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fromVulture
7 hours ago

A Reminder That A New Colleen Hoover Movie Is Coming

Reminders of Him follows an ex-convict seeking to reunite with her daughter after her husband's death; film releases March 13, 2026.
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
9 hours ago

Writer Orlean to discuss new memoir Joyride' next week in Oakland hills

Everyday commonalities and the anomalies burrowing within them are like catnip to best-selling writer Susan Orlean. The author of 12 award-winning books (among them, The Orchid Thief, The Library Book, Saturday Night and her new memoir Joyride) is a regular columnist for The New Yorker. Embarking on a fall 2025 book tour with the memoir she says was driven by time for reflection during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and upon realizing Orchid Thief had reached its 25th anniversary,
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fromRoger Ebert
18 hours ago

How to Define Freedom: Nia DaCosta on "Hedda" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

Nia DaCosta is a versatile Black filmmaker navigating genres and scales, returning to intimate character storytelling with a stylish, queer-adjacent film titled Hedda.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

100 Nights of Hero review Emma Corrin leads starry cast in a queer fable with a serious streak

A queer fantasy-fable uses Scheherazade-style storytelling, lush costumes, and earnest romantasy to enchant, though meta-storytelling occasionally undermines narrative momentum.
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fromGameSpot
1 day ago

Marvel Star Reveals Sleeping Dogs Movie Milestone

Simu Liu is attached to a Sleeping Dogs film adaptation; a new script draft exists and he seeks a follow-up game for the franchise.
fromGameSpot
4 days ago

Sony's Horizon Movie Gets Release-Window Update

Qizilbash said in the testimony, filed on October 16, that there is already a "working script" for the film and that the team is "actively searching for a director," according to The Game Post. No names were divulged as candidates to direct, however. What Qizilbash did say, though, is that the goal is to begin shooting the Horizon movie in 2026 and release it in 2027.
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fromScary Mommy
1 week ago

Nicholas Sparks Opens Up About Writing A Supernatural Love Story With M. Night Shyamalan

A supernatural romantic thriller explores grief, mystery, and whether love can transcend life and death through a collaboration between Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 week ago

Watch Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman's marriage unravel in 'The Roses' at home this fall

The Roses portrays a seemingly perfect marriage unraveling into comedic domestic warfare, featuring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch and an ensemble cast; release dates set.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Shattered my whole world': the wild story behind stranger-than-fiction drama Roofman

Jeffrey Manchester escaped prison and secretly lived inside a Charlotte Toys R Us, dating Leigh Moore while attempting a normal life before his capture.
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

The Making of "Adaptation"

A previous passenger had abandoned a day-old copy of the Miami Herald between the evacuation-procedure card and the air-sickness bag. As I idly flipped through it, I noticed a story about a local nurseryman named John Laroche and three Seminole men who had been arrested for stealing rare orchids from a Florida swamp. It was a sliver of a story, but I was intrigued by it, by seeing the words "swamp" and "orchids" and "Seminoles" and "plant cloning" and "criminal" together in one place.
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fromVulture
1 week ago

The Woman in Cabin 10 Throws Its Source Material Overboard

In both versions, a journalist named Lo is invited on the maiden voyage of a yacht owned by the megarich Richard and Anne Bullmer, the latter of whom has become a recluse as she's battled cancer. While onboard the Aurora Borealis, Lo becomes convinced that the mysterious woman she met in the cabin next to hers was murdered and thrown overboard. But no one believes her, because everyone on the Aurora Borealis is accounted for.
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fromKqed
1 week ago

Q&A With 'Fairyland' Memoirist Alysia Abbott | KQED

The film Fairyland is a San Francisco love letter portraying a personal coming-of-age story centered on parenting, grief, and intimate collaborative filmmaking.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

Netflix's New Movie Adapts a Hit Book-and Makes Some Crucial Changes. It's Thrilling.

