“Notoriously shy” is one of the first phrases used to describe Courtney Barnett in Anonymous Club, Danny Cohen’s documentary-cum-tour-diary, and if you only knew this Australian singer-songwriter from her live shows, the words might come as a low-voltage shock. Sensitive, sure. But shy? Onstage, Barnett has a knack for demonstrating …
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Kevin Spacey appeared today at London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court where the actor pleaded “not guilty” to four charges of sexually assaulting three men. He entered an additional plea of “not guilty” to a charge of “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.” Spacey’s trial, …
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The story of one of the internet’s most infamous websites, IsAnyoneUp.com, is the focus of an upcoming documentary series debuting on Netflix later this month. The Most Hated Man on the Internet — which borrows its title from a 2012 Rolling Stone article on the same subject — centers on …
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Roughly six weeks before fans of J.R.R. Tolkien return to Middle Earth with Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Prime Video has shared its lengthiest preview yet for the epic eight-part series. “This could be the beginning of a new era,” a character says in voiceover in the …
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If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that there’s always a booming market for assassins — and should you be a government-sanctioned executioner, you’ll eventually use your deadly skill set against the very folks who’ve trained you. (That, and don’t feed creatures purchased from a Chinatown antique store after …
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Two reporters’ investigation into the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein — a story that helped spread the #MeToo movement — is the focus of the upcoming movie She Said, arriving in theaters on Nov. 18. The film stars Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan as Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, …
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Crazy Rich Asians actress Constance Wu returned to Twitter after nearly three years to share a lengthy statement about how her life was impacted by the controversial and “careless” tweets she made in 2019, revealing that she attempted suicide following the backlash. “I was afraid of coming back on social …
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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. Whether you were a “gleek” or just a casual TV watcher, it was hard to escape the cult of Glee at the height of the musical comedy’s heyday …
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The big-screen treatment of a bestseller, a well-scrubbed Southern Gothic, a next-gen star’s showcase, a romance-murder-mystery-courtroom-drama-dessert-topping-floor-wax, The Movie That Would Be The Notebook — these are some of the ways to describe Where the Crawdads Sing, the adaptation of Delia Shannon’s book-club staple about love and death among the marshlands. …
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In “Finding Frances,” the instant-classic series finale of his Comedy Central show Nathan For You, Nathan Fielder attempts to help Bill, an old man who had appeared on an earlier episode, track down a long-lost love. At one point, Fielder hires an actress to role-play as Frances, to help Bill …
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