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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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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This review is a no-spoilers zone, so let’s cut to the chase: The Last Jedi – Episode VIII of the Star Wars saga – is simply stupendous, a volcano of creative ideas in full eruption. Writer-director Rian Johnson, known for indies such as Looper and Brick, eases into epic filmmaking …
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Tis the season for …TV holiday specials! And who better to season your greetings than Empire‘s Cookie! Meanwhile, Fox mounts one mistletoe of a live musical hullabaloo, Comedy Central tries to find the funny in fake news and HBO delivers a documentary on a man who made real news. Plus …
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Walk onto the soundstages at Toronto’s Pinewood Studios, a massive complex of airplane hangers jutting out into Lake Ontario, and you’ll see transporter rooms, engine rooms and lots of vaguely futuristic hallways. A producer is giving journalists an impromptu tour, pointing out small details like the Malaysian puppets hanging in …
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