Новости за 10.09.2020

We’d like to thank Roswell, New Mexico writer Alanna Bennett for the below tweet. Thank you, Alanna. Thank you, from the bottom of our socially-distanced hearts, for leading us to Sex And The City starring Fred the cat.

Feeling a little off after months of being (more or less) stuck inside? Pity poor Mr. Slausen (Chuck Connors), the roadside museum owner so lonely, he lives with a house full of automatons and mannequins in the offbeat 1979 PG-rated slasher Tourist Trap. Actually, on second thought, it’s up for grabs whether to feel…

The A.V. Club approves this shameless plug: Longing for a candidate you can get truly excited about? The A.V. Club took an extremely informal poll to determine which fictional leaders deserved to have their names slapped on some shirts, mugs, tote bags, and onesies ahead of the 2020 election. Whether you’re a fan of …

Ubisoft held its second summer showcase today, giving updates on a number of its live games and new looks at upcoming ones like Immortals: Fenyx Rising, the revamped mythological adventure shown in years past as Gods & Monsters.

Back in April, we reported that Disney was developing a female-led reboot of classic improbable medical drama Doogie Howser, M.D. with Fresh Off The Boat and How I Met Your Mother writer/producer Kourtney Kang. The plan for the new show, tentatively titled Doogie Kameāloha, M.D., would be to do the same basic thing…

On Wednesday, the clouds parted and the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s anticipated adaptation of Dunc Dune shined down upon us. Sure, it could end up being a big ol’ dud, but, given that Villeneuve’s past films include Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival, whatever we get is at least going to be visually arresting,…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: The new directorial debuts The Broken Hearts Gallery and Antebellum have us thinking back on some of our favorite first features.

The Boss has once again emerged from the underground bunker where he painstakingly, exactingly obsesses over every millisecond of sound he has ever recorded, in order to announce that he had finally decided that latest round of endless tinkering has resulted in a finished product that meets his standards. For now,…

Yusuf, who you may also know as Cat Stevens, is a little more than a week from celebrating the 50th birthday of Tea for the Tillerman with Tea for the Tillerman², a rerecorded version of his iconic 1970 album. Today, the songwriter shared a new video for his new riff on “Father And Son,” a frankly genius recreation of…

Here’s some news that is, by definition, bittersweet: Netflix and DreamWorks announced on Thursday that Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts will be returning for its third season in October. It’ll also be our final look at Kipo (Karen Fukuhara), Benson (Coy Stewart), Wolf (Sydney Mikayla), and the ever-evolving Dave…

Filmmaker Alex Gibney landed a breakout hit of sorts with his HBO Scientology documentary Going Clear, but he has continued to make doc after doc after doc after doc (after doc after doc after doc after doc) since then. His latest subject has just been picked up by distribution company Neon, and it’s extremely timely: …

20 years ago, there was no better way to share your interests with the world than to log onto Angelfire or Geocities, crack open a book of beginner-level HTML tutorials, and make yourself a website about whatever spoke to you. For some, this might’ve been a quixotic attempt to definitively rank the most powerful …

As you are hopefully aware, there’s an election coming up in the U.S. in November that will decide the fate of… oh, all mankind maybe? That may be a little overdramatic, but it’s a big one. If you’re not aware, though, and this news story hasn’t already tipped you off, The CW has announced a new initiative called CW…

Cameo is an app we as a society simply do not deserve. Its premise is simple enough, if indescribably off-putting: For a pre-determined fee, a user can get their preferred “celebrity” of choice to record a quick, personalized message for them, their loved ones, or even their soon-to-be exes. We use “celebrity” in…

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Last November marked the month when Blade Runner’s future was supposed to become a reality. Writing about it then, we said that 2019 hadn’t managed to get the most dramatic aspects of its science fiction setting right, but that we still had until 2049 to turn our world into a miserable place that looks like Denis…

This is one for the “yeah, that makes sense” files: Heather Graham, who memorably played Rollergirl in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, has started a TikTok account. The one and only video on it so far is, of course, of her on roller skates.

Adam Sandler threatened us with a “so bad on purpose” movie if he didn’t get a (well-deserved) Oscar nomination for his incredible turn in Uncut Gems. Well, he didn’t get one, and we’ve spent the year dreaming up our own ideas for a movie so wretched that even the swan would stop looking at it. Has it arrived with his…

You know Paris Hilton. How could you not? The hotel heiress has been part of our cultural zeitgeist for the better part of two decades, having stepped out of the shadow of her family name to become an “It Girl,” author, reality TV personality, producer, actor, tabloid fodder, pop star, activist, entrepreneur, model,…

Well, you can’t say director Christopher Landon doesn’t have a vision. With Happy Death Day and its sequel, the filmmaker mined a comedic concept for horror (without excising the comedic component). Now, he’s doing it again. Freaky takes the body-swap gimmick popularized by Freaky Friday and asks what might happen if…

With Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco on board presenting Beth Stelling’s latest comedy special, Girl Daddy on HBO Max, it’s perhaps not a shocker that Conan had the stand-up on Wednesday’s show. Still, getting Stelling superfan O’Brien on board has its drawbacks, as the pandemic, plus Conan’s pandemic-pressurized brain has…

The actor: It may surprise fans who got to know his work during the 21st century, but longtime actor (and more recently, director) Nestor Carbonell originally came to prominence as a sitcom star in the ’90s. The actor’s first big attention-getting credit was the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan, before he jumped ahead to…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, September 10. All times are Eastern.

Good news for the precocious—and the precocious at heart—today, as HBO Max announced that it’s gearing up on development for an adaptation of Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game. The 1978 Newbery Award winner challenged its characters (and readers) to unravel the last will and testament of paper magnate Samuel Westing, an…

Ronald Bell, also known as Khalis Bayyan, has died. As one of the founders—alongside his brother, Robert “Kool” Bell—of the influential, genre-spanning musical outfit Kool & The Gang, Bell contributed to and co-wrote some of the biggest, most danceable hits of the 20th century. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist…