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Musical activism is nothing new. Think of Jimi Hendrix protesting the Vietnam War at Woodstock with his distorted, electronic take on the “Star-Spangled Banner.” So it should come as no surprise that the most contentious political issue of our time — the ongoing war in Gaza — is being voiced, debated and fought over on stages at music festivals and in clubs worldwide.

On the festival circuit, artists condemning Israel or calling for a “free Palestine” have become as common as a chorus sing-along. Pop stars — Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, The Weeknd, Olivia Rodrigo, and many more — regularly take to social media to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in the region. Groups like DJ for Palestine and Ravers for Palestine have injected activism into the club scene.

The pro-Palestinian views espoused by many musical artists appear to be popular with their young, mostly left-wing audiences — the recent Glastonbury...

There are names that function less as identifiers and more as incantations. For a certain stretch of time in a certain city, the words “Ron Delsener Presents” were such a phrase. Stamped on newsprint and ticket stubs, they were a promise of passage into a fleeting world of sound and fury.

Jake Sumner’s documentary is an excavation of that promise, a portrait of the man who was its source. Yet the film is not a simple biography. It is a chronicle of an era’s slow fade, charting the path of live music from a thing of personal alchemy to a creature of corporate mechanics.

It captures the story of an industry’s soul, seen through the eyes of the man who first gave it a tangible, electrifying form, only to witness its inevitable transformation.

An Architect of Noise

The film introduces Ron Delsener as a man animated by...

Terry Reid, the artists’ artist who was revered by the likes of Aretha Franklin and Mick Jagger, and nearly became the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, has died, The Guardian reports. He was 75.

A rep for the British musician confirmed his death. An exact cause of death was not given, though Reid had been battling cancer and other health issues. A recent GoFundMe said Reid had been “in and out of the hospital, enduring rounds of treatment and uncertainty,” forcing him to cancel a six-week tour scheduled for the fall.

Upon releasing Renaissance in 2022, Beyoncé let it be known that it was the first of a three-part musical reclamation series. The first album celebrated the Black, queer origins of dance music, fusing disco and house into a celebratory LP dedicated to her Uncle Johnny, who helped make some of her earliest stage costumes. Act II was Cowboy Carter, a country and Americana opus that was born out of the backlash she received in 2016 for performing her Lemonade-era country song “Daddy Lessons” with fellow Texan singers the Chicks at the CMAs.

For anyone who saw A Complete Unknown and wondered how close it resembled the actual Newport Folk Festival where Bob Dylan amped up his music, a new documentary will help answer that question.

Among the many films just announced as part of the annual Venice Film Festival in September is Newport & the Great Folk Dream, which documents the legendary (and ongoing) festival in the pivotal folk-to-rock years between 1963 and 1966. The doc includes footage of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band — some of it from the same...

In the annals of hallowed movie scores, John Williams boasts the Holy Trinity of Jaws, Star Wars, and Superman. And woe be unto any composer that strives outdo those immortal soundtracks — particularly if they try to put their own stamp on one of the reigning gods of movie music.

That's a risk that John Murphy and David Fleming were both well aware of when James Gunn persuaded them to collaborate on the score for his relaunch of the Man of Steel's feature film franchise. Past Superman revivals have handled the challenge in different ways. John Ottman's score for 2006's Superman Returns didn't mess with success, preserving the Williams title anthem with little to no changes. But Hans Zimmer left the "Superman March" out of his score for 2013's Man of Steel — one of many controversial departures that movie made from the template established the Christopher Reeve films.

James...

New Regency has hired Colin Greten as Vice President of Film in an ongoing expansion of its leadership team and global footprint.

The company recently added Tesha Crawford as EVP, Head of International Television.

Greten, who reports to Natalie Lehmann, president of Motion Pictures and Television, was most recently a creative production executive at Disney-owned 20th Century Studios. He joins during a period of growth for New Regency as the company builds out a slate of high-profile film and TV projects, including Blood Meridian based on the Cormac McCarthy novel, written by John Logan and directed by John Hillcoat; Watch Dogs, an adaptation of Ubisoft’s best-selling video game franchise starring Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde; and Psycho Killer, written by Andrew Kevin Walker and starring Georgina Campbell. Additional recent and upcoming titles include Steve McQueen’s Blitz (Apple TV+); The Bikeriders (Focus Features), untitled Elon Musk documentary from Alex Gibney (HBO); 2073,...