A cruise-ship thriller reworks Agatha Christie-style plotting with an unreliable, traumatized female narrator and star-driven casting that complicates characterization.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

'Kiss of the Spider Woman' works, even when the music doesn't

Kiss of the Spider Woman succeeds despite forgettable songs by relying on vivid characters, urgent pacing, and balancing Technicolor musical fantasy with harsh political reality.
fromSFGATE
1 week ago

The Calif. burglar who hid out in a Toys R Us now has his own rom-com

TORONTO - There's no criminal quite like the Roofman. The Sacramento-born burglar Jeffrey Manchester began his crime spree in Northern California in the late 1990s by cutting holes into the roofs of McDonald's franchises, robbing the safes while being shockingly polite to employees in the process. After hitting 40 stores across the country, he was caught and sent to jail in North Carolina, until he escaped and took up secret residence inside a Toys R Us, and then a Circuit City.
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fromwww.esquire.com
1 week ago

The True Story of Jeffrey Manchester from Channing Tatum's Roofman'

Was there really a North Carolina man named Jeffrey Manchester who was convicted of robbing 42 fast-food joints by tunneling into their rooftops overnight and sticking up the minimum-wage workers in the morning? Yes, that's entirely true. The crime spree lasted two years and ended (temporarily) when the then 28-year-old was convicted in November 2000. And yes, he really did endear himself to his victims by being apologetic and friendly while holding them at gunpointwhich made the witnesses remember more about him.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 week ago

FilmWatch Weekly: 'Orwell: 2+2=5,' 'Tron: Ares,' 'A House of Dynamite,' and more * Oregon ArtsWatch

George Orwell's warnings about the fragility of liberal-democratic norms remain urgently relevant to contemporary American political developments.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

'Fairyland' recalls a girl's life with her poet father in pre-AIDS San Francisco

A young girl in 1970s San Francisco grows up in a loving bohemian home raised by her widowed, gay father amid freedom and found family.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Review: New Kiss of the Spider Woman' tries hard but falls a little flat

A melodramatic musical with bold production numbers clashes with intimate prison drama, undermining emotional impact despite strong performances.
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fromJezebel
2 weeks ago

Another Win for Nietzsche's Theory of Eternal Return

Ben Affleck publicly praised Jennifer Lopez's praised Sundance performance while serving as executive producer, as the film sparks Oscar speculation amid her recent divorce.
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fromInverse
2 weeks ago

The Weirdest New Sci-Fi Movie Of The Year Is Hiding Its Big Twist In Plain Sight

Bugonia centers on whether high-powered CEO Michelle Fuller is actually an alien, blurring truth and conspiracy as her captors debate her identity.
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fromInverse
2 weeks ago

The Most Exciting Stephen King Thriller Is Changing The Book's Bleak Ending

Edgar Wright is adapting Stephen King's The Running Man with a new, King-approved ending distinct from both the novel and the 1987 film.
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fromRoger Ebert
2 weeks ago

What Really Matters is What You Like: "High Fidelity" at 25 | Features | Roger Ebert

Rob Gordon is a flawed, self-absorbed romantic whose vulnerability and modest growth make him ultimately sympathetic in the Chicago-set High Fidelity.
fromConsequence
2 weeks ago

The Replacements' Biography Trouble Boys to Be Turned Into Biopic By Finn Wolfhard

At the time, he indicated that he'd been "writing a lot of music and writing this movie with my dad, which has been really amazing." However, he couldn't "talk about the actual band because I don't have the rights officially yet." Still, he once again echoed a personal connection with The Replacements, adding, "It's about a band that I think weirdly I have a lot in common with, a lot of the members."
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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Joe Wright Won't Let You Look Away from Mussolini

Joe Wright uses theatrical artifice and maximalist cinematic techniques to depict Mussolini's performative charisma and destructive political rise from 1914 to 1925.
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fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago
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What Turns Filmmaker Shane Black on About Today's Action Landscape? The 'Competence Porn' of 'Play Dirty'

fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago
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What Turns Filmmaker Shane Black on About Today's Action Landscape? The 'Competence Porn' of 'Play Dirty'

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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

I am quite tough': Schindler's List star Embeth Davidtz on her explosive film about Rhodesia's final days

Embeth Davidtz, US-born and raised under apartheid, directed her first film at 60, adapting a memoir that reveals colonial racism through a child's eyes.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

She wrote the best first line and the most chilling stories': Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier

Her classic story The Birds opens with this: On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter. Short, chilly and to the point. It could almost be a weather report. It works so well at the outset of the gripping tale that follows, in which every species of bird attacks humankind, because it's flat, declarative and realistic.
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fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

Paul Thomas Anderson's Wild American Epic

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another adapts Pynchon's Vineland into a contemporary film about radical activists, betrayal, and underground survival.
fromGameSpot
3 weeks ago

Silent Hill F Modders Have Already Removed The Game's Signature Fog

Silent Hill f won't officially launch until tomorrow, September 25, but PC users with early access have already released a handful of mods for the game. One of the mods even removes the franchise's signature fog from the Japanese town of Ebisugaoka. And suddenly it's a much nicer day for high school student Hinako Shimizu, at least until something tries to kill her.
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fromInverse
4 weeks ago

Death Stranding Is Expanding Its Weird Universe In All The Right Ways

Kojima Productions revealed multiple upcoming projects including OD, a Death Stranding film, and new collaborations across games and film.
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fromInverse
4 weeks ago

'Hamlet' Is A Visceral, Much-Needed Shakespearean Remix

Riz Ahmed and Aneil Karia present a lean, West London Hamlet retaining Shakespeare's prose while excising peripheral scenes and characters to focus solely on Hamlet.
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fromGameSpot
4 weeks ago

Resident Evil Movie Director Says He Is "Following The Rules" But Also Telling A New Story

Resident Evil film set in the Resident Evil 2 universe features new characters and an original story following one protagonist's descent into hell.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Film Review: Why One Battle After Another' is the talker of 2025

Paul Thomas Anderson delivers a hyper-relevant, technically dazzling adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland that captures contemporary American madness despite imperfections.
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fromGameSpot
1 month ago
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Spielberg Wanted To Make A Call Of Duty Movie But Activision Passed, Here's The Reported Reason Why

fromGameSpot
1 month ago
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Spielberg Wanted To Make A Call Of Duty Movie But Activision Passed, Here's The Reported Reason Why

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fromGameSpot
1 month ago

Resident Evil Movie Will Keep The Game World "Intact," Says Director

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil film is an original story set in the game's universe, preserves canon, stars Austin Abrams, and releases September 18, 2026.
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fromGameSpot
1 month ago

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Celebrates 50th Anniversary With 4K Steelbook Edition

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest gets a 50th‑anniversary 4K steelbook; the film is a faithful Kesey adaptation and five‑time Academy Award winner.
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fromBustle
1 month ago

'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Movie Is Officially On The Way

Prime Video will release a feature film continuing Belly and Conrad's storyline from The Summer I Turned Pretty, focusing on a milestone in Belly's life.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

One Battle After Another review Paul Thomas Anderson's thrillingly helter-skelter counter-culture caper

Vineland becomes a frenetic, politically charged, pulpy action thriller that blends counterculture, paranoid American politics, and father–daughter dysfunction.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

30 Years Later, An Overlooked Sci-Thriller Is More Impressive Than You Remember

Hackers 1995 functions as a loose cinematic adaptation of Neuromancer's cyberpunk vision, capturing techno-existentialist themes despite critical dismissal and inaccuracy.
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fromGameSpot
1 month ago

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Second Life

Scott Pilgrim's blend of retro video game aesthetics, indie-music culture, and emotionally honest coming-of-age storytelling created enduring cultural resonance across media.
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fromVulture
1 month ago

The Long Walk's Brutal Twist Hits Harder Than Stephen King's Original Ending

The Long Walk portrays a televised, brutal endurance contest where young men must keep walking until one survives, exposing violence, camaraderie, and dystopian social control.
fromBustle
1 month ago

New 'Wicked: For Good' Details Tease Elphaba & Fiyero's Dreamy Duet

As Chu told Entertainment Weekly in a new preview, Fiyero has since joined the Wizard's Guard - or Gale Force - in an attempt to find Elphaba. "Because if someone else gets to her, then who knows what will happen," the director explained. His worldview is also shaken after the time he shared with Elphaba in Part 1, with Chu calling it "more than just love" between them. (Um... swoon.)
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Fence review Claire Denis stumbles with a grim and grating misfire

