If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s time to go backstage with the Boss. The New Jersey rock legend and his band of fifty years aren’t slowing down any time soon in the original …
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The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by National Geographic delves into the study and features firsthand accounts from the original “guards” and “prisoners,” many speaking …
Read More »'The Last of the Sea Women' Is a Stirring Chronicle of a Dying Culture
Around 37 minutes into The Last of the Sea Women, Sue Kim’s stunning documentary now streaming on Apple TV+, Woo Jeong-min dives into a sea so dark that its teal depths look almost solid. As she drifts toward an unseen seabed, you get the sense she might disappear entirely — …
Read More »'Pavements' Is Exactly the Type of WTF Rock Doc the Band Deserves
Alex Ross Perry was approached to make a documentary about Pavement. There was a slight hitch: The band kinda sorta did not want a documentary made about them. Or rather, they didn’t want one of those things where fans of the band talk about how amazing the quintet were, in …
Read More »Barbra Streisand Will Open Up Her Personal Archives for Multi-Part Documentary
Barbra Streisand has announced an in-the-works, multi-part documentary that will delve into her personal archives and chronicle her storied career. The singer/actress/activist has teamed with fellow EGOT-winning producer Frank Marshall and documentarian Alex Gibney on the project, with Streisand providing “hundreds of hours of personal, never-before-seen video, photographs, audio recordings, …
Read More »6 Things We Learned From Demi Lovato's New Documentary 'Child Star'
A generation of kids (myself included) grew up with Demi Lovato on their TVs. They watched as an eight-year-old Lovato painted shapes and counted kittens in her first acting gig, on the PBS series Barney & Friends. A few years later, they belted the lyrics to “This is Me” during …
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Following disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’arrest this week amid a wave of sexual abuse lawsuits against him, a new docuseries based on Rolling Stone‘s in-depth reporting on the self-proclaimed Bad Boy has been announced. The documentary will be produced for Investigation Discovery by Maxine Productions (Quiet on Set: The …
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For a few days, Trey Parker was self-admittedly “giddy.” The co-creator of South Park, one half of the duo behind the Broadway juggernaut The Book of Mormon and the man who wrote the immortal lyric “A-mer-i-ca!/ Fuck yeah!”, was going to take his nieces and nephews to a restaurant in …
Read More »'Chimp Crazy' Star Tonia Haddix Would Change (Almost) Nothing
Tonia Haddix says she never wanted the limelight. Small monkeys screech in the background as the exotic animal broker tells Rolling Stone that she’s frustrated by the whole media circus that has descended upon her life after being the “unwitting” star of HBO’s latest docuseries Chimp Crazy. “I don’t want …
Read More »'Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos' Looks Back at the Iconic Mob Series — and the Man Who Made It
“I really regret the amount of fucking verbiage from this morning,” the man in Dr. Jennifer Melfi’s office says. “Who gives a shit, about all these personal questions?” While this could easily be a quote from Dr. Melfi’s most infamous patient, New Jersey wiseguy Tony Soprano, it is in fact …
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