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You’ve collected every album from your favorite band on vinyl, scored tickets to their shows over the years, and know every lyric by heart. The only thing missing? A classic band tee to prove you’ve been a fan since day one.

If you’re looking for a vintage-inspired option and happen to have an Amazon Prime membership (or sign up for a free 30-day trial), Amazon...

As HBO Max returns from the dead, a cult classic ‘80s comedy with a great soundtrack sneaks into the re-branded streaming service’s top 10.

Perhaps ‘80s nostalgia was behind Warner Bros. Discovery putting the “HBO” back in Max. Though HBO is indeed still around, the network now known for prestige TV shows reached the height of its importance as a pure movie channel in the 1980s, and has strongly pleasurable associations for those who grew up watching it in that decade.

Why the nostalgia-loaded “HBO” was ever dropped from the original HBO Max name indeed remains a puzzling question. But two years after the service’s moniker was shortened to simply “Max,” the “HBO” has been restored to its rightful place.

It seems appropriate that, at the very time Wbd is re-embracing the HBO brand, a movie has made it into the streamer’s top 10 that would've played endlessly on...

In a career immersed in rock & roll photography, the late Jim Marshall was long associated with certain iconic images: Johnny Cash flashing his middle finger at San Quentin, Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo walking the streets of Greenwich Village, Jimi Hendrix thrusting his left arm out during his soundcheck for Monterey Pop.

But Marshall’s ongoing documentation of the Grateful Dead embodied a unique bond between photographer and subject. Marshall, who moved back to his native San Francisco in 1964 after two years in New York, met the band soon after it formed.

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Some concerts are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. There was Queen performing at Live Aid in 1985, Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which over ten million people attended. Now, we have Dolly Parton’s Las Vegas residency, which is officially coming to Caesars Palace in December.

Titled Dolly: Live in Las Vegas, this will be the Queen of Country’s first time returning to Sin City since...

Lukas Nelson has been promoting his new album, American Romance, with a string of press appearances. On Monday, he performed the title track on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and followed it up on Tuesday with an interview and performance on The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM.

Nelson played “All God Did” on Stern, a rambunctious dissertation on good, evil, and spiritual enlightenment. But it was his candid recollections of growing up as the son of Willie Nelson that were particularly compelling.

Stern asked him if there was a...

There is a strange mythos in popular culture surrounding the notion of dying young. James Dean was a fan of the phrase "Live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse," and it proved prophetic when he died in a car wreck at the age of only 24. In the world of music, Mott the Hoople opened "All the Young Dudes" with references to suicide ("Don't want to stay alive when you're 25") and the infamous "27 Club" -- an unofficial collection of famous people who died at age 27 -- features illustrious rock 'n' roll stars like Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain. It's a weird mix of tragedy and romanticism, but in reality, it sucks to die at any age -- especially when you're in the prime of life. Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro tackled that subject from a very different angle in his heartbreaking novel "Never Let Me Go,...

With summer time upon us, it is fitting to begin with the most sun-drenched feature of Wes Anderson’s career, followed by a gem from J. Hoberman, an essential biography of James Gandolfini, and plenty more to read while working on your tan.

The Wes Anderson Collection: Asteroid City by Matt Zoller Seitz (Abrams)

The Wes Anderson Collection from Matt Zoller Seitz and the folks at Abrams is, quite simply, an indispensable series for film lovers. In fact, one of the (many) joys of seeing a new Anderson creation is the knowledge that, a few months later, we will have a new Wes Anderson Collection release to break it all down. An Asteroid City deep dive is especially useful, as the 2023 film is one of the director’s most ambitious. As film historian David Bordwell astutely points out in his foreword, Asteroid’s two storylines––a 1955 black-and-white TV program and a widescreen color film––“mark,...

Multi Oscar winning producer New Regency has entered into a partnership with Los Angeles investment firm Shamrock Capital, whose Shamrock Content Strategy is taking a participation in the studio’s 35-year-old plus film and television library.

In addition, a standalone production credit facility was entered into by New Regency’s production arm to borrow in connection with new film, television, and media projects—including building on its past IP to create innovative content, alongside a new credit facility supporting its library. These credit facilities are provided by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

The partnership with Shamrock relates solely to the New Regency library participation and will not be used to fund the production arm. Also note, Shamrock isn’t taking an equity stake here in the New Regency library, rather it’s a long-term commitment in the studio’s library cash flows.