The Fence revisits post-colonial West Africa but underwhelms, feeling theatrical and less convincing than Claire Denis's stronger earlier films.
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fromConsequence
1 month ago

Willem Dafoe, Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop & Nadia Latif on The Man in My Basement and Genre as a Weapon: Podcast

A psychological thriller explores race, trauma, and grief through a mysterious stranger in a decaying Sag Harbor home, anchored by Willem Dafoe and Corey Hawkins.
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fromConde Nast Traveler
1 month ago

'The Thursday Murder Club' Was Filmed at This Classic English Country House

The Thursday Murder Club film pairs a star-studded British cast and top production team with meticulously designed locations that fuse grand estates and classic English countryside.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Hamnet review stately Shakespeare drama with emotionally overwhelming finale

Maggie O'Farrell's lauded 2020 novel Hamnet is a dense and lyrical imagining of the lives of William Shakespeare's family, full of interior thought and lush descriptions of the physical world. It would seem, upon reading, near impossible to adapt into a film. Or, at least, a film worthy of O'Farrell's so finely woven sensory spell. Film-maker Chloe Zhao has attempted to do so anyway, and the result is a stately, occasionally lugubrious drama whose closing minutes are among the most poignant in recent memory.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The energy is infectious': why Bride and Prejudice is my feelgood movie

Bride & Prejudice successfully adapts Pride and Prejudice into a joyous cross-cultural Bollywood-Western musical resonating with contemporary India.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

California Schemin' review James McAvoy's directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale

Two Scottish rappers posed as Californians to land a London record deal, exposing industry prejudice and straining their friendship.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

20 years later, is it time to quit 'Brokeback Mountain'?

Spare, austere language channels suppressed love and masculine fear in Ennis and Jack, making a film unlikely to replicate the characters' internal tension.
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fromVulture
1 month ago

Do Not Let Preparation for the Next Life Pass You By

Aishe, an undocumented immigrant in Flushing Chinatown, forms a fragile, transitional connection with Skinner amid precarious work and social invisibility.
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fromIndieWire
1 month ago

I Survived 'The Long Walk' Treadmill Challenge - What 5 Miles with the New Stephen King Classic Felt Like

Survival requires relentless physical endurance under a fascist regime's coercive 'voluntary' death-game, emphasizing psychological resilience and communal conformity.
fromEngadget
1 month ago

The new Street Fighter movie lands in theaters next October

The new Street Fighter movie has been given a release date of October 16, 2026. Kitao Sakurai is directing the project and a few generic plot details have been disclosed. The story will be set in 1993, a nod to the year Street Fighter II was released in arcades, and will have familiar characters from the game uncovering "a deadly conspiracy" in the midst of all their street fighting.
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fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Charli XCX to Contribute Original Songs to New Wuthering Heights Movie

Emerald Fennell's film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, features original songs by Charli XCX and releases Feb 14, 2026.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

'The Long Walk' Is The King Of The Dystopian Thriller

The Long Walk film delivers a taut, intimate, masterfully directed dystopian survival story with heart-wrenching performances and ranks among the best adaptations in the genre.
fromCN Traveller
1 month ago

Where was The Roses filmed?

The plot centres around an English couple grappling with their relationship while their professional trajectories head in opposing directions. The pair meet in London, in one of London's best restaurants, Hide in Mayfair, where (co-founder of the Michelin-starred spot, Ollie Dabbous, makes a cameo about half way through the movie), where Theo (Cumberbatch), who plays a high-flying architecture about to make it big, is having a business meeting
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

No fears over playing man without a face' Putin, Jude Law says in Venice

Jude Law portrays Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin, emphasizing nuance while depicting the leader's tightly controlled, mask-like public persona.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Wizard of the Kremlin review Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

A satirical novel about a Putin spin doctor is adapted into a laborious, literal film weighed down by endless, dull voiceover.
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fromVulture
1 month ago

Dafoe vs. the Dandies

Late Fame portrays an aging poet rediscovered by pompous young literati who romanticize the past while hypocritically embracing modern affectations.
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

'Late Fame' Review: Willem Dafoe Plays a Former Poet Who Falls in with a Young Crowd in Kent Jones' Perceptive Urban Drama

