Every month offers a variety of intriguing new shows and returning favorites. And then there’s this February, which sees everything from the long-awaited return of Bob Odenkirk’s shifty lawyer Saul Goodman to Al Pacino tracking down Nazis in ’70s New York. There’s also a documentary about a long-running fast-food scam, …
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“This is probably not something I should be saying to you, but this movie, strictly speaking, does not need to exist.” This was Vince Gilligan, late in a long phone conversation about El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Despite having created one of the greatest TV series ever, and its …
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It’s hot as hell on the set of The Good Place. The wickedly smart NBC comedy about a group of misfits struggling to make their way through the afterlife largely takes place in its own version of Satan’s domain. The show’s central neighborhood looks like a pastel paradise filled with …
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Farewell, President Selina Meyer. Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ brilliantly monstrous Commander-in-Chief signed off last night in the excellent Veep series finale, going out the way she came in: making a nation gasp in horror. In one last hilarious power grab for the White House, she sells out every principle she ever pretended …
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Because man can not live on Marvel superheroes alone, May is gifting us some strange blockbuster creatures: a wisecracking genie, a lightning-shooting rodent gunshoe, a three-headed dragon monarch fighting everybody’s favorite giant green lizard. Plus: Elton John gets the biopic treatment, John Wick gets even more revenge, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels …
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The guy in the suit is always there, sitting in a booth in the back of restaurant or at a table in a nightclub. Maybe he’s popping out of an alleyway or from behind a tree in the woods, or perhaps strolling into living rooms and crime scenes. His speech …
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When Coachella released its 2019 lineup poster, one name in near-microscopic print, buried under the likes of Weezer and Childish Gambino, confused a few people: Idris Elba. The British actor is famous for his leading role on The Wire and the BBC crime drama Luther, but few Americans know about …
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What’s shakin’ regarding our brand new trailers this week? We’ve got the return of Disney‘s airborne pachyderm; the return of a Stephen King fan-favorite and a pint-sized slasher-flick icon; and the return of one of Blaxploitation mother … sorry, we’re now being told by a trio of back-up singers to …
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What happens when the family that has everything loses it all and is forced to start over… in a town called Schitt’s Creek… without a paddle. That’s the premise of Schitt’s Creek, the slow-simmering sleeper hit created by Eugene Levy and his son, Daniel, which is now in Season Five. …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week: Amy Nicholson on Gus Van Sant‘s media-saturation satire To Die For. …
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