Новости за 04.12.2020

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: For the final Watch This series of the year, we’re again highlighting some of the best movies of 2020 that we didn’t review.

The Mandalorian is probably the best thing to come out of the Star Warsiverse (™) since some genius creature designer dreamed up that little space-bat from the first movie’s cantina scene, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t extremely easy to make fun of its repetitive format. Over on YouTube, Close Personal Acquaintance…

One of the more bizarre aspects of social media is that it can lead to interactions with luminaries you’ve only admired from afar. One of your favorites may like one of your very own tweets, for example! But sometimes those online interactions can turn into outright discourses, and in those instances, it’s best to…

There’s a point in many gangster dramas where the wife, whether she be a shining symbol of redemption, a martini-swilling drunk, or an irritating nag, becomes superfluous. The antihero rushes home and grabs an empty duffel bag, throwing in clothes and cash with frenzied abandon before shoving the parcel into her…

Well, it took more than a year to become official, but, after director Jordan Vogt-Roberts revealed he’d long envisioned Oscar Isaac as his Solid Snake and Isaac himself said he’d love to play the character, Sony has confirmed (via Deadline) that its Metal Gear Solid adaptation will star the in-demand actor.

While I struggled with Euphoria’s first season and ultimately found its execution to be uneven—all style, little substance—its maximalist tendencies weren’t what pushed me away from the show. In fact, in its flashier moments, I found Euphoria to be intensely compelling and immersive. But its aesthetics were often…

The Great British Baking Show may have only just wrapped its most recent season, but thanks to the magic of Netflix, there are already new baking adventures to follow back in the tent. While U.K. fans had the opportunity to watch “The Great Christmas Bake Off” and “The Great Festive Bake Off” on Channel Four during…

There’s an entire subgenre of films that explore what can happen when you put a handful of attractive young people in a secluded cabin in the woods and, suffice to say, most of them aren’t necessarily light-hearted romps. As (darkly) funny as it may be, writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine’s Black Bear is a…

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…

Danish rapper Morten “Marvelous Mosell” Sell has, like so many musicians, looked to the past for creative inspiration. What he found there was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series—an enduring muse that’s inspired so much great art over the years, and has now led him to write his very own ninja rap, …

ExxonMobil set itself up for a hell of a ratio on Thursday with a tweet pretending to give a shit about climate change after more than 40 years of promoting climate misinformation, As the masses piled into the replies, reminding the conglomerate that its fat cat executives are the “arsonists who started the fire,”…

“What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?” —Phil Connors, Groundhog Day

Note: The following was originally posted on 12/3/20 at 11:53 PM. -Ed.

Now that Warner Bros. has announced plans to debut its entire slate of 2021 releases on HBO Max at the same they hit theaters, the end—or at least the dramatic transformation—of the movie theater industry seems all but inevitable. This news has prompted people to reflect back on the kind of theater experiences they’ll…

Hunted, a buzzy survival horror flick from Persepolis co-director Vincent Paronnaud, combines myth, magic, and brutality in its latest trailer. A gnarly spin of Little Red Riding Hood, the story tracks a kidnapping that takes a turn for the mythic once it falls under the canopy of wilderness.

Note: The writer of this review watched Black Bear 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.

Once upon a time, movies and television were mortal enemies, and pretty easy to tell apart, too. But the lines that once separated these two mediums have been blurring for a while now—a process that’s only been accelerated by the rise of streaming platforms, where everything is just content for the algorithm. And this…

It’s hard to imagine a year like 2020—one that has been significantly punctuated with images of deadly police brutality and brazen racial injustice—having enough space for a story about Leroy Logan, a former superintendent in the London Metropolitan Police. What’s more, committing to watching such a story unfold in…

Introducing his guest as “the latest person to be fired by the president via tweet,” Stephen Colbert welcomed yet another minor government figure whose name everyone unaccountably knows these days. (Seriously, name another time in history when you could say, “Fuck the Postmaster General” and have a random passer-by…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, December 4, and Saturday, December 5. All times are Eastern. 

Jane Curtin is comedy royalty. One of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players on Saturday Night Live when the show launched in 1975, she made her mark as one of the era’s go-to straightmen. At the Weekend Update desk, she sparred with Dan Aykroyd, who she’d don a prosthetic with for the beloved Coneheads…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Though its title implies a more solitary journey or singular focus, The Unicorn is very much an ensemble comedy. It’s not just his grief that Wade shares with his friends Ben, Michelle, Delia, and Forrest; virtually every aspect of his life is open to them (and their meddling). The show’s storylines frequently…

Middle-earth got quite a bit more crowded today, as Variety reports that Amazon’s already ludicrously expensive Lord Of The Rings prequel show has now added 20 more actors to its cast, fleshing out its ranks of hobbits or ents or Toms Bombadil or whatever the hell else ends up actually appearing on camera for this…

Apple’s The Morning Show already runs on a pretty dedicated surfeit of star power, what with featuring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell in its leading roles. Now the behind-the-scenes TV news drama—which aired its first season in late 2019, and is currently in production on its second—has added…