New Regency’s partnership with Shamrock ensures long-term...

Hollywood is paying tribute to Sly Stone after news of the funk-rock pioneer’s death was announced Monday.

Stone died after a “prolonged battle with Copd and other underlying health issues,” his family said Monday.

“Sly passed away peacefully, surrounded by his three children, his closest friend, and his extended family,” his family wrote in a statement. “While we mourn his absence, we take solace in knowing that his extraordinary musical legacy will continue to resonate and inspire for generations to come.”

Sly shot to prominence in the music industry in 1968 alongside his band Sly and the Family Stone with their hit “Dance to the Music,” which landed in the top 10 on both the pop and R&b charts. The group continued to deliver a series of crossover tracks, including “Summer of Love,” including “Stand!,” “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” “Runnin’ Away,” “If You Want Me to Stay” and “Time...

The music industry is mourning Sly Stone. After news broke that the groundbreaking musician had died at 82 on Monday, stars from Questlove and Chuck D to Clairo and Fatboy Slim shared tributes for the star.

Stone’s family announced his death in a statement Monday, writing that his death was due to a “prolonged battle with Copd and other underlying health issues.” The family wrote that he had passed away peacefully, surrounded by his three children, friends, and extended family. “While we mourn his absence, we take solace in knowing...

Imagine, if you will, standing in line for hours covered head-to-toe in full body paint, surviving on overpriced concession food, and shuffling through massive crowds for the fleeting chance to see Robert Downey Jr. wink mid-gum chew. For years, that was the mystique of Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. It wasn't merely a convention room; it was a modern-day coliseum, a rite of passage for the most committed pop culture devotees. Hall H once felt alive — a collective organism of cheers, gasps, and groans erupting in perfect synchronicity. For a few charged hours, before everyone stumbled out sweaty, overstimulated, and high on adrenaline, it was unfiltered nerd nirvana.

But in recent years, the roar has faded to a murmur. Marvel understandably forewent Hall H in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, missed it in 2023 due to the dual strikes, and recently announced that they'll sit out 2025 as well. The throne is vacant — or would be,...

“Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” and “Say Nothing” both take place during the “Me” Decade, but in wildly different worlds. Peacock’s “Fight Night” unfolds in Atlanta in 1970, when Muhammad Ali flew into town and won his comeback fight after a three-year boxing ban, while the country’s most powerful figures in the Black Mafia got robbed at a party celebrating that victory. Across the Atlantic and up through the Irish Sea to Belfast is FX’s “Say Nothing,” which chronicles the Troubles in Northern Ireland beginning in the early ’70s. On one side: suave gangsters led by Samuel L. Jackson’s Frank “the Black Godfather” Moten. On the other: working-class members of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army fighting for a united republic free of British soldiers. Here, we dive into both limited series.

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

Frank “The Black Godfather” Moten and Richard “Cadillac...

When DC’s mysterious Enchantress isn’t casting magical spells on screen, she’s busy casting love spells in real life—and this time, she has totally enchanted a supermodel and musician. Yup, we’re talking about Cara Delevingne, the edgy actress and runway rebel who stole hearts as the Enchantress in Suicide Squad.

Remember, how Amanda Waller controlled her heart in the 2016 film? Well, it turns out, Cara Delevingne’s heart is now safe, and it belongs to a musical goddess—Minke. They are boarding school besties-turned-lovers. Iconic, right? Now, two years strong, the couple is all about love, music, and Pride parades. So let’s learn more about Minke and her relationship with Delevingne.

Who is Cara Delevingne’s girlfriend, Minke?

Cara Delevingne didn’t just fall for anyone—she fell for a literal rockstar. Minke, born Leah Mason, is not just the 32-year-old’s girlfriend—she’s...

For decades, the signature red Gibson guitar that Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) played at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance in Back to the Futurehas been missing. Whether the Gibson Es-345 guitar hitched a ride on a DeLorean remains to be seen.

Per Entertainment Weekly, Gibson is reaching out to fans to help find the instrument from the iconic 1985 film, directed by Robert Zemeckis. The guitar brand has launched a search for the guitar that Marty McFly played Chuck Berry’s "Johnny B. Goode" in one of the film's most memorable scenes. Filmmakers discovered that the guitar had gone missing 40 years ago during the making of Back to the Future Part II. Gibson Films is producing a documentary about the search for the missing guitar titled Lost to the Future.

