“It’s strange, but some movies present themselves almost entirely in your head.”—Joel Coen “I’ll show you a life of the mind!”—Charlie Meadows, a.k.a. Karl Mundt, a.k.a. “Madman” Mundt Everyone knows about the telegram. It’s an apocryphal Hollywood story, with the actual letter lost to time. But its recipient Ben Hecht …
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Instagram apologized for pulling the movie poster for director Pedro Almodóvar’s new film Madres Paralelas after the artwork — which showed a closeup of a lactating nipple — triggered a takedown for violating the social network’s no-nudity guidelines. Madres Paralelas — or Parallel Mothers, its title in the U.S. when …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. August is traditionally a weird month, both for film and television. It’s when studios usually release blockbusters that seem a little too odd for the first stretch of …
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Lin-Manuel Miranda has responded to criticism that new film In the Heights, which is based on his hit Broadway musical, failed to represent Washington Heights’ Afro-Latino community. As The Hollywood Reporter reports, host and producer Felice León from The Root spoke with director Jon M. Chu and actors Melissa Barrera, …
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A new Peacock docuseries will investigate the mysterious life of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite-turned-Jeffrey Epstein associate who currently awaits trial on multiple sextrafficking charges. Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell, premiering June 24th on the streaming service, features dozens of exclusive interviews and previously unseen tapes of the Maxwell family in …
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The final trailer forA Quiet Place Part II is here, teasing one of the first big theatrical releases since the Covid-19 pandemic shut down cinemas last spring. The sequel to 2018’sA Quiet Place premieres on May 28th. Part II picks up where John Krasinski‘s first horror film left off, following …
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No matter the topic, the finest docs make you realize how much we needed a film on a particular subject. And that rule couldn’t apply more to Tiny Tim: King for a Day, director Johan von Sydow’s overview of the otherworldly life and times of one of the most WTF …
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Rose Byrne stars as a forlorn Eighties housewife who pivots to teaching aerobics dance classes in Physical, a new 10-episode dramedy from creator Annie Weisman (Almost Family, Desperate Housewives). The first three episodes of the series will premiere on June 18th on Apple TV+, with each subsequent episode premiering every Friday …
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Kelsey Grammar stars as an aging Seventies rock star looking to get his life back on track inThe Space Between, a new coming-of-age movie from Paramount. The trailer for the film was released on Monday, and it’s set to arrive in theaters on April 23rd, with a video-on-demand and digital …
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Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming docuseries, The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness, which will premiere May 5th. Directed by Joshua Zeman, the series revisits the infamous string of murders that shook New York City in the late Seventies but also explores the argument that …
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