Новости за 20.02.2024

If you’re a Twitter/X user, perhaps you’ve seen someone quote-tweet this post from Bridgit Mendler: “k sit tight for news.” The joke is that Mendler had fans sitting tight for almost two full years. The other joke is that a lot of people probably don’t even know who Bridgit Mendler is, or what kind of news she was…

Ours is an age of mass misinformation, so let’s center ourselves with two objective facts. The first: Biden and Trump are both old—at least to be running for president. At 81 and 77 respectively, they’ll be the two oldest candidates to ever grace the ticket, beatingthe record they already set in 2020. Second: a lot…

Over the course of three short years, Olivia Rodrigo emerged as one of the defining pop stars of the 2020s. Shortly after the melancholy “Drivers License” became a viral sensation in 2021, Rodrigo’s debut album Sour became the rarest of things: an album rooted in classic pop-rock traditions that felt startlingly…

If there’s one thing we know that modern Beatles fans like, it’s sitting through several straight hours of mostly the same content. So those devoted acolytes who relished in Get Back will be thrilled to hear that Sam Mendes is making the fictionalized Beatles project to end all Beatles projects: one story, four…

Former Boy Meets World stars Will Friedle, Rider Strong, and Danielle Fishel recently took some time away from recapping the beloved ‘90s sitcomto address a larger conversation happening right now about the ethics of child-led shows. Likely inspired by the upcoming docuseries Quiet On Set, which explores allegations…

True Detective: Night Country’s finale ended with season-high ratings, according to Variety: 3.2 million viewers tuned in across HBO and its streaming service, Max. That capped off a viewership of about 12.7 million across all episodes, an all-time high for the franchise. As Variety notes, this new generation of True…

The idea of a movie based on a toy has always been shorthand for the complete creative bankruptcy of the film industry—an idea so craven and depressingly capitalistic that it seems to go against the very idea of art. And yet, for every five or so examples where that’s true, there’s an exception to the rule. Clue, for…

I recently rewatched Croupier, director Mike Hodges’ grimy look at London casino culture that’s led by a babyfaced, 35-year-old Clive Owen as a writer moonlighting as a croupier, the French word for someone who runs gaming tables. Everything that made Owen a star is in this dark little morality tale: his intensity,…

“Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.” So begins the iconic opening narration of Avatar: The Last Airbender, the 2005 Nickelodeon series that’s been hailed by fans and critics alike as one of the greatest animated shows…