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Drawn Together review – preposterous romance with all the erotic charge of leaf mulch
By Cath Clarke

The latest adaptation of Culpable trilogy author Mercedes Ron, about a ballet dancer and her security guard, has more holes than plot and chemistry than barely generates a spark

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/11/drawn-together-review-mercedes-ron-culpables

#Film #Romancefilms #Thrillers #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #CathClarke

Drawn Together review – preposterous romance with all the erotic charge of leaf mulch
By Cath Clarke

The latest adaptation of Culpable trilogy author Mercedes Ron, about a ballet dancer and her security guard, has more holes than plot and chemistry than barely generates a spark

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/11/drawn-together-review-mercedes-ron-culpables

#Film #Romancefilms #Thrillers #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #CathClarke

Drawn Together review – preposterous romance with all the erotic charge of leaf mulch
By Cath Clarke

The latest adaptation of Culpable trilogy author Mercedes Ron, about a ballet dancer and her security guard, has more holes than plot and chemistry than barely generates a spark

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/11/drawn-together-review-mercedes-ron-culpables

#Film #Romancefilms #Thrillers #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #CathClarke

Drawn Together review – preposterous romance with all the erotic charge of leaf mulch
By Cath Clarke

The latest adaptation of Culpable trilogy author Mercedes Ron, about a ballet dancer and her security guard, has more holes than plot and chemistry than barely generates a spark

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/11/drawn-together-review-mercedes-ron-culpables

#Film #Romancefilms #Thrillers #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #CathClarke

Drawn Together review – preposterous romance with all the erotic charge of leaf mulch
By Cath Clarke

The latest adaptation of Culpable trilogy author Mercedes Ron, about a ballet dancer and her security guard, has more holes than plot and chemistry than barely generates a spark

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/11/drawn-together-review-mercedes-ron-culpables

#Film #Romancefilms #Thrillers #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #CathClarke

Scherzetto review – Toni Servillo brings gravitas to a dithering Neapolitan ghost story
By Peter Bradshaw

Venice film festivalThe Venice fixture plays an illustrator haunted by his boyhood in Mario Martone’s part spooky, part sentimental oddity

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/10/scherzetto-review-toni-servillo-mario-martone-domenico-starnone-trick

#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #Italy #Venicefilmfestival #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Scherzetto review – Toni Servillo brings gravitas to a dithering Neapolitan ghost story
By Peter Bradshaw

Venice film festivalThe Venice fixture plays an illustrator haunted by his boyhood in Mario Martone’s part spooky, part sentimental oddity

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/10/scherzetto-review-toni-servillo-mario-martone-domenico-starnone-trick

#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #Italy #Venicefilmfestival #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Scherzetto review – Toni Servillo brings gravitas to a dithering Neapolitan ghost story
By Peter Bradshaw

Venice film festivalThe Venice fixture plays an illustrator haunted by his boyhood in Mario Martone’s part spooky, part sentimental oddity

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/10/scherzetto-review-toni-servillo-mario-martone-domenico-starnone-trick

#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #Italy #Venicefilmfestival #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Scherzetto review – Toni Servillo brings gravitas to a dithering Neapolitan ghost story
By Peter Bradshaw

Venice film festivalThe Venice fixture plays an illustrator haunted by his boyhood in Mario Martone’s part spooky, part sentimental oddity

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/10/scherzetto-review-toni-servillo-mario-martone-domenico-starnone-trick

#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #Italy #Venicefilmfestival #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Scherzetto review – Toni Servillo brings gravitas to a dithering Neapolitan ghost story
By Peter Bradshaw

Venice film festivalThe Venice fixture plays an illustrator haunted by his boyhood in Mario Martone’s part spooky, part sentimental oddity

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/10/scherzetto-review-toni-servillo-mario-martone-domenico-starnone-trick

#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #Italy #Venicefilmfestival #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Hazy sunshine, factor-50 smiles and Cliff Richard at the wheel: the 20 best summer holiday movies – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/20/best-summer-holiday-movies-ranked-seasonal-romance #Film #Culture #Musicals #RomanceFilms #CliffRichard #FilmAdaptations #AudreyHepburn #BeforeSunrise #AlfonsoCuarn #Books #Music

Hazy sunshine, factor-50 smiles and Cliff Richard at the wheel: the 20 best summer holiday movies – ranked!
By Xan Brooks

From feelgood romances to heated interactions, here are the films that best capture the seasonal moment

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/20/best-summer-holiday-movies-ranked-seasonal-romance

#Film #Culture #Musicals #Romancefilms #CliffRichard #Filmadaptations #AudreyHepburn #BeforeSunrise #AlfonsoCuarn #Books #Music #TheGuardian #XanBrooks

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

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/06/practical-magic-review-nicole-kidman-and-sandra-bullocks-90s-witchy-fantasy-still-enchants

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/04/prisoners-of-paradise-review-ellie-bamber-chaste-colonial-tale-of-star-crossed-lovers-romesh-gunesekera

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

‘Unbearably sexy in his rodenty way’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s 20 best films – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/23/benedict-cumberbatch-20-best-films-ranked #Film #BenedictCumberbatch #ComedyFilms #RomanceFilms #Thrillers #FilmAdaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture

‘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

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/23/benedict-cumberbatch-20-best-films-ranked

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

Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/why-train-dreams-should-win-the-best-picture-oscar #Film #FilmAdaptations #Oscars #Netflix #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JoelEdgerton #FelicityJones #TheNational #WilliamHMacy #Race #AwardsAndPrizes #Books #Culture #Music

‘I had a chance to pass my mum’s story on’: Kazuo Ishiguro on growing up in shadow of the Nagasaki bomb https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/12/kazuo-ishiguro-interview-a-pale-view-of-hills-nagasaki-nobel #Cannesfilmfestival #Filmadaptations #KazuoIshiguro #AsiaPacific #Culture #Books #Japan #Film