Новости за 03.12.2020

It’s been a while since the entertainment world had some real “holy shit” news, but those are really only two words that can capture an announcement like this: As reported by Deadline, Warner Bros. has revealed that every single movie on its 2021 schedule will be available on HBO Max at the same time as its theatrical…

Starz’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods has been embroiled in controversy since its inception, it seems, with showrunners coming and going and Orlando Jones alleging discrimination following his firing from the series. Gaiman himself penned a letter assuring viewers the series was back on track following the…

Big Sky, David E. Kelley’s latest for ABC, is a crime drama adaptation of the C.J. Box novel The Highway, in which two investigators uncover a series of abductions while trying to find two particular teen girls who have gone missing. The series stars Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick as Cassie and Jenny,…

J.R.R. Tolkien, the man who gave us hobbits, talking trees, and, indirectly, a massively popular film where a pointy-eared Orlando Bloom surfs on a shield as a successful battle tactic, lived in a house in Oxford, England while writing The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. In order to honor his legacy, the once and…

While the feud between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson over the former’s concerns that the latter was swooping in and stealing his blockbuster action movie franchise was enjoyably bombastic and candy-ass-filled, it wasn’t the only beef between Johnson and one of the longtime Fast And Furious cast members. Back in 2017,…

Note: The writer of this review watched All My Life 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.

Many of you may not be aware of this, but veteran comedian/actor/director David Wain has been quietly hard at work throughout quarantine. Not on any one particular new project (that we’re aware of), but with live Zoom performances of Wet Hot American Summer, revamped sketches from The State, and, um, sle…

Unless the political landscape changes significantly over the next few years, the number of Americans facing an old age like the one profiled in Nomadland will only continue to grow. A longtime resident of Empire, Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) watched her town shrivel up and die after the gypsum mine that employed…

Being a Godmother has to be hard, especially in 2020. You’re always catering to everyone’s wildest whims, and ballgowns and coaches just aren’t as thrilling as they used to be, what with the internet and everything.

Master nostalgia archivist Matt Carracappas (a.k.a. Dinosaur Dracula) has long devoted himself to the (sometimes revolting) work of sifting through long-neglected cultural junk heaps to excavate all kinds of strange treasures. His latest effort is 2020's edition of Classic Christmas Commercials, a collection of ‘90s…

Note: The writer of this review watched Another Round 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.

They might not ever make it to the moon, but the would-be astronauts of Moonbase 8 have certainly ignited the office comedy of this Showtime series. Cap (John C. Reilly), Rook (Tim Heidecker), and Skip (Fred Armisen) are more earnest and likable than the crew of Space Force (minus one Space Frasier), though, as we’ve…

Gloomy English period piece, anyone? Next month, Netflix will premiere The Dig, an austere adaptation of John Preston’s 2007 book about the much-publicized excavation of a medieval ship burial in 1939. The British Museum calls it the “richest intact early medieval grave in Europe,” and we call stars Ralph Fiennes and…

I’m noticing a pattern in my season three Discovery reviews: I tend to enjoy the show more when it widens its focus past Michael to bring in the full ensemble. Building character relationships helps the show’s world-building (something it still weirdly struggles with, even after three seasons), which in turns leads to…

Joining fellow detective Nancy Drew and Riverdale’s young residents, the Hardy Boys are the latest characters to get a darker, edgy reboot in the 21st century. (Who’s next: The Bobbsey Twins? Encyclopedia Brown? Amelia Bedelia?) In Hulu’s The Hardy Boys, 16-year-old Frank (Rohan Campbell) and 12-year-old Joe…

Introducing his Wednesday Late Show guest, Stephen Colbert noted that Kate Winslet is just one letter shy of an EGOT. Winslet herself brushed off the whole thing, naturally, noting that her Grammy was for a spoken word performance, and they hand those out to just anybody. (Colbert agreed, pointing to the fact that …

It’s the final month of 2020, and we’re not much closer than we were all year to getting back to the status quo of normal moviegoing—which is to say, to a time when theaters were open nationwide, most of the major films were headed there first, and dying of an infectious disease was very low on the list of reasons not…

For years, the world thought that Hugh Grant was actually the charming, stammering Brit that we’d seen light up screens in what felt like dozens of remarkably successful and endearing romantic comedies. That’s not him, though—and that’s why Grant chose to step away from those types of roles and from much of acting in…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, December 3. All times are Eastern. 

Fulfilling every dream we’ve ever had about Aubrey Plaza and Jason Statham teaming up to kill people—i.e., like, most dreams we’ve been having since roughly 2016—Deadline reports that the unlikely duo are teaming up for a new Guy Ritchie film where they’ll presumably do that thing we said they’d do. Plaza is fresh off…

It’s time to deck the halls with buckets of guts, apparently, as AMC+—Motto: “A thing that exists”—announced today that it’s just made plans for the first-ever The Walking Dead holiday special. The hour-long program will be hosted by Talking Dead’s Chris Hardwick (sigh), and will feature past and current cast members…

Life is, apparently, no longer like a hurricane, either here, in Duckberg, or elsewhere, as Collider reports that the DisneyXD reboot of beloved waterfowl adventure series DuckTales is set to release just one more batch of episodes, and then conclude. The news comes somewhat abruptly while also, apparently, having…

Hugh Keays-Byrne, best known for his work in Australian TV, and as the villain of two separate Mad Max films created 36 years apart, has died. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, and a fixture on Aussie TV, Keays-Byrne will nevertheless go down in mainstream movie history for two roles: Toecutter, the sadistic…

Not all celebrity-to-celebrity interviews are good. Sometimes they are! Still, the success rate is nowhere near 100 percent. But it was all worth it. If it takes 100 lackluster conversations between famous people to get this deluge of chaotic-good energy, then that’s just the price we have to pay. Here’s the prize at…