TV amp; Movies

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update focused on the biggest news story of the week: Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz‘s wild sex scandal. “Rep. Matt Gaetz, who looks like a caricature drawing of me, is reportedly under investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with an underage girl, because Gaetz believes only voters …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With the release of Superman in 1978, DC Comics broke ground and practically invented the blockbuster genre of superhero films. Decades later, with dozens of animated movies, live-action …

You could not ignore Yaphet Kotto when he came on the screen. There was his sheer size: 6’3″ and broad as a barn in a business where most actors are much smaller than the camera makes them seem. There was that voice: hard as gravel, but also with an unmistakable …

Rolling Stonejoined forces withIndieWire, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the online-education platformYellowbrickto launch“Film and TV Industry Essentials” last year. The program began enrolling students earlier this fall, and the curriculum is composed of five easily digestible course modules. Each of the concise lessons lasts between three …

“And if my thought-dreams could be seen,” a wise man named Bob Dylan once said, “they’d probably put my head in a guillotine.” Chaos Walking, an adaptation of Patrick Ness’s young-adult trilogy about a planet where one’s private hopes and fears become public audiovisual transmissions, cribs the sentiment from that …

Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are set to co-star in an upcoming Amazon series based on the 2005 action comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Atlanta’s Francesca Sloane will serve as showrunner on the series, which will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in 2022.Glover and Waller-Bridge (in a voice role) …

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is designed to be difficult to dislike — but if you’re not the type to back down from a challenge, it gets easier. The purposely messy, garish and disposable comedy from Bridesmaids writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who also star as …

It was a given that this year’s all-virtual, all-living-room-screenings-all-the-time Sundance was going to seem a little strange. Having experienced a few pandemic-corrective festivals already over the past 10 months, a lot of critics and journalists were already familiar with the drill: log on instead of line up, chat with your …

Dustin Diamond, the actor who portrayed lovable nerd Samuel “Screech” Powers across four incarnations of Saved by the Bell, from 1988 to 2000, died Monday after a three-week battle with carcinoma. He was 44. Diamond’s agent, Roger Paul, confirmed the actor’s death to Rolling Stone. “He was diagnosed with this …

Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update returned from its monthlong hiatus to tackle the GameStop stock surge, the opening days of the Biden administration and the Capitol insurrection. “A lot has happened since our last show. The inauguration, that was nice. Christmas, I like Christmas. And hey, the terrorist watch list …