Amazon has unveiled the new trailer for the much-anticipated second season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the streaming service’s Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy Award-winning show about a stand-up comedienne in the 1950s. Emmy-winning Rachel Brosnahan portrays Midge, the titular comedian whose journey from Jewish housewife to the smoky stages of …
Read More »'The Romanoffs' Recap: Scared Silly
A review of “The House of Special Purpose,” this week’s The Romanoffs, coming up just as soon as I blame it on the Method… “I’m sorry, I… I feel like I’m losing my mind here.” -Olivia In conversations with fellow critics about this series, “The House of Special Purpose,” which …
Read More »'Better Call Saul' Season Finale Recap: Winner Takes It All
Better Call Saul Season Four has come to an end. A review of “Winner,” the season finale, coming up just as soon as I get by with one nipple… “You made a mistake, and they are never forgetting it. As far as they are concerned, your mistake, that’s who you …
Read More »'Mr Inbetween' Review: Hit Man Drama Is Fast, Funny and On the Fence About Its Killer
“I wouldn’t say I enjoy hitting people,” Ray Shoesmith explains. “If I hit somebody, I generally got a pretty good reason.” Ray, the main character of the Australian drama Mr Inbetween, which debuts Tuesday on FX (I’ve seen all six episodes) is many things: divorced father to elementary schooler Brit …
Read More »Revisiting Hours: 'Short Cuts,' Altman and the Anti-'Life Itself'
Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s 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: Tim Grierson on Robert Altman’s 1993 celebrity-ensemble feel-bad masterpiece Short Cuts. Because movies are a global …
Read More »'Assassination Nation' Review: Faster, Pussycat! LOL! LOL!
Fear not, ye sensitive viewers who have stumbled into writer-director Sam Levinson’s story of four young women who go from shamed, blamed, framed victims to avenging angels: You’ll get a brief roll-call montage of “trigger warning” alerts before the insanity kicks in. Part PSA and part sneering at the P.C. …
Read More »'The Oath': Ike Barinholtz, Tiffany Haddish Host Violent Thanksgiving in Hilarious Trailer
UPDATE: The Oathpreviewed more of the film’s holiday insanity in an explicit “Red Band” trailer. In the clip, Ike Barinholtz argues wildly with his conservative family members over politics and the validity of Twitter news sources. Ike Barinholtz and Tiffany Haddish navigate familial and societal lunacy in the latest teaser-trailer …
Read More »Ryan Gosling's Neil Armstrong Preps for NASA Mission in New 'First Man' Trailer
Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) weighs the personal risks and societal rewards of NASA’s moon mission in the latest trailer for First Man, director Damien Chazelle’s biopic about the pioneering astronaut. The clip opens with Armstrong singing an appropriate lullaby, “I See the Moon,” to his sleeping daughter, juxtaposed with an …
Read More »'The Sopranos': 10 Best Episodes
We are a little over a month away from the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest TV shows ever made: The Sopranos, which may be the most-copied series since I Love Lucy. Peak TV would not exist without Tony, Carmela, Paulie Walnuts and friends. In the course of writingThe …
Read More »'Castle Rock' Recap: Children of the Scorn
Things are getting a little strange in Castle Rock. Granted, there’s been no shortage of oddness in the show so far: the guy who decapitated himself with his own car; a feral kid convict found kept in a cage; the occasional dog corpse in a suitcase or container filled with …
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