Новости за 15.09.2020

Peeps: Angels to some, demons to others. The marshmallow(-ish) candy has been a divisive cultural staple since 1953, prompting regular, vigorous debates on its taste, aesthetics, caloric content, and whether or not one could properly be counted as “food.” Unfortunately, despite a seemingly indeterminable shelf life (…

For decades, South Park has served as the court jester of modern society, exposing mankind’s many faults and foibles in the guise of “jokes” and “tricking Scott Tenorman into eating his parents after they get made into chili.” Unfortunately, as the world has faced the deadly coronavirus pandemic and America has been…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin both have new movies coming out, so we’re looking back on other projects released by their production company, Borderline Films.

In a perfect world, we’d still be getting new seasons of Santa Clarita Diet. But a daytime talk show hosted by Drew Barrymore? That was probably inevitable for one of Hollywood’s most amiable and media-savvy personalities. Barrymore’s eponymous show kicked off its CBS run on Monday, its energetic hour packed with…

Note: The writer of this review watched The Nest 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. Here’s an interview on the matter with scientific experts.

It’s well-established at this point that the pop wunderkind William Eyelash Billie Eilish is a massive fan of The Office. Having proven her deep well of trivia to Rainn Wilson last year, the singer was welcomed as a special guest on the An Oral History of The Office podcast, where she spoke with both Steve Carell and…

Three comedy luminaries—Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker, and John C. Reilly—star as a gaggle of would-be astronauts in Moonbase 8, which is finally set to premiere more than two years after it was first announced. Per a new trailer released today, the six-part series lands on Showtime on November 8.

In the throes of our own special apocalypse, it may comfort some to know that things could be way worse. You could, for instance, lose everyone you’ve ever loved and spend the rest of your surviving days searching for the one person who found you interesting. That seems to be the case with Paramount Pictures’ Love And…

Pretty much every character on Succession, the excellent HBO show about evil rich people being rich and evil, is an absolute scumbag. Just the same, the internet has never had qualms about getting all horned up over terrible people, fictional or otherwise, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to learn that a…

Death is frequently abrupt, and very few of us are given warning of a loved one’s impending demise. Armed with the knowledge that her 86-year-old father is nearing the end of his life, documentarian Kirsten Johnson uses the tricks and tools of her medium to create inventive scenarios in which her dad might die. The…

ViacomCBS has spun the all-important streaming wheel to determine which jazzy suffix shall adorn its new iteration of CBS All Access. Yes, your grandpa’s favorite streaming subscription service is undergoing a bit of long-overdue rebranding, as The Wrap reports that the platform will be renamed in 2021. And what…

In the early days of NASA, the public and the press spent a lot of time micro-analyzing the organization’s failures. Why did our rockets keep blowing up on the launch pad? Why did the Soviet Union keep beating us to major space-exploration milestones? And so on and so on, year after year.

Put a group of people who are passionate about any conceivable topic online together and it won’t be long before they’re tearing each other’s throats out over the most inscrutable shit. Case in point: The (apparently thriving) community of passionate bonsai growers from r/Bonsai, who are amped up and ready to go to…

A week after Disney+ shared the first-look images of The Mandalorian’s second season, the streamer’s gone and dropped a new trailer for the space adventure’s upcoming batch of episodes.

Known best for his portrayal of Omar, a stern-faced stick-up man with a strict moral compass on The Wire, Michael Kenneth Williams has made a career out of playing hard-edged characters you can’t help but root for. On Lovecraft Country, he plays Montrose Freeman, who we first meet as he bursts through the ground after…

Say what you want about famous (and hopefully repeat) taker-down of crooked, paranoid, and authoritarian Republican presidents Bob Woodward, but, this time, he’s got the receipts. Sure, the fact that those receipts—in the form of nearly 10 hours of irretrievably incriminating recorded interviews with Donald…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, September 15. All times are Eastern. 

Gillian Flynn’s long run of successful thrillers comes to an end with the irritatingly drawn-out, disappointingly oblique Utopia. An adaptation of the British series that aired from 2013 to 2014, Utopia has long bounced around Hollywood: First attached to HBO, with Gone Girl and Sharp Objects author and Widows …

Anyone who’s seen Luca Guadagnino’s work, including his acclaimed adaptation of Call Me By Your Name, will find the languid, lovely images of We Are Who We Are familiar. The new HBO series about teens coming of age on an American military base in Veneto, Italy is full of bodies slicked with sweat and salt water, cold…

Tonight was the Dancing With The Stars debut of Carole Baskin, the woman we all met in Netflix’s Tiger King who may or may not know something—at least according to some rather well-spread rumors—about the mysterious disappearance of her husband Don Lewis. Joe Maldonado-Passage, a.k.a. Joe Exotic, has already been…

The difference between which kinds of public events can and cannot happen during this pandemic can often seem bafflingly arbitrary, with some states saying restaurants are okay but not bars or that gyms are okay but not movie theaters. Or maybe it’s the other way around? It’s confusing no matter what, though any…

Today, the Television Critics Association announced the winners of its annual awards, with HBO’s Watchmen handily taking home wins in every category it was eligible to win stuff in. Really, the only way it could’ve gotten more awards is if it were also a beloved game show host or a groundbreaking series from TV…

Per USA Today, the FBI is currently investigating allegations that Jerry Harris, the immensely cheerful breakout star of Netflix’s Cheer, solicited sex and sexually explicit photos from minors. Agents obtained and executed a search warrant in his Illinois home on Monday afternoon to supplement the investigation. “The…

Every old thing must someday be repurposed into a new thing, and now the eternal much of progress has come for the classic sitcom Good Times. According to Variety, original executive producer Norman Lear is teaming up with Netflix for an animated reboot of the series with Steph Curry and Seth MacFarlane on board as…