Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci recreate the story of long-lost union boss Jimmy Hoffa in the gripping new trailer for Martin Scorsese‘s long-awaited crime drama The Irishman. The film will premiere at the New York Film Festival, September 27th, before it is released on Netflix and in …
Read More »See Josh Homme Join Raconteurs for 'Blue Veins,' Via Surreptitiously Fan-Shot Footage
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme made a surprise appearance at the Raconteurs‘ Los Angeles performance Friday night, joining the band for an extended version of “Blue Veins.” Where the original track was only about four minutes on the Raconteurs’ debut, Broken Boy Soldiers, Homme and Jack White …
Read More »After a Dive in the Atlantic, Elton John's 'I'm Still Standing' Video Is Finally Restored
Elton John has released digitally-restored footage of the “I’m Still Standing” music video, which was shot at Carlton Beach in Cannes, France 36 years ago. Directed by Russell Mulcahy in 1983, the original film suffered when Mulcahy and his camera fell off the beach’s pier and into the ocean. After …
Read More »How Do You Follow Up 'Old Town Road?' If You're Lil Nas X, You Don't Try
Ryan Tedder has written songs for some of the most popular artists in the world: Beyoncé, Adele, Taylor Swift. Still, he’s never had an experience quite like the first time he hit the studio with Lil Nas X. “He was holding a bunch of horse balloons that his label had …
Read More »Bonnaroo, Griz Pay Tribute to Dr. John at Eclectic SuperJam
Griz is bursting with energy, smiling ear to ear with eyes wide as saucers when he sits down with Rolling Stone in the Bonnaroo press compound on Friday. Forty-five minutes earlier the relentlessly ebullient singer, MC, saxophone player and all around entertainer (real name Grant Kwiecinski) was getting as turnt …
Read More »'I'm Just Sick of Zombies, Man': Jim Jarmusch on 'The Dead Don't Die'
There are dozens of filmmakers who get giddy at the thought of orchestrating an army of extras, all made up to look as if the flesh is rotting on their bones, all shuffling forward as if battling rigor mortis, all moaning and grasping and jaws chomping in anticipation. Jim Jarmusch …
Read More »Six Things We Learned About 'Dark Phoenix' and the X-Men Franchise
It’s a simple story, more or less: Girl meets boy, girl’s mutant powers multiply to galaxy-eating levels, girl turns evil and glow-y. But telling the saga of Dark Phoenix, centered on the corruption of X-Men member Jean Grey, has somehow always been a fraught task. Even in the original comic-book …
Read More »R.I.P. Apple's iTunes: Remembering the Best, Worst and Wackiest Moments
The iTunes brand is no more. Nearly two decades after introducing the world to the digital store-library hybrid, Apple announced at its annual global developers conference on Monday that it will shutter the iTunes software this fall, replacing it with three standalone programs for music, television and podcasts. While core …
Read More »Court Blocks Chunk of Border Wall Funds, Citing Trump's Remarks as a Reason
President Donald Trump‘s attempts to fund his much-touted border wall were thwarted, at least partially, by a Friday evening ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam in Sierra Club v. Trump, Politico reported. The Sierra Club took Trump to court after he declared a national emergency and tried to …
Read More »Watch Stephen Colbert, James Corden Celebrate 'Game of Thrones' Finale
Stephen Colbert and James Corden marked the end of Game of Thrones on their respective late-night programs Monday. Colbert opened The Late Show with an “extended” version of Brienne of Tarth’s controversial final scene, in which she plays up Jaime Lannister’s exploits in the Book of Brothers, despite the way …
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