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fromConsequence
1 day ago
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Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi's "Wuthering Heights" Isn't Just Horny, It's Great (But Also Horny): Review

fromIndieWire
1 day ago
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'Wuthering Heights' Review: Emerald Fennell's Loose, Lush Adaptation Will Enrage Literary Fans and Spark a Legion of New Devotees

fromConsequence
1 day ago
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Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi's "Wuthering Heights" Isn't Just Horny, It's Great (But Also Horny): Review

fromIndieWire
1 day ago
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'Wuthering Heights' Review: Emerald Fennell's Loose, Lush Adaptation Will Enrage Literary Fans and Spark a Legion of New Devotees

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fromInverse
1 day ago

How 2026's Boldest Sci-Fi Epic Pulls Off A Big Storytelling Trick

Project Hail Mary is a visually stunning, IMAX-optimized sci-fi film blending scientific plausibility, emotional humor, and inventive timeline-spanning storytelling.
#emerald-fennell
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fromVulture
1 day ago

Finally, a Smooth-Brained Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights emphasizes tactile, erotic visuals and lush spectacle, trading sustained thematic depth for provocative, bodily cinematic moments.
#casting-controversy
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fromAnOther
1 day ago

Imogen Poots on Her Shattering Turn in The Chronology of Water

Imogen Poots delivers a career-best, mesmerizing performance in Kristen Stewart's visually bold directorial debut, The Chronology of Water.
#bdsm
fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago
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'Pillion' is a wildly entertaining dark comedy about sex and power

A bleak 1970s novel about a young man's abusive BDSM relationship was adapted into a lighter, present-day film that reframes abuse as emotional neglect.
fromQueerty
4 days ago
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Alexander Skarsgard & Harry Melling on Pillion's kinky surprises and on-set turn-ons - Queerty

Pillion follows a meek young man, Colin, who becomes a submissive to a biker, exploring BDSM, empowerment, humor, intimacy, and emotional vulnerability.
fromQueerty
4 days ago
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Alexander Skarsgard & Harry Melling on Pillion's kinky surprises and on-set turn-ons - Queerty

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fromArtforum
5 days ago

I too can love: On Luc Besson's Dracula

Luc Besson's 2025 Dracula reproduces and refines Francis Ford Coppola's romantic, eroticized portrayal of Dracula, prioritizing cinematic spectacle and homage over novel fidelity.
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fromArtnet News
6 days ago

A Bedroom From Emerald Fennell's 'Wuthering Heights' Opens for Stays

Airbnb offers exclusive stays in a faithful recreation of Thrushcross Grange's all-pink bedroom from Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights, located in West Yorkshire.
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fromQueerty
1 week ago

WATCH: A literary classic gets a queer makeover in The Stranger's steamy tale of repression & desire - Queerty

François Ozon's black-and-white film adaptation of The Stranger reframes Camus' protagonist through a queer gaze, emphasizing latent homoerotic desire.
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fromKotaku
1 week ago

Mattel Is Making A Tony The Tattooed Man Movie, For Some Reason

Mattel plans a live-action film of the controversial, failed 1992 Tony the Tattooed Man toy with director Tracie Laymon, framing themes of empathy and second chances.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Roman Polanski rape scandal movie to follow perspective of 13-year-old victim

A new film, The Girl, tells Samantha Geimer's perspective of her 1970s sexual assault by Roman Polanski and the ensuing media onslaught.
#production-design
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fromIndependent
2 weeks ago

'I just poured out all this stuff about getting divorced': John Bishop on saving his marriage - and how it became a Hollywood movie

John Bishop's first open-mic joke in 2000 launched his stand-up career and played a pivotal role in saving his marriage while inspiring a film.
#silent-hill-2
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 weeks ago

Where Was People We Meet on Vacation Filmed?

