Новости за 09.05.2024

Steve Albini taught me to play poker. In the fall of 2007, the magazine I was working for was doing a feature on—if memory serves, as it’s a bit foggy—trying things out for the first time. So one staffer would take on fronting a band at a club, another would give standup comedy a go. That sort of thing. I immediately…

A good radio therapist’s work is never done. To that end, Frasier is again accepting calls.

“After much reflection, meditation, and prayer,” Jon Stewart has officially “decided to extend [his] work week to two days,” according to a very on-brand press release. Whether it is because he missed out on being a regular member of the Strike Force Five podcast, hosted by his buddies Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel,…

Well, it finally happened: Martin Scorsese’s daughter’s dog ate part of Paul Schrader’s thumb. It’s something we’ve been expecting for many years now, a slot on literally every cinephile’s 2024 Bingo card. Welcome to our new reality, the one where Martin Scorsese’s daughter’s Scottie swallowed a bit of Paul Schrader.

Post-Barbie, we are firmly in the renaissance of “game and toy” media. This has always existed to some degree, and to varying levels of success—see: G.I. Joe, Battleship—but Greta Gerwig really proved you could make something out of some flimsy IP and have it be good and lucrative. Now Mattel is out here entertaining…

It feels like it’s been a long time since we last saw The Bear, given the whole strike situation between seasons, but you can say one thing about the show: it releases a new season on a regular, annual schedule. Yep, The Bear is back for its third season on June 27, when all 10 episodes will be available for viewing…

The “television stars rewatching their own show” podcast market is absolutely flooded right now. This Is Us finished airing two years ago, and it already has a rewatch pod! Luckily, Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson are not contributing to this oversaturated economy, despite being co-stars on Cheers and launching a…

The Last Stop In Yuma County is about travelers waiting at a desolate diner for a delayed shipment of gasoline that will allow them to motor on their way. Before anyone can continue on their respective journeys, however, the movie itself has some time-traveling to do, all within the space of its opening 20 minutes or…

The latest trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One has a lot more alien and, worryingly, a lot more cat. Thankfully, this seems like a pretty docile, meow-free cat, so he’ll probably do fine in the muted world the characters in this franchise are forced to occupy. The people, on the other hand, aren’t doing so hot.

RuPaul’s Drag Race has the Snatch Game. Survivor has Sea Legs. The Great British Bake Off has Bread Week. And Top Chef, of course, has Restaurant Wars.

Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef has seemingly broken through into the real world yet again. Yesterday, an unnamed man attempted to break into Drake’s mansion in the Bridle Path neighborhood of Toronto (per CNN). According to a statement from Toronto Police media relations officer Ashley Visser, the person was…

Last year, Andy Serkis said he would happily return to Middle-earth if Peter Jackson and his co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens were involved. Seems he’s gotten his wish, and then some: Warner Bros. Discovery announced on Thursday that Jackson would produce a new Lord Of The Rings film, directed by and starring…

The romantic comedy is, by its very nature, generic. As in, it depends on its genre tropes to amuse and entertain. Like an easy recipe, it can make for a delicious meal when it’s using nothing but the basics. But to pull off a rom-com is no easy feat. In fact, because its structure appears to be so nakedly…

True-crime podcasts have just as many fans as haters, and there’s a chance that Bodkin, the Netflix series from Jez Scharf that premieres May 9 about a trio of bickering podcasters, will appeal to both.

Apple did one of its big, fancy press events yesterday, showing off the upcoming iPad Pro, the biggest immediate selling point of which is that it’s very, very thin. In order to convey that thinness, Apple did what any giant tech firm that secretly hates the weak, fleshy meat of the human race might do: Filmed a…

“It’s not a challenge. This is the war!” Laura battle-cried during Wednesday’s episode of Top Chef: Wisconsin. Yes, eight episodes in, it’s officially time for our chef-testants to take up arms for the return of Restaurant Wars. The show’s signature challenge is a polarizing one for Top Chef fans, with some loving the…

It’s been several years now since Pushing Daisiesand Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller last produced a full season of TV, with his most recent projects being an executive producer role on Sam Wineman’s Netflix docuseries Queer For Fear—and then a blistering denunciation of Wineman, after the latter sued him for sexual…

In a collaboration unseen since Judge Doom attempted to drown Toontown in Dip to make way for a freeway to connect Hollywood to Pasadena, Disney and Warner Bros. are joining forces. Announced via press release today, Disney and Warner Bros will begin offering a streaming bundle in the coming months that combines…

If there’s a running joke currently going in Hollywood that’s funnier to us than Chris Pine saying “Fuck if I know” every time someone asks him about a new Star Trek movie, we’re not privy to it. Pine, who’s debuting his new film Poolman this week, got asked the obligatory question about the film franchise that made…