On Netflix, Zach Galifianakis extends a Funny or Die sensation to feature length; Ryan Murphy makes a splash with a cutthroat political series; Sacha Baron Cohen takes leave of TV for a more serious turn; and Booksmart breakout Kaitlyn Dever gets on the true crime bandwagon alongside Toni Collette and …
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Fifty years ago this month, Steve Railsback was a 23-year-old actor in New York when he caught a newspaper headline that Sharon Tate and four others had been brutally massacred in a house in L.A. “I remember thinking, ‘God, what’s happening in this fucking world?’” Railsback recalls. Seven years later, …
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A24 released the trailer for Dan Krauss’s The Kill Team Tuesday. The film stars Nat Wolff and Alexander Skarsgård and is based on the real events that inspired Krauss’s 2013 documentary of the same name. The film premieres in theaters and on demand October 25th. Wolff stars as Andrew Briggman, a …
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Rolling Stone, in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures, hosted a special screening and panel discussion for Blinded by the Light — which opens in wide release in the U.K. on August 9th and in the U.S. on August 16th — in New York City on Tuesday night. Following a screening …
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On Monday, American Horror Story premiered the latest teaser for its ninth season, American Horror Story: 1984. The new series appears to be a retro homage to Eighties summer-camp horror flicks, such as the Friday the 13th series and its iconic antagonist, Jason Voorhees. The season premieres September 18th on FX. …
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It’s November 1955, and a gymnasium full of hopelessly square students gleefully jitterbug their way through the Enchantment Under the Sea dance. Then a mysterious new student named Marty McFly takes the stage, cherry red Gibson in hand. “This is an oldie,” he says before quickly correcting himself. “Well, it’s …
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Former wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista and comedian Kumail Nanjiani make for an unlikely pair in the new Uber-themed action movie, Stuber. In the latest episode ofRolling Stone‘s the first time, the co-stars say they met for the first time at a chemistry test for the film, but quickly hit it off …
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An early episode of Showtime’s new Nineties-set Boston drama City on a Hill opens with two characters discussing the classic children’s book Make Way for Ducklings (set in Boston Public Garden) and the city’s 1980s school-busing controversy. The only way the series — produced, of course, by Ben Affleck and …
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Earlier this month in Los Angeles, 2,000 National Geographic fans were treated to activations inspired by five Emmy-contending series and one stunning documentary (Free Solo) at the Greek Theatre as part of the network’s first Emmy Contenders Showcase, a one-of-a-kind outdoor experience and concert event. Serving as emcee for the …
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(This piece originally ran on January 28th, as part of our 2019 Sundance Film Festival coverage.) You can tell that The Last Black Man in San Francisco, the debut feature from director Joe Talbot, is something special within its first five minutes. It isn’t just the opening moments, in which …
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