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. For this week’s Thanksgiving-weekend edition: David Fear on Curtis Hanson’s lit-com Wonder Boys. …
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It’s the morning of the New York Film Festival premiere of Private Life, and Tamara Jenkins is positively buoyant. Dressed in a goldenrod floral-print dress and loafers, the 56-year-old writer-director arrives at a Lincoln Center café smiling broadly. She is warm, chatty, effervescent — which is somewhat surprising since her …
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Stephen Colbert’s Rolling Stone cover-story interview covered a lot of ground, from his battle with anxiety to why Donald Trump is a “heretic against reality.” But there was even more to the conversation. On the lessons he learned while working onThe Dana Carvey Show I still will pull out things …
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“Jack, you’re a grown man. You have control over your own words.” “You’re goddamn right I do. So here come two words for you: shut the fuck up.” Over the course of Midnight Run, bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) and fugitive accountant Jonathan “Duke” Mardukas (Charles Grodin) travel …
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The “strong female character” – that dour lady kick-ass of pasty writer-nerds’ dreams – may have finally met her maker at the hands of Villanelle, the adorably bonkers assassin of Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘s addictive BBC America seriesKilling Eve. As played by 25-year-old English actress Jodie Comer, Villanelle is a fresh, new …
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Joaquin Phoenix is smiling. “Was that an earthquake?!” he asks excitedly. At first, it’s imperceptible, but he’s right: He and director Lynne Ramsay are sitting in a Los Angeles office discussing their titanic thriller,You Were Never Really Here, when, suddenly, the ground begins shaking. It’s just a mild temblor, but …
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