Action 1 min
Agar.io (2015)
Одна вкладка в браузере, ник, кнопка «Играть» — и через секунду ты уже клякса, которая ест кляксы поменьше и убегает от тех, кто побольше. Agar.io Матеуса Валадареса вы…
Action 1 min
Metal Gear Solid (1998)
Konami в 1998-м сделала вещь, которую тогда мало кто понимал: игру, где стрелять — почти всегда ошибка. Metal Gear Solid просит ползать по вентиляции, стучать по стенам…
Action 1 min
Assassin’s Creed (2007)
Толпа здесь не декорация, а инструмент: Альтаир прячется в группе монахов, идёт с ними мимо стражи, и вот уже цель в паре шагов. Именно эта «социальная скрытность» отли…
Celebrities 1 min
Exoplanet with an atmosphere
Scientists have discovered an atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone. The exoplanet LHS 1140b orbits a red dwarf.
Thrillers 1 min
Parasites (2019)
The Kim family lives in a semi‑basement, catches someone else’s Wi‑Fi under the ceiling and takes any side job. When the son gets a chance to become a tutor in the house of the wealthy Pakovs…
Thrillers 1 min
Argo (2012)
A story that could not have been invented: during the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran several diplomats managed to escape and hide, and extracting them was…
Thrillers 1 min
The Dark Knight (2008)
Formally it’s a superhero film, but in fact it’s a crime drama set in a big‑city backdrop, shot according to the rules of neo‑noir. Gotham in Nolan’s vision for the first time looks not like goth…
Thrillers 1 min
Inception (2010)
Christopher Nolan took the heist‑film formula — client, team of specialists, impossible job, countdown — and moved it to a place where you can only steal thoughts.…
Thrillers 1 min
Fight Club (1999)
A nameless office clerk doesn’t sleep for months, treats himself by attending other people’s support groups, and generally doesn’t understand why he lives — until he meets the soap merchant Tyler…
Fantasy 1 min
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
The third film in the series is the very turning point after which Potterian works could no longer be called children’s tales. Behind the camera the person changed: instead of Columbus came a Mexican…
Fantasy 1 min
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The finale, in which Jackson had to settle all the bills at once — and he settled them with surplus. If the first part is about the road, and the second about war, then the third is about price…
Fantasy 1 min
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The most inconvenient part of the trilogy: it has neither a beginning nor an end — it consists entirely of the middle. Jackson splits the heroes into three lines and edits them in parallel, so …
Fantasy 1 min
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Few believed in a film based on an attraction: pirate movies at the turn of the millennium were considered a dead and unprofitable genre. Gore Verbinski bet not on seriousness, but on…
Fantasy 1 min
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
С этого фильма началась вся поттериана, и задача у него была одна: убедить зрителя, что Хогвартс существует. Крис Коламбус решает её честно и подробно — через глаза оди…
Fantasy 1 min
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Первая часть трилогии Питера Джексона — это в первую очередь дорога. Фильм не спешит: он долго держит зрителя в зелёном сонном Шире, среди застолий и фейерверков, чтобы…
Science fiction 1 min
Star Wars. Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
The credits roll upward, John Williams’ orchestra strikes the first chord, and a ship crawls endlessly over the planet — those three minutes were enough for cinema to
Science fiction 1 min
Dune (2021)
Frank Herbert’s novel was considered unfilmable, and that reputation had a history: too much politics, ecology, religion, and internal monologues. Denis Villeneuve decided to…
Science fiction 1 min
Blade Runner (1982)
Los Angeles 2019, as it was imagined in 1982: perpetual rain, billboard the size of a house, neon in the smog and a city where the sky is invisible from the street. A retired police officer returns…
Science fiction 1 min
The Alien (1982)
Almost everything here is shot from a child’s eye level — adults are seen only up to the waist for a long time, and this is not a technique for technique’s sake: “E.T. the Extra‑Terrestrial” (1982) consciously refuses to…
Science fiction 1 min
Interstellar (2014)
Earth is dying slowly and mundanely: dusty storms, failing crops, school textbooks explaining to children that a farmer is a profession more important than an astronaut. From this “Interstellar…
