Новости за 17.12.2020

Today, in a move that seems at least partially built around the idea that subscribers will need something to watch after finishing up The Office for the hundredth time, Peacock has announced that it’s renewing A.P. Bio for a fourth season. The then-unnamed streaming service initially resurrected A.P. Bio last summer …

Perhaps you’ve grown cold to the assertion that Batman & Robin is the worst superhero movie of all time. It’s old hat by this point to say Joel Schumacher’s 23-year old shitshow sucks, after all, but when’s the last time you heard George Clooney lay into it? Oh, recently? Well, he’s at it again. In a new interview…

Over the past year, The Mandalorian’s Baby Yoda (sorry, Grogu) has Force-influenced his way into our cold, canon-obsessed hearts. It’s easy to see why—he’s cute, he’s tiny, he’s got those ears, and he makes little adorable cooing sounds all the time. Unfortunately, as his show’s second season has expanded upon, he’s…

An important lesson that more celebrities need to learn is that it’s a good idea to diversify your portfolio—so to speak. When George Clooney was named the world’s highest-paid actor in 2018, it wasn’t because he makes movies. At the time, he hadn’t even made a movie in two years. No, he was the highest-paid actor…

We thought Kirk Cameron saved Christmas in 2014, and yet here we stand, six years later, horrified. Now, with just one week until Christmas Eve, not only does Cameron’s crusade continued unabated, but it now faces perhaps its gravest threat yet: the secular menace that is COVID-19.

Barring an unlikely decision to back-peddle and cater to the demands of several high-profile filmmakers, Warner Bros.’ decision to put all of its 2021 movies on HBO Max on the same day they’re released in theaters means people are going to be watching a lot more content on the platform in 2021 than they did in 2020—so…

Who else would fork out their right eyeball for a ballpark hotdog right now? Or a beer in a plastic mug bigger than your skull? Goddammit, all we want is to be drunk and rowdy enough again to eat nachos in front of strangers. Hell, we’re so desperate to get back to a stadium that we’d happily gobble up the eldritch…

Whoopi Goldberg’s been eyeing the role of The Stand’s Mother Abagail for the past 26 years. As she explained to Vanity Fair, she wanted the part back in 1994, when Stephen King’s epic was first getting the miniseries treatment at ABC, though the role eventually went to Ruby Dee. Mother Abagail is the 108-year old…

Note: The writer of this review watched Hunter Hunter 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.

Any true blue Henson Head knows that if you ever wanted to rewatch A Muppet Family Christmas in its entirety after its initial broadcast in 1987, you had to tape it yourself on ABC. Once it was released on home video, many of its best musical moments were omitted due to rights issues: Fozzie Bear duetting “Sleigh…

For most of comics history, 3D comics have been little more than gimmicky attractions reliant on polarized glasses to create the effect of stereoscopy. More recently, some comics artists have been tracing computer-generated models to draw complex structures. 3D comics that allow one to simulate movement along three…

Gone are the employees of Dunder Mifflin an in comes Nicholas Cage with a gaggle of experts to teach you everything you need to know about the word “shit.” It’s a fair trade, if you ask us.

Rodney Ascher is one of the most exciting documentarians working today. In films like Room 237 and The Nightmare, he set logic aside and allowed Kubrick conspiracy theorists and sufferers of sleep paralysis to unspool their obsessions, crackpot as they might be. The emphasis isn’t on proving any given idea, but in…

The good news is, I already went through my rant about the Mirror Universe in last week’s review, so there’s no need to repeat it here. The bad news is, well, we’re still in the Mirror Universe. Not all of “Terra Firma, Part 2” takes place on the dark side of the plot, but enough of it does to make the rest of the…

Every time a book as popular as The Stand is adapted for screen, two questions emerge: Will it satisfy the built-in fanbase? And will it also work for viewers who are new to the story? In its very first installment, the CBS All Access iteration of one of King’s most popular books isn’t really succeeding in either…

For longtime fans of The CW drama, Riverdale’s the type of show that feels like it’s always on: When there isn’t a new episode, there are usually theories and set photos to pore over, letting yourself get wrapped up in the questions that the show may never even answer. That’s been the driving force of The A.V. Club’s …

Hey, it’s holiday time! And, yes, that exclamation point was put on their out of habit and not any semblance of enthusiasm, as pandemic-wary people everywhere are side-eyeing the looming holidays with all the joy and anticipation of a wisdom tooth extraction. We’re speaking here, of course, of sensible, responsible,…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, December 17. All times are Eastern. 

For one blissful month, it seemed like the defining moment of movie culture this year might be the most joyful one, too. Bong Joon Ho’s class warfare crowd-pleaser, Parasite, had beat the odds, shattered precedent, and overcome an American aversion to subtitles to win the Oscar for Best Picture. What a thing it was to…

Don’t trust anyone who says it’s impossible to make a best movies list in 2020. There were plenty of films to like and even love over this dark, strange, unprecedented year. Just ask the 12 contributors to The A.V. Club’s list. Each made a ranked ballot of their 15 favorites of 2020, and while there’s certainly…

Disney went on the metaphorical march last week, rolling out its ambitious, incredibly expensive, probably unstoppable plans for the future of its Disney+ streaming service: Star Wars shows, Marvel shows, all the good branded content that you could possibly eat. (And then explode, because, again: Lot of shows.) One…

Trebling—possibly quadrupling?—down on her commitment to making the controversy surrounding her casting choices for her upcoming film Music even more upsetting (and just generally worse), Sia gave an interview this week once again asserting, not just her right, but the moral good of her casting neurotypical performer…

It’s been 14 years and change since NBC began airing the first season of Heroes, a show that’s gone down in history as one of the worst victims of its own success in recent working memory. Tim Kring’s weird little ode to comic book superheroes became a genuine phenomenon pretty much overnight, one that proved totally…

More shake-ups in the world of Joss Whedon TV production this week, as The Wrap reports that Freeform has passed on Pippa Smith: Grown-Up Detective, created by Siobhan Thompson and Rebecca Drysdale under Whedon’s production aegis. The news comes not long after HBO announced that Whedon would no longer be involved in…

As far as biographical series go, we can’t imagine a subject quite eye-catching as Rick James, whose drug-fueled adventures were the subject of one of Chappelle’s Show’s most resonant episodes. Now, per Variety, a full series is in the works at Universal Content Productions that is thankfully and appropriately titled …