The writer wrote the book under a pseudonym in 1982 to prove his fame wasn’t just a fluke. Will Edgar Wright be able to do the story justice? Stephen King famously disliked Paul Michael Glaser’s 1987 adaptation of his novel The Running Man, which retained little of its plot and miscast Arnold Schwarzenegger as its […]Read More
Pugh will reportedly play a sex companion robot who murders her billionaire owner. Film history is littered with killer robots, from Blade Runner’s replicants to Frank Oz’s sexy robot killers in The Stepford Wives. Now Apple Studios has picked up the rights to Dolly, a new feature film about a female sex robot who—you guessed […]Read More
Billie Eilish, her mother Maggie Baird and Darkroom Records head Justin Lubliner are set to come on board to executive produce. Biopics are the most high-risk of genres, but done well, the payoff can be huge. Like Oscar-nominated director Todd Haynes, Michelle Williams is no stranger to them, having played Marilyn Monroe in 2011’s glorious […]Read More
Director Olivia Newman is adapting Delia Owens’s bestselling debut novel Rising stars Harris Dickinson and Taylor John Smith will join the cast of Where the Crawdads Sing, according to Deadline. Reese Witherspoon has been optioning the rights to novels with strong female leads for years now. Back in 2014, if your memory is able to […]Read More
This article contains spoilers for Simple Passion. Dosch is uninhibited in her portrayal of a woman in the throes of love, although younger audiences may find the film’s sexual politics off-putting. Simple Passion tells the enigmatic tale of a middle-aged woman obsessed with the idea of love itself. Based on Annie Ernaux’s 1992 eponymous novel, it […]Read More
The acting heavyweights are in talks to star in Aaron Sorkin’s new film, according to Deadline. Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem will reportedly play Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in Being the Ricardos, about the lives of real-life married couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The pair starred in the hit TV show I Love Lucy, […]Read More
Millions of us have embraced reading as a way to cope in These Unprecedented Times. But with reading piles acquiring social media clout (all the books I read this year!), for some (writers and journalists in particular), reading has become an act of performance, an endless routine in ‘brand maintenance.’ We’ve been instilled with the […]Read More
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