Adam McKay‘s flamethrowing take on the rise and rise of Dick Cheney, played by a truly unrecognizable Christian Bale, is bound to be polarizing. In Vice, the writer-director is tossing grenades every which way — it’s a movie that’s ferociously funny one minute, bleakly sorrowful the next. The see-sawing is …
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In the tense trailer for Netflix action-thriller film Triple Frontier, Ben Affleck and Oscar Isaac lead a team of former Special Forces operatives in a massive heist against a South American drug lord.The clip opens with the five-man crew – Affleck’s Tom “Redfly” Davis, Isaac’s Santiago “Pope” Garcia, Charlie Hunnam’s …
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Stephen Colbert decided “flip the script” for The Late Show‘s pre-filmedThanksgiving break episode on Tuesday, moving to the guest’s chair and answering questions from former Daily Show collaborator Jon Stewart. The former satirical news king jokingly introduced his friend as “the host of The Late Show on CBS…for now” before …
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Logic has been tapped to star in a J.J. Abrams-produced film, Variety reports. Everything Must Go will also be cowritten by the rapper alongside Blackish writer Lisa McQuillan. Billed as a “Clerks for a new generation,” Everything Must Go is among several J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot-produced films that are in …
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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: Alex Pappademas on Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs. In …
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Jon Stewart and Dave Chappelle recently sat down for an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour where they discussed a wide range of topics, including the lead-up to Donald Trump’s presidency, the current climate and they also reflected on how their roles may have been affected by the events. In terms …
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Hervé Villechaize is described early in HBO’s new film My Dinner with Hervé as “the most famous dwarf in the world.” The scene is set a decade after Villechaize’s 1983 firing from his iconic role on Fantasy Island as the bell-ringing Tattoo (“De plane! De plane!”) and two decades after …
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A biopic about the legendary stand-up comic George Carlin is in the works, with the comedian’s estate teaming with a Moneyball screenwriter for the upcoming film. Variety reports that Jerry Hamza, Carlin’s former manager and the executor of his estate, will serve as producer on the untitled project alongside the …
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Over the last year or so, you could go to the movies and/or turn on your TV, and see feature-length docs on Grace Jones, the Tragically Hip, Lady Gaga, Elvis (both an original-recipe cradle-to-grave portrait and an extra-crispy dive into how his decline reflects our current national mindset), Eric Clapton, …
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The first trailer for the upcoming Elton John biopic Rocketman, portrays the singer’s early days at Royal Academy of Music to his rise to pop stardom. Taron Egerton, best known for the Kingsman movies, stars as John and does his own singing in the film. He sings “Rocket Man” in …
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