Новости за 11.11.2020

Contrary to what a bunch of self-interested and/or delusional ghouls might want you to think, the endless 2020 election cycle has, at last, come to an end. (Unless you live in Georgia and/or care about wresting control of the Senate from the slowly decomposing hands of Mitch McConnell!) We recently learned that…

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.

Of the (very small number of) exclusive titles available for the PlayStation 5 as it launches this week, few have garnered more interest than the remake of From Software’s Demon’s Souls. As the spark that lit the raging bonfire that became the Dark Souls franchise, Demon’s has always been a bit of an odd duck, locked…

We tell ourselves Britney Spears wants our attention. From the very outset of her fame, the idea that Britney wouldn’t put it out there if she didn’t want us to look made her audience feel better about gawking at the exposed midriff of a 17-year-old girl. But the three-note opening hook of “...Baby One More Time,” the…

“What if John Steinbeck wrote about gangsters?” seems like a hypothetical thought experiment that would come out of a particularly blissed-out hang with humanities nerds. It also essentially describes the vibe of Dreamland. Beautifully shot to communicate the almost otherworldly loneliness of Texas during the Dust…

The unthinkable has happened: People are mad at Baby Yoda. Given the average social media life cycle of beloved figures, perhaps we should only be surprised that it took this long for the knives to come out for Baby Yoda. Per Entertainment Weekly, last week’s episode of The Mandalorian elicited some pretty angry…

This past “challenging times” TV season seems to have been particularly hard on female-led series, with beloved shows like Stumptown, High Fidelity, GLOW, Teenage Bounty Hunters, etc., getting the axe, often with the excuse that they were just not cost-effective enough in the COVID era. And yet: The Hollywood Reporter announces today

Several days have passed but in our minds we are still living in the moment when we learned that Rudy Giuliani and the Trump team’s other top legal minds held a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. The series of fuck-ups that led to a decrepit pervert bellowing discredited nonsense about “voter fraud”…

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Note: The writer of this review watched Ammonite on a digital screener 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.

Today brings another troubling development in Britney Spears’ ongoing battle to have her father, Jamie Spears, removed as conservator. The Associated Press has the latest on the lengthy saga, which spurred a passionate #FreeBritney movement on social media and inspired countless Google searches of “what is a…

Lucasfilm’s bold new transmedia initiative, Star Wars: The High Republic, promises to give us a look back into the galaxy, far, far away at the peak of the Jedi Order’s luminescence. Champions of an expansionist Republic, masters of the Force, they are a vision for the galaxy. But how heavy does that image hang on its…

What exactly is Adult Swim’s stream-of-consciousness animated jaunt Lazor Wulf? Well, if you ask Adult Swim, “It’s definitely a quarter-hour series that definitely has a wolf with a laser on his back and situations that can be deemed to be most bizarre.” Above all, it’s a quick shot of candy-coated weirdness that…

What do you remember about Margaret Thatcher? The “Iron Lady” served as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, but amongst a certain generation in the States she’s remembered either as a helmet hairdo in a suit or as the hardline politician whose stringent policies inspired bands like U2, The Smiths, and The Cure…

Note: The writer of this review watched Wolfwalkers 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.

Lots of artists refuse to explain the meaning of their work, preferring to let audiences interpret them on their own. Phoebe Bridgers, a brilliant musician and lyricist who could spend a career cultivating an air of mystery around her writing, is not one of them. Starting last night, she’s been more than happy to shed…

For better or worse, 2020 has been one weird-ass year. Pandemics, the continued unravelling of our societal fabric, Hillbilly Elegy—it’s been a lot to handle. Thankfully, our cycle around the sun has given us a few silver linings towards the end, such as last week’s election results and now...well, look, there’s…

It was the middle of the night where she was, so keep that in mind, but Gillian Anderson is pretty lousy at X-Files trivia. Not that she hasn’t been busy since her long-ago (and recently—if somewhat regrettably—relived) time as FBI Agent Dana Scully on our TV screens, but just don’t pick Anderson for your X-Files…

William Hughes: This isn’t exactly news, but the last week has been an immensely distracting one for pretty much the entire planet. The U.S. national election has gobbled up ungodly amounts of attention, cognitive load, and “Oh god, are we fucked? Are they fucked? Who’s fucked?” energy from anyone whose lives might…

Few things can drain the absurdist exhilaration out of sketch comedy faster than over-analysis. And yet it still feels worthwhile, if only as a thought exercise, to try to track the unceasing torrent of comic turns that play out over the course of a five-minute stretch of the first episode of Netflix’s new,…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, November 11. All times are Eastern. 

Why are threesomes much more accepted in the popular imagination than foursomes? I was just googling “finding foursomes” and the first result is an article about threesomes that takes for granted that people are looking for MFF. That is a form of heteronormativity, right? I am not judging threesomes, of course, but…

According to Deadline, Mads Mikkelsen (who rules) is in “early talks” to play evil wizard Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 3, replacing Johnny Depp (who does not rule). This comes after Depp was asked to resign from the film by Warner Bros., possibly because he had just lost his libel case against British…

This Is Us’ fifth season premiere had the massive hurdle of reintroducing the show in its new pandemic reality. This week, the series (mostly) gets back to business as usual. This is a sweet, gentle, slightly scattered episode that continues some threads from last week and introduces some new ones as well. It’s…

It’s really too bad for Next; its first two episodes were chugging along at a nice little clip, before getting held up by two weeks of the World Series and one week of election coverage (even though it sure seems like we’ve all aged at least a year in a week). We’d been floating along here in the fun of Next, enjoying…