#filmadaptations — Public Fediverse posts

Call My Agent! The Movie review – the gang get back together and c’est formidable https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/09/call-my-agent-the-movie-review-camille-cottin-laure- #Film #ComedyFilms #France #Comedy #Culture #GeorgeClooney #FilmAdaptations

Call My Agent! The Movie review – the gang get back together and c’est formidable
By Leslie Felperin

The screwball French comedy is back as a film that actually works, thanks to putting Andréa and Noémie at the heart of chaotic events and bringing all the old faces back

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/09/call-my-agent-the-movie-review-camille-cottin-laure-

#Film #Comedyfilms #France #Comedy #Culture #GeorgeClooney #Filmadaptations #TheGuardian #LeslieFelperin

Better Go Mad in the Wild review – boozing, bantering hermits impart their spiritual wisdom
By Phil Hoad

Director Miro Remo journeys deep into the Czech countryside to find two brothers living an isolated life filled with quixotic wisdom in this surreal documentary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/08/better-go-mad-in-the-wild-review-boozing-bantering-hermits-impart-their-spiritual-wisdom

#Film #Documentaryfilms #Czechia #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #Europe #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PhilHoad

Better Go Mad in the Wild review – boozing, bantering hermits impart their spiritual wisdom
By Phil Hoad

Director Miro Remo journeys deep into the Czech countryside to find two brothers living an isolated life filled with quixotic wisdom in this surreal documentary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/08/better-go-mad-in-the-wild-review-boozing-bantering-hermits-impart-their-spiritual-wisdom

#Film #Documentaryfilms #Czechia #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #Europe #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PhilHoad

Better Go Mad in the Wild review – boozing, bantering hermits impart their spiritual wisdom
By Phil Hoad

Director Miro Remo journeys deep into the Czech countryside to find two brothers living an isolated life filled with quixotic wisdom in this surreal documentary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/08/better-go-mad-in-the-wild-review-boozing-bantering-hermits-impart-their-spiritual-wisdom

#Film #Documentaryfilms #Czechia #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #Europe #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PhilHoad

‘Sometimes you just need a good cry’: why Little Women is my feelgood movie
By Vivian Ho

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort films is an ode to the teary 1994 adaptation of the classic novel

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/31/little-women-1994-feelgood-movie

#Dramafilms #LittleWomen #WinonaRyder #SusanSarandon #Film #ClaireDanes #KirstenDunst #Filmadaptations #Culture #TheGuardian #VivianHo

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film #Film #RockyHorrorShow #Culture #Legend #StephenKing #Books #FilmAdaptations #Television #TelevisionRadio #TomStoppard #Stage #MontyPython #TerryPratchett

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80
By Andrew Pulver

A prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock’n’roll musical in which he made his breakthrough

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film

#Film #RockyHorrorShow #Culture #Legend #StephenKing #Books #Filmadaptations #Television #Televisionradio #TomStoppard #Stage #MontyPython #TerryPratchett #TheGuardian #AndrewPulver

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/29/billy-liar-review-tom-courtenay-is-superb-in-classic-study-of-a-young-man-and-his-quixotic-dreams

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/29/billy-liar-review-tom-courtenay-is-superb-in-classic-study-of-a-young-man-and-his-quixotic-dreams

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

‘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

Wuthering Heights review: too hot, too greedy adaptation guarantees bad dreams in the night https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/09/wuthering-heights-review-emerald-fennell-margot-robbie-jacob-elordi #Film #MargotRobbie #EmeraldFennell #JacobElordi #MartinClunes #FilmAdaptations #EmilyBront #Books #Culture #RomanceFilms #RomanceBooks #DramaFilms #CharliXcx #Music