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Despite the hype around Peaky Blinders — both the film and the recently announced Season 7 — star Cillian Murphy has thus far stayed faithful to making indie films and small offbeat awardsbait projects that are far more arthouse than Oppenheimer's commercial blockbuster. Naturally, having won an Academy Award, production
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen adaptations come in generational waves. In the 1990s, notable adaptations included Andrew Davies' definitive Pride & Prejudice miniseries, Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma, the Ciaran Hines-Amanda Root adaptation of Persuasion, and the Emma Thompson-Kate Winslet adaptation of Sense & Sensibility.
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Actor Brett Goldstein's performance as the gruff, surprisingly romantic Roy Kent is one of the best things about Apple TV+'s award-winning comedy Ted Lasso. And while he's set to return to our screens as Roy Kent sometime in the not-too-distant future, Goldstein is keeping
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In America, The Hunchback of Notre Dame has been co-opted by the Walt Disney Company, which adapted Victor Hugo's enormous tome-sized novel into one of its standard-issue animated musicals in the mid-1990s. (One that has not yet been chosen for a live-action remake, small mercies.) However, the Disney
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British actress Ruth Madeley is set to portray the iconic American disability rights activist in the forthcoming Apple Films feature, Being Heumann. The film tells the story of Judy Heumann, the woman known as the "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement," who played a pivotal role in bringing
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The film Billion Dollar Spy was only officially announced as being in production in March 2025, but the first image is already out, and the period film already looks like it's worth as much as its title. Adapted from the bestselling 2015 book by David E. Hoffman, The
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We've officially reached the 100-day mark until the release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the third and, as the title desperately insists, final big-screen installment* of the beloved franchise that began 15 years ago on ITV and PBS. A series that consistently surprised both producers and critics
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Medieval-set horror films are generally few and far between, despite it being a historical era that's ripe for this sort of storytelling. The ones that do exist seem to gravitate toward certain types of stories, most often involving witches. Given the widespread witch panic that began in countries
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Most people have heard of the iconic Irish author James Joyce, if only because we were probably required to read either Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or short stories from The Dubliners in high school. But he was one of the most influential writers of the 20th
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Greta Gerwig's The Chronicles of Narnia adaptation is starting to come into focus. The Barbie director has reportedly tapped Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan (Saltburn) to join the cast. And though no one officially involved with the production has said this out loud yet, the news of Mulligan'
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Though most people likely associate the name Stephen King with his popular horror novels, like Carrie, The Stand, or Pet Sematary, he’s also the mind behind heartwrenching stories of humanity, such as The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. If the trailer is anything to go by, the forthcoming
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Filming on Lesley Manville's next major motion picture, Winter of the Crow, has officially wrapped. The project was first announced in January 2024, when HanWay Films boarded the production, which was already filming in Warsaw. One of the current crop of low-key successful indie film distributors that tends