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Welcome back to the Rolling Stone Everything Index, where we rank the weeks pop-culture power players, based solely on their proximity to unlimited breadsticks. Yes, theres plenty happening in the po…

No one argues that Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson could slide into a base like a man on fire. It was a bitch to tag him out. 42 , the film that details Robinsons groundbreaking start as the first Afri…

In 1762, Rousseau argued that puberty had such fundamental emotional and mental effects that it represented a second birth.'Jon Savage, Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture Maybe Im an undra…

UPDATE: Robin Williams auctioned bicycles brought in more than $600,000, with the highest-bid item, a custom-designed bike by artist Futura 2000, going for $40,000. Eighty-seven of Robin Williams rar…

Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya has a simple explanation for how director Ryan Coogler, 31, got so mind-blowingly talented. Hes an alien, says Kaluuya, who plays WKabi in Cooglers Black Panther, which t…

Being the middle child is a bitch. Same goes for books and movies. By that standard, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire the second film culled from Suzanne Collins bestselling trilogy should be a pla…

On the day of Chelsea Mannings release from prison, Pulse Films announced at the Cannes Film Festival that a documentary about the whistleblower and her adjustment into post-incarceration life is in …

Three episodes ago, Nucky, after cleaning up Willie s little chemistry mishap, made a prescient remark: The only thing you can count on is blood. He meant it in the sense of family, but there has be…

Filmmaker Greg Whiteley was given total control over his documentary Mitt which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival so long as he promised not to release any footage until after the 2…

A kick in the ass to Valentines Day and the very notion of a satisfying Somewhere In Time kind of romantic wallow at the movies. What happens to Mark Helprins 1983 bestseller at the hands of Hollywo…

Dirty cops. The Russian mob. Superhero masks. Severed heads. A heist gone bloody wrong. Those are just a few of the elements that go into making Triple 9 a crime caper like no other. It helps that th…

Whats shaking this week in the world of trailers, you ask? How about the first official clip of the new live-action Spider-Man movie; a look at the next season of IFCs brilliant parody series Documen…

Back in January of this year, in the middle of the viral #OscarsSoWhite fiasco and an increasingly heated national discussion on race in America, a movie premiered at Sundance that ended up becoming …

So youve caught up with all of the big-name Oscar-nominated films and are ready to move past the dead zone that is January at the movies what do you have to look forward in February? Theres a gangst…

Talk about a hard act to follow: Landline brings together the same sublime actress (Jenny Slate) and filmmaker (Gillian Robespierre) who put a sting in the tail of every joke in Obvious Child, their…

If you hide inside an elephants vagina, the boy elephant whos fucking her is likely to splooge all over you. For that and other bits of carnal comic knowledge, thank Sacha Baron Cohen. The Cambridge-…

Guillermo del Toros upcoming sci-fi epic Pacific Rim envisions a future where soldiers wield giant mechs to battle titanic extraterrestial monsters. Fitting, Iron Man and Game of Thrones composer …

When Kevin Bartini first proposed renaming a stretch of 121st Street in New York for the late George Carlin (who grew up on the block), he went to a hearing and fielded complaints from 30 elderly chu…

Step up for an indie tour de force. Shot on an iPhone 5 for practically no money, Tangerine jumps off the screen and wows you like nobody's business. Transgender actresses Mya Taylor and Kitana …

After Earth merits comparison with 2000s Battlefield Earth , John Travoltas godawful film tribute to the sci-fi novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Yes, its that bad. This time poor, ravage…