Новости за 29.04.2024

Zack Norman, the stand-up comic best known for his role in Romancing The Stone, has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. His family announced that he died Sunday night of natural causes at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. He was 83 years old.

The Billboard Hot 100 chart has been refreshed for the first time since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department stormed into the world, and—surprise, surprise—it’s not looking great for anyone not named Taylor Swift. Actually, it’s not looking like anything at all unless you’re Post Malone and Florence Welch, who…

The post-Avengers: Endgame career of directors Joe and Anthony Russo has been marked by uninspiring output (Cherry, The Gray Man, Citadel) and relentless futurism. Their stated goal has been to create brand-new, sprawling IP franchises and to get ahead of the curve regarding technologies that are changing cinema, to…

This weekend, a three-year internet odyssey finally concluded in a perfect reminder that it’s still possible to have fun on the World Wide Web. This story has it all: a missing song, a prevailing mystery, a collective, Reddit-based quest, TikTok users unintentionally embarrassing themselves, and porn. But we’re…

Richard Gadd’s real stalker, who was the inspiration for the comedian’s hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, is considering legal action against him, according to The Daily Mail. The unnamed woman claimed to the outlet that Gadd didn’t do enough to obscure her true identity in the show, leading to online “death threats…

Unsurprisingly, the runaway train biopic trend has reached two inevitable, hopefully terminal stations. These days, it feels like every new project announced is either a controversial smooth-over job backed by an artist’s estate (i.e. Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming Michael Jackson biopic) or an equally controversial…

If no one was asking for a live-action Lion King remake, then really no one—maybe even negative people—were asking for a live-action Lion King remake prequel. Even burgeoning auteur Barry Jenkins sounded a little confused about how he ended up as director when introducing footage at CinemaCon, acknowledging that…

Warning: this post contains spoilers for Velma season two.

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When Disney screened its new animated revival series X-Men ’97 for critics last month, just ahead of the series’ launch, it was with only the first three episodes available to watch. My review, published at the time, reflects that: It (I hope accurately) describes a series in active conversation with some of the…

Films releases have been, let’s say, uneven in 2024: we’re finally seeing premieres for movies delayed by COVID, the writers’ strike, and the actors’ strike, in addition to whatever else the studios originally had on their schedules for this year. The release calendar is finally filling out after the drought of the…

In lesser hands, The Sympathizer’s third episode, “Love It Or Leave It,” would easily be its weakest: The first half hour is almost languid in its pacing, repetitive in what it shows and tells, and Sandra Oh gets fuck all to do. But after a breakneck opening run, a little stop for breath is appreciated and makes the…