Stephen Colbert relished the moment the leaders of the world united to openly laugh at President Trump on Tuesday’s Late Show. Colbert first noted that Trump showed up late to the UN assembly; the president was scheduled to speak second, but Ecuador’s president went to the podium in place of …
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David Duchovny, Sharon Stone, Jeff Daniels, Simon Pegg, Helen Hunt and other celebrities offered strange advice to Late Show fans in a goofy bit from Thursday’s episode titled “Dear Famous People.” The pre-filmed piece featured a series of presumably fake letters and increasingly unhelpful answers the actors. The first person …
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Jordan Peele will host and narrate upcoming episodes of The Twilight Zone, which is being revived by CBS in 2019. CBS made the announcement on Thursday with the shortest of teaser videos. The original Twilight Zone, a popular science fiction series, ran from 1959 to 1964. At the time, it …
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How do you rate a cinematic black hole that doesn’t deserve a single star? Do you simply give it five eyerolls? Better question: How does a movie, with all the talent in the world going for it, become a such a blithering botch job? That’s Life Itself, which counts Oscar …
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A review of tonight’s Better Call Saul coming up just as soon as I have a large gold nugget traversing my colon… “You were meant for better things.” -Gus Early in “Something Beautiful,” Jimmy is stunned to have Mike turn down his offer to steal the Hummel figurine out of …
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Sorry To Bother Youdirector Boots Riley had some choice words about BlacKkKlansman. On Friday, the filmmaker and Coup rapperposted a three-page essay to Twitter citing his problems with the Spike Lee film. While Riley explains how much Lee has influenced him, he explained, “I’m not gonna hold my tongue.” In …
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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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As show his appreciation for their viral Carpool Karaoke from Liverpool, James Corden gave Paul McCartney a backstage tour of the Late Late Show in this new video. “Paul, it was so incredible of you to give us a glimpse into your life when we back together in Liverpool,” Corden …
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The third season of Documentary Now!, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader’s IFC series that parodies acclaimed non-fiction films, will take aim at D.A. Pennebaker’s Original Cast Album: Company, a 1970 documentary about the making of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-winning musical of the same name. Original Cast Album: Co-Op stars Taran Killam, …
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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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