Lost to the Future will also focus on the impact of the film, specifically Marty McFly's guitar solo and...

Michael J. Fox and Gibson guitars are searching for the cherry red Es-345 guitar that the actor famously played in Back to the Future, which has been missing since the late 1980s.

Fox played the guitar during the film’s pivotal scene at the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance, as his character Marty McFly tried to make sure his high school-aged parents fell in love. Filling in for injured bandleader Marvin Berry (Harry Waters Jr.), Marty rips a rendition of “Johnny B. Goode” (with some hair metal-style solos for good...

Bob Dylan invited Billy Strings onto the stage Thursday night when the Outlaw Music Festival touched down at One Spokane Stadium in Spokane, Washington. They performed a slow, stripped-down version of “All Along the Watchtower” where Dylan once again sang in a remarkably clear and lucid voice.

Strings has been on the road with the Outlaw Music Festival since the opening night on May 13, but this is the first time he’s guested with Dylan. It’s one of the few times Dylan has welcomed another artist from the tour...

Whether you’ve been wailing on the same Superstrat since the Reagan era or just picked up the ukulele after watching the trailer for the new Lilo & Stitch live-action movie (no judgment), there’s never been a better time to level up your guitar gear. And right now, Fender’s throwing an early Memorial Day Sale, and it’s hitting harder than a Pete Townshend windmill — with up to 50% off electrics, acoustics, basses, pedals, and parts.

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Alexa Bliss has been one of the most phenomenal wrestlers in the WWE. She had been immensely successful inside the ring and held many WWE titles in her name.

Bliss was a three-time WWE Raw Women’s champion, a two-time WWE SmackDown champion, and a three-time tag team champion, and there are several accolades to her name.

Though Alexa Bliss is maybe one of the most attractive wrestlers on the roster, she did not date anyone inside the WWE. She dated a musician, and they both are living a happy life together. They married in 2020, and since then the couple has been celebrating their love.

Alexa Bliss’ personal life and information WWE star Alexa Bliss/ Credit: WWE.com

Alexa Bliss got engaged to Ryan Cabrera in 2020. Cabrera is a musician, and he proposed to her at Disneyland. Following the proposal, the couple married in 2022. Since Cabrera was into music, their wedding...

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Over five decades after Jimi Hendrix first rocked the cover of Rolling Stone, fans are finally getting a new chance to celebrate the iconic guitar legend. Launching in June and now available to preorder, Hendrix is getting his very own 2025 Rolling Stone collectible trading card collection for the true music-loving collector.

A Rolling Stone, Authentic Hendrix, and Super Products collaboration, the 2025 Rolling Stone Jimi Hendrix Keepsake Premiere Edition features six specialty cards,...

Yusuf/Cat Stevens has announced his long-awaited memoir, Cat on the Road to Findout, out this fall.

The memoir, which arrives in the U.K. on Sept. 18 and North America on Oct. 7, chronicles Stevens’ life and career. It begins with his upbringing in the West End of London, where he was born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948, and his start as a musician in the Sixties.

His career was briefly put on pause in 1969 when he got tuberculosis and famously spent a year in isolation, writing over 40 songs. Several of those...

The 33 ⅓ audiobook series is coming to Spotify. Rolling Stone can exclusively announce that the streaming platform will add more than 50 music books to the platform from the series, with some featuring additional commentary and introductions from Spotify editors. The titles arrive tomorrow, May 13.

Among the books to be added to the platform are ones on the Beatles’ Let It Be, AC/DC’s Highway to Hell, Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Nirvana’s In Utero, and Radiohead’s Ok Computer, as well as titles about Janet Jackson,...

In case you had any doubts, André 3000 is living his — or anyone’s — best life. Instead of doing what people want or expect, he’s out here following his muse wherever it takes him. In 7 Piano Sketches, he goes for almost literally the last thing you’d predict from one of the greatest rappers ever: 16 minutes of improvised doodles, mostly recorded at home in 2013, with his iPhone sitting on the piano. “I’d rather go amateur interesting than master boring,” André told Rolling Stone last year, and he lives...

The great rock-funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone didn’t just make hits in the 1960s and ‘70s, they made “culture-changing hits,” in the words of no less a figure than record mogul Clive Davis. Hits like “Everyday People,” “Stand!”, “Dance to the Music,” “Family Affair” and “If You Want Me to Stay.”

