Новости за 28.02.2024

The last few years have been taxing even for the universe-hopping, referential labyrinth of Rick And Morty. Following the ousting of the show’s disgraced co-creator, Justin Roiland, the show never missed a beat—even without the person considered the show’s creative engine. It’s almost as if television shows aren’t…

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Hollywood has created a new demon—we’ll call it the remake monster—with an insatiable appetite and seemingly indiscriminate taste. The latest victim to fall into its thorny clutches is 1991 dark comedy Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, which Tyra Banks’ production company SMiZE is retooling into a modern parable…

Hunter Schafer of Euphoria and The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes fame was arrested during a demonstration outside the NBC building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Schafer was part of a pro-Palestine protest organized by Jewish Voices for Peace to disrupt President Joe Biden’s appearance on …

Remember the name Paul Connell. You’ll almost definitely hear from the 31-year-old comedian again when the inevitable warring documentaries about disastrous Scottish popup Willy’s Chocolate Experience—a.k.a. Fyre Fest for kids—finally come out.

To be sure, an actor’s life is full of “woulda, coulda, shoulda”s. The path to success is riddled with lost roles destined to become obscure trivia for dedicated cinema nerds. Reacher star Alan Ritchson has a whole laundry list of these that still haunt him, most particularly a role that quite famously went to Chris…

Got Road House? This month Amazon’s Prime Video has two versions of the action movie: the 1989 original starring Patrick Swayze at peak Swayze-ness and the 2024 Doug Liman-directed remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a UFC middleweight fighter working as a bouncer at a roadhouse in the Florida Keys. Other new arrivals…

While half of the Internet tries to figure out where Kate Middleton is, the other half has become occupied with a new question: what actor screamed at Rebecca Ferguson? The mystery derives from an interview Ferguson gave for Dune: Part Two, where she shared a harrowing tale about an anonymous “absolute idiot of a…

Another day, another headache for Kanye “Ye” West—one that feels pretty safe to assume is entirely of his own making. Following pushback from both Nicki Minaj and Ozzy Osbourne over unauthorized use of their own music, West and his collaborator, Ty Dolla $ign, are now facing a new lawsuit from the Donna Summer estate,…

There are more nuanced and no doubt just as accurate ways of describing Spaceman than “the Adam Sandler Netflix flick where the actor talks with a giant spider about loneliness for close to two hours.” In the end, though, such a logline is arguably a fitting way to describe Johan Renck’s dour, self-serious adaptation…

The Vanderpump Rules gang did its best to be mature and get along last night, and while that’s great for them personally, it makes for rather uninteresting reality television. A lot of this episode felt like the wind-up for what seemed like it could be a blow-out fight. Instead, it ended up being a pretty measured…

If you’re anything like us, you’re still flying the Jolly Roger at half-mast for the untimely cancellation of Our Flag Means Death, David Jenkins’ singular period comedy about the not-so-real-lives of real-life pirates. But take heart: Apple TV+ is here to salve your wounds with The Completely Made-Up Adventures of…

Spinoffs are tricky. But if there’s a pair of creators with experience doing them within the landscape of 21st century American television, it’s Robert and Michelle King. The two, after all, successfully ushered the world of the ambitious network drama The Good Wifeinto the form-defying streaming spinoff The Good…

Sometimes, a film premiers at a major festival and feels so intriguing—so major—that it develops a fervent fanbase before most audiences have even gotten a chance to see it. Such is the case with Jane Schoenbrun’s sophomore feature, I Saw The TV Glow, which last month became one of the year’s most anticipated queer…

When Dune: Part Two arrives in theaters on March 1, we’ll finally get to see Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides complete his arc from sheltered royal heir to full-on space messiah. It got us thinking about the classic trope of the chosen one, and the other great examples in science-fiction films and TV shows. As Hitchh…

Adele has hit the pause button on her Las Vegas residency. Earlier today, the “Rolling In The Deep” singer announced on her various social channels that she would need to reschedule her current string of shows as per doctor’s orders. Unfortunately, Adele is sick and has been sick for some time. The postponed dates are…

Actor Buddy Duress (born Michael C. Stathis), a frequent collaborator with the Safdie brothers who appeared in Heaven Knows What, Good Time, and Funny Pages, has died. Speaking with People, his brother Christopher Stathis revealed that Duress died of “cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail” in November. Duress was 38.

Meet the new Moana, the same as the old Moana.

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More than two decades after the death of Run-DMC member Jam Master Jay, and several years after the murder case was declared cold since there had been no movement for so long, two men have been found guilty of killing the DJ. That’s according to Variety, which says that Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr. (Jam…

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At a certain point, a bunch of guys getting mad over the newRoad House seems more like a feature than a bug, right? What is Road House if not a bunch of guys who are mad? First we had Doug Liman, who directed the remake of the Patrick Swayze classic for Amazon MGM, accusing the studio of tricking him into making a…

Kate Winslet is ready to conquer HBO’s Sunday night lineup again, but her latest TV show is a far cry from 2021's Mare Of Easttown. Gone is the broody Philadelphia detective Mare Sheehan. Winslet is all set to play a wicked, sultry chancellor in The Regime, which premieres in March.

As the streaming epidemic of disappearing films and series keeps reminding us, the internet isn’t really forever. Unless you own your favorite show or movie on DVD or some other form of physical media, it’s always liable to blink out of existence forever. In recent weeks, however, a few pieces of media have done…

Where do we all stand on nepo baby discourse these days? Because the first trailer for Ishana Night Shyamalan’s directorial debut The Watchers is here, and it… looks pretty rad. Her dad is M. Night Shyamalan, her previous showbiz experience mostly includes working on his stuff (she was a writer and director on Apple…