Great fantasy often acts as a means to escape the boredom of everyday life. Particularly in literature, where nothing more than faded text on yellowed paper can spur the imagination and evoke realms ...

According to its introduction, The Princess Bride is a long, sprawling book by the great Florinese writer S. Morgenstern that renowned screenwriter and novelist William Goldman has been obliged to ...

The series that looks at books, plays and stories and how they work. John Yorke unpeels the metafictional layers of William Goldman’s fairytale for adults. Show more According to its introduction, The ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...

It’s no wonder The Princess Bride is such a beloved film: It’s action-packed but still lighthearted, sweet but not saccharine, silly but still smart—and, of course, endlessly quotable. Fortunately, in ...

The death of Rob Reiner and his wife is a horrific tragedy, and the details are hard to read. The grim particulars need not ...

A line from ‘The Princess Bride’ captured everything that the director hoped to say in his celebrated films. Now, after his ...

Phyllis Dalton designed costumes for more than 50 Hollywood films including “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Doctor Zhivago” and “The Princess Bride.” The award-winning designer passed on January 13, 2025.