For Zack Snyder, a win is a win. Earlier this year, Rolling Stone uncovered a WarnerMedia report revealing that fans used bots and other inauthentic users to boost the campaign for the release of the director’s four-hour-long cut of Justice League. The bots were allegedly part of a social media …
Read More »'The Masked Singer' Reveals Controversial NBA Player
THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer. As Trolls Band Together characters Poppy and Branch searched for clues, sang to ‘NSync and slept during a special Trolls-themed episode of The Masked Singer, a new pink-haired creature was unmasked. NBA champion Metta Sandiford-Artest, the man …
Read More »'Carmen' Is the World's Horniest Perfume Ad Starring Paul Mescal
Opera lovers flock to performances in order to be thrilled, aroused, overjoyed, moved to tears. Ditto disciples of dance, musical-theater fanatics, and — the worst, most masochistic, and unrepentant art-rush addicts of them all — moviegoers. Georges Bizet’s Carmen shocked audiences when it premiered in 1875 in Paris; eventually, his …
Read More »Brooke Shields Bravely Confronts Her Own Childhood Sexual Exploitation
To say that Brooke Shields was objectified during her early years would be the understatement of the century. It is hard to fathom how any of it happened, or how anyone thought it was OK, through a contemporary lens — nude modeling at 10 years old, branded “the world’s youngest …
Read More »Ariana Grande and Maren Morris Are 'Gagging' Over RuPaul's Drag Race's New Queens in Trailer
Hold on to your wigs, and apply that lipstick because RuPaul‘s Drag Race is back! On Monday, the beloved drag queen competition released its official trailer for Season 15, boasting a star-studded list of guest judges. Among the celebrity guest judges are Ariana Grande, who’ll join the queens on the …
Read More »'Vengeance' Will Make You Want to Punch B.J. Novak in the Face — in a Good Way
It’s a wonder more fish-out-of-water comedies aren’t about journalists. Being an outsider is, in many versions of the job, central to the task. Disaster strikes, you helicopter in, vacuum up the details, organize them, spit them out with a handsome lede, helicopter out. Or, in the case of Vengeance’s Ben …
Read More »How to Watch 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' on Disney+: Stream the New 'Star Wars' Series Online
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Star Wars has been around for decades yet the franchise keeps getting better and better. Disney+ consistently rolls out new Star Wars TV shows, all of which have …
Read More »John Oliver Knows Your Rent Is Too Damn High and Wants to Do Something About It
John Oliver began his main story by defining housing in the United States as “the thing that 16-year-old TikTok millionaires can afford, and you can’t.” This week’s episode of Last Week Tonight only got more infuriating from there. More than a third of U.S. households are currently renters, which is …
Read More »'Crimes of the Future': David Cronenberg Returns to His Sexy, Sticky Body-Horror Past
A man lies sleeping in his bed, tossing and turning. Well, “bed” doesn’t quite describe it: more like an organic cocoon cleaved in half, suspended from the ceiling by stringy, sinewy tentacles. The gent squirming around inside this pituitary gland-like pod is haggard but handsome, silver-maned, eyebrowless; if it weren’t …
Read More »Kevin Spacey Says He'll 'Voluntarily Appear' in U.K. to Face Sexual Assault Charges, Is 'Confident' He'll Win
Kevin Spacey said he’s “confident” he will beat the multiple charges of sexual assault that were filed against him in the United Kingdom last week. In a statement shared with Rolling Stone via his lawyer, Spacey said he would “voluntarily appear” in the U.K. to face the charges. Spacey is …
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