But if the group released so many incredible songs, why do we remember them now mostly for the personal troubles of bandleader, composer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone? That question underpins the Emmy-contending documentary Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), directed by Oscar winner Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson.

Questlove joins the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to share his observations on what made Sly Stone great and what impelled him to tumble from the mountaintop of rock stardom. It’s got much to do with crushing expectations placed on Black genius (hence his...

Joe Louis Walker, the virtuoso guitarist and electric blues musician whose work captured the breadth of the genre, died late last month. He was 75. Walker’s family confirmed the musician’s death, adding that the cause was cardiac-related illness. He was surrounded by his wife of 16 years, Robin, and two daughters, Leena and Bernice.

Revered by his peers as a “musician’s musician,” Walker enjoyed a lengthy career, during which he worked with artists like Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Mark Knopfler, and Steve Cropper, while earning praise from the likes...

In January 2023, Tablo told Rolling Stone that “another Tablo x Rm collab is in the pipeline.” Fans assumed that this collaboration between the Epik High frontman and the BTS leader would happen sooner rather than later. But two years after the rapper originally hinted about the upcoming song, the artists are ready to share their evocative single, “Stop the Rain,” which will be released at midnight Eastern time on Friday.

“I’ve been holding onto this song for two years,” Tablo tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive Zoom interview from Seoul.

Beyoncé officially kicked off her 2025 “Cowboy Carter” tour in Los Angeles on Monday, the first of five consecutive shows at SoFi Stadium celebrating her Grammy Award-winning album of the same name.

The setlist appropriately leaned heavily on material from Cowboy Carter, with 21 of the 41 songs played coming from Beyoncé’s 2024 album. She notably kicked off the show with the live debut of “Ameriican Requiem” and her version of The Beatles’ “Blackbird,” before singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” set to Jimi Hendrix’s iconic guitar performance. Other songs from Cowboy Carter included “Alligator Tears,” “II Hands II Heaven,” her version of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” “Bodyguard,” and “16 Carriages.”

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Elsewhere in the set, Beyoncé performed past favorites including “Freedom,” “Formation,” “Diva,” “Daddy Lessons,” “Crazy in Love,” “and “Before I Let You Go.”

But as with the case with any Beyoncé concert, the evening was more than just about the music.

At one point during Beyoncé’s 36-song, Western-themed Cowboy Carter tour opener, the words “Never ask permission for something that already belongs to you” were illuminated in red across the massive screen. In many ways, the unapologetic mantra defined Beyoncé’s approach to what some have dismissed as her “country foray.” But instead of reclaiming anything, she celebrated the Black origins of country culture and its evolution.

Beyoncé’s three-hour performance at SoFi Stadium on Monday night was a beast to digest. It also reminded her audience exactly how she...

This article contains Major Spoilers for Sinners, now showing in theaters.

Audiences didn't have to wait too long to find out Sinners had a post-credits sequence. Director Ryan Coogler confirmed that epilogue was first on his priority list: it was his personal tribute to someone important.

Director Ryan Coogler said his late Uncle James was one of the reasons Sinners was made. It was also crucial that they cast blues legend Buddy Guy as the older Sammie in the epilogue. "I wrote what I thought [my uncle] think would be cool," he told Entertainment Weekly. "[Buddy Guy is] the only artist that my uncle would consistently get dressed for and go see a lot." Coogler's uncle grew up in Mississippi, the birthplace of Delta blues; Buddy Guy's style is rooted in the genre. A renowned Chicago bluesman, his musicality inspired Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray, and many other guitar legends.

In the movie's climactic finale,...

Ludwig Göransson never imagined scoring a film about a blues guitar player, let alone with a vintage resonator guitar. But that’s what happened when the Oscar-winning Swedish composer got to stir up the blues for Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” the genre-bending vampire film set in the Mississippi Delta in 1932.

“I grew up with blues around me,” Göransson told IndieWire. ”My dad is a blues guitar player who put a guitar in my hands when I was six and actually wanted to name me Albert after the great Albert King. So this hit close to home.”

It hit close to home for Coogler, too, who has family roots in Mississippi and who wanted to explore the cultural importance of the blues and its supernatural mythology. Taking inspiration from the legend of blues guitarist Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil for musical genius, Coogler offers a fresh spin with...

On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the zodiac had reached their most southerly point — light was dimming on the Summer of Love.

