Remember Heavy Metal, the 1981 animated movie based on the French magazine Métal Hurlant? That feature-length hodgepodge of stories about stoner aliens, voluptuous androids, horny space travelers, dragon-riding heroines in dominatrix gear and other interstellar-overdriven pulp touches? “A step beyond science fiction” was the tagline; a 13-year-old boy peering at …
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“Dear Orson Welles…” — that’s the first thing you hear in Mark Cousins’ essay-cum-tribute to the man who gave us Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, some of the most baroque screen adaptations of the Bard ever made and the template for the modern maligned-maestro filmmaker. There have …
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For decades, scientists and journalists have been ringing the alarm on climate change, but few forced people to sit up and take notice like New York Magazine’s David Wallace-Wells, whose alarming article “The Uninhabitable Earth” caused a bit of an uproar in climate and environmentalist circles when it was published …
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This is the 10th dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who will be investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites glacier. Ali Graham, a 37-year-old geophysicist from the U.K.’s University of Exeter, is a tall, thin man with a pointy beard and a soft-spoken manner. When he’s not …
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For the past 40 years, researchers have desperately been trying to find a cure for HIV. Although antiretroviral treatments now make living with the virus manageable, many still cannot afford such drugs, and researchers have yet to find a way to eliminate the virus from the body entirely — until …
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“My dream was to be like ’NSync,” says Hayley Kiyoko. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter had this epiphany in fourth grade, when she saw her favorite boy band perform live. “My dream was to have screaming girls around and be successful and popular,” she adds. “But I thought, ‘I’m a girl, and …
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Best Picture Green Book Black Panther BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Roma A Star Is Born Vice Best Actor Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody Christian Bale – Vice Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate Viggo Mortensen – Green Book Best Actress Olivia Colman …
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Lauren Daigle extended the in-progress world tour behind her 2018 LP, Look Up Child, adding 19 new dates throughout the U.S. and Europe. Her previously announced run wraps March 18th in Nashville, Tennessee, and the new stretch — which includes her first-ever European leg — launches April 15th in Shreveport, …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours“— consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week’s special, Super-Bowl-weekend edition: Dan Epstein on the football-movie classic North Dallas Forty. …
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The moment when all of England had a chance to see Ziggy play guitar has finally been recovered. Archivists have uncovered David Bowie‘s first televised appearance in his Ziggy Stardust persona – a 1972 performance for ITV’s Lift Off With Ayshea – that was thought to be long lost, according …
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