Новости за 18.08.2020

According to Variety, Chadwick Boseman and Seth MacFarlane are teaming up to executive produce a limited series about the Little Rock Nine—the group of Black children who attended a formerly all-white high school in Arkansas in 1957 while the state violently pushed back against the desegregation of schools. Everyone…

In a touching scene that comes toward the end of Michael Almereyda’s postmodern quasi-biopic Tesla, the inventor Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) stumbles up to a tennis court where his former financier, the tycoon J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), is playing a game with his daughters. Speaking through a chain-link fence,…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With the Russell Crowe road-rage thriller Unhinged racing (unwisely) into theaters, we’re looking back on other films that cast movie stars as psychopaths.

An oral history of a scene that’s also an oral history of a meme? How delightfully devilish, MEL. This piece on The Simpsons’ “Chalmers Vs. Skinner,” a segment from the classic 1996 episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” that’s now better known as “Steamed Hams,” is well worth your time.

In the new Disney+ movie The One And Only Ivan, Helen Mirren plays Snickers, a pampered poodle who’s more human than wild animal. Coiffed and clean, with crisp white hair, Snickers takes a bit of inspiration from Mirren, who long ago achieved Hollywood grand dame status for both her talent and her stately demeanor. As…

Over the past week, AMC Theatres announced its plans to re-open locations across the country along with a new set of safety guidelines. Those plans were rightfully met with criticism, given that we’re still in the middle of a fucking pandemic. Studios have repeatedly postponed release dates for numerous high-profile…

Every summer, young men from across Texas converge on the state capital of Austin to build a government from the ground up. For one week, the thousand-plus teenagers are sorted into “cities” and run for offices at the municipal, county, and state level; they’re also assigned affiliation with one of two political…

First there was The Purge, and now there’s The Binge—you know, like “binge and purge.” Get it?! There, you’re all caught up on the clever wordplay of the title for the new Hulu original movie, which debuts on August 28. The film takes place in a future where all alcohol and drugs are illegal except for one night a…

Sea lions are weird. Like, just look at them. Are they cute? Are they terrifying? Make up your minds, you guys. One thing we can all agree on is that they’re generally loud as hell. And, apparently, terrible at timing.

In the months since production began on The Matrix 4, one name has been conspicuously absent from casting reports: Laurence Fishburne. The actor, who played Morpheus in the original trilogy, has confirmed to New York Magazine that he was not asked to reprise his role for the upcoming sequel. “No. I have not been…

Note: The writer of this review watched Unhinged from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in a movie theater, please consider the health risks involved. Click here for an interview on the matter with scientific experts.

Comedian and weekly talk show host Hasan Minhaj had some somber news for his Twitter followers on Tuesday morning: Netflix has canceled the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Patriot Act after six seasons. “ Patriot Act has come to an end,” Minhaj tweeted alongside a picture of him standing on set. “I got to work with the…

For months, movie theaters across the country have been closed as part of the ongoing effort to save lives and slow the spread of COVID-19. In response, studios have opted to delay their big releases or pivot to a VOD rollout instead. But Russell Crowe won’t be held back by some coronavirus. He has a new action film…

Tiffany Haddish is keeping typically busy during her theoretical pandemic downtime, as evidenced by her gloriously shaven head on Monday’s Tonight Show. Apart from doing her first live standup in months (pro tip: watch the mask-muffled audience’s eyes to see how you’re doing), the Emmy-nominated stand-up star,…

There’s only one more episode of I May Destroy You, but a lot happens in “Would You Like to Know the Sex?” Arabella loses her book commission. Terry confronts her threesome incident. Kwame tries to make amends for his mistakes. Overall, these stories work, but given the show’s long season, some of the timing feels a…

The actor: At 73, Jacki Weaver remains one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood, Australia, or any part of the world for that matter. Transcending genres and budgets, Weaver has a knack for finding charismatic character roles just about anywhere, livening up a movie with her sweet demeanor and bright blue eyes,…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, August 18. All times are Eastern. 

Barack Obama’s regular lists of movies and TV shows and music he was into were cool when he was the president, especially since the contents were often just unexpected enough for them to seem legitimate, but did anyone really expect him to keep doing it for so long after he left office? Is he going to commit to doing…

At the end of July, when Ellen DeGeneres finally stepped out of the shadows to acknowledge the allegations that the set of her Ellen show was infamously and shockingly toxic, she suggested that the real root of the problem was that she had handed over too much of the day-to-day control to people who she really should…

Late last year, Lizzo tried to preemptively shut down a lawsuit by getting a judge to establish that she was the sole writer of her breakout hit “Truth Hurts”—along with a not-insignificant contribution from artist Mina Lioness, who tweeted “I did a DNA test and found out I’m 100% that bitch” back in 2017 and has…

Reader, we don’t know if you are a parent or if you will be one someday. But if you happen to fall into either of those categories, rest assured, one day you will wind up in the emergency room with a child with a Lego up their nose. This incident is so commonplace that if you just point to your child and say “Lego in…

James Wan’s Aquaman was mostly a fun romp through an underwater world where everyone except for Patrick Wilson was a cool bro who liked to chill with fish, dudes, and fish-dudes, but there was one particular sequence where Aquaman and Mera had to face off against a series of grotesque creatures called The Trench that…