In an unassuming pad at 69 La Espiral St. in Orinda, California, just east of Berkeley, a half dozen hippies were finishing their breakfast. They polished off square portions of steak, eggs, and black coffee. No granola here. They required heartier sustenance to fuel the hard work at hand: mass-manufacturing LSD.

A peaceful winter morning was spoiled, as one person who was there recalls,...

After a couple of delays, Sinners released on April 18, 2025. From watching the trailer and the producers and actors on talk shows, I went into this movie with high expectations. Boy, did it exceed those! Have you ever been to a movie that was So engaging, So suspenseful, and So exciting you couldn’t bring yourself to visit the restroom? That was Sinners for me.

Sinners starts out a bit slow. However, I think that's necessary to set up the background for the story. Michael P. Jordan plays twin brothers — Smoke and Stack — who return home to Mississippi after living in the mob-ruled city of Chicago. It’s implied they abandoned that life for their roots. Now they are focusing on opening a juke joint, counting on success.

Sinners is set in 1932, a time when separation between the races was strictly enforced in the United States. It's an unexpected, fascinating setting for a supernatural movie.

One of the most anticipated movies of 2025, Sinners hopes to push Ryan Coogler into the stratosphere. The director of Black Panther and Creed has already shaken up the industry with his impeccable direction of franchise hits. However, Sinners will be his first non-ip-driven feature since Fruitvale Station. Coogler brings along Michael B. Jordan and an all-star cast to showcase his horror story, and with the budget to establish the period setting, it’s a masterful accomplishment. However, even as an original idea, does Coogler have ideas up his sleeve for launching a new franchise? The mid-credits scene seems to indicate yes.

RelatedSinners Review — An Adrenaline-Fueled Stake Through the Heart Does Sinners have a post-credits scene?

Yes! Sinners has not one, but two scenes playing during and after the credits.

Mid-Credit Scene Explained

We return to the 1990s for the first of Sinners‘ post-credit scenes. Sitting at his bar, an old...

Spoilers for "Sinners" follow.

If you know what's good for you, you'll have savored every last drop of Ryan Coogler's latest and unquestionably greatest work to date with "Sinners," the horror movie that might be the director's biggest box-office gamble to date. Sat somewhere between "From Dusk Till Dawn" and "No Country for Old Men" (which Coogler confirmed he drew from), the Michael B. Jordan spine-chiller culminates in a glorious blend of music, monsters and lost souls arriving right where they need to be, and the best part is that it isn't even the end.

Nowadays, movies with post-credit scenes are often adorned with a Marvel logo, so it's a refreshing change of pace to see one at the end of Coogler's latest. Here, the "Black Panther" director sticks not one but two buttons on the end of "Sinners," both of which hold immense value in the violent and...

Self-Portrait.“Maybe I should have a fall at the end of every film now!”I’m calling to check in with Jerry Schatzberg, who is fresh out of the hospital. Two days earlier, at the opening night of a Museum of Modern Art retrospective of his film career, he had shown his feature debut, Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), released when he was 43 years old. As he climbed the short flight of stairs to the stage for a Q&a, Schatzberg, now 97, lost his balance and tumbled backward. The whole room screamed. Ushers, museum staff, and his assistants came instantly to his side. He did not move. After five silent minutes, everyone was asked to leave. When he was carted out of the MoMA on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance, the crowd that had lingered outside the theater cheered. He waved softly back. Over the phone, Jerry assures me he’s doing fine,...

The president and the richest man on the planet hate Jimmy Kimmel. You would think that would bestow on him a resistance status that at the very least grants a private office in the upper reaches of the Masonic Temple in Hollywood, where Jimmy Kimmel Live! is shot live on tape four nights a week.

This is not the case. The talk-show host’s workspace is very public, with an assistant’s desk next to his and two more staffers peering in from the other side of a large wall of glass,...

Exclusive: Doctor Who and Barbie’s Ncuti Gatwa and A Discovery of Witches and Killing Eve’s Edward Bluemel are headed straight into London’s West End for the European premiere of Liz Duffy Adams’ “cheeky, witty and flirty” play Born With Teeth, about an imagined meeting between bad-boy playwright Christopher Marlowe and a then-up-and-coming William Shakespeare.

The two hotshot Elizabethans were like the rock ‘n’ roll stars of their day. The jewel box Wyndham’s Theatre, the much sought after prestigious playhouse smack in the middle of the W.End, may never recover from the combined firepower of Gatwa and Bluemel, who both graduated with honors from Netflix’s Sex Education, which has of late become something of a finishing school for future stars.

