#‘Spellbound’ Review: Rachel Zegler and Nicole Kidman in an Animated Netflix Fantasy That Conjures as Much Déjà Vu as Magic

#‘Spellbound’ Review: Rachel Zegler and Nicole Kidman in an Animated Netflix Fantasy That Conjures as Much Déjà Vu as Magic

Charges of beastly parents take on a literal meaning in Spellbound, a moving if somewhat familiar animated fantasy musical from Skydance Animation. When protagonist Ellian (Rachel Zegler) describes her parents as monsters, she’s not echoing the clichéd allegation lodged by teens everywhere. She’s being dead serious. Nearly a year ago, while ambling through the forest,…

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#Nicole Kidman Says Despite Producing Success, She Doesn’t Want to Direct: “I Would Be a Terrible Director”

#Nicole Kidman Says Despite Producing Success, She Doesn’t Want to Direct: “I Would Be a Terrible Director”

When Nicole Kidman was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, she spent a large portion of her speech thanking the directors whom she’s worked with throughout the years. The respect for the job, though, doesn’t she mean has any desire to step behind the camera herself. “I feel like I would be a terrible director because…

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#Meryl Streep Was “Traumatized” Watching Nicole Kidman’s Emotional Scenes in ‘Big Little Lies’: “Never Seen Anything Like That in My Life”

#Meryl Streep Was “Traumatized” Watching Nicole Kidman’s Emotional Scenes in ‘Big Little Lies’: “Never Seen Anything Like That in My Life”

Nicole Kidman was honored with the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award on Saturday night, as an A-list group of her friends and collaborators looked back on her long Hollywood career. Reese Witherspoon, Morgan Freeman, Naomi Watts, Zoe Saldaña, Aaron Sorkin, Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Joey King, Mike Myers and husband Keith Urban all took the…

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#What Your Red Carpet Jewelry Says About You

#What Your Red Carpet Jewelry Says About You

Modernist Greta Lee Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images The Past Lives actress added a sleek Tiffany & Co. Elsa Peretti Bangle to her clean-lined Ralph Lauren dress at the Elle Women in Hollywood event in December. De Beers Courtesy of Brand The Winter Diamond Butterfly Ring spotlights rough blue-green and polished white diamonds at its center; price…

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#All the Details on Balenciaga’s L.A. Show With Cardi B, Kim Kardashian and That Erewhon Collab

#All the Details on Balenciaga’s L.A. Show With Cardi B, Kim Kardashian and That Erewhon Collab

On Saturday, Dec. 2, the luxury Parisian fashion brand Balenciaga, helmed by artistic director Demna since 2015, dropped down in L.A. to show its fall 2024 men’s and women’s collections on a stretch of palm tree-lined Windsor Boulevard near 5th Street in Los Angeles’ Windsor Square neighborhood, with the Hollywood sign as a backdrop. Helicopters and…

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