Новости за 02.08.2020

Today is apparently National Doll Day, which seems like as good a reason as any for Warner Bros. and New Line to remind everyone about the existence of the Conjuring series of films and its breakout spin-off star, Annabelle The Scary Doll. Apparently, some New Line employees decided to have some fun with the Annabelle…

The future of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is uncertain, as is the case for every TV show that can’t currently be filmed because of the coronavirus, but the beloved cop comedy is on even shakier ground to the fact that nobody’s quite sure when or if the idea of a “cop comedy” will even be palatable to TV viewers again (the idea…

According to the British Film Institute (via The Hollywood Reporter), director Alan Parker—whose movies landed 10 Golden Globes and 10 Academy Awards—has died “following a lengthy illness.” Parker’s filmmaking career covered a wide range of genres and aesthetics, with him directing musicals like Fame and Evita,…

“The Swedish Job” takes on a tall order. It wants to move the show’s central apocalypse story forward, deliver some sweet Hargreeves family reunions, and offer a moving tribute to the real-life heroism of Civil Rights activists. Though I have a few quibbles here and there, the fact that this episode largely pulls off…

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,125,173-week series, Wiki Wormhole.

Wilford Brimley has died. One of the great gruff old men of cinema—despite the fact that his first great “old guy” performance, Cocoon’s Ben Luckett, came when he was still just 49 years old—Brimley lent gravitas to everything from landmark sci-fi films, to John Grisham legal thrillers to, yes, oatmeal commercials and…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, August 2. All times are Eastern.

Our weekly thought-starter asks you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, big or small, you can email them to us here.

We can now add Lena Dunham to the list of celebrities who can offer up first-hand accounts of what life with COVID-19 can be like; the Girls creator posted on Instagram this weekend about her experience with the disease, noting that she was diagnosed back in March, and that “This isn’t like passing the flu to your…

Posers: They’re out there, a rampant danger to the forces of authenticity everywhere. Your friends, your teachers, your parents: All could conceal the lurking threat of poser-ism within, professing to have complicated, thoughtful, cutting-edge opinions on indie music, hair, comic books, whatever, when actually they’re…