In a week that featured the divisive State of the Union and the Virginia governor facing a blackface scandal, Saturday Night Live‘s Meet the Press instead cold-opened with another story dominating headlines: The National Enquirer‘s alleged blackmail of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. “We’re all highly respected journalists, so when all …
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HBO has unveiled the first trailer for The Case Against Adnan Syed, a years-in-the-making docuseries that continues the investigation launched by the Serial podcast. The first look at the four-part docuseries provides an overview of Syed’s conviction for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, the renewed interest in …
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Reed (Christopher Abbott) wants to stab somebody. Sorry, wrong word — he needs to stab somebody. Standing over his baby in the middle of the night, wielding an ice pick perilously close to the infant’s neck, the man can feel this urge overwhelming him. Luckily, his wife (Laia Costa) wakes …
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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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Matthew McConaughey stars as a long-haired, trouble-making, bong-smoking poet named Moondog in The Beach Bum from writer-director Harmony Korine. The comedy is the filmmaker’s first movie since 2012’s Florida-set Spring Breakers. The Beach Bum “follows the hilarious misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious rogue who always lives life by his own …
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Jason Reitman is directing and co-writing a new Ghostbusters movie that will be set in the same universe as the original two films, Entertainment Weekly reports. Sony Pictures has tentatively scheduled the film for a summer 2020 release. Reitman’s father, Ivan Reitman, who directed the original 1984 Ghostbusters and its …
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A sexually repressed teenager becomes the copulation guru at his new high school in the trailer for upcoming drama Netflix dramedy series Sex Education, which hits the streaming platform on January 11th. The clip opens with a painfully awkward scene starring protagonist Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) and his sex therapist …
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Sebastián Silva’s scathing, scorched-earth take on bro culture,code-switching and how best buddies double as bitter underminers kicks off with a mistake. Two guys are pushing their car down an upstate New York road, shooting the shit. One of them is waiting for his friends to come along and get them, …
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“The jungle is eternal,” purrs a panther — the second most charismatic black panther to hit screens in 2018, for those of you keeping count — to his “little brother,” a boy with limpid eyes and long back hair. This large, nurturing feline is referring to the home that provides …
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