A s usual, Jordan Peele knows exactly where he’s going. “What we should do,” he says, with real enthusiasm, “is head to Hogwarts. Get some butterbeer. The Harry Potter ride is dope.” Peele has a movie he’s supposed to be editing, a burgeoning production company to run, an adorably talkative …
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After weeks of hand-wringing and Twitter-screaming, the 2019 Academy Award nominations were announced, and the results were relatively predictable – Roma! A Star is Born! The Favourite! And [weary sigh] Green Book! Naturally, this early wake-up call also held fast to one of the Oscars‘ most enduring traditions: the surprise …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s 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: Bilge Ebiri on Steven Spielberg’s paranoid, prescient sci-fi opus Minority …
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This month: Freddie Mercury gets the long-overdue biopic treatment; Adonis Creed and Lisbeth Salander (now in her 3.0 version) jump into the sequel game; several would-be Oscar contenders finally hit theaters near you; and folks get significant new releases from award-festooned auteurs such as Luca Guadagnino, Steve McQueen, Barry Jenkins …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s 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. First up: Tim Grierson on Lars von Trier‘s warped Our-Town-through-a-glass-darkly parable Dogville. …
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Though it broadly references the Murdoch family and the inheritance of a media empire, HBO‘s Succession is basically Large Adult Son: The TV Show, a savage comedy about the venal idiot-children of the ultra-wealthy. As health issues finally loosen the grip their domineering father Logan Roy (Brian Cox) has over …
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When Mission: Impossible — Fallout opens on July 27th, it’ll be the sixth chapter in a blockbuster movie series that could also plausibly be called: “How will Tom Cruise try to kill himself this time?” Paramount teased the new movie with footage of the star piloting his own helicopter, for …
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Whitney Houston‘s longtime movie agent Nicole David had two key goals while producing the documentary Whitney (in theaters July 6th) about the singer: “I wanted to show the world she wasn’t just this beautiful girl with the best voice who pissed it all away,” she says. “I also wanted to …
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No comedy on television churns through more story ideas, in more surprising ways, than NBC’s The Good Place. The first season seemed to be about a group of flawed people who had somehow found their way into a version of Heaven, only for the finale to stun them — and …
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There are two things you should know about Aaron Sorkin. One is that the man likes to talk. A lot.This will not surprise anyone who’s seen the 1992 screen version of his playA Few Good Men, starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. Or has watched a TV show he’s had …
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