Новости за 19.10.2020

We’ve spent weeks now trying to figure out how to come up with new ways to say that the pandemic is choking the theater industry to death, that it’s not necessarily safe to go to a movie theater even if they’ve reopened where you live, and that while going to a theater to see Tenet is one thing, it doesn’t make a damn…

Per Variety, a Los Angeles judge has ruled to allow the current rape case against That 70's Show’s Danny Masterson to move forward in court after the actor’s defense attempted to have the charges tossed out, claiming that the accusations were too old. Though Masterson was not in court on Monday, Judge Eleanor Hunter…

The best concert I saw in 2018 will most likely be the best concert I see in 2020. It came back into my life at just the right time: David Byrne’s American Utopia debuted on HBO this past weekend in the wake of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s farcical confirmation hearings, a foiled coup in my home state,…

We’re about eight months into the coronavirus pandemic and, improbably, people are still arguing about whether or not they should wear a mask. In order to help counter suggestions that putting a piece of fabric over your mug while in public is somehow dangerous, un-American, or whatever other bullshit excuses are…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Ben Wheatley’s take on Rebecca in theaters and en route to Netflix, we’re singling out other Hitchcockian thrillers—ones that explicitly recall the master of…

While the film trailer industrial complex might lead you to believe otherwise, not all covers are sad bummer mixes. (The trailer for The Social Network still rules, though.)

David Tennant is probably best-known for being the tenth actor to play The Doctor in the BBC’s Doctor Who. Neil Gaiman is probably best-known for building an expansive career as a storyteller. As the creator of the iconic comic series The Sandman, countless novels-turned-movies and television shows, and even an…

Famously endearing grumpy-man Harrison Ford is teaming up with Ed Helms to star in a comedy about a couple of guys who form an unlikely friendship after a shipwreck leaves them stranded together—and also it’s based on a true story. What a collection of words and people! But wait, there’s more! According to a report…

Founding Beach Boys members Brian Wilson and Al Jardine want to make one thing very clear: They are not involved in the venue choices made by the current touring iteration of the iconic Californian rock band. This includes a recent appearance at an election fundraiser for Donald Trump.

Oh, thank the lord, you’re here. You made it. You voluntarily clicked on this story that involves a Donald Trump impression. We know that was a high bar to clear. Yet you took a chance on us. You bet on us, and you know what? You bet on yourself, too. We will not let you down.

2012's Sinister isn’t a bad movie, it’s just not one of the scariest films of all time—unless, of course, you find yourself unusually concerned about Ethan Hawke’s general well-being and have regular nightmares about business casual Slipknot members. All the same, a study conducted by a, uh, broadband internet deals…

Over the course of their prolific career, the Beastie Boys have traditionally rejected licensing their music for ads—with a few exceptions that are more notable because of this anti-licensing stance (see: that one Star Trek trailer). On the whole, the Beastie Boys have honored the wishes of the late Adam Yauch, whose…

The money people need to leave Die Hard alone. What started as a perfectly good trilogy of action movies has now become a series as tired, battered, and bloody as a last act John McClane. And yet, even after dragging the character through the broken glass of Live Free Or Die Hard and A Good Day To Die Hard, McLane is…

It’s the spookiest season of the year, a time for all of us to come face-to-face with the things that terrify us the most: the clown decorations in a neighbor’s yard, Hereditary, or for some of us, the little eight-legged creatures that inspire arachnophobia. Yes, the spider is practically October’s mascot, and many…

[Warning: the following contains minor spoilers from the early sections of Amnesia: Rebirth.]

Over the past half-century, Don DeLillo has explored, in fiction that often feels presciently real, “the strangest, wildest, freakingest country in history,” as he called it back in his first novel, Americana. From the very beginning, the same set of themes has underscored DeLillo’s dark vision of American life:…

In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the same. What Are You Reading This Month?

Yes, literally. John Oliver started out his Sunday main story by playing a clip of Donald Trump calling the World Health Organization “literally a pipe organ for China.” Now, we’ve got more pressing issues for Last Week Tonight to cast its acerbically acute satirical lens upon than semantics, but, still, how is a…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, October 19. All times are Eastern.

When Supermarket Sweep premiered in 1965, it was a pricing game with a sprinting twist broadcast from various Food Fair supermarkets in the Tri-State area. The teams took all the items they grabbed during the sweep home, and the winning teams were invited back to compete again. When the show was revived by the…

It’s a problem of pacing, I think, but it’s one that’s hard to pin down. This season of Fargo has picked up some steam, and this week’s episode ends with a dramatic death, always a good way to get our attention. But while “The Birthplace Of Civilization” has its share of strong scenes and striking visuals, there’s an…

There’s a moment halfway through “The Tyger And The Lamb,” the third episode of The Walking Dead: World Beyond, that serves as a blunt-force explanation for the actions of two of the main characters, Hope and Silas. When Felix wonders why she would leave clues so that he could track them down—when she seemed to share…

The final episode of Lovecraft Country serves as a tribute to Black motherhood in all of its many shapes. Highlighting single motherhood, the loss of a mom, and found family, the finale puts a nice bow on the many threads running through Lovecraft Country. By ending at the beginning, with Hannah’s struggle to liberate…

This week, The Good Lord Bird focuses on a debate around tactics—specifically, whether John Brown’s violence is the right way to liberate America’s slaves, or whether it’s better to work toward an eventual peaceful resolution. Not at all timely! To its credit, the show refuses to take the easy way out of condemning…

In February, we reported that Adam McKay had sold a new movie to Netflix called Don’t Look Up about a pair of scientists going on a PR tour to tell disinterested Americans about a meteor on a collision course with Earth. At the time, our own William Hughes noted that it was basically like the “superliminal”…