"Number one for me was not faking too much," Haley says. "Obviously you have to fake stuff and you have to pretend you're somewhere where you're not. But I wanted this film to be grounded and believable, and for it to feel like you were actually on vacation with Poppy and Alex. So it was important to me to shoot it with our boots on the ground."
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein' gets nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein earned nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Jacob Elordi.
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fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

Check out the first trailer for Masters of the Universe

Amazon MGM is producing a He-Man origin film starring Nicholas Galitzine, directed by Travis Knight, following decades of stalled adaptation attempts.
#train-dreams
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fromJezebel
3 weeks ago

We the People Demand the Gay Matt Damon Ben Affleck Baseball Movie

Matt Damon revealed that he and Ben Affleck nearly adapted the novel The Dreyfuss Affair into a film but stopped because the script wasn't strong enough.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald audiobook review a soaring journey through grief

Training a temperamental goshawk named Mabel provides a pathway through intense grief via falconry, close observation of the bird and contrasts with harsher training methods.
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fromPortland Mercury
3 weeks ago

Film Review: Kristen Stewart's Trauma-Soaked Adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's The Chronology of Water

A fragmented film portrays a swimmer's traumatic life through nonlinear imagery, vivid water motifs, and visceral scenes that intermix past and present.
fromThe New Yorker
4 weeks ago

"The Chronology of Water" Is an Extraordinary Directorial Debut

"I remember things in retinal flashes," Yuknavitch explains in the book. "Without order." In another passage, she says, "All the events of my life swim in and out between each other," adding that, although her memory is nonlinear, "we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear." The liberation of time is central to modern cinema, because, once a movie is acknowledged as a work of first-person art as much as a book is, subjectivity itself becomes its overarching subject.
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fromVulture
4 weeks ago

Colleen Hoover Insists Her New Book Isn't About Herself

Out today, Woman Down centers on writer Petra Rose, an author who has writer's block and checks into a remote cabin to finish her next book. Petra, who took a hiatus after fans blamed her for a producer's decision to cut a fan-favorite character out of the film adaptation of her book A Terrible Thing, has "learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you," a synopsis states.
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fromInverse
4 weeks ago

30 Years Later, 'The Batman 2' Could Finish An Iconic DC Story With An Unsung Villain

The Batman Part II is likely to adapt significant elements from The Long Halloween, including Harvey Dent's origin and Gilda Dent's role.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Netflix Adapted a Huge Bestseller. There Are Some Key Changes From the Book.

Netflix's People We Meet on Vacation alters three major plot elements, including a location shift and removed controversial plot points, changing the novel's narrative.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

There's More to Look at Than Learn in 100 Nights of Hero

Simplifying the graphic novel's multiple storylines weakens the adaptation's exploration of storytelling as a feminist strategy to subvert gendered oppression.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

She will go down as one of the best': the rise of Jessie Buckley

Hamnet centers on Agnes Hathaway and William Shakespeare's grief after their son's death, anchored by Jessie Buckley's acclaimed, raw performance.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

People We Meet on Vacation review Netflix travel romcom is a dull journey

People We Meet on Vacation is a visually polished romcom adaptation that lacks emotional depth, genuine character connection, and originality.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

'The Odyssey' Trailers Are Kinda Boring For A Good Reason

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey adapts Homer's epic, starring Matt Damon; trailers received lukewarm reaction and face adaptation and spoilage challenges.
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fromIndieWire
1 month ago

Best-Selling Romance Sensation Emily Henry Is Coming for the Movies Next

Netflix releases People We Meet on Vacation, a film adaptation directed by Brett Haley, starring Emily Bader and Tom Blyth, using a nonlinear storyline.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Michael Mann: I make films for a large presentation'

Hannibal Lecter's first movie appearance was in 1986's Manhunter, starring Brian Cox. It took director and writer Michael Mann just five weeks to adapt Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon for the screen. But when it came to adapting his own work Heat 2, co-authored with Meg Gardiner as both a prequel and sequel to his 1995 film Heat Mann discovered the pain of self-editing.
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fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Odyssey trailer brings the myth to vivid life

Christopher Nolan adapts Homer's Odyssey into a major film starring Damon as Odysseus, featuring a large ensemble cast and releasing July 17, 2026.
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fromBustle
1 month ago

The Author Of 'Hamnet' Once Got An Hour-Long Voice Note From Chloe Zhao

Maggie O'Farrell and Chloé Zhao condensed a 400-page novel into a 100-page screenplay, blending Zhao's voice-note-driven approach with O'Farrell's solitary, prose-focused sensibility.
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fromConsequence
1 month ago

Paul Feig on The Housemaid, Twisting the Thriller, and the Art of the Martini: Podcast

The Housemaid subverts expectations through a deliberate tonal bait-and-switch while centering complex, three-dimensional female protagonists.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Housemaid review Sydney Sweeney takes the job from hell in outrageous suspense thriller

Paul Feig delivers an enjoyably outrageous, schlocky psycho-suspense thriller in 90s erotic noir style, starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in a lavish domestic nightmare.
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fromInsideHook
1 month ago

The Year the Auteurs Finally Portrayed Present-Day America

Paul Thomas Anderson returns to contemporary settings with One Battle After Another, confronting modern American authoritarianism, immigration raids, neo-Nazi violence, and mutual-aid resistance.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way': Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar

On 19 December 1974, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz went round to her friend Peter Hujar's apartment in New York, and asked the photographer to describe exactly what he had done the day before. He talked in great detail about taking Allen Ginsberg's portrait for the New York Times (it didn't go well Ginsberg was too performative for the kind of intimacy Hujar craved). He also described the Chinese takeaway he ate and how his pal Vince Aletti came round to have a shower.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

What Does It Take to Reinvent Shakespeare's Most Famous Soliloquy?

You can't cut and paste large speeches of Shakespeare and put them into a novel,
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The antithesis to Nazi ideology': how Pippi Longstocking was born to stand up to Hitler

Pippi Longstocking originated during World War II, shaped by wartime fears and continues to exert lasting international cultural influence through books, films, and adaptations.
fromPortland Monthly
1 month ago

Kristen Stewart's 'The Chronology of Water' Captures the Book

It rooted slowly but firmly, like all "cult classics." It wasn't so much the story of her abusive childhood and the liberation she found in sex and substances, swimming, and writing as it was a polemic against the notion of a fixed past. Its emphatic embrace of subjective experience-celebrating a certain ownership and reframing of your own history-over static, objective fact made it a kind of guide. Words to live by.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

20 Years Ago, A Legendary Director Revived King Kong For The 21st Century

Peter Jackson's 2005 King Kong modernizes the original with character-driven storytelling while exposing and reframing racial and gender politics present in the 1933 film.
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fromVulture
1 month ago

Wait, Who's Starring in Street Fighter?

Street Fighter film assembles a star-studded, eclectic cast to compete in a World Warrior Tournament amid a deadly conspiracy.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

13 Years Later, The Biggest Dystopian Franchise Is Bringing Back Its Greatest Stars

Sunrise on the Reaping adapts a Haymitch-centric prequel into a film that brings back Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, with Woody Harrelson's return unconfirmed.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

20 Years Later, An Iconic Fantasy Epic Is As Good As You Remember

The Chronicles of Narnia film combined ambitious direction, authentic child performances, Wētā creature effects, and mythic storytelling into a magical, enduring family-fantasy spectacle.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

25 Years Ago, A Notorious Fantasy Flop Showed How Not To Adapt A Franchise

Courtney Solomon secured Dungeons and Dragons film rights as a teenager, raised modest funding, directed the 2000 adaptation, and the production became troubled.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Chloe Zhao on "Hamnet," Her Film About the Grief of William Shakespeare

Chloé Zhao incorporates nature, adaptation, genre shifts, and neurodivergence into films ranging from Nomadland and Eternals to Hamnet.
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Helldivers Movie Director Doesn't Play Games, And Game Boss Says That's Just Fine

However, Shams Jorjani, the CEO of Helldivers developer Arrowhead Studios, says there's no reason to worry Writing on Discord, Jorjani said he trusts Lin, saying the filmmaker did a "great job" with Star Trek Beyond. The executive also encouraged people to let the man cook. "Let Justin Lin work his magic," Jorjani said, as reported by GamesRadar. The Hollywood Reporter said it was in fact Lin's lack of experience with games that helped him get the job when pitching to production company Sony.
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fromDefector
2 months ago

