Turns out, Cardi B‘s well-documented love for Penn Badgley and his Netflix hit show You is mutual. During a recent conversation with Rolling Stone, Badgley said he’d be open to having the rapper make a cameo in the show — but only under one condition. “Would I want her to …
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He lives in New York, she in LA. She has a home, shared with her 13-year-old son, that feels remarkably homey: lived-in and warm and deliberately modest in size, helplessly convincing us of its innate coziness. He lives in a steely Brooklyn apartment with a view of Manhattan that’s furnished …
Read More »What to Watch in February: 'The Consultant,' 'Your Place or Mine' and Final Season of 'Star Trek: Picard'
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. February might be the shortest month, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be packed. This year brings the expected rom-coms, internationally traveling strippers, and a bear on cocaine. …
Read More »'Stolen Youth,' About the Sarah Lawrence Sex Cult, Is the Year's Most Disturbing Docuseries
In the Nineties teen rom-com 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles), the film’s Riot Grrrl rebel who listens to Letters to Cleo and idolizes Sylvia Plath, wants nothing more than to attend Sarah Lawrence College. The choice tracks. A liberal arts college with fewer than 2,000 …
Read More »'Harley Quinn' Gifts Us a Beautifully Twisted Valentine's Day Special
You may have heard that both HBO Max and DC’s film and television properties are in a state of major turmoil. Projects are being canceled even after they’ve completed production, other series are being dropped from the streamer altogether — the proper term for this is, I believe, “Zaslaving” — …
Read More »'The Outwaters': Found Footage of a Music Video Shoot Turned Bloody Nightmare
The Outwaters, Robbie Banfitch’s compellingly creepy new horror flick, takes the found-footage genre and the lost-in-the-desert nightmare, smashes them together, and spins them off their axis. Watching it, I kept thinking of that Matt Damon and Casey Affleck movie Gerry, from 2002, about two men who go off-trail during a …
Read More »Who Knew a Kinky Sex Party With Cara Delevingne Could Be So Boring?
If you were an adolescent with occasional bouts of insomnia in the early 2000s, you probably grew up watching Real Sex, the groundbreaking HBO series that aired in the wee hours before softcore time-travel movies and re-airings of Problem Child 3. Real Sex was truly revolutionary: it was frank, straightforward, …
Read More »Black Women's 'Sex and the City' Is Back to Make Us Feel Seen
When Harlem first aired in December 2021, Camille — the show’s protagonist, played by Meagan Good — reckoned with the changes to the once predominantly Black neighborhood. “The number of actual dateable men is bleak,” she lectured both to her television audience and a room of fictional students at Columbia …
Read More »How Bill Russell Paved the Way for LeBron James and So Many Others
Mere hours after LeBron James broke the NBA’s all-time scoring record, one held for decades by the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the two-part documentary Bill Russell: Legend debuted on Netflix. Directed by Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI), it’s a three-hour-plus survey of the life and career of the basketball legend, civil rights icon, …
Read More »Residente and 'Birdman' Screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris to Create Historical Film 'Porto Rico'
Residente is continuing his foray into filmmaking and will help tell the story of his native Puerto Rico. The Calle 13 star is teaming up with Birdman screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris to write a new film titled Porto Rico about the life of Puerto Rican revolutionary José Maldonado Román. “It has …
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