Новости за 12.11.2020

It may feel like it happened a million years ago, but last December’s Crisis On Infinite Earths event on The CW officially made Black Lightning part of the Arrowverse alongside Arrow and The Flash, despite previous claims that it was set in a completely unrelated superhero word. Crisis revealed that it took place in a…

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.

Tiger Woods, the golf superstar whose career drowned in tabloid fodder, is the subject of a new HBO docuseries that promises to explore in “sweeping scope and vast detail the rise, fall, and epic comeback” of the man. Today, the network dropped a teaser for the two-part series.

Whales are among the most majestic creatures on our planet. They’re enormous and intelligent mammals, capable of astounding feats of communication. They live their lives in an aquatic world whose mysteries we can still only glimpse in part. They’re extraordinary, fascinating beings.

The announcement of the next Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner kind of snuck up on us, huh? Normally there are weeks of rumors and public statements from people who want everyone to know that they chose not to do it for political/moral reasons, and then when Pepsi and the NFL finally announce who’s going to do it,…

Seeing as how Netflix’s new teen rom-com series Dash & Lily is practically a New York City fairy tale, it makes sense that a decent amount of its story takes place in a pizza parlor. That pizzeria, Two Boots, is the workplace of Dante Brown’s character, Boomer, and home of many romantic book swaps between the titular…

Cazzie David, the daughter of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David, sounds as anxiety-ridden as dad in a new profile in the L.A. Times. “We have the same low opinion of ourselves,” cracks her dad. The profile comes ahead of the release of her first collection of essays, No One Asked For This, which…

Whoops, here’s something we forgot to address in our review of the Xbox Series X: It looks cool as hell when you blow vape smoke into its giant fan, and you can use it to freak people out on social media by making them think the console is prone to overheating and catching on fire. That’s what happened earlier this…

Even before attempting to navigate the terrifying logistics of pandemic travel, the general air travel experience tends to fall somewhere between “unpleasant” and “godawful.” But, hey, at least we’ve never had to plop down next to one of the assorted motley crew riding on Con Air, the batshit action wonder from 1997…

James Bond has undergone many makeovers and reimaginings since he first appeared in Ian Fleming’s novels, but the British intelligence agent remains the template for the cool spy. Bond’s inspired imitators, parodies, and sincere homage; he’s even received the young adult treatment on multiple occasions. Author Anthony…

Media figures and politicians have suggested that now is a moment to reach across the aisle and embrace Trump supporters as they mourn their idol’s loss in the elections. This is a nice kind of sentiment when applied to stuff like basketball games and school debates, but doesn’t hold all that well when it comes to the…

Tim Heidecker’s Office Hours podcast began as a call-in show, but, thanks to the audio wizardry of gonzo comics DJ Douggpound and Vic Berger, has evolved into a chaotic subversion of morning zoo tomfoolery. As Heidecker fields calls from listeners and celebrity guests, his cohorts flood the airwaves with loops,…

At this point, you might know Anna Akana from any number of places. Her popular YouTube channel, a recurring role on Comedy Central’s excellent Corporate, the voice of Daisy on Syfy’s Magical Girl Friendship Squad, former co-host of the podcast Explain Things To Me—the point is, Akana has done a lot. But it’s on her…

At the end of last season, we learned that the then-present day Federation was preparing to pull an Armin Tamzarian with Discovery and its crew. After Michael and the others jumped to the future (which is now the show’s present, keep up), the people they left behind who knew them covered every trace of the ship’s…

The Syrian Civil War has lasted for nearly a decade, the myriad conflicts of which have been fodder for numerous feature-length documentary films: For Sama, The Cave, City of Ghosts, Last Men In Aleppo. Those documentaries each focus on the various parties involved in this conflict, and their many contrasting agendas:…

Everywhere you look, there’s Shangela to greet you with a friendly “Halleloo!” The alum of Drag Race seasons two, three, and All Stars 3 is one of the biggest names to come out of the house that RuPaul built, popping up in everything from Lovecraft Country to Community to that dive bar where pop star Ally Maine got…

Putting the democracy-damaging spectacle of a rashy toddler throwing a tantrum because it’s time to go home—and the attendant worries of a complicit Republican anti-democratic coup—aside, a weary nation is warily allowing itself to accept that the 2020 elections are over. (Oh wait, there are two absolutely vital…

Twenty years ago, the first Latin Grammy Awards were aired as a space to highlight the achievements of Latin musicians. Now, as Latin artists are finding a seat at the table of the music industry at large, perhaps it’s time to do away with the Latin Grammys and incorporate these categories into the Grammy Awards.…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, November 12. All times are Eastern. 

We would like to issue a formal apology to everyone we ever rolled our eyes at for suggesting that the Trump era would serve as some great wellspring for the discontented arts; it’s clear to us now that the creative community was simply waiting for the ultimate muse to get their Trump-related juices flowing (sorry,…

Hey, lo: The minds behind HBO’s upcoming TV adaptation of the monumentally popular Halo video game series have hit upon a truly radical idea today: Hiring the actor who plays one of the most popular characters in the best-selling games franchise to play her in the TV series, too. Specifically, PC Gamer is reporting…

There are few things on this planet that human beings won’t place a bet on, given a volatile situation, a degree of uncertainty, and sufficient cash to burn. Game Of Thrones, national elections, the Puppy Bowl: All are beholden to the oddsmakers’ art, as these wizards of prediction try to figure out exactly how much…

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s move to television is still kind of a baffling idea to us—how are they even going to fit him on the dang thing? (This is why his version of The Apprentice went off the air, right?) And yet now it sounds like Schwarzenegger will be coming to the even teensier world of streaming TV to boot, with …

News today from the horrified, “doo doo doo doo doo”-ing subconscious of millions of parents planet-wide: “Baby Shark” has just become the first kids song ever to go Diamond, according to the RIAA. That is, the horrifically infectious kids song—and specifically, the version fired straight at the jugular of the …

Yes, we’re asking you to essentially serve as an accessory to a crime. But in our defense, the song is pretty damn good.