In May December, What Is a True Story?

Spoilers below. I’ve been thinking a lot about The Lisp. If you’ve watched director Todd Haynes’ unsettling new drama May December, now streaming on Netflix, then you know exactly to which I’m referring: the uncomfortably babyish, swollen-tongued accent Julianne Moore’s character, Gracie Atherton-Yoo, puts on (or lets out) whenever her surroundings grow a key too […]

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Fallen Leaves review – the Finnish legend returns

Another gorgeous tragicomic farce from Finnish maestro Aki Kaurismäki, a heartfelt cinephile ode to the possibility of love among the working classes. When you see guys with droopy jaws, immaculate greased side-partings, slightly ill-fitting leather jackets, and a flask of unidentified hooch in their breast pocket, there’s only one place you could be: the wonderful […]

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Shoshana Bean Ensured the Show Went On When Idina Menzel Fell During Wicked

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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Did Dodi Fayed Propose to Princess Diana The Crown Thinks So.

Spoilers 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 […]

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When Do New Episodes of The Crown Season 6 Part 2 Come Out?

One of Netflix’s most beloved and acclaimed series is finally on the brink of its last episode. The Crown, which has covered decades of Queen Elizabeth’s rise from underestimated princess to stalwart ruler, will end its run well before the events of her death in 2022. The Crown season 6 part 2 will choose, instead, […]

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Meghan Markle Reportedly Contacted Prince Harry About the Queen’s Death Before the Family Told Him

Royal reporter Omid Scobie spoke to Peoplethis week about why Prince William and Prince Harry’s relationship is irreparably broken and has been for some time. The outlet ran a devastating excerpt from Scobie’s upcoming book Endgame that detailed how, during the Queen’s final hours, Harry was completely kept out of the loop about her state, […]

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