Новости за 11.09.2020

Who says there are no new movies in 2020? Coming off of remote coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival into remote coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival with only a week in between, my Letterboxd count for the month will probably hover somewhere around 60 titles. As film editor A.A. Dowd pointed out in…

Casey McQuiston’s 2019 novel Red, White & Royal Blue—yes, this is a story about Willie Nelson smoking up on the roof of the White House, please bear with us—opens with a lovely little passage about the White House roof. (See? It’s relevant.) There’s a piece of paneling up there, McQuiston writes, that can be gently…

Saturday Night Live is heading back to 30 Rockefeller Center. Per The New York Post, NBC confirmed on Friday that the players will return to the studio after producing a number of remote episodes. Surely we’ll miss the days of Kate McKinnon dusting off her best Ruth Bader Ginsburg impression (sans wig and makeup)…

The urge to unplug sweeps through all of us at some point or another. Maybe it was Eric Trump tweeting about Mob Psycho 100. Maybe it was those monsters slipping a suicide video on TikTok. It’ll come again, probably due to something that will happen in the next 10 minutes, and you’ll post about “logging off” for a…

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.

Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services and our…

Dr. Phil, the unlicensed huckster Oprah should regret elevating to a position of authority, is back, baby. The TV host otherwise known as Phil McGraw returned to his TikTok account this week with a plea to his 4.6 million followers: “You have to stop commenting ‘daddy’ on my posts.” (The tiny pause before he says…

When the new season of The Boys kicked off last week on Prime Video, fans were treated to big drama, big dead whales, and even bigger looks at the origins of their favorite anti-superhero crusaders. That’ll continue full force throughout the season, with Tomer “Frenchie” Capon and Karen “Kimiko” Fukuhara telling The…

Tenet might have managed to lure a bunch of people out of their homes last weekend, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe to return to the theater. And while it would be really cool if circumstances changed at a neck-breaking pace before Wonder Woman 1984's previous October 2 release date, Warner Bros. isn’t ready to throw…

George R.R. Martin has done well for himself. The author of A Song Of Ice And Fire saw his already-acclaimed books adapted into one of the most popular TV shows in recent history. Even if its ending sucked and even if he never finishes writing his series, Martin will always be known for creating one of the best-loved…

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In Unpregnant, Haley Lu Richardson plays Veronica, a Brown-bound, Missouri-based high schooler who finds herself suddenly and unpleasantly pregnant. She decides she can’t tell her very Catholic mother about the problem at hand, so does some investigating, only to find out that the nearest place for a minor to get an…

Kirby, a dead-eyed pink blob who runs around inhaling everything in his path, has always been a suspicious character. His unknowable facial expressions and mysterious biology give him an ominous quality—a worrying, alien-like nature that seems like it could turn into undirected, kaiju-style violence at a moment’s…

“Does it work as a finale? Yes and no,” we wrote in our recap of the Lost finale, but we were ultimately able to forgive its flaws (and its schmaltz) for the way it puts an “emotional button on nearly every major character’s storyline” and allows “even the prematurely dead to have one last curtain call.”

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…

With Donald Trump fixer turned tell-all author Michael Cohen in the house Thursday night to promote his book Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story Of The Former Personal Attorney To President Donald J. Trump, Seth Meyers was clearly walking a delicate line. One the one hand, Cohen, as the Late Night host repeatedly…

“Infected Memory” provides our first real glimpse at Mother’s origin story. After many episodes of hearing talk of a creator, we finally get to meet him and find out that he was a sort of bizarre romantic interest who teaches Mother about human love, child rearing, and what it means be humanity’s saving grace. Having…

Sometimes great parts don’t add up to a great whole. It could be argued that was the case for The Morning Show, which currently enjoys five Emmy nominations for acting but was left out of the Outstanding Drama Series category. But what about the inverse? What does it mean when a series is up for the big prize but…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, September 11, and Saturday, September 12. All times are Eastern.

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

One of the less immediately obvious effects of the shift into digital distribution as one of the primary ways people get their video games is that it suddenly gets a lot easier to “lose” a game, in the curatorial sense. In earlier generations, a cartridge or disc for a particular little-known title might be rare, but…

Ever since it was announced back in late August, there’s been one major question circling HBO Max’s cast reunion for The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air: What about Aunt Viv? That is to say, what about the first Aunt Viv, Janet Hubert, who departed the series after its third season (amid lots of rumors and news stories about…

Film festivals, especially the major ones like Toronto, are never just about the films. They’re also about the experience—the change of scenery, the proximity to celebrity and genius, the opportunities to hobnob and network and put faces to names. If you’re not working them, as a publicist or a journalist or an…

It’s gotta be weird to be friends with Sidney Prescott, right? Sure, it’s not like it’s the Scream protagonist’s fault that literally everyone she knows gets murdered by knife-wielding psychopaths every few years. But still: When you’re deciding to hang out with people, wouldn’t you rather gravitate to Debbie in…

The moment the Fast And Furious movies went from being about people who race cars and steal DVDs to being superhero car adventures, the one thing everyone has wanted to see is Dominic Toretto strapping a rocket to the back of his Charger and launching it into fucking space. They’re already dropping cars of out planes,…