Warning: Spoilers for Big Little Lies season 2 ahead. The Big Little Lies season 2 finale ended with Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) deciding to turn herself in for pushing Perry down the stairs that fateful night. With the Monterey Five finally freed from their big lie, the story seemed to be at its end; Madeline (Reese […]
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Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite […]
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Tobin Bell returns as the twisted killer Jigsaw in this back-to-basics sequel, which sees him exact revenge on a group of medical scammers preying on the terminally ill. Twenty years ago, Australian filmmakers/sickos Leigh Whannell and James Wan struck gold when they came up with the shockingly simple concept of Saw. Two men with chained […]
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Craig Gillespie offers a look at the 2021 GameStop stock battle between Wall Street and Reddit, but this comedy is a little light on laughs. After coming to prominence with the lovable Ryan Gosling indie from 2007, Lars and the Real Girl, Australian filmmaker Craig Gillespie seems to have found his niche within Hollywood, creating […]
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The prospect of this anniversary issue has been something of an obsession for a number of years now. In the world of print magazines, you’re constantly asking yourself the question: how can we do something special? But something special that’s also achievable with the means at your disposal. Thinking about this issue, the LWLies team […]
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Anger and adoration: Has any paradox better captured a snuffed-out love affair? Because it doesn’t end, not really—the passion forges ahead rudderless. Olivia Rodrigo gets it (and owns it) in her new Guts song “get him back!” which riffs on the dual interpretation of those same words: “get him back” as in restore the relationship, […]
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J.Crew went big for its 40th birthday, marking “40 years of American style” with one of the hottest pre-New York Fashion Week tickets in town. The retailer took over New York City’s scenic Pier 17 rooftop to throw a late summer concert celebration with DJ Amrit and The Strokes performing. Amrit kicked off the night, […]
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On April 10, two weeks ahead of tonight’s Oscars, Promising Young Woman nominee Carey Mulligan hosted Saturday Night Live, and the usually private couple made an appearance together (sort of). During her monologue, Mulligan mentioned that her husband, Marcus Mumford, was at home with their kids, but then—wait a second—Mumford popped up in the back […]
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Michael Mann’s long-awaited Enzo Ferrari biopic is a disappointingly conventional and surprisingly rough portrait of an automotive icon. Michael Mann first floated the idea of creating a film about racing legend Enzo Ferrari over 20 years ago – back then it was an idea he discussed with Sydney Pollack. In 2015 it seemed to be […]
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Olivia Rodrigo dropped the second single from her album Guts, “Bad Idea, Right?,” and its lyrics don’t play subtle: The song is about Rodrigo justifying hooking up with an ex-boyfriend. Which ex, however, is less clear. While Rodrigo has been romantically linked to Joshua Bassett, Zack Bia (the likely subject of her first Guts single […]
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