells. “From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last…

A Girl Missing is a movie about optics—how bad ones can incriminate an innocent person, and how we perceive each other, and ourselves, through shattered lenses. Japanese writer-director Kôji Fukada broaches these ideas through an unsettling catalyst: a kidnapping shrouded in mystery, though not the mystery you’d…

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I’m a twenty-something more-or-less lesbian in an East Coast city. I’m primarily into women, and I’m only interested in relationships with women, but I’m sometimes attracted to men and have enjoyed sex with men in the past. For various reasons, I decided a few years ago not to pursue physical stuff with men anymore…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, July 29. All times are Eastern.

Of all the video games you’d expect to thrive during the pandemic, you would probably guess Fortnite or Minecraft and you would be right. You would not guess Boktai, the Game Boy Advance game that required you to charge your vampire-killing gun by physically standing outside in the daylight. You also probably would…

If you had guessed that AMC Theatres’ ban on Universal films would end long before theaters ever actually reopened in the United States, we have some good news: You were right. Mostly. The ban started way back in April, when NBCUniversal was so tickled by the on-demand success of Trolls World Tour that CEO Jeff Shell…

Over the last few days, filmmakers, critics, and fans have rallied together in support of Amy Seimetz—star of the Pet Sematary reboot, co-creator of Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience, and director of the upcoming horror movie She Dies Tomorrow—after her ex, Primer and Upstream Color director Shane Carruth, tweeted out…

The Emmy nominations were announced this morning, giving streaming services plenty to celebrate, and while we still don’t know what the actual Emmy Awards ceremony will look like (beyond Jimmy Kimmel hosting it), we do know that the nominations are at least more diverse than last year. That’s according to The Wrap,…

While we’ve all come to terms with the end of Andy Daly’s brilliant Review, the show’s centerpiece most certainly has not. In a new video shared to the official Forrest MacNeil, Life Reviewer YouTube page, a masked Forrest is here to assure that “the most deftly executed prank of all time”—that Review has been…

This conflict-stricken year promised a shakeup in 2020’s Emmy nominations: The response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including stay-at-home orders and phased reopening, resulted in a move from in-person parties to digital campaigns, with millions of dollars diverted from for-your-consideration efforts to crisis funds.…