An odd couple of cops catches a disturbing murder case. The victim is posed in ritualistic fashion, with handmade pagan symbolism left at the scene. Their investigation leads them into dark and depressive corners of the downwardly mobile American South. Years later, questions arise about whether the real killer had …
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Never-before-heard recordings that Ted Bundy made in prison will be featured in the upcoming Netflix docuseries Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. “Get inside the twisted mind of America’s most notorious serial killer in his own words,” Netflix said, calling the 1970s serial killer “Jack the Ripper of …
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Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin search for serenity, purpose and a new place to live in the witty new trailer for their hit Netflix comedy, Grace and Frankie. The Season Five clip opens with the pair discovering that their children have conspired to sell their beloved beach house, partly out …
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Anyone who’s ever cut their teeth on superhero comic-books — whether as a casual prepubescent collector or someone whose reader alter-ego skews a little closer to this — has almost assuredly gone through a Spider-Man phase. Maybe you prefer the Ditko-to-Romitas (Sr. and Jr.) era, or when he changed his …
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Full disclosure: This did not go entirely as planned. When Gary Busey was scheduled to visit the Rolling Stone office last month to talk about his upcoming EP and latest book,Buseyisms, in a soon-to-be-published interview, we asked his team if he’d like to record some conceptual videos alongside a straight …
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If you want the truth about Greek-American opera star Maria Callas, why not get it straight from the diva’s mouth. That’s the refreshing premise of Maria by Callas, a dazzling documentary from Tom Volf that draws from letters, unpublished memoirs, home movies, family photos, performances (far from audio perfection), journals …
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This week: It’s an early look at Netflix‘s dystopic drama du jour starring Sandra Bullock; teasers for not one but two big Amazon shows this season; a pop-eats-itself drama starring Natalie Portman; a look at upcoming TV docs on the N.B.A. and abuse allegations surrounding R. Kelly, respectively; and the …
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John Oliver focused the main segment of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight on the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and Saudi Arabian citizen, and the controversial relationship between those two countries. Khashoggi, whom Oliver described as a “thoughtful and by no means radical critic of the …
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The uncommonly adventurous Maggie Gyllenhaal hits a new career peak with The Kindergarten Teacher, compelling us to understand a woman who maybe doesn’t understand herself. That’s an apt description of her Lisa Spinelli, a Staten Island wife and mother who’s been teaching kindergarten for 20 years — the kind of …
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Saturday Night Live didn’t hesitate to address Brett Kavanaugh‘s appointment to the Supreme Court, which occurred earlier in the day Saturday following a historic and controversial vote. Later that night, SNL‘s cast portrayed the “euphoric” Republican senators as they celebrated in a locker room during the Awkwafina-hosted episode‘scold open. While …
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