The most talked-about film thus far at the 2023 Venice Film Festival is Poor Things, the third collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone (The Favourite). A magical mélange of sci-fi, Gothic fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and Frankenstein tale, it follows Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman with child …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s not Halloween season yet but some of the most intriguing Hulu debuts look pretty unsettling. One new series uses a creepy thriller to explore issues of race …
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A long time ago, in what might as well have been a galaxy far, far away, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) was a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Now, this young woman lives in the Bay Area town of Fremont, a stone’s throw from Silicon Valley and a dozen …
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Stuart McDonald deeply admires Netflix’s first interactive movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. He describes the film as a dark journey wherein a viewer’s decisions in a gamer nerd’s life could lead to acid trips, existential torment, suicide, stuffed bunnies, and decapitated heads. But McDonald knows audiences will have a different reaction …
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The Movie Theater (Taylor’s Version)? A day after Taylor Swift announced that she’ll be releasing her Eras Tour film on Oct. 13, What Happens Later — the rom-com directed by and starring Meg Ryan — announced it will be pushing back its release two weeks to let Swifties have their …
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The arrest of the Long Island Serial Killer and the slew of still-unsolved murders along the shore of Gilgo Beach will be the focus of an upcoming Netflix docuseries. Filmmaker Liz Garbus, who directed the 2020 dramatized film Lost Girls about the Gilgo Beach killings, will return to the role …
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There is an unstoppable force at the center of Michael Mann’s Ferrari. It is fast, fierce, and wildly unpredictable. One moment it has you in the throes of ecstasy; the next, fearing for your life. And when you see it coming around the bend, it’s curtains. Don’t even bother putting …
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A year ago, Florence Pugh wore a sheer pink Valentino dress that threw the internet into a tizzy over her bare nipples. The Oppenheimer actress revisited the controversy in a recent interview with Elle UK, and made it clear that she still doesn’t care what people have to say about …
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Two years ago, Netflix debuted Cowboy Bebop, a live-action adaptation of the beloved Japanese anime about spacefaring bounty hunters in the 22nd century. I found this new version lively and thrilling, but I admittedly had never seen the original. For the most part, it seemed, the most interested audience for …
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Hillary Clinton was not pleased with how Saturday Night Live depicted daughter Chelsea in 1993, as revealed by former cast member Julia Sweeney during an interview on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast. Sweeney and the hosts recalled how after she played a teenaged Chelsea in …
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