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The Princess Bride (1987) Cult classic The Princess Bride has everything a good fairy tale needs: pirates, sword fights, a giant, an evil prince, a six-fingered man, rodents of unusual size, and an epic love story. With powerhouse talent including Billy Crystal, Mandy Patinkin, and Robin Wright, the film is a romantic—and darkly funny—tale of

Spoilers below. Ruby (Stephanie Hsu) on Laid might actually be the death of her lovers. Literally. But the Peacock dark comedy doesn’t pass judgment on her long line of sexual partners, who mysteriously begin dying in the order that she slept with them; instead the mystery around their deaths is a device that gives us

It’s a love story that could actually be a Hollywood rom-com: The top American pop singer and the top American football player meet up, sparks fly, and they end up dating with the world watching. Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce have dominated headlines since their romance was first rumored to

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino Credit: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Within moments of cracking open the cover to Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland, I was sold. She has followed up her 2020 novel Parakeet with a landmark work of literary science-fiction, set in the crosshairs of “two celestially significant events occurring simultaneously: The departure of Voyager 1 and

On Tuesday afternoon, Ariana Grande broke out the vintage Christian Dior and stepped out in a shimmering satin midi dress fit for Glinda’s closet. Grande wore the pale pink number to the Golden Globes first-time nominee luncheon at The Maybourne in Beverly Hills with her mother, Joan, by her side. The star was recently nominated

Jingle All the Way (1996) Watch a workaholic played by Arnold Schwarzenegger struggle to fulfill his promise to his kid for the holidays, and snag the on-demand toy of the season—Turbo-Man! Will he discover the true meaning of Christmas on his epic journey? Plenty of slapstick mall fighting might finally knock it into him. Watch

Your Place Or Mine Starring Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon, Your Place Or Mine revolves around two best friends, Peter and Debbie. They’re total opposites in both personality and living arrangements—Debbie lives with her son in Los Angeles, enjoying her routine life, while Peter is going wild in New York. Circumstances lead to them swapping

About five years ago, Miki Agrawal was sitting in her room on one of her “thinking Fridays,” a day the serial entrepreneur gives herself each week, sans calls or meetings, to just exist in the world and “receive downloads from nature,” as she puts it. On that particular Friday, she was thinking about diapers—a subject

Last week, eyewitnesses told E! that Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet were seen holding hands at the after-party for A Complete Unknown in L.A. Today, TMZ ran photos and a video of the couple there. In the footage, Jenner and Chalamet linked arms and appeared in good spirits together as Chalamet spoke to people at

This afternoon, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry released their Archewell holiday card, where they gave the first look at their children in years. The couple included a shot of Lilibet, 3, and Archie, 5, running to hug them in the top center photo of their card. Both Archie and Lili are very much redheads like

The Yellowstone spin-off formerly known as 2024 has a new, trend-breaking title: The Madison. Although Yellowstone showrunner Taylor Sheridan has shown quite the penchant for numeric titles in prior spin-offs of his hit western drama (see: 1883, 1923, and the reportedly forthcoming 1944), the first contemporary offshoot to follow Yellowstone’s grand season 5 finale will

As surely as the Duttons will continue to hold their patch of Montana paradise sacred in the mega-hit Yellowstone, so will creator Taylor Sheridan’s cowboy cinematic universe expand outward and upward. Only the latest example of this phenomenon is the season 2 renewal of 1923, the Yellowstone prequel set in—you guessed it!—1923, with Harrison Ford

On Friday night, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, and Jennifer Garner were all seen together for a school play in Los Angeles. Affleck and Garner were there to support their middle child, Fin. Lopez was there to see one of her twins, Emme, in the show. In photos shared by TMZ, the trio can be seen

The cultural steamroller that is the Barbie movie has been speeding ever-nearer since 2018, when Warner Bros. Pictures first scooped up the rights to Mattel’s best-known money-maker. There was always the hope that Ms. Barbara Roberts—as embodied by actress Margot Robbie—could pull big numbers at the box office, but the response since Barbie set photos

On June 12, Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell announced her next project with a tease on X, formerly known as Twitter, sharing an illustration with a quote from the Gothic romance by Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights. Alongside the drawing by artist Katie Buckley is a quote, reading, “Be with me always. Take any form. Drive

Spoilers below. Even by Outlander standards, the twists and turns in the second half of season 7 are coming thick and fast across the three different timelines. While it is hardly a bombshell that Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) didn’t die in a shipwreck off-screen, the news of his death set off a chain of events

Nickel Boys, based on Colson Whitehead’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, tells the gripping story of two Black teenagers navigating the horrors of a reform school in the Jim Crow South. The drama, directed by RaMell Ross, now playing in select New York theaters as of December 13 and will expand to select Los Angeles theaters

Last night, Nicole Kidman wore Balenciaga haute couture to the Los Angeles premiere of her new A24 drama Babygirl. The custom-made gown, crafted by creative director Demna, was inspired by the house’s spring/summer 1964 collection. Kidman’s strapless column gown featured a fishtail hem and intricate floral detailing made of pink and ivory organza petals that

In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month, we spoke to Mindy Kaling, the actress and writer/creator of The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever, and The Sex Lives of College Girls, which is in its

In early 2024, it was announced that Sam Mendes would be producing four films about worldwide musical phenomenon The Beatles with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Mendes’s Neal Street Productions. At the time, Ringo Starr himself tweeted that the films were fully supported by himself and the families of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison.