#filmadaptations — Public Fediverse posts
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Coyote Vs Acme review – quirky comedy returns from the dead to flip Wile E Coyote’s slapstick-violent world https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/19/coyote-vs-acme-review-wile-e-coyote-roadrunner #Film #AnimationInFilm #ComedyFilms #FilmAdaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture
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Coyote Vs Acme review – quirky comedy returns from the dead to flip Wile E Coyote’s slapstick-violent world
By Peter BradshawAfter being shelved as a tax-writeoff, this Looney Tunes reboot redraws the hapless hunter as the Erin Brockovich of the cartoon world
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/19/coyote-vs-acme-review-wile-e-coyote-roadrunner
#Film #Animationinfilm #Comedyfilms #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Borges and Me review – a sweetly imagined literary odyssey through the Highlands
By Peter BradshawEdinburgh 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
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/15/borges-and-me-review-alan-cumming-fionn-whitehead
#Film #Biopics #JorgeLuisBorges #Filmadaptations #Scotland #AlanCumming #PeterMullan #Books #Culture #UKnews #Edinburghfilmfestival #Festivals #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Imelda Staunton: ‘Umbridge’s giggle needed to be short and sharp. So I just did a boom, boom’
By As told to Rich PelleyThe actor answers your questions on working with her dog, becoming a dame, Harry Potter, and making televisual history in The Singing Detective
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/13/imelda-staunton-interview-umbridge-harry-potter
#Film #ImeldaStaunton #BillNighy #HarryPotter #Stage #Television #Culture #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Televisionradio #Filmadaptations #Books #TheGuardian #AstoldtoRichPelley
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Imelda Staunton: ‘Umbridge’s giggle needed to be short and sharp. So I just did a boom, boom’ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/13/imelda-staunton-interview-umbridge-harry-potter #Film #ImeldaStaunton #BillNighy #HarryPotter #Stage #Television #Culture #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #TelevisionRadio #FilmAdaptations #Books
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Momo and the Time Thieves review – kids’ fantasy jaunt sticks the boot into capitalism
By Leslie FelperinThis 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
#Film #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Familyfilms #Filmadaptations #MartinFreeman #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #LeslieFelperin
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The Pout-Pout Fish review – Nick Offerman is best thing in kids cartoon adventure on the high seas
By Catherine BrayOfferman leads a talented cast, but this preschool picture book spinoff fails to inspire
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/11/the-pout-pout-fish-review-nick-offerman
#Film #Animationinfilm #Familyfilms #Filmadaptations #Childrenandteenagers #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #CatherineBray
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RL Stine’s Pumpkinhead review – horror from Goosebumps writer has kid confined inside large fruit
By Phil HoadBased 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
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/10/rl-stines-pumpkinhead-review-goosebumps-author
#Film #Horrorfilms #Thrillers #Comedyfilms #RLStine #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilHoad
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Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
By Peter BradshawPreceding 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
#Film #Romancefilms #Comedyfilms #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #SandraBullock #NicoleKidman #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey gives UK poetry sales an epic boost
By Emma LoffhagenPoetry 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
#Books #Poetry #Homer #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Culture #Film #Filmadaptations #UKnews #TheGuardian #EmmaLoffhagen
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Prisoners of Paradise review – Ellie Bamber heads to Mauritius for chaste literary tale of star-crossed lovers
By Cath ClarkeAn upper-class Englishwoman falls in love with a worker on her uncle’s sugar plantation in this insipid adaptation of Romesh Gunesekera’s novel
#Film #Romancefilms #Filmadaptations #Mauritius #Race #Dramafilms #Africa #Books #Culture #Worldnews #TheGuardian #CathClarke
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The Summer Book review – Glenn Close powers sweet-natured take on Tove Jansson’s kids’ classic
By Peter BradshawThis sensitive adaptation of Jansson’s 1972 novel, set in the beatific Gulf of Finland, is a quiet treatise on life and death
#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #ToveJansson #GlennClose #Sweden #Family #Bereavement #Books #Culture #Europe #Lifeandstyle #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams
By Peter BradshawCourtenay gives a beautiful performance as the undertaker’s clerk who nurses preposterous ambitions. But the film is too quick to surrender them
#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #KeithWaterhouse #TomCourtenay #JulieChristie #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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‘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
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‘Unbearably sexy in his rodenty way’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s 20 best films – ranked!
By Peter BradshawTo 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
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Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/20/the-odyssey-what-christopher-nolan-changed-invented-left-out #Film #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Homer #FilmAdaptations #MattDamon #AnneHathaway #Books #Culture
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Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out
By Chris TryhornFrom missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem
#Film #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Homer #Filmadaptations #MattDamon #AnneHathaway #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #ChrisTryhorn
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‘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 https://www.theguardian.com/film/ng-interactive/2026/jul/17/christopher-nolan-interview-oscars-the-odyssey #TheOdyssey #Film #Culture #MattDamon #TomHolland #LupitaNyongo #Oppenheimer #Homer #Books #ChristopherNolan #FilmAdaptations #FilmIndustry #Imax
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‘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 ShoneHow 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
#TheOdyssey #Film #Culture #MattDamon #TomHolland #LupitaNyongo #Oppenheimer #Homer #Books #ChristopherNolan #Filmadaptations #Filmindustry #Imax #TheGuardian #TomShone
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Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar
By Peter BradshawThe 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
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/animal-farm-review-orwell-animation
#Film #Animationinfilm #AndySerkis #Filmadaptations #GeorgeOrwell #SethRogen #GlennClose #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/21/mick-jagger-josh-oconnor-father-new-film-alice-rohrwacher-three-incestuous-sisters #Film #FilmAdaptations #MickJagger #AudreyNiffenegger #JoshOconnor #SaoirseRonan #DakotaJohnson #JessieBuckley #Books #Culture #Music #Italy #Europe #WorldNews
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The Unknown review – Léa Seydoux gets invaded in uncanny and bizarre body-swap horror https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/18/the-unknown-review-lea-seydoux-arthur-harari #CannesFilmFestival #Film #HorrorFilms #LaSeydoux #DramaFilms #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #FilmAdaptations #ComicsAndGraphicNovels #Culture #Festivals
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Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean review – a dashing retrospective for a cinematic titan https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/17/maverick-the-epic-adventures-of-david-lean-review-a-dashing-retrospective-for-a-cinematic-titan #CannesFilmFestival #Film #DocumentaryFilms #FilmAdaptations #Books #Culture #Festivals
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All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/15/all-of-a-sudden-review-care-home-ryusuke-hamaguchi-cannes #CannesFilmFestival #Film #DramaFilms #Japan #Paris #AsiaPacific #Culture #Festivals #France #Europe #WorldNews #FilmAdaptations #Books