This post contains full spoilers for GLOW Season Three, which Netflix released on Friday. In the closing moments of GLOW‘s third season, Britney Young’s Carmen announces plans to leave the show-within-the-show because, she says, “I want to wrestle, and I can’t do that here anymore.” Carmen’s in a unique position …
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In 1992, MTV premiered an ambitious, new social experiment: the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house and have their lives taped to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. Soon after its debut, The Real Worldwas a bonafide hit. …
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In baseball and comedy, the term “screwball” has roughly the same meaning — something that breaks in a wildly unexpected direction. Or a series of them, in the case of director Billy Corben’s new documentary Screwball, which shines a light on the comedy of errors that led to the 2013 …
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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’s last-column-of-2018 edition: David Fear on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s J-horror cyber-nightmare Pulse. “Would you …
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For most of the last 20 years, HBO has been the player the rest of the TV business was chasing and imitating. But a recent meeting between the current head of HBO and one of his new corporate bosses from AT&T suggests the cable giant may soon be following someone …
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Standing in the corner of A24’s office, amid the bustle of the film distribution company’s normal workday chaos, is a pale young man sipping a smoothie. Tucked away from the various publicity folks and vice presidents and other indie-movie mover-and-shaker types talking frantically into their phones, he stands out. Maybe …
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Margot Kidder came to Morocco looking for adventure. She hadn’t intended to get into trouble. But not unlike Lois Lane, the comic-book heroine she plays in the Superman movies, she’s prone to dive into things and winds up paying the price. You might say she lacks caution. Kidder was unaware …
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