The way Focus Features kept cancelling scheduled screenings of The Little Stranger made me think it had a stiff on its hands. Hardly. Though this meditation on the past — disguised as a haunted-house thriller — has its faults, the film is better than most of the junk cluttering the …
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Former Vice President Joe Biden remembered his enduring friendship and bond with John McCain at a memorial for the late Senator in Phoenix, Arizona Thursday. In a nod to their relationship, which crossed partisan lines, Biden opened his speech with the line,“My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democrat. And I …
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The 1975 frontman Matt Healy poses and dances with fans in the band’s new “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME” video. The clip cycles through colorful backdrops as young people mug for the camera and sing along with the thumping synth-pop track. The recently released “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME” is the second official single from the 1975’s upcoming …
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Critical and popular favorites come back on the scene (The Deuce! The Good Place! American Horror Story!); buzzy new series show off some famous faces (Jim Carrey! Lil Rel Howery! The grotesque facemasks of The Purge!); and — saints preserve us — Paddy’s Pub re-opens for business. Here’s what you …
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Mahershala Ali is on the case in the upcoming third season of True Detective in a new teaser trailer released by HBO Sunday night. The Oscar-winning actor stars in the new season of the anthology series, which premieres in January 2019, alongside Mamie Gummer, Stephen Dorff, Scoot McNairy and Carmen …
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In the fall of 1968, Wayne Kramer saw his dreams come true when Elektra Records came to Detroit and signed his band, the MC5. “This was the deal I was looking for,” he writes in his new memoir The Hard Stuff, “with a very hip label that had pockets deep …
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For more than 25 years, Christy Mirack’s murder was shrouded in mystery — longer than the beloved Pennsylvania schoolteacher was alive. Mirack was found dead in her home just a few days before Christmas 1992, strangled and badly beaten, her clothes askew as if she had been sexually assaulted. The …
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Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at age 76, recorded more than 40 full-length albums in her six-decade career. It’s a deep catalog, crowded with indisputable classics and hidden gems. Rolling Stone’s music staff is paying its R.E.S.P.E.C.T.s to the Queen with tributes to our favorite Aretha LPs. Next …
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Carrie Underwood will release her sixth studio album Cry Pretty on September 14th. On Monday, she shared the new release’s complete track listing and songwriting credits. Underwood wrote nine of the tracks on Cry Pretty, including the powerful title cut, which she penned with Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna and Liz …
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Over two years after a Rihanna-approved documentary was first announced, director Peter Berg revealed that the film could arrive within months. In April 2016, Berg – whose action film Mile 22 arrived Friday – said he was at work on a Rihanna film modeled after D.A. Pennebaker’s legendary Bob Dylan …
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