If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Parasite took home four Academy Awards Sunday night, including a Best Director nod for Bong Joon-ho and a surprising win for Best Picture, capping off an impressive awards …
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Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman spirals deeper into the criminal underbelly of Albuquerque in the new trailer for Season Five of Better Call Saul. In classic Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fashion, the new clip is set to Jim Reeves’ wholesome country tune, “Welcome to My World,” although the montage it …
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Bryan Cranston recreates the “Here’s Johnny!” scene from The Shining in a hilarious new Mountain Dew Super Bowl commercial. Cranston stars as Jack Torrance from the 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation, wearing the exact green flannel button-down beneath a burgundy jacket. Instead of attempting to murder his wife Wendy while reciting …
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South Park is now a multi-million dollar industrial complex, but all of that would have been unimaginable to creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone when they first teamed up back in 1992. They were students at the University of Colorado at the time, and Parker was already working on a …
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“The lurid publications depend for their appeal upon mayhem, murder, torture, abduction, superman heroics, voluptuous females, blazing machine guns, and hooded justice.” -Sterling North, Chicago Daily News, May 8th, 1940 “The Superman formula is essentially lynching.” – Gershon Legman, “The Psychopathology of Comic Books,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. II, …
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A review of The Mandalorian‘s second episode, “The Child,” coming up just as soon as weapons are part of my religion… In its series premiere, The Mandalorian came across as fun but slight: a pulpy adventure about a stock anti-hero with a heart of gold, played with minimal dialogue by …
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If Midway really was the hot shit it thinks it is, we’d have something to talk about. But this spare-no-expense production about the most vital naval battle of WWII merely plasters the latest in digital effects over the same war-time movie tropes that Hollywood has been pedaling for decades. Director …
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This may be the first work by M. Night Shyamalan where knowing the twist makes it all the more creepy. On Wednesday, AppleTV+ released the trailer for the director’s new original series, Servant, premiering November 28th on the streaming platform. According to a press release, the half-hour psychological thriller series will follow an …
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Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie fight Fox News from the inside in the new trailer for Bombshell, the upcoming drama about the network and the sexual harassment accusations leveled against its founder, Roger Ailes. The film is set to open this December. Bombshell stars Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, …
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Only in the world of Succession could something like the Aspen Ideas Festival become more pretentious than it already is. It’s pulled off, though, in this episode. The festival is called Argestes — a northwest wind in Greek mythology — and while I haven’t been to Aspen, I hope the …
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