There’s a lot of ways to describe Jordan Peele‘s Nope: an update on “Watch the Skies!” sci-fi from the 1950s; a tribute to Steven Spielberg’s 1970s blockbuster building blocks (what if those Close Encounter of the Third Kind UFOs were just hungry, extraterrestrial great white sharks?); a 21st century meta-text …
Read More »LAPD Close Felony DUI Investigation Into Anne Heche Car Crash
The Los Angeles Police Department announced Saturday that they have closed their investigation into Anne Heche after the actress was declared legally dead from injuries she sustained in a high-speed car crash. After the Aug. 5 crash where Heche — reportedly traveling over 100 miles per hour — drove into …
Read More »'Fall': The Only Thing You Have to Fear Is Holy-Shit Panic-Inducing Heights
In the satisfyingly corny Fall, directed by Scott Mann, two women get stranded atop a rusted, obsolete TV tower — a slim, rickety death trap that they had no business climbing in the first place. But what would be the fun in playing by the rules? Grace Caroline Currey plays …
Read More »'Emergency Declaration' Is South Korea's 'Snakes on a Plane,' But With Covid
A standard direct flight from Incheon International Airport in South Korea to Honolulu clocks in at a little over 10 hours, and a lot can happen in the duration of that dawn-to-near-dusk journey. You could start and finish a medium-sized book or work your way through a season of a …
Read More »'Were You Just Playing Guitar?' Tegan and Sara Discover Music in New Trailer for Biopic Series 'High School'
The adolescent lives of twins Tegan and Sara are headed to the small screen. On Friday, Amazon Freevee released the trailer for their new show High School, based on the memoir by the indie pop duo, out Oct. 14. The clip follows the two sisters (played by TikTok creators Railey …
Read More »Actress Anne Heche Dead at 53 After High-Speed Car Crash
Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning actress who starred in films like Six Days, Seven Nights and the Psycho remake, but whose own career was curtailed by struggles with mental illness, died August 12 at the age of 53 following injuries she sustained in a car crash in Los Angeles. “Today we …
Read More »Anne Heche 'Not Expected to Survive' After Fiery Crash Into Home, Family Says
Anne Heche suffered a devastating brain injury after a fiery car crash into a Los Angeles home last Friday and likely will never recover, her family says in a new statement. “Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in …
Read More »Harvey Weinstein Gets Proposed 'Prior Bad Acts' Accuser Bumped From Serial Rape Trial
Harvey Weinstein had a mixed day in court Wednesday as he speeds toward the scheduled October start of his serial rape trial in Los Angeles. Lawyers for the disgraced movie mogul scored a victory when Judge Lisa B. Lench sided with the defense and rejected one of the five “prior …
Read More »'This Fool': Damn, It Feels Good (Not) to Be a Gangster
While considering the winning new Hulu comedy This Fool, the hardest question to answer is this: Who is the titular fool? One possibility is Julio, played by comedian Chris Estrada, who borrowed aspects of his own life to co-create the show with Pat Bishop, Jake Weisman, and Matt Ingebretson. Julio …
Read More »Chanté Adams, 'A League of Their Own' Star, on the Black Women Who Played Big-League Baseball
The story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League is being reimagined in the new Amazon Prime series, A League of Their Own. Chanté Adams, one of the show’s stars, joined Rolling Stone on Twitch on Wednesday to talk about how the new show expands on the critically acclaimed 1992 …
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