Jennifer Coolidge has lived many lives on screen, one of her latest being in Netflix‘s upcoming film We Have a Ghost. Judging by her fear-stricken reaction to seeing an actual ghost, the psychic medium she plays, Judy Romano, is the kind of supernatural communicator who hopes they never actually have …
Read More »Rising Star Jordy Reimagines Nine Days' 'Story of a Girl' With a Queer Twist (and the Band Is All In!)
When John Hampson of Nine Days heard that someone wanted to interpolate his band’s biggest hit “Absolutely (Story of a Girl),” he was “a bit apprehensive.” “After all, I did end up marrying ‘the girl’ [it’s about],” he tells Rolling Stone. “So the song means something special to me beyond …
Read More »Reanimated 'Dead Space' Is a Gruesome Body Horror Nightmare
Like it or not, we’re firmly entrenched in a sea of video game remakes. With the success of 2022’s The Last of Us Part I and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion, alongside the upcoming Resident Evil 4, it’s clear that the trend is here to stay. But if there’s …
Read More »'Past Lives' Is a Sundance Marvel — and the First Great Film of 2023
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival proved to be the last major movie event before Covid-19 knocked the Earth off its axis. More than merely washing the bad taste of Cats out of our mouths, the fest — which ran from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2 — showcased a plethora of …
Read More »They Fought for Diversity in Gaming. Then the Abuse Began
FOR ASHLEY JOHNSON, the chance to be a voice actor in the post-apocalyptic video game The Last of Us Part II was both a risk and irresistible. It was her first gig as a video-game protagonist, as her character, Ellie, moved up from a supporting role. But Part II wasn’t …
Read More »Hulu's 'The 1619 Project' Is the American History the GOP Wants Us to Forget
In the first episode of Hulu’s new docuseries The 1619 Project, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones strolls in her Air Jordans down a picturesque path in Williamsburg, Virginia. With the help of Woody Holton, a Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, Hannah-Jones explores how slaves in Virginia …
Read More »Bernie Taupin Announces 'Nonlinear' Memoir 'Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, And Me'
For the past five decades, Bernie Taupin has remained mostly silent while his larger-than-life songwriting partner, Elton John, told their incredible saga from his own perspective, including in the pages of his 2019 autobiography Me. That’s going to change on Sept. 12 when Taupin releases his own book, Scattershot: Life, …
Read More »Hailey Whitters Revels in Being 'Everything She Ain't' on 'Kimmel'
Hailey Whitters made her late-night television debut on Wednesday, visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform her single “Everything She Ain’t.” The clever tune appears on Whitters’ third solo album Raised, which Rolling Stone named its favorite country album of 2022. Backed by a small band that included a fiddler and …
Read More »Watch Hardy and Lainey Wilson Bring 'Wait in the Truck' to 'Fallon'
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon welcomed Nashville musicians Hardy and Lainey Wilson to the stage on Wednesday night for a moving performance of their collaboration “Wait in the Truck.” Off Hardy’s latest album The Mockingbird & The Crow, the harrowing ballad finds the pair playing the roles of a …
Read More »'Teen Wolf: The Movie' Is Its Own Worst Enemy
“We’ve heard plenty of stories about teenage werewolves. There’s always a new one.” It’s an ending quip made by Dr. Conrad Fenris (John Posey), an expert on lycanthropy and the on-again, off-again director of Eichen House, a supernatural prison/insane asylum set in the mysterious Southern California town of Beacon Hills …
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