Adams’ play is being directed, fittingly, by Royal Shakespeare Company co-artistic director Daniel Evans, who, as it happens, just completed a run playing Marlowe’s...

Patti Smith’s forthcoming memoir Bread of Angels took a decade to write, and captures “the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime,” according to the singer-songwriter.

In a statement, Smith said that with her new book she hopes “that people will find something they need.” According to a summary of the book, this will be the artist’s “most intimate” memoir yet and follows Smith through her teenage years, journey writing poetry and recording her iconic work such as Horses and Easter, and marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith as they...

Sean Ono Lennon approves of Sam Mendes’ Beatles biopic process. The musician, who is the son of late Beatle John Lennon and artist Yoko Ono, confirmed to Vanity Fair that he has “every confidence” in Harris Dickinson’s ability to portray John Lennon in the buzzy four-part biopic. The full casting for all four Beatles was announced at CinemaCon 2025, with Paul Mescal portraying Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, in addition to Dickinson’s John Lennon.

Each of the four films will center on a different Beatle’s perspective about their rise to fame. Mendes teased that the project will be the first “bingeable” moviegoing experience, with all four films hitting theaters simultaneously in April 2028.

“We are all in touch with Sam,” Lennon told Vanity Fair while promoting documentary “One to One,” adding, “I told him I am not interested in second-guessing his casting choices as a director.

Saturday Night Live paid tribute to Val Kilmer following the Batman Forever star's death last week. The NBC sketch show briefly honored Kilmer during an episode hosted by Jack Black on Saturday (April 5).

A memorial graphic aired before Saturday's final segment, featuring a stylized promo image of Kilmer from his SNL hosting debut on December 9, 2000. One of the most notable moments from that season 26 instalment was an It's a Wonderful Life-themed monologue where Kilmer learned about the disastrous consequences if he'd have turned down hosting the show.

Saturday Night Live Honors the Late Val Kilmer

Kilmer also reprized his role as Jim Morrison from 1991's The Doors for a Behind the Music parody where Morrison formed a psychedelic band in heaven, called The Great Frog Society, with fellow deceased musicians Janis Joplin (Molly Shannon), Jimi Hendrix (Jerry Minor), Keith Moon (Horatio Sanz), Buddy Holly (Jimmy Fallon) and Louis Armstrong...

Val Kilmer wasn’t always the easiest actor to work with. His painstaking attention to detail and immersion into his characters — everyone had to call him “Jim” on the set of The Doors — famously got on the nerves of his films’ cast and crew. But just because he was serious about his work doesn’t mean he took himself seriously. When he hosted Saturday Night Live in 2000, Kilmer proved to have a great sense of humor about his most famous roles.

Take Iceman, the cocky aviator who Kilmer played in both Top Gun and its 2022 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. He took a third crack at the character on SNL, reimagining his iconic role as a gone-to-seed commercial airline pilot still trying to relive his glory days.

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Iceman: The Later Years chronicles the character’s softball-dad years, copiloting a 727 full of tourists but wishing he was still breaking speed records.

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Terry Manning, a noted music producer and recording engineer who worked at Memphis’ Stax Records during a transformative time in pop and R&b, died on March 25 due to a heart aneurysm. He was 77.

Famously affiliated with the Memphis studio, where many hits were recorded by the likes of Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, Booker T. & The Mg’s, Al Green and Sam & Dave, in addition to other influential acts of the 1960s and 1970s, Manning played a key role in the production team for The Staple Singers, working on such classics as “Respect Yourself” and “I’ll Take You There” while at Stax. The melding of the Memphis soul sound with rock and pop was a trademark of his production work, which also marked early and significant commercial collaborations between white and Black musicians.

He went on to work at another iconic studio in the city, Ardent, where Big Star...

Thanks to the proliferation of stan culture and our collective incapability of maintaining an “inside thought,” the internet is a fraught place to be a celebrity. As a result, most of them just don’t do it, leaving their social media presence to a team of interns while they enjoy their money in peace. In the ‘90s and ‘00s, however, nobody knew why it was a bad idea to have a public personal email address or show up on your own fan forums. They also probably hadn’t fully reckoned with the truth often learned rudely that the internet is forever.

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The legendary author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series was the foremost literary authority on the internet before the internet existed, so it didn’t seem weird at all at the time that he logged onto his own fan forum in the early 2000s...