#film-adaptations

#film-adaptations

Even in an era of CGI and AI, nothing is more vivid than the intimacy and imagination of radio or more direct than the connection radio has with listeners. I remember when the legendary Stan Freberg drained Lake Michigan and filled it with hot chocolate, a 700-foot mountain of whipped cream, and a 10-ton maraschino cherry. We didn't have to see it. We heard it on the radio. It was Freberg's demonstration of what radio can do better than television.

For those of us who love the works of William Shakespeare, his reputation is both a blessing and a curse. Yes, there are abundant fellow travelers along the lifelong road of understanding his plays, and you rarely have to justify your passion for him, even to our anti-human tech overlords. And yet, it can be nearly impossible to see his plays clearly underneath the thick crust of received wisdom that covers them,

Whether 2025 was the best year of your life or, like most of the world, you're just ready for it to be over, I think we can all agree we leaned into dissociating with a good show or movie a little more often this year. Well, fear thee not - 2026 is shaping up to be an incredible year for new content, from sci-fi films to family-friendly watches adults and kids alike will love. These are the most anticipated movies of 2026, so you can go ahead and add them to your calendar now. You'll want to see them on the big screen.

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.