Новости за 25.01.2024

Ever since she rose to prominence—nay, superstardom—through her role in Euphoria four years ago, Sydney Sweeney has had to contend with an upsetting amount of unwanted attention heaped upon her body. In the wake of all that unnecessary sexualization, those same commentators seem to have overlooked the fact that the Any…

Last week, a grand jury in New Mexico indicted Alec Baldwin on one count of involuntary manslaughter over the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust in 2021. Baldwin, who has maintained throughout all of this that he did not pull the trigger even thought he was holding the gun, was…

The Mattel-ification of cinema is now in full swing. Barbie is a Best Picture nominee, and the toy company has a full slate of (sometimes bizarre) children’s and toy property movies they’re trying to get off the ground. Next up is Bob The Builder, a beloved animated children’s program that will now get the…

Unfortunate news, citizens of Earth: the Warner Bros. Discovery film shelving epidemic has broken containment. Please stay calm and try not to panic... but if you do, we can’t say we blame you.

Of 2023’s much-lauded box office successes, Oppenheimer is the most unlikely: it’s a biopic about a scientist, a morality tale about the creation of the atom bomb, and a red scare courtroom drama. Yet Christopher Nolan’s latest film was not just a critical darling (and an awards season favorite), it was a major hit,…

Just don’t call him a bully.

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Herbert “Cowboy” Coward—known for his chilling role in John Boorman’s 1972 thriller Deliverance—has died. As reported by ABC News, Coward was killed in a car crash Wednesday afternoon in his home state of North Carolina, along with his girlfriend, Bertha Brooks, age 78, and two pets—a chihuahua and a squirrel. He was…

Jake Gyllenhaal wants you to be nice to his remake of Road House—until it’s time to not be nice.

The actor: Zach Woods has been part of two of TV’s most unflinching, hilarious comedies. He might be best known for playing The Office’s awkward Gabe Lewis or Silicon Valley’s sad-sack Jared Dunn (a performance that, by the way, should have earned him an Emmy). But those roles only scratch the surface of his comedic…

By the looks of The A.V. Club comments section and the Internet at large, folks are divided about whether Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig were snubbed for Barbie. But perhaps the question we should be asking is, do “snubs” even exist? There is an entire Internet discourse economy built on the concept, but the Academy…

[Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for 2020 video game The Last Of Us Part II—and, likely, for at least some of the plot elements of the still-filming second season of HBO’s The Last Of Us TV show.]

The only thing more challenging for a director than making a splash with their first feature film is avoiding the “sophomore slump” with their second. If their debut movie is a massive success, both creatively and financially, audiences and critics wrap very high (some would say too high) expectations around whatever…

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To quote the great, throat-ripping NYU-educated philosopher, Dalton, “Nobody ever wins a fight.” But maybe Doug Liman can get a few shots in.

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It’s been almost a decade since Jon Stewart stepped down from The Daily Show, the Comedy Central series that he turned into a crucial part of the national conversation during his 16 or so years as the host. In the intervening years, Trevor Noah stepped in and made the show his own, finding ways to keep it relevant…

Studios don’t release their best stuff at the beginning of the year. This is a well-known, long-standing truth. There may be breakout exceptions, but given January and February’s reputation as “dump months,” any film released in that period is a sign that the powers that be don’t have much confidence in its potential.…

Madonna and LiveNation’s teams have released a joint statement in the wake of being sued for starting a Brooklyn show two hours late that essentially boils down to that old adage: “Bitch, she’s Madonna.” More specifically, the statement (via Stereogum) reads: