Culture | The Guardian USMar 10
Project Hail Mary review – Ryan Gosling’s charm carries unserious last-ditch space mission https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/10/project-hail-mary-review-ryan-goslings-charm-carries-unserious-last-ditch-space-mission #Film #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #ComedyFilms #RyanGosling #FilmAdaptations #TheMartian #Books #Comedy #Culture
Project Hail Mary review – Ryan Gosling’s charm carries unserious last-ditch space mission

Tale of a brilliant molecular biologist cast into outer space with only a helpful alien for company is a bit silly, but Gosling’s charisma keeps it watchable

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Culture | The Guardian USMar 9
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
Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar

With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era

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Culture | The Guardian USMar 4
The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/04/the-bride-review-jessie-buckley-christian-bale-frankenstein #Film #DramaFilms #HorrorFilms #JessieBuckley #ChristianBale #MaggieGyllenhaal #AnnetteBening #MaryShelley #FilmAdaptations #Books #Culture #PenlopeCruz
The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife

The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film

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Culture | The Guardian USFeb 17
Wuthering slights: why are film-makers afraid of casting Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/17/wuthering-heights-yorkshire-cathy-earnshaw-margot-robbie #WutheringHeights #Film #Yorkshire #Women #Society #FilmIndustry #FilmAdaptations #Culture #Books #Business #UkNews
Wuthering slights: why are film-makers afraid of casting Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw?

Wuthering Heights is inseparable from its landscape – but northern actors seldom get the lead role, instead are pigeonholed as stereotypical or supporting characters. This Bradford-born actor objects

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Culture | The Guardian USFeb 16
More heartache than Hamnet?: Maggie O’Farrell’s best books – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/16/more-heartache-than-hamnet-maggie-ofarrells-best-books-ranked #Fiction #MaggieOfarrell #AutobiographyAndMemoir #Books #Culture #Hamnet #FilmAdaptations
More heartache than Hamnet?: Maggie O’Farrell’s best books – ranked!

As her Women’s prize-winning novel heads to the Oscars, we rate the author’s best work – from tales of new motherhood to a life-affirming memoir of mortality

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Culture | The Guardian USFeb 13
A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/13/a-prayer-for-the-dying-review-pestilent-western-feels-like-a-short-stretched-too-long #BerlinFilmFestival2026 #Film #Westerns #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JohnCReilly #JohnnyFlynn #FilmAdaptations #Books #Culture #Music #BerlinFilmFestival #Festivals
A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long

Johnny Flynn and John C Reilly offer casting heft, but this moody, technically sound tale of an unfolding epidemic in 1870s Wisconsin lacks emotional substance

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Technology | The Guardian USFeb 11
Is surprise box-office hit Iron Lung the future of ‘video game films’? https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/11/pushing-buttons-hit-film-iron-lung-youtube-markiplier #Games #Culture #Youtube #Film #FilmAdaptations #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms
Is surprise box-office hit Iron Lung the future of ‘video game films’?

The YouTube gaming star’s weird and divisive adaptation of his obscure horror film is a game within a film about a game – and hints at new directions for storytelling

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Culture | The Guardian USFeb 9
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
Wuthering Heights review – too hot, too greedy adaptation guarantees bad dreams in the night

Emerald Fennell’s take on Emily Brontë is an emotionally hollow, bodice-ripping misfire that misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes

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Culture | The Guardian USFeb 9
‘Chia pudding is Cathy’s composed side’: the weird and worrying world of official Wuthering Heights merchandise https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/09/wuthering-heights-merchandise-cathy-emerald-fennell-emily-bronte #WutheringHeights #Film #Culture #LifeAndStyle #EmilyBront #FilmAdaptations #EmeraldFennell #Books
‘Chia pudding is Cathy’s composed side’: the wild and worrying world of official Wuthering Heights merchandise

Emerald Fennell’s lust-fuelled take on Emily Brontë’s novel has cued a hot flush of merchandise ranging from themed snacks to thongs. What exactly are they buying into?

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Culture | The Guardian USJan 28
Till DVD release do us part: how far will Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi take their Wuthering Heights showmance? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/28/margot-robbie-jacob-elordi-wuthering-heights-press-tour-fauxmance #WutheringHeights #FilmIndustry #Film #Culture #MargotRobbie #JacobElordi #EmeraldFennell #FilmAdaptations
Till DVD release do us part: how far will Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi take their Wuthering Heights fauxmance?

We’ve had declarations of obsession, we’ve had notification of their matching rings … can someone please throw some cold water over this press tour love-fest?

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