Новости за 05.04.2024

You know you’re having a weird week, in the pop culture universe, when your divorce announcement turns out to be the most charming thing you manage to pull off. But such is the life of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who appears to have taken a break from his current feud with actor Rebel Wilson by… announcing he’ll no…

The Rock is back to wrestling and back to being apolitical. “The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,” Dwayne Johnson said in an interview with—yes—Fox News (via Variety). “I thought, ‘I’m in this position where I have some influence and I felt it…

Over a hundred celebrities have signed an open letter in support of Jonathan Glazer, the Zone Of Interest director who used the platform of his Oscars acceptance to make a statement about the ongoing suffering in Palestine. (“Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the…

It’s Chappell Roan’s world, and we’re just living in it. Some fans have known this since the release of “Pink Pony Club” in 2020, but everyone else is starting to catch up. From her confident, effervescent debut album to her run as Olivia Rodrigo’s tour opener to her buzzy Tiny Desk performance and beyond, Roan’s…

It feels pretty (pretty, pretty…) weird to say goodbye to Larry David’s singular HBO comedy. Curb Your Enthusiasm has been something of a constant over the last quarter century (if you include the excellent special that spawned the series). And even if we didn’t watch every episode live and even if there was that…

When you think of Hallmark, chances are words like Christmas, saccharine romance, and melodrama come to mind. The cable network has unapologetically carved a niche over decades, but its recent TV drama is different, at least according to its leading star. In a recent interview with The A.V. Club, Chyler Leigh refers…

Horror prequels have a tendency to fizzle for a number of reasons, whether they lean too hard on the lore of the original or they start telegraphing all the punches that made the film they’re prequelizing scary to begin with. On a more primal level, prequels also run the risk of disrupting and undermining one very…

As any cinephile well knows, the physical places that serve as meaningful ports of entry to our love affair with cinema can often take on swollen, totemic value. It’s fitting, then, that one of the most legendary independent American video stores of all time gets its own beautifully odd little curio in the form of Kim’…

Have you wondered what Chucky, the Child’s Play franchise’s violent and uproarious doll, would do if he got control of nuclear codes? What other disasters could this tiny, murder-loving monster unleash upon civilization? It’s a bizarre idea, so naturally,SYFY’s Chucky boldly tackles it upon its season-three return on…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you’re playing this weekend, and what…

Welcome to the weekend edition of What’s On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, April 5 to Sunday, April 7. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What’s On publishes on Sundays.]

Having already taken the worlds of film and theater by storm, Elle Woods—or her closest 2020s equivalent—is now set to hit TV. Variety reports that Prime Video has begun development on a TV spin-off of beloved 2001 legal comedy Legally Blonde. Elle herself, Reese Witherspoon, is set to executive produce the series,…

Marc Summers is not happy about being part of Investigation Discovery’s recent “here’s all the bad stuff that happened behind the scenes of the Nickelodeon shows you grew up on” docuseries Quiet On Set. Summers is one of the first people you see in the doc, talking positively and genuinely about his time on the…