Новости за 06.08.2020

Back in 2018, a year that feels about as distant as the actual All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, we reported that Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Mozart In The Jungle’s Will Graham were developing a TV adaptation/remake/whatever of Penny Marshall’s beloved 1992 baseball movie A League Of Their Own. That…

At the risk of bullying Quibi unnecessarily: Not every new streaming service has been having trouble getting new subscribers to stick around. According to The Playlist, Disney+ is not only not having trouble, it has actually already met a five-year goal that the company set out to reach when the service launched. That…

Marty Jannetty, who rose to fame as one-half of The Rockers alongside a baby-faced Shawn Michaels, saw his career shatter into pieces after his turncoat partner threw him through a window on January 11, 1992. After a few brief returns to the squared circle, the grappler more or less faded into obscurity, resurfacing…

At the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix, a race shortened by tragedy, Lella Lombardi became the first woman to ever score points in Formula One. She is one of two female drivers to have started a race and one of five to have entered. Today, 45 years later, she still remains the most successful woman to ever contest the series.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: As August kicks off and the warmest season begins drawing to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite summer-themed movies.

Doomscrolling, or the act of losing oneself to an endless refreshing of the day’s catastrophes on social media, has arguably never been more popular. Part of that might be due to the fact that, y’know, everything is kinda awful right now. But a large portion of it is directly traceable to companies like Facebook and…

2016's Nina was a terrible biopic about Nina Simone that is best remembered (if it’s remembered at all) because of the ceaseless controversy that developed when Zoe Saldana was cast to star as Nina Simone—despite the fact that she looks basically nothing like the legendary singer. Saldana’s skin was darkened and she…

Much of Aldous Huxley’s vision of a Brave New World has been borne out: genetic engineering, mood-stabilizing pharmaceuticals, chemical birth control, ubiquitous marketing, and a society given to distraction. When the novel was published in 1932, these ultimately prescient notions placed it squarely in the realm of…

Can a really great tweetstorm be as gripping onscreen as it is online? That’s one of the many questions posited by Zola, a new thriller that emerged as one of the buzziest films to debut at this year’s Sundance. Directed by Janicza Bravo (Lemon), the film brings to life a 148-tweet thread about a doomed trip to…

Netflix’s new movie Work It asks and answers the question “what if three cool young people who can dance very well are given a chance to do just that?” The film—which stars internet darlings Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, and Jordan Fisher—is equal parts Step Up and Bring It On, with just a smidge of the bold brows of …

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno was never very good, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a cultural institution. It was a staple of its era. Its success was, like so much late night programming, something we had to accept as an unpleasant but immutable fact of life akin to knowing our loved ones will inevitably grow old…

Everyone loves Tom Hanks, especially now that the coronavirus has forced us to confront the possibility that he might not be with us forever, but even the most dedicated member of the Hanks Army has to admit that he tends to step into the same kind of role in every movie—especially now that he’s, you know, aging. Not…

For only the second time in Big Brother’s 2o-year history, the CBS reality competition series has gathered an entire cast of all-stars to compete for the $500,000 prize. The 16 returning players entered the house Aug. 5, and immediately after the two-hour live premiere, season 13 winner Rachel Reilly hopped on the…

Ridley Scott’s got plenty of irons in the fire these days, from a Gladiator sequel to a Gaga-starring Gucci thriller to FX’s adaptation of Don Winslow’s The Cartel trilogy. He’s also got Raised By Wolves, an HBO Max sci-fi series about androids in a post-apocalyptic future that will mark his American TV directorial…

The Latin American myth of La Llorona, a ghostly woman in white who wanders the earth searching for living children to replace her dead ones, can be read as a morality tale. As the story goes, La Llorona was once a living woman who murdered her own offspring as revenge against the lover who abandoned them. Or she…

Any movie can become a children’s cartoon if networks try hard enough. Beetlejuice may have been a bit much for kids, but swap Michael Keaton for a loose-limbed animated version and there you go: He’s ready for Saturday morning. The Rambo movies definitely weren’t aimed at teaching youngsters about war-induced PTSD…

If there’s a silver lining to be found in our current moment of COVID-conscious digital drag, it’s that the art form now feels more accessible than ever. Not every town has a booming drag scene, but now many of the world’s best performers are just a click away, serving some wildly creative performances telegraphed…

Hot on the heels of Charlie Kaufman’s sprawling debut novel, Antkind, comes the latest film from the daring filmmaker, whose Anomalisa and Synecdoche, New York remain some of this century’s most beguiling films. I’m Thinking Of Ending Things is an adaptation of Ian Reid’s 2016 novel, a disquieting chronicle of a young…

The Umbrella Academy isn’t particularly great at plot. For instance, “Öga For Öga” is a pointless runaround story that ultimately doesn’t go anywhere other than to remind us just how many times The Umbrella Academy pulled this sort of thing last season. But one thing the show does handle well is tone. This series can…

Calling himself “the Black Forrest Gump” for all the times he’s found himself on the periphery of some pretty extraordinary celebrity shenanigans, Jamie Foxx took credit for the Los Angeles Lakers 2010 NBA championship. All right, eventual series MVP Kobe Bryant helped, but, as Foxx explained on Wednesday’s Tonight…

“The Lower Decks” is a late season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode with an irresistible premise: what’s it like to be a low level crew-member on the U.S.S. Enterprise? As a general rule, Trek series focus on the people in charge, which makes sense; the captain and their staff are the front line against any…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, August 6. All times are Eastern.

Another month, another round of studios scrapping their plans to bring some movies to the big screen. A few films are actually still scheduled to hit theaters later this month—including, as of the publish date of this feature, the long-delayed X-Men spinoff The New Mutants. But at this point, all such release dates…

For being about a power-stealing wannabe anarchist who can see the future and is summoning aliens to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D., this final arc of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. is oddly hermetic and insular. Maybe it’s a budgetary thing, but far too much of these last few episodes have taken place in anonymous gray rooms and…

Which came first: The cancellation news, or the misery? Hard to say today, as Deadline reports that Hulu has just knocked Zoë Kravitz’s High Fidelity off its all-time lists of shows it’s going to make a second season of. The report also notes that this was a tougher-than-usual decision for the streamer, which really…