• Film and TV

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    Watch the dramatic trailer for the second season of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend.

    By Emily Temple  February 21, 2020
    Adaptations

    In 2020’s Emma., Emma Woodhouse Raids Cher Horowitz’s Wardrobe

    By Emily Temple  February 20, 2020
    The Hub

    Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson will reunite in adaptation of long-buried Martin McDonagh play.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 18, 2020
    The Hub

    Dispatches from an extra on the set of Hulu’s Normal People.

    By Jack Sheehan  February 18, 2020
    Film

    21 Documentaries That Redefined the Genre

    By Jon Wilkman  February 18, 2020
    The Hub

    Dev Patel is a smoldering Sir Gawain in this slick adaptation of the 14th century poem.

    By Emily Temple  February 13, 2020
    Politics

    How Did Louis C.K. Get Away With It For So Long?

    By Deborah Frances-White  February 13, 2020
    The Hub

    Olivia Colman will star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 12, 2020
    The Hub

    Scientific proof that the book is almost always better than the movie.

    By Emily Temple  February 12, 2020
    Why Not?

    An Incomplete But Amusing Survey of Judy Blume References in Pop Culture

    By Emily Temple  February 12, 2020
    Attachments

    Upon Realizing The Golden Girls Was Coming to an End I Sat Down and Wept

    By Daniel Mallory Ortberg  February 11, 2020
    Events

    Does Bong Joon-Ho’s Historic Oscar Win Signal Real Change for the Academy Awards?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Pedro Almodóvar is adapting Lucia Berlin’s A Manual For Cleaning Women and I am nervous.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 10, 2020
    The Hub

    How Octavia Butler’s radical vision of femininity inspired The OA.

    By Emily Temple  February 7, 2020
    Hollywood

    The 2020 Oscar Nominations Prove That Hollywood Still Hasn’t Seen Through the Smoke

    By Naomi McDougall Jones  February 7, 2020
    Criticism

    When We Call a Book Cinematic, What Do We Really Mean?

    By Sarah Kozloff  February 6, 2020
    Film

    Modern Marriage, Pseudo Love, and the Marriage Story Problem

    By Masha Tupitsyn  February 5, 2020
    The Hub

    There’s going to be a TV adaptation of The Naked and the Dead, because sure.

    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2020
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
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    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2020
    Film Awards

    Roxane Gay on the History of Women and the Oscars

    By Roxane Gay  January 31, 2020
    Film

    On Bad Bosses and
    Killer Dresses

    By Elizabeth Horkley  January 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Exclusive: watch the trailer for The Booksellers, a new documentary about rare book dealers.

    By Emily Temple  January 23, 2020
    The Hub

    The new Little Fires Everywhere trailer is lit in more ways than one.

    By Katie Yee  January 17, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the first trailer for the adaptation of Normal People.

    By Emily Temple  January 17, 2020
    The Hub

    The BBC’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch series looks pretty great.

    By Molly Odintz  January 17, 2020
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