Новости за 30.07.2020

Film festivals are a wonderful way to explore the world, even—or perhaps even especially—in their online incarnations. A trip to India is probably not happening for any of us this year, but Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya will transport you across continents anyway. An eerie tale of an intergenerational curse inspired by…

The pandemic has many of us feeling pretty vulnerable these days, so it’s important to keep things in perspective as much as possible. Next time you’re worried about the perils of daily life, think about it this way—you could be a disgusting monstrosity encased in an exoskeleton due to the whims of evolutionary chance!

Good news, video game fans: The thing you’ve always wanted is finally happening! Ubisoft has pulled Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell off the shelf, cleared the dust from Sam Fisher’s triclops goggles, and announced a brand new Splinter Cell… animated series for Netflix. That’s what people wanted, right? Not a proper video…

The Toronto International Film Festival announced its full 2020 lineup today, teasing what are likely to be the films that round out this year’s awards slate (JoJo Rabbit, a top Oscar contender, won the big prize at last year’s fest). Granted, TIFF is hosting far fewer films this year than in festivals past, a…

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.

One of the joys of parenting has got to be sharing your favorite childhood movies with your kids. There’s no better time to bust out your favorite old-school family flicks than during These Days, particularly since your to-watch list may be feeling a little thin after so many months of binging all the shows. So let us…

We haven’t even seen Pixar’s Soul yet (it would’ve premiered at Cannes if not for the damn coronavirus), but we already know what the studio’s next feature will be: As announced this morning, Pixar will release Luca on June 18, 2021, with the studio explaining on Twitter that it’s about a boy in Italy having an…

A never-ending quarantine calls for creative means of entertainment. Though it may be a while before any of us will once again experience the fun of $90 t-shirts and dancing shoulder-to-shoulder with sweaty strangers, virtual concerts work to bring at least some of the live show experience to homebound fans: Travis…

The Umbrella Academy is, at its core, the tale of a dysfunctional family and all of the sibling rivalries, super powers, robot mom drama, and talking-chimpanzee-butler hijinks that sort of story usually entails. The show gets a lot of mileage out of throwing different combinations of the Hargreeves clan together and…

Arrre you ready kids?! No, not to find out who lives in a pineapple under the sea, just to sign up for another streaming service that may not have had much to offer you in the past! CBS All Access, once the home of Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, and probably a third thing, is getting ready for the expansion and…

Catwoman #23 marks the arrival of the Sean Gordon Murphy-verse into primary DC canon, and the start is fairly rocky. The writer’s output in his “Murphy-verse” has thus far been focused on White Knight stories, which all began with an interesting premise and quickly declined in quality and cogency as the story…

Over Neil Young’s long career, he’s had a lot of opportunities to channel frustration and rage over American politics into song. In 1970, Young wrote the miserably relevant “Ohio” with lyrics directly condemning Richard Nixon. In 1989 he called out George H.W. Bush with “Rockin’ In The Free World” before going on to…

Writer, director, and performance artist Miranda July chased the wild success of her quirky debut feature, Me and You And Everyone We Know, with 2011's The Future, an odd (and surprisingly sad) comedy that you should probably revisit. Now, nine years later, July is back with a new trailer for her upcoming feature, …

Here’s a fun question to ask about your favorite movie characters: Are their adventures, exploits, relationships, and personality quirks really just due to the fact that they’re a bunch of shitty people? That’s the question Tim Byrne pondered on Twitter last night, turning the real-life advice subreddit, …

With so much terrible news coming out every hour of every day, it’s important to really savor the nice things in life like, say, a compilation video of very happy old ladies learning that their stuff is worth a lot of money on Antiques Roadshow.

Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), the protagonist of She Dies Tomorrow, is not okay. When we first meet her, she seems fine enough—about as fine as any of us are in an era where anxiety and confusion are so prevalent that there’s a term for endlessly scrolling through bad news. She putters around her half-empty house still piled…

Even when he’s not rapping, acting, owning social media, playing himself playing John Mulaney’s version of him, or brushing off right-wing has-been fools trying to front, Ice-T is always busy. Or, rather, he used to be, before settling down with his in-laws in Arizona to sit out this whole pandemic nonsense. Telling…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thusday, July 30. All times are Eastern.

“Sometimes trying to do the right thing comes out all wrong.” Jiaying may have been talking about motherhood when she said this to Daisy (unknowingly imparting words of wisdom to her future daughter, while talking about her current one), but the sentiment applies to so much more. What the team hoped would be a…

Malik Abdul Basit, known to fans and admirers of endlessly influential rap group The Roots as Malik B., has died. Per CNN, Basit was 47. No cause of death has been announced.

We’re branching once again for this week’s House Show, which finds us dropping in to the Los Angeles home of comedian and musician Whitmer Thomas. His HBO special, Whitmer Thomas: The Golden One, dropped earlier this year to rave reviews, and was accompanied by a Hardly Art release of roughly the same name, should…

The Comey Rule, Showtime’s upcoming adaptation of former FBI head James Comey’s 2018 memoir, will be the first non-satirical depiction of our current president, though it certainly won’t be the last. Regardless, writer and director Billy Ray (Richard Jewell) knows he’ll soon fall in the crosshairs of the MAGA mob,…

We were pretty big fans of Rina Sawayama’s debut album, SAWAYAMA, dubbing it, “remarkably confident, addictive, and purposeful.” We weren’t alone in that assessment, either: Sawayama’s freshman effort has drawn heavy praise since it was released back in April, with numerous outlets heaping it with accolades.

It’s safe to say that the first season of The Umbrella Academy went out with a bang—that is, an actual apocalypse spurned by Vanya’s powerful rage, which caused the moon fracture, fall, and ravage the Earth. Fortunately, the Umbrella Academy kids had Five on board, who suggested that they time-travel the hell out of…

In a world known primarily for its bad endings, we’ll take a good one when it surfaces. Last week, Ryan Reynolds alerted his millions of fans to a Vancouver woman’s lost teddy bear, which contained within it a recording of her late mother’s voice saying she loves and is proud of her. It was lost while Mara Soriano was…