If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. To mark the 60th anniversary of the band, BBC’s four-part rockuseries My Life as a Rolling Stonetakes an in-depth look into the group’s charismatic members, and is set …
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They were two actors, who happened to briefly meet in the New York office of their mutual manager; the beautiful blonde from Georgia said she initially “hated him,” what with this blue-eyed Greek god looking so damned gorgeous in his seersucker suit. But let’s not kid anybody — it was …
Read More »Machine Gun Kelly's Rocky Rise Explored in New 'Life in Pink' Documentary Trailer
Machine Gun Kelly goes deep in his upcoming documentary Life in Pink. On Thursday, Hulu released the first trailer for the film, which is set to showcase the rapper turned singer’s ascent to becoming “this generation’s most polarizing rockstar.” “My life wasn’t always like this,” says the musician, born Colson …
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About eight years ago, Ricki Lake and her producing partner Abby Epstein resolved to turn a critical eye on hormonal birth control. Their previous documentary, 2008’s The Business of Being Born, emphasized the risks and expense of giving birth in a hospital. This new project would apply that same medical …
Read More »Sheryl Crow Breaks Down Her New Documentary 'Sheryl' on 'Rolling Stone on Twitch'
Multi-Grammy award winning superstar Sheryl Crow stopped by Rolling Stone’s Twitch channel this past week to talk about her new documentary Sheryl and three new songs on it’s accompanying soundtrack. Sheryl has been in the works for a while, but Sheryl herself indicated in this interview that she was very …
Read More »Sheryl Crow's Music Has Been Pretty Laid Back. Her Life Hasn't Always Been.
In the music world, it’s pretty much a given that the mellower the artist, the more troubled he or she may be — think of the demons lurking behind those all those languid guitar strums or yacht-rock tempos. (See: the Doobie Brothers.) And thanks to the new documentary Sheryl, which …
Read More »'Really High Highs and Real Low Lows:' Showtime Announces Sheryl Crow Doc
A look inside Sheryl Crow‘s life — from navigating her “arduous musical career” to facing “depression, cancer, and the price of fame” — is heading to Showtime on May 6. On Friday, Showtime released the official trailer for the film, which features interviews with the likes of Keith Richards, Joe …
Read More »Sheila Nevins Is the Godmother of Modern Documentaries — and She's Not Done Yet
Within approximately six minutes of welcoming a stranger into her sleekly appointed Chelsea penthouse, while graciously hanging a coat and ambling into the kitchen for two bottles of water, Sheila Nevins, documentary producer extraordinaire, has rifled through several current topics of interest, her mind serving them up like a lotto …
Read More »'Homeroom' Examines a Tumultuous, Unpredictable Senior Year
Peter Nicks’s Homeroom, which is now streaming on Hulu, is the third entry in the director’s “Oakland Trilogy,” which began in 2012 with the healthcare-centered The Waiting Room and reached its midpoint with 2017’s The Force, a close-up view of the Oakland police. Homeroom’s focus is on Oakland High School’s …
Read More »The Best Movies We Saw at Sundance 2021
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 …
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