"My house. My chair. My woman." With those six words, author Rebecca Yarros had readers falling even more in love with Xaden Riorson. In Iron Flame, the second book in the Empyrean series, Xaden strips down his lover and the novel's heroine, Violet Sorrengail, to worship her body (and ahem, that's not only with words). Placing her on his throne in his home in Tyrrendor, he drives home the fact that she is the only one he would choose as his queen. Read More...
A version of this story appears in the First Look issue of Entertainment Weekly, on newsstands Friday. For more exclusive interviews and photos only in EW, buy it here or subscribe now. God save the Queen! With Netflix’s royal intrigue The Crown returning for a second season on Dec. 8, we present a guide to Her Majesty’s onscreen exploits. What It’s About The life and times of Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy) and her family get the small-screen treatment from creator Peter Morgan, who — as the writer behind the 2006 film The Queen and the 2013 play The Audience, both starring Helen Mirren as the Queen — is no stranger to dramatizing the 20th century through the monarch’s eyes. Read More...
The last thing you need when starting over post-breakup in your 40s is your ex and three other guys living under your roof. But for Reese Witherspoon’s Alice Kinney in the new Home Again trailer, the unconventional situation is what she requires for a fresh start. In the film, written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, daughter of Nancy Meyers, Alice moves back home to Los Angeles with her two young daughters after she separates from her husband (played by Michael Sheen). Read More...
