Новости за 05.10.2020

It’s Monday, and things are as dire as they have been for the past… 30 or so Mondays, so let’s just steer into the skid and talk about how bad everything was this weekend. (To be clear, we’re specifically talking about the state of the American box office here, though any confusion would be totally understandable…

At 82, Jane Fonda is more fit than any of us at The A.V. Club. While most of our gym memberships have lapsed, Fonda has apparently been keeping up her fitness by hosting Zoom workout classes for celebrities—or at least pretending to do so to get us all to vote. “Let’s Get Registered!!!!” the octogenarian posted on…

You can blame coronavirus or Tenet’s underwhelming box office haul, but, just weeks after it dropped a jaw-dropping first trailer, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has been delayed nearly an entire year to October 1, 2021. It was originally slated to hit theaters on December 18 of this year. No, those aren’t tears, it’s just a…

Jelena Woehr (@jelenawoehr) writes television, and based on this Twitter thread she just casually dropped over the weekend, someone should probably hire her PDQ. People have gotten jobs for far sillier reasons, after all. But, honestly, this isn’t all that silly—well yes it is deeply silly, but intentionally so. As an…

It was only a few years back that the world became enraptured by the bizarro erotica of Chuck Tingle, literature’s foremost chronicle of dinosaur-related butt-pounding. And, yeah, his goofy, feel-good schtick might feel quaint in the age of COVID, but bless him for continuing to pump out his perverted prose for us…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: The recent release of Gloria Steinem biopic The Glorias and Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial Of The Chicago 7—along with the ongoing protests in the streets of American…

With confusion and fear dominating almost every waking moment, there’s something to be said for Kevin James’ particular brand of numbskull comedy. Our minds battered senseless by a year that only seems to get increasingly bizarre and miserable with each passing day, now may be the best possible time to sit back, throw…

As if to make up for the lack of Halloween parties and haunted houses, October 2020 is absolutely packed with horror movies. But The Mortuary Collection is uniquely suited for the season. The debut feature from writer-director Ryan Spindell, The Mortuary Collection is a lushly photographed and playfully grisly horror…

Armelia McQueen, a prolific performer onstage and onscreen, has died. Her death was confirmed by a friend, Dorian Hannaway, in a Facebook post (via Deadline) on Sunday, though a cause of death remains unclear. She was 68.

If Lovecraft Country has piqued your curiosity about the real-life Negro Motorist Green Book, the guide to places Black folks could safely stop while traveling during the Jim Crow era, this ten-week podcast series will connect the dots. Driving The Green Book is a podcast/adventure/history lesson about Black…

Aaron Sorkin may not have Sterling K. Brown playing the president just yet, but we finally know what the This Is Us actor was doing on the set of the West Wing reunion special in September. The A.V. Club was the first outlet to make note of Brown’s presence on set, but it was unclear if Brown had stopped by to perform…

It’s hard to describe The Show based on the trailer alone, and the official synopsis doesn’t offer much in the way of clarity, so here’s what we know: it’s a surreal, very weird-looking movie starring Tom Burke (The Souvenir), who would be the British Robert Pattinson if Robert Pattinson wasn’t already British, and …

Just days after No Time To Die’s release date was pushed back yet again (this time to April 2, 2021—a full year after its originally scheduled release), Variety reports that U.K.-based Cineworld is looking to close theaters in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland. The decision, which Cineworld confirmed to CNN, affects 536…

Ryan Reynolds is a NPC in a GTA-style open-world video game in Free Guy, a new action comedy from Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy. A big-budget spectacle, the movie’s latest trailer emphasizes its blend of combustible action and feel-good themes, the latter of which circle around ideas of personal…

It’s funny how the time of day can change the meaning of a knock. An unexpected rapping on the door during daylight hours is usually the work of a neighbor or door-to-door evangelizer—the warning sign of an imposition. A knock on the door in the middle of the night is something more fraught and ominous. The late-night…

SNL returned to its live iteration over the weekend, kicking off the new season with a cold open satirizing the first (and maybe only????) presidential debate of 2020, featuring Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and the debut of Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden. But the episode aired during a tumultuous time for this great nation, as…

In sci-fi, there are few things more disappointing than a story planted in fertile ground only to bear sour fruit. Take, for example, the well-examined idea of soulmates: Many have attempted to mesh idyllic romance with scientific rigidity, with varying results. The favorable iterations among them—for instance, …

There’s been about a year’s worth of news over the last few days. Following Donald Trump’s COVID diagnosis, the White House has spun up its most dedicated response to the pandemic since it began, pumping out fetid missives meant to make us all think that everything’s fine—that the president, veins and lungs flooded…

“Daddy!” the internet cried in unison this morning, eyes filling with stars upon seeing Henry Cavill all thick and damp and grey as The Witcher’s Geralt of Rivia. Netflix has shared two new images from the series, which is currently filming in the U.K. after production was shut down back in March.

In Adam Sandler’s latest Happy Madison production, Hubie Halloween, the actor plays Hubie Dubois, a lonely, verbally challenged, middle-aged virgin who lives with his sweet mother and seeks to protect others from making Halloween-related choices he sees as amoral or potentially dangerous. Thinking about taking more…

The computers, not content just to write novels, create music, and start making their own versions of Garfield, are now out there composing operas. Presumably just after a rogue AI took artist Michael Green hostage by strapping him to his computer chair with USB and HDMI cables, the machines have forced him to work…

Last night saw the series premiere of The Walking Dead: World Beyond, the latest YA-style entry into that universe of shambling zombies and apocalyptic wastelands. Among the core group of mostly younger newcomers to serialized television, however, is someone who already spent a good chunk of the past few years marking…

Game Of Thrones’ fifth season was one of molting. Throughout those 10 episodes, HBO’s fantasy epic shed itself of the last layers of George R.R. Martin’s existing narrative, emerging as a new creature independent of the story the author was struggling to finish. Nobody stared down the thousands of pages that…

Now, nobody’s saying it’s just the Republican Party that’s historically been engaged in a widespread plot to discourage, disenfranchise, and straight-up steal voting rights from Americans because they know that their ideas are shit and that a fair election involving as many people as possible will doom them to…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, October 5. All times are Eastern.