Dress, Ralph Lauren Collection, $5,990. Earrings, Schiaparelli, $1,100.Sølve Sundsbø In a black hoodie, her caramel hair corralled into a ballerina bun, Jennifer Lopez is giving her dancers a priceless piece of advice. “Part of being a great performer is being aware,” she tells them. That moment, from her documentary Halftime—which narrates her progress toward her […]
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This summer, Margot Robbie’s Barbie blew up the box office earning over 1.4 billion dollars with Robbie in the titular role. The actress was also a producer on the Greta Gerwig directed project. The movie focuses on the Mattel toy, following her from the fantastical “Barbieland” to the real world after things start to go […]
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Places, please for ELLE’s new column Showstoppers, where theater’s biggest stars reflect upon the moment in their career where the famous phrase “the show must go on” became a little too real. When things don’t go according to plan onstage, here’s how the pros react—and what they take away from it. This month, Shoshana Bean, […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingSpoilers below. The Crown depicts the final hours of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed as a centrifuge of competing interests. This much we know is accurate to life. Dodi wanted to please his father, Mohamed Al-Fayed; Diana wanted to evade the paparazzi and return to her sons; the paparazzi wanted spoils from the money-printing phenomenon […]
Continue ReadingMeghan Markle made a surprise appearance at Variety’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles yesterday, joining Margot Robbie, Emily Blunt, Billie Eilish, and more at the star-filled function. This is one of Meghan’s first red carpets since moving to California years ago, and perhaps a signal that the Duchess of Sussex will be making […]
Continue ReadingNot far into Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Scott Pilgrim, well, takes off. In this new, looser adaptation, created and written by Bryan Lee O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski, the title character is de-centred, leaving his supporting cast to get their own coming-of-age moments in his absence – we see their growth from their perspective and not […]
Continue ReadingSpoilers below. New journeys were waiting at the end of Shadow and Bone season 2. As another chapter closed on Netflix’s adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels, the characters are either changing course or starting anew. That includes Alina and Mal, who part ways to pursue their own callings, and the Crows, who are about […]
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Todd Haynes’ deliciously dark melodrama sees Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman go head-to-head as a housewife and the woman tasked with playing her in a film. Adding melodrama to the seemingly endless list of genres he can turn his hand to, Todd Haynes creates a thorny, completely compelling feature from Samy Burch’s acerbic script in […]
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A few months before turning 30, I conferred with my two best friends who, coincidentally, share the same birth month. To honor the big 3-0, we settled on taking our very first international girls trip together. The destination? Antigua, Guatemala. The city is renowned for its Baroque architecture, cobblestone streets, secret courtyards, and cotton candy-colored […]
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