Новости за 29.10.2020

If 2020 had unfolded as planned, we’d have all seen Halloween Kills by now. It was originally supposed to come out on October 16, but was bumped a whole year due to an enemy far more dangerous than the HalloGreen franchise’s 61-year old killer of podcasters.

According to Variety, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator and star Rachel Bloom has landed the ultimate ‘90s kid dream gig (if you’re a ‘90s kid and a screenwriter, at least): She’s going to write the ‘N Sync road trip comedy that Lance Bass started shopping around last year. The movie has since been picked up by Sony’s…

This week’s Push The Envelope isn’t all Horrors Week-themed (we’ve got our Random Roles interview with Mark Strong for you to enjoy), but we wanted to get into the spirit by having our resident horror experts Katie Rife and Alex McLevy stop by the podcast to share their favorite genre films of the year from the…

Of course Hollywood’s first feature about COVID-19 was produced by Michael Bay, who, with director Adam Mason, has turned a pandemic that’s in the process of killing hundreds of thousands of Americans into a “sci-fi thriller” about a world in which lockdown’s in its fourth year and the infected are rounded up in camps…

If an artist writes enough music, they’re going to eventually touch on a lot of subjects repeatedly. But it seems that for John Darnielle, songwriter, singer and creator of the Mountain Goats, that cars and driving are a constant thread through his work. Darnielle is incredibly prolific. He started recording under the…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. Because it’s Horror Week at The A.V. Club, we’re highlighting movies featuring major stars of the genre.

Every actor wants to be famous enough that they can star in whatever project they want, but the danger of that is transcending that level and becoming too famous to star in certain things. Take, for example, a Tom Hanks or a George Clooney: No matter who they play, you’re pretty much always going to see them as Tom…

We’re roughly a few years away from QAnon—the “collective delusion” that’s convinced millions to believe Democrat leaders worship Satan and eat babies in pizzerias—being a common part of the Republican platform. As such, liberals need to get conspiratorial—fast. Thankfully, 2020's one and true Joker, Conner O’Malley,…

A certain amount of skepticism and ambiguity is to be expected with a Sacha Baron Cohen project. What’s real? What’s not? How much did those involved know? What did they suspect? What were they told? That’s certainly true of Amazon’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, SBC’s follow-up to his 2006 film Borat; in both,…

In September, we reported that the Trump administration was planning to “defeat despair” from the COVID-19 pandemic with a $300 million ad campaign featuring a bunch of big-name celebrities. Pretty much from the moment the idea was mentioned to the public, though, questions started to come up about who was making…

Twenty-four years after bewitching audiences with its quartet of magical “weirdos,” The Craft returns with Legacy, which introduces a charming new group that hopes to become—pardon the pun—“coven goals.” Written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, the film initially follows in its predecessors footsteps, with loner new…

Before he linked up with Steven Spielberg to win Academy Awards for his work as cinematographer for films like Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, Janusz Kamiński was apparently willing to take any paying gig—even one as ignominious as having to be the the guy who makes Vanilla Ice’s 1991 cinematic touchstone, …

One of the greatest challenges facing modern labor markets is workplace irrelevancy due to rapid technological acceleration and innovation. One day you’re a key component in your office or factory, the next you find yourself replaced by an algorithm that can do your job faster. It’s a constant struggle, and, by the…

Is it possible to be genuinely thrilled that a game exists, while also thinking it’s not, well… actually very good? That’s the question raised for us by The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope, the second game in Supermassive Games’ ongoing efforts to translate the “playable horror movie” conceit of its 2015 hit …

Steven Novak, an artist from Dallas, can’t stop getting in trouble for being really good at celebrating Halloween. Failing to observe the long-held armistice between the law and people who leave dismembered bodies, bloody limbs, and lakes of blood on their front lawn, local police keep showing up at Novak’s house to…

Well, turns out Dave Grohl’s a biiiiiig pothead. A pot-of-coffee head!

Hey, remember Lost? Pretty good show, right? Yeah, I have fond memories—and one of the things I remember most readily is how much the show liked putting in emotional beats whenever characters were reunited with each other. It didn’t matter if they’d been gone a year or just five minutes down the beach, if an episode…

Watch Dogs Legion, out today for a bunch of major video game platforms, is one of the most elaborate anecdote generators ever created. So, before we get into how the game handles its ambitious design goals, its politics, and even its Ubisoft-ness, let’s start with an anecdote that could only have happened in Legion.

A seductress. A wronged woman. A harbinger of destruction. La Llorona has taken on many forms throughout Latin America and in the Southwestern United States. Stories of La Llorona—the Weeping Woman or the Crying Woman—vary by country, region, even family. This tragic figure has captured the imaginations of Latinx…

When Elvis Costello put out the raucous “No Flag” back in June of this benighted year of 2020, its rip-snorting yowl of alienation, disillusionment, and defiance was perhaps understandably pegged as an anti-Trump anthem. Appearing virtually (complete with shifting Zoom background) on Wednesday’s Late Show, the…

Horror—on-purpose horror, leastways—was a late arrival to the world of video games. Sure, there were opening salvos (Infocom’s The Lurking Horror in 1987, Sweet Home on the Famicom in ’89, the first Clock Tower game on the Super Famicom a few years later). But devoting an entire video game just to scaring the pants…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, October 29. All times are Eastern. 

America’s obsession with Ken Jeung solving musical mysteries continues apace tonight, as Fox announced its latest attempt to translate this whole “masked” thing that’s gone, uh, viral of late into yet another TV series. That’s right, it’s The Masked Dancer, a formal follow-up to The Masked Singer that also sounds like…

Of all the traditions Archer has built up over its decade-plus on the air, I think its approach to season finales—i.e., bundling the whole crew off on an exotic adventure filled with new characters and supposedly world-ending threats—might be my least favorite. Sure, “Space Race” is a blast, but for the most part,…

Maybe there really is something to Ted Lasso’s boundless enthusiasm: Apple announced today that it’s renewing the Jason Sudeikis football coach’s titular sitcom for a third season, well before its second has even gone into production. This comes after a first outing that has seen Bill Lawrence’s latest situation…