Новости за 09.11.2020

Trips home for the holidays will no doubt be impacted by the recent wave of new coronavirus cases (get well soon, Ben Carson!), though that might be a blessing in disguise so soon after the election. Comfort yourself instead with Happiest Season, a buzzy new romantic comedy co-written and directed by Clea DuVall.…

It’s the start of another week in quarantine and with all of us stuck indoors, there are still a few things we can do to sate our car lust. We can finally get around to finishing (or starting) that COVID project. We can fire up Gran Turismo Sport and scream down Brazil’s Autodrómo De Interlagos in a BMW Vision Gran…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Werner Herzog’s Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds hitting Apple TV+, we’re highlighting some of the iconic director’s best documentaries.

As reported last month, Apple has scooped up the rights to the vintage Peanuts TV specials, meaning that 2020 will be the first year since 1965 that Charlie Brown won’t learn what Christmas is all about on broadcast television. But while access to A Charlie Brown Christmas and its follow-ups is a little more…

Here’s an interesting product of the pandemic: More than a few artists are using the downtime to release unexpected holiday music, from Dolly Parton to the Goo Goo Dolls. While genre-bending rapper Lil Nas X hasn’t exactly announced plans for a full Christmas album, he’s still seemingly getting into the Yuletide…

Netflix is meeting people where they are this holiday season with a sequel that fulfills the bare minimum requirements: The Princess Switch: Switched Again is, if you couldn’t tell from that extremely literal title, more of the same, but different. You see, a new lookalike has entered the game. Up to now it’s been…

Donald Trump is a connoisseur of the finer things in life, from fast food banquets to high-efficiency toilets capable of flushing away his horrifying fast-food dumps. It’s not surprising, then, that a sad, post-election Trump would spend his time reorienting himself around the things that give him joy, like fine dining

The episode description for this installment of Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair’s podcast on how the red carpet sausage gets made, ends on a disclaimer: “This episode was pre-recorded before Election Day, and contains exactly zero discussion of 2020 politics.” But having dropped on November 4, it was a perfectly timed…

Anyone who watched Friends will immediately connect the dots in that headline, but even those who can quote every Thanksgiving episode on command will have trouble figuring out what a cat-murder has to do with anything—and yet somehow that’s not even the point of the story?? During an appearance on Literally! With…

In September, for no particular reason, a seven-year-old video of Alex Trebek’s unimpressed response to somebody answering a question in Tom Hardy’s Bane voice went viral again. We were happy to revisit it, and so were our readers.

When we last checked in on Kenneth Copeland, a haunted mannequin turned televangelist who travels the globe on a private jet to avoid sitting “in a long tube with a bunch of demons,” he was using the power of God to blow away COVID-19 and preaching, Christlike, that even his laid-off supporters need to keep the tithes…

With all the celebrating over the weekend, it’s easy to forget there are still active piles of doo-doo laying about, and you, too, can step in them. Literally anyone can step in it, including well-meaning famous people like Eva Longoria, who appeared on MSNBC to discuss the results of the election—a phrase we can now…

As the world turns inward, trapped inside in various stages of pandemic quarantine, numerous songwriting luminaries (often blessed with their own in-home studios) have tried to use the downtime creatively—from Millennial stars like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande to longtime veterans like Bruce Springsteen and Elvis…

A scrappy young woman makes her way into the world of finance through less-than-legitimate means, finding would-be mentors, romance, and ultimately, success. In 1988, that woman was Tess McGill and the production was Mike Nichols’ Working Girl. In 2020, she’s Harper Stern (Myha’la Herrold), one of the leads in HBO’s…

Donald Trump, to everyone’s complete surprise, is not conceding defeat gracefully. In a process that’s sure to continue for months and, Christ, likely even years to come, Trump and pals have been banging the voter fraud drum and encouraging people to call into a hotline to report instances of voter suppression (the…

Apocalypses in fiction tend to be geographically egalitarian. It doesn’t matter if it’s a zombie uprising, an alien invasion, or good old mutually assured destruction: Mushroom clouds and mass graves sprout up all over the world within conveniently narrow time frames. The Doomsday Clock isn’t beholden to time zones.…

Note: The writer of this review watched Freaky from home. 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.

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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, November 9. All times are Eastern.

After becoming a cultural force in the ’90s with shows like Beavis & Butthead, Daria, Æon Flux, and even the claymation gorefest Celebrity Deathmatch, MTV’s animation department was running on empty once the year 2000 hit. Reality shows were dominating programming blocks across networks, and given that MTV was early…

Note: All six episodes of Moonbase 8 are currently on-demand for Showtime subscribers, but we’ll be sharing our reviews on a weekly basis following each episode’s Sunday night airing. If you’re interested in a full season review of the series, Danette Chavez has you covered.

About 20 minutes into “Shadow Puppets,” the sixth episode of The Walking Dead: World Beyond, the group happens upon the truck they’ve decided to try and steal from two men—with the aid of Percy, a guy who supposedly had the vehicle stolen from him in the first place. Felix, our tough, level-headed tactician and former…

So, it looks like we’re in the “shit meets fan” portion of the season. Last week, I commented on how Fargo’s bold storytelling decisions didn’t always pay the dividends they need to in order to work. This week, we get some more big swings. Thankfully, I’m at a point where I’ve largely given up on this being a coherent…

The NXIVM sex cult—led by “vanguard” Keith Raniere and “prefect” Nancy Salzman based in Albany, New York—grabbed multiple headlines with its sordid tales of coercion and women getting branded in their pubic area to prove their devotion. NXIVM had thousands of followers who joined under the guise of a self-help…

As evidence continues to mount against Jonathan in Elena’s murder, The Undoing takes some time to ask the important question: Just how much of an asshole was this guy? For that particular crime, the evidence is pretty overwhelming. He was a narcissist at work, and a neglectful, cheating husband. He went into a…