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.
A cross-cultural, British-and-Bollywood-meets-Hollywood take on Austen's most famous novel, the film is pure joy a riot of original musical numbers, colourful costumes, chaos, culture clashes and, of course, romance. You may think it wouldn't work, but it does. Released after the huge success of Bend It Like Beckham, Chadha spent two years filming Bride &Prejudice across three continents. It's a homage to the Bollywood films she grew up watching with a modern, western twist a cinematic expression of her hybrid identity.
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
"You must have been beautiful when you were young," Greta Lee says to Willem Dafoe at one point in Kent Jones's Late Fame, and for those of us who well remember the actor's younger years - back when his skin was porcelain, his cheekbones sea-cliff sharp, and his eyes so angelically haunted - it's hard not to shout "Amen!" back at the screen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Legend of Zelda movie is a co-production between Nintendo and Sony Pictures, with plans for a different storytelling approach featuring popular characters from the renowned RPG series.
Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth Winn, lost their home after investing in a family friend's failed business, driving them to walk 630 miles along the coast.
