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  1. Coyote Vs Acme review – quirky comedy returns from the dead to flip Wile E Coyote’s slapstick-violent world
    By Peter Bradshaw

    After being shelved as a tax-writeoff, this Looney Tunes reboot redraws the hapless hunter as the Erin Brockovich of the cartoon world

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Animationinfilm #Comedyfilms #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

  2. Borges and Me review – a sweetly imagined literary odyssey through the Highlands
    By Peter Bradshaw

    Edinburgh film festivalLuis Gnecco brings warmth, wit and quiet melancholy to Jorge Luis Borges in this gently enchanting adaptation of Jay Parini’s semi-fictional memoir

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Biopics #JorgeLuisBorges #Filmadaptations #Scotland #AlanCumming #PeterMullan #Books #Culture #UKnews #Edinburghfilmfestival #Festivals #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

  3. Imelda Staunton: ‘Umbridge’s giggle needed to be short and sharp. So I just did a boom, boom’
    By As told to Rich Pelley

    The actor answers your questions on working with her dog, becoming a dame, Harry Potter, and making televisual history in The Singing Detective

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #ImeldaStaunton #BillNighy #HarryPotter #Stage #Television #Culture #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Televisionradio #Filmadaptations #Books #TheGuardian #AstoldtoRichPelley

  4. Momo and the Time Thieves review – kids’ fantasy jaunt sticks the boot into capitalism
    By Leslie Felperin

    This new adaptation of Michael Ende’s 1973 novel contains some neat parables for our digitally nihilistic age, but even a mystical tortoise can’t save it it from monotony

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Familyfilms #Filmadaptations #MartinFreeman #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #LeslieFelperin

  5. The Pout-Pout Fish review – Nick Offerman is best thing in kids cartoon adventure on the high seas
    By Catherine Bray

    Offerman leads a talented cast, but this preschool picture book spinoff fails to inspire

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Animationinfilm #Familyfilms #Filmadaptations #Childrenandteenagers #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #CatherineBray

  6. RL Stine’s Pumpkinhead review – horror from Goosebumps writer has kid confined inside large fruit
    By Phil Hoad

    Based on a short story by the Goosebumps author, this derivative but tautly plotted tale over-relies on Scooby-Doo-style sleuthery, and its truly unsettling turn comes too late

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Horrorfilms #Thrillers #Comedyfilms #RLStine #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilHoad

  7. Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
    By Peter Bradshaw

    Preceding a long-awaited sequel, Griffin Dunne’s supernatural suburban romance gets a big-screen rerelease. With its romcom quirk, buttery cinematography and stabs of black comedy, it remains a zany gem

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Romancefilms #Comedyfilms #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #SandraBullock #NicoleKidman #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

  8. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey gives UK poetry sales an epic boost
    By Emma Loffhagen

    Poetry sales surpassed £8m in the first 30 weeks of 2026 and are expected to reach a record high this year thanks to blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s 2,700-year-old poem

    theguardian.com/books/2026/aug

    #Books #Poetry #Homer #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Culture #Film #Filmadaptations #UKnews #TheGuardian #EmmaLoffhagen

  9. Prisoners of Paradise review – Ellie Bamber heads to Mauritius for chaste literary tale of star-crossed lovers
    By Cath Clarke

    An upper-class Englishwoman falls in love with a worker on her uncle’s sugar plantation in this insipid adaptation of Romesh Gunesekera’s novel

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Romancefilms #Filmadaptations #Mauritius #Race #Dramafilms #Africa #Books #Culture #Worldnews #TheGuardian #CathClarke

  10. Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams
    By Peter Bradshaw

    Courtenay gives a beautiful performance as the undertaker’s clerk who nurses preposterous ambitions. But the film is too quick to surrender them

    theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/

    #Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #KeithWaterhouse #TomCourtenay #JulieChristie #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

  11. ‘Unbearably sexy in his rodenty way’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s 20 best films – ranked!
    By Peter Bradshaw

    To mark the two-time Oscar nominee’s recent 50th birthday, we rate his finest screen roles – from hyper-British patricians and seething serpents, to ghastly Yanks, tragic codebreakers and sci-fi scoundrels

    theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/

    #Film #BenedictCumberbatch #Comedyfilms #Romancefilms #Thrillers #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

  12. Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out
    By Chris Tryhorn

    From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem

    theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/

    #Film #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Homer #Filmadaptations #MattDamon #AnneHathaway #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #ChrisTryhorn

  13. ‘At times I felt I’d bitten off more than I could chew’: Christopher Nolan on sweeping the Oscars, making The Odyssey - and getting a puppy
    By Tom Shone

    How do you follow Oppenheimer? By spending £250m bringing Homer’s epic poem to the big screen in Imax. Today’s most powerful director talks big swings, trauma-bonding and the healing powers of chocolate labrador Charlie

    theguardian.com/film/ng-intera

    #TheOdyssey #Film #Culture #MattDamon #TomHolland #LupitaNyongo #Oppenheimer #Homer #Books #ChristopherNolan #Filmadaptations #Filmindustry #Imax #TheGuardian #TomShone

  14. Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar
    By Peter Bradshaw

    The passionate allegory on Stalinism is outrageously reduced to happy-ending panto in this defanged animation featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Laverne Cox and Glenn Close

    theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/

    #Film #Animationinfilm #AndySerkis #Filmadaptations #GeorgeOrwell #SethRogen #GlennClose #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw