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Greek mythology retellings have exploded in popularity across the publishing world in recent years. From feminist reimaginings and queer explorations to graphic novels and literary fiction that uses specific moments from familiar epic tales as a jumping-off point for other stories, they're everywhere, both when it comes
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The Bridget Jones's Diary film, adapted from the beloved novel, launched a trilogy of blockbuster films. The romantic comedy was one of the leading British films, but it wasn't a science fiction/fantasy film of the early 2000s. Released in 2001, the initial movie made American
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Andrea Arnold sits in an exciting but complicated position in British film; her small filmography has significantly influenced the next generation of independent British filmmakers (predominantly female directors), but her work is not readily financed and, it turns out, difficult to produce. It may explain why it’s taken eight
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It's been just over a year since Bleeker Street picked up the rights to Fackham Hall during the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The movie, a spoof of Downton Abbey and other hit period dramas, arrived at the festival market with four cast members attached to star: Hero
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It took a good decade, but the fantasy genre craze finally reached a natural endpoint. Much like the precipitous drop in moviegoers seeing superhero films, there's a point when too many streaming services have too many fantasy adaptations of novels, and audiences start gravitating to what they haven&
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The historical film Firebrand is the sort of prestige-style movie that rarely gets an extended theatrical run. (To be honest, unless you're popular Oscar bait like Conclave most anything that isn't a big-budget tentpole or franchise entry barely makes it past two weeks at
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Many films cast great actors in positions of power, conflating their dramatic prestige with a tangible and confident sense of statesmanship. It’s rare for a main cast to consist entirely of leaders of sovereign nations, but a film like Rumours can’t lampoon the po-faced affirmations of progress
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The 2024 American Film Market in Las Vegas begins November 5, when everyone's attention will be focused elsewhere, but that doesn't mean the deals that ensure next year's movie productions can start filming aren't going to be struggling to find investors. This
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The Catholic Church is known for many things, from centuries of tradition to painful public reckonings with its all-too-human failures. It is perhaps best recognized for its intricate rituals, from the comforting traditions of daily Mass to the pageantry of high feast days like Easter and Christmas. The
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Recent high-profile films set in rural Ireland have showcased contrasting tones and genres: the guns-blazing, Liam Neeson-starring In the Land of Saints and Sinners was a Clint Eastwood thriller transposed to coastal Donegal (complete with a noticeably more lively Neeson), while Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated The
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The adaptation of Ruth Ware's best-selling 2016 novel, The Woman in Cabin 10, is finally in production. Netflix first announced it was greenlighting the feature film in May 2024, and its newest A-list British star, Keira Knightley, who was already set to star in the upcoming
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The Ineffable Plan moves in mysterious ways. Based on the novel of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens has been a critical and popular darling for the streamer since its first season premiered in 2019. It stars David Tennant (Rivals) as the swaggering demon Crowley