#film-adaptations

#film-adaptations

For more than two centuries, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" has been the monster that won't die endlessly revived, re-stitched, and sent staggering back into the culture. The basic parable is evergreen: a gifted but blinkered scientist plays God, creating life out of reanimated body parts. Horrified by his own creation, he abandons it, and the rejected "creature" becomes the monster society fears it to be. That core has proved elastic enough to survive everything, from the cult classic 1930s monster movies starring Boris Karloff

You have moments where it's like-obviously, you play this game and you're trying to win-but this was just a cool day as a whole for me. And obviously, to have the night I had was definitely special as well. But I wouldn't put the game I had based on the court. This kid pissed me off today, I was playing 2K. I had been playing 2K for like two hours, and I told him, too, I said 'Just wait.'

It was no surprise, when Federico Fellini cast Claudia Cardinale in 8 (1963), that she played the dream girl of his alter ego on screen. By that time, Cardinale, who has died aged 87, had already emerged as a major Italian film star. In the same year, she appeared as the ravishing Sicilian courted by Alain Delon's handsome Garibaldi officer in Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), Luchino Visconti's great adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel.

The trailer is a touch heavy-handed in its insistence that you understand this is all about our current surveillance state and corporate harvesting of our data.