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: Scott Tobias on Peter Weir’s seafaring epic Master and Commander: The …
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The premise is simple: A group of folks who don’t know each other receive a mysterious box in the mail. Inside this elaborate gift — think the Hellraiser cube, only a wee bit more benign — is an invite for a free session at an exclusive Chicago escape room. They …
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This was the year I fell in love with 90 Day Fiancé. There’s something so strangely soothing about stepping into this reality-TV hellhole for an hour or two every week, then turning it off. It was one of those imaginary Americas that stole my heart. Didn’t we all spend 2018 …
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Love — intimate, familial and fraternal — infuses director Barry Jenkins‘ ravishing adaptation of the 1974 James Baldwin novel about a battered romance that refuses to be a tragedy. Following up his Best Picture Oscar win for Moonlight, the writer-director opens his third film with Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne), 19, …
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This week, three major 2019 releases gave us a taste of what’s to come: We finally got a look at the last Avengers movie (or at least the last one with the original line-up); another MCU property dropped a longer, juicier trailer; and HBO’s monster-hit showed us a chilly version …
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Lin-Manuel Miranda (Jack), who costars alongside Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins) in the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns, shines metaphorical and actual light in the film and during the film’s song “Trip a Little Light Fantastic.” Jack keeps watch over London’s gaslamp-lit streets alongside a group of lamplighters called Leeries. In the …
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“Have you been here before?” David Byrne asks, his eyes widening as he sits in a conference room inside the Criterion Collection’s New York office. It’s like Willy Wonka’s factory for film buffs. Behind him are posters for classic films like Milos Forman’s Black Peter and Federico Fellini’s Juliet of …
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Sandra Bullock faces down – with her eyes closed – a post-apocalyptic world and a looming terror in the first trailer for Bird Box, Netflix‘s sci-fi thriller that comes to the streaming service in December. The trailer opens with Bullock alone, bound and blindfolded in the woods before providing the …
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It’s the end of Better Call Saul Season Four. I recapped the finale, “Winner,” and I spoke with Saul co-creator Peter Gould (who ran the show on his own this year, while Vince Gilligan mostly focused on development) about the season, with full spoilers coming up just as soon as …
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A review of “All You’ll Be Eating Is Cannibals,” this week’s episode of The Deuce, coming up just as soon as I get you a Whitman Sampler and a puppy… “There is nothing about me that belongs to me. It all belongs to him!” -Lori Midway through “All You’ll Be …
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