Meier informs Saxberger that he read his slim collection of poetry, written and forgotten 30 years prior, and shared it with his "Enthusiasm Society" of ambitious writers. Meier encourages Saxberger to join the group, who are in the midst of organizing a reading that will debut their talents to Vienna. Flattered and reinvigorated by their admiration, Saxberger hangs around the young crowd and lets himself believe that he finally might be on the brink of recognition.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

No one hates you like someone who used to love you. 'The Roses' misses that

The Roses reframes The War of the Roses as a fundamentally loving yet increasingly combative marriage, softening the original's biting bitterness.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

The Star-Studded New Remake of The War of the Roses Loses a Crucial Part of Its Satire

A modern adaptation softens the Roses' cruelty, making the divorce tale more watchable but diluting the original conflict's force.
fromInverse
1 month ago

5 Years Ago, A Misunderstood Director Adapted An Impossible Thriller

For a man who wrote an entire movie about how awful adapting a book into a movie can be, Charlie Kaufman has really developed it into a unique skill. The Oscar-winning screenwriter is best known for original stories like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but he's recently branched out and adapted a children's book into the surprisingly cerebral animated movie Orion and the Dark.
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fromRoger Ebert
1 month ago

British Banter Envy: Jay Roach and Tony McNamara on "The Roses" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

The Roses adapts The War of the Roses into a darkly comic marital drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, focusing on ambition-driven marital collapse.
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fromGadgets 360
1 month ago

Kojima Has a Concept for Death Stranding 3, but Isn't Planning to Do It Now

A concept for Death Stranding 3 exists but no current development plans; Kojima Productions is focused on OD, Physint, and an A24 live-action film.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Roses review dieback blights Colman and Cumberbatch remake

They play Ivy and Theo, two high-achieving professionals whose marriage becomes a black-comic Chornobyl of toxic hate; it is adapted from the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, which was previously filmed in 1989 with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Tony McNamara writes this new version and the director is Jay Roach, known for Austin Powers and Meet the Parents.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

20 Years Ago, A Legendary Fantasy Director Secretly Started A Fascinating Trend

The early 20th century saw the debut of darker fairy tale tellings like Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes, but many of the timeless stories they drew inspiration from became synonymous with the Walt Disney Company's animated films. Even if the original fairy tales contained dark, provocative material, more mature film adaptations had to contend with family-friendly expectations tied to Disney classics like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

With 'Highest 2 Lowest,' Spike Lee puts a hip-hop spin on Kurosawa's 1963 classic

With filmmaker Spike Lee, there are a few guarantees. The story will have something to say. The images will enter the cultural conversation, and he's gonna weave in New York any chance he gets. Over 40 years and more than 35 films, Spike Lee has captured defining moments in American life - the racial tensions on the hottest day of the year in "Do The Right Thing," the sweeping life of Malcolm X, and the devastation and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Reminded me of Agatha Christie': the shocking true story behind Ron Howard's Eden

A 1930s European settlement on Floreana descended into chaos, blackmail, betrayal, disappearances and possible murder—the enduring mystery known as the Galapagos Affair.
fromIndependent
1 month ago

Thursday Murder Club review: Screen version of the Richard Osman novel is sloppy, complacent and a waste of wonderful talent

Pierce Brosnan plays a retired trade unionist and his London accent keeps going on strike in sloppy and complacent attempt at bringing bestselling book to the screen
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fromwww.standard.co.uk
2 months ago

Dame Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan on the red carpet in Leicester Square for Thursday Murder Club premiere

The new film is based on Richard Osman's bestseller about four unlikely friends in a retirement home who meet weekly to solve cold cases. But when an unexplained death happens on their own doorstep, the fun and games become all too real. Dame Helen, 80, Brosnan, 72, Imrie, 73, and Gandhi star Sir Ben, 81, lead a stellar cast in the Steven Spielberg-produced whodunnit.
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fromTime Out London
2 months ago

Quentin Tarantino's first ever play is coming to London

Tarantino will stage a play in London's West End, may adapt it into his final film, and will move to England to work on it.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Map That Leads to You review sugary Amazon romance works best as travelogue

A book-loving American woman falls for a man with a tragic secret during a pre-career trip to Europe.
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