Private Life starts with what sounds like an extremely private moment: shuffling, muted grunts and sheet-rustling, playing over a black screen. The natural inclination is think the the film is about to open on a couple either in the throes of middle-aged passion, or maybe some post-coital awkwardness. We’ve seen …
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Hollywood royalty, Hank’s kid, the Girl Next Door, sex kitten, shag-haired radical, political activist, Public Enemy No. 1, movie star, Oscar-winner, aerobics queen, trophy wife — will the real Jane Fonda please stand up? There are a number of reasons to check out Jane Fonda in Five Acts, the HBO …
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will compose the score for HBO’s upcoming television adaptation of the famed graphic novel, Watchmen. Over the past few years, Reznor and Ross have balanced their Nine Inch Nails output with an array of film and television projects. The pair notably won an Oscar in …
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Olivia Newton-John opened up about battling cancer for a third time in a new interview. The Grease actress, who faced breast cancer in 1992 and secretly fought a reemergence of the same disease in her shoulder in 2013, discussed her latest cancer fight with Australia’s Sunday Night. In 2017, doctors …
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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: Kevin Lincoln on Joel and Ethan Coen‘s 2008 epic of …
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You probably know this feeling: You’re bingeing a season of a new drama. You like the characters and the atmosphere, and you’re curious about where the story goes, but at a certain point (usually somewhere between halfway and two-thirds of the way through the season), you start to grow impatient …
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TV series protagonists generally get smarter and better at what they do the longer they’re around. Not Issa Dee, the alter ego of Insecure co-creator and star Issa Rae. The HBO comedy introduced Issa two years ago as a woman uncertain of what she wanted out of both her work …
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Samantha Bee delivered a blunt assessment of the threats facing Roe v. Wade in light of President Trump’snomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Bee noted that since Kavanaugh’s nomination, Republican congressmen and pundits have insisted it does not signal the immediate end of Roe – even though …
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Co-creators Jordan Peele (Get Out, Key & Peele) and former Key & Peele writer Charlie Sanders have teamed up for the comedic sci-fi anthology Weird City, which will debut on YouTube Premium. Weird City is set in the not-too-distant future metropolis called Weird. Each half-hour episode is described as “an …
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Samantha Bee opened Full Frontal Wednesday with an apology for calling President Donald Trump’s aide and daughter, Ivanka Trump, a “feckless cunt” during a segment about the migrant crisis at the U.S. border. “It is a word I have used on the show many times, hoping to reclaim it, this …
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