67 h. ago ‘Faithful’ period adaptation of classic novel is unmissable ahead of ‘wild’ film version

The ITV period drama has been praised by audiences

Culture

67 h. ago 'Haunting' period drama adaptation of 'doomed love story' has audiences hooked

Period drama lovers must watch this adaptation of a classic novel

Events

7 d. ago Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama

Venice film festivalOscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual styleGuillermo del Toro has created a movie about a grotesquely unnatural attempt to make a human being shocking in his physical strangeness but that’s enough about his film version of Pinocchio. Now Del Toro has written and directed a bombastic but watchable new version of Mary Shelley’s great novel and makes of it a stately melodrama, starring Oscar Isaac as the anatomist and passionate freethinker Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his creature: no passé neck-bolts or big fringey forehead, of course, and if you compare him with portrayals by other actors – Boris Karloff, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro – he is, for all the picturesque prosthetic scars, the nearest this iconic figure has come to being a bit of a hottie.It’s an epic bromance between scientist and monster, both of whom speak wit...

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7 d. ago Guillermo del Toro insists new Frankenstein film is not AI metaphor

New adaptation of the classic story is set to premiere on Netflix in November

Politics

1 week ago Knight Rider could return as the 80s classic is being adapted into film starring The Hoff

Fans of classic 80s show Knight Rider could be in for a treat, as the TV show is currently going through an adaptation to potentially bring it to the big screen

Politics

2 w. ago ‘Immaculate' WW2 drama series hailed 'incredible adaptation' of classic book now streaming

The series is a must-watch for those fascinated by WW2

Events

2 w. ago Elizabeth Bennet's manor house from BBC Pride and Prejudice on sale for £4million

The property was the family home in the 1995 BBC adaptation of the Jane Austen classic novel

Economics

2 w. ago Chilling portrait of Warhol the monster: 60 years after Andy met his muse, how he sexually humiliated Edie Sedgwick, drove her to overdose... then mocked her in death

Inebriated and in her underwear, playing a version of herself in Warhol's 1965 avantgarde film, Beauty No.2, Edie Sedgwick seemed to be vulnerability personified.

Events

3 w. ago Period drama fans urged to watch ‘definitive’ and ‘faithful’ adaptation of book banned for 30 years

This period drama was based on a book banned for over 30 years

Events

4 w. ago Audiences are left shocked by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi's 'aggressively provocative' Wuthering Heights movie with 'BDSM sex scene'

The upcoming adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel sees Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi portray doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff.

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last month Saltburn director Emerald Fennell returns with an 'aggressively provocative' interpretation of Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights featuring a 'BDSM

The upcoming adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel sees Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi portray doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff.

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