Новости за 17.09.2020

Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany is going to be turning into the most famous green lawyer in all of comic books, as Deadline is reporting that she’s going to star in Disney+’s She-Hulk series as Jennifer “She-Hulk” Walters. The series is coming from Emmy-winning Rick And Morty writer Jessica Gao, with accomplished TV…

The Babysitter: Killer Queen was the top live-action narrative film on Netflix this past weekend. The horror-comedy sequel is also, as many others have pointed out, deeply stupid. Among its crimes are references substituted for jokes, a beat-for-beat reenactment of its predecessor’s plot, and a gross-out gag involving…

After a buzzy premiere at Sundance, Andrew Cohn’s The Last Shift is ready for public consumption. Richard Jenkins stars as a 38-year veteran of a fast food chain in the dramedy, which follows his aging Stanley as he trains his third shift replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie).

It looks like we’re not going to find out just how capable androids are at raising future post-Earth human children in just one year: As announced today in a press release, Ridley Scott’s Raised By Wolves and its stylish android bodysuits will be coming back for another season on HBO Max. The aforementioned press…

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.

Per The Chicago Tribune, Cheer’s Jerry Harris was arrested and officially charged on Thursday in Chicago’s federal court with producing child pornography. This comes three days after the FBI began investigating the breakout Netflix star over complaints of sexual misconduct against minors. Harris, 21, was also sued in…

Next month is October, which some have called the spookiest month of the year, and Hulu is getting into the spirit of the season with a handful of spooky and spooky-adjacent new offerings in its streaming library. Starting next month, subscribers will be able to check out the first season of anthology series …

There is no shortage of available art to remind us that this upcoming presidential election is a rather crucial one. Not ones to be left out of any cultural conversation, ABC’s Emmy-nominated tentpole Black-ish will be airing an hour-long special that will address the election just ahead of its seventh season. What’s…

Pop culture really doesn’t deserve James Gunn. First, the writer and director breathed new life into the MCU with Guardians of the Galaxy, paving the way for weirder fare like Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok. Then, after being scorned by Disney over some bad-faith trolling, he agreed to cross over to the other side to …

There’s plenty to love about Undertale, the 2015 ultra-indie RPG that evoked the 16-bit classics of yore while asking players to kill as little as possible. And while it’s easy to get swept up in the strange gameplay and quirky humor, it’s creator Toby Fox’s melodic (and pixelated) score you’re likely to cherish long…

This morning, Barack Obama announced on Twitter that he’ll release a new memoir called A Promised Land on November 17, explaining in the tweet that he’s “proud of this one” (that’s good) and that in it he tries “to provide an honest accounting” of his presidency as well as “the forces we grapple with as a nation and…

Mastodon has always kept busy with non-musical projects. Over the years, the band has worked with coffee companies, whittled artisanal wooden dicks, sold coloring books, transformed themselves into hard-rocking movie theater concession stand food for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and tried in vain to fight off armies of…

Lightning crackling from the Uru metal of his hammer, Thor, Odinson, god of thunder, prepares himself for battle. Striding onto the Avengers’ personal Quinjet, he prepares to hurl himself into the fray, striking down all who would forget that he—Wielder of Mjolnir! Strongest Avenger of them all!—is always ready to…

Chewbacca, beloved Star Wars Sasquatch, has been murdered and his pelt refashioned into shoes. It gives us no joy to report this. As everyone knows, the best way to appreciate Chewbacca is when he’s alive, bleating words of encouragement to his friends and wasting storm troopers with that big laser crossbow he uses so…

Hrishikesh Hirway’s Song Exploder debuted in 2014 with an episode that found the Postal Service’s Dntel deconstructing “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” layer by layer. The concept—an artist methodically unpacks their most popular songs—proved fruitful enough that the show continued to blossom, welcoming the likes…

Just to get everyone up to speed on the trials and tribulations of one Charles Entertainment Cheese, let’s do a quick recap: For the past year, Chuck E. Cheese’s parent company, CEC Entertainment, has been sliding deeper and deeper into debt. In 2019, Chuck E. Cheese kicked its animatronic house band to the curb,…

Adapting a video game into some other medium is often a tough sell, for reasons that are generally obvious. Video games are basically about giving you some control over what happens in a story (even if the story is “Pac-Man runs away from ghosts”), and that’s always going to be lost when you turn one into a movie, or…

We’re in the second half of the season and what started as a really compelling new world now seems increasingly reliant on old motifs. Some of this I think is intended to be deliberate. Raised By Wolves is deeply interested in exploring how troubling it is that a whole new world, even one populated by androids, would…

Triumph The Insult Comic Dog (aka Robert Smigel’s voice and arm) has been plying his trade of insult comedy and puppet-y political ambushes over at The Late Show for a while now. The correspondent’s irreverent, deeply disrespectful verbal assaults on the deeply deserving traditionally follow a set pattern: Triumph…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, September 17. All times are Eastern.

The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards will take place on Sunday, September 20, but instead of gathering at the Microsoft Theater or a similar venue, nominees will have to pick a Zoom background and film their reaction shots from the comfort of their own homes. Which, when you think about it, means they’ll be watching the…

The COVID TV lockdowns have struck again this evening, as ABC announced that it’s canceling Cobie Smulders’ detective drama Stumptown—despite the fact that the show had already been renewed for a second season. Per Variety, the news comes just as we dive fully into the strange, fitful, semi-abortive Fall 2020 TV…

Four years ago, Archer ended its 7th season (that’s the one where they were Hollywood detectives, if you’re having trouble keeping track) with its most dramatic cliffhanger ever: Sterling Archer shot, apparently dead, face down in a Los Angeles pool. The show followed that drastic move with an even drastic-er one,…

It’s comforting that not everything is different this year at TIFF. The lineup may be smaller and the screenings may be online, but the programmers have preserved at least one essential hallmark of the festival experience: well-intentioned but drippy social-issue dramas based on true stories and starring earnest movie…

Although the Toronto International Film Festival isn’t strictly a genre fest, when it comes to horror, sci-fi, and all the other films that huddle under that cinematic umbrella, its laurels are still highly coveted. The shine of TIFF’s overall prestige rubs off on Midnight Madness, which every year debuts an…