'Train Dreams' Is Afraid Of Its Own Shadow | Defector

Clint Bentley's faithful Train Dreams adaptation visually dazzles but substitutes kitsch for the novella's subtle profundity.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Mr Men Little Miss feature film in the works from Paddington producers

Heyday Films and StudioCanal will produce a feature film adaptation of the Mr Men and Little Miss children's books, with David Heyman and Sanrio attached.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Two Horror Legends Are Teaming Up For An Exciting New Project

Portrait of God will be adapted into a feature film directed by Dylan Clark, produced by Jordan Peele and Sam Raimi, exploring faith-driven horror.
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fromVulture
2 months ago

People We Meet on Vacation Makes It Out of the Bookstore

Netflix's film adaptation of Emily Henry's People We Meet on Vacation follows friends-turned-lovers Alex and Poppy whose annual summer trips test their romantic tension.
fromInverse
2 months ago

20 Years Ago, Charlize Theron's Sci-Fi Flop Sanitized A Cyberpunk Masterpiece

Turning a beloved animated series into live action is always tricky. For every success, there's something like the 2010 film version of Avatar: The Last Airbender, a complete calamity. But arguably, the adaptation process gets trickier with source material that edges into the transgressive. So, in 2005, when the 1990s dark, animated cyberpunk series Aeon Flux became a movie starring Charlize Theron, something strange happened.
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fromVulture
2 months ago

Winter's Bone Author Daniel Woodrell Dies at 72

Daniel Woodrell, who coined 'country noir', died at 72 of pancreatic cancer; Winter's Bone inspired the Oscar-nominated film that launched Jennifer Lawrence.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

35 Years Ago, The Best Stephen King Thriller Ever Kept Things Terrifyingly Simple

Lore-heavy explanation weakens horror; stripped-down, tension-focused storytelling creates more effective scares.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

New film adaptation of Camus's L'Etranger opens old colonial wounds

A black-and-white adaptation of L'Etranger revives controversy over French Algeria while conveying the novel's absurdist tone.
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fromTime Out London
2 months ago

The BDSM 'Love Actually'? How 'Pillion' found a home in a surprising corner of south London

Alexander Skarsgård stars in a Christmas-set BDSM romantic drama filmed in Bromley that relocates and modernizes Adam Mars-Jones's novel, juxtaposing holiday cheer with hardcore sex.
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fromApaonline
2 months ago

Expressing the Absurd Society in Orson Welles's The Trial

Absurdity arises from the clash between human longing for clarity and an indifferent world; it is universal, historically intensified, and cinema can vividly convey experience.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Apple TV series The Hunt postponed due to plagiarism allegations

Apple TV+ pulled French drama The Hunt from its schedule after plagiarism allegations claiming strong similarities to the 1976 film adaptation Shoot, and Gaumont has opened a review.
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

'Goodnight, sweet prince' - Harvard Gazette

William Shakespeare is the most celebrated playwright in the English language, but we really know so little about him.
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fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

The Wicked Films Have Turned a 2-Hour Musical Into Nearly Five Hours of Movie. How ... Is That Possible?

Wicked: For Good expands and enriches the stage musical's second act into a two-hour-plus film by adding plot, songs, and character development.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

"Wicked: For Good" Is Very, Very Bad

Wicked: For Good showcases strong star turns and antifascist themes but is bogged down by bloated length, heavy-handed filmmaking, and excessive spectacle.
fromVulture
2 months ago

Colleen Hoover Says the It Ends With Us Legal Drama Gave Her 'PTSD'

"It feels like a circus," Hoover says. "I'm just trying to stay removed from the negativity. I have my own story I could tell ... but I don't want to bring attention to it, and I don't want to have to put someone else down to lift myself up. So I'd rather just ignore it and let people think and say what they're going to say."
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