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7 top new movies to watch on Netflix, Paramount Plus and more (July 10-16)

This week's biggest new movies to hit the net features Wes Anderson's trip to Asteroid City, the latest Transformers movie and the Bird Box spinoff.

Tom’s Guide

40 best books to read before you die, from Wolf Hall to Wuthering Heights

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights review – a deliciously dark Brontë with its jagged edges restored

Coal-black humour propels Brontë’s tale of murderous desire, animal torture and family abuse

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7 top new movies to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, Peacock and more this week (April 11-17)

The top movies online this week feature Keri Russell, Florence Pugh, George Clooney, Julia Roberts and more.

Tom’s Guide

Brontë! Baftas! Barbie! Is Emma Mackey the breakout star of the year?

She might still be playing with Barbies, but our favourite brooding teenager from Sex Education is all grown up now. Here’s how she became one of the biggest stars to come out of the Netflix teen machine

Evening Standard

Great Expectations Cast: Where You've Seen The Stars Of FX's Charles Dickens-Based TV Show

The Great Expectations cast should make this miniseries adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic worth a look.

Cinemablend

We used DNA from Beethoven's hair to shed light on his poor health – and stumbled upon a family secret

Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples.

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Film show: On the red carpet with Keanu Reeves in Paris for 'John Wick: Chapter 4'

Paris is the backdrop for Keanu Reeves's latest outing as the indestructible hitman John Wick. FRANCE 24's Jennifer Ben Brahim was at the Paris premiere of the film. Also on the programme, we look at a new imagined vision of the 19th-century author of the English literary classic "Wuthering Heights",…

France 24

'Sex Education' star Emma Mackey: From 'Emily' to 'Barbie'

Franco-British actress Emma Mackey speaks to Eve Jackson about playing the role of "Wuthering Heights" author Emily Brontë in British-Australian actress Frances O’Connor's directorial debut "Emily". Since the breakout star of series "Sex Education" hit our screens in 2019, she's worked with Kenneth Branagh in "Death on the Nile", played…

France 24

'Emily' review: The power and fire of the gifted, strange Brontë sister

Late in her own relatively short life, the writer Charlotte Brontë published a brief "biographical notice" about her two sisters, Emily and Anne, both fellow writers who died tragically young. Of Emily, who died in 1848 at the age of 30 after publishing her sole novel "Wuthering Heights," Charlotte wrote,…

Tribune News Service

Review: Wuther true or false, 'Emily' weaves a passionate portrait of a Brontë sister

"Wuthering Heights" was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell — a pseudonym for Emily Brontë, of course, and one that she adopted in tandem with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, in their individual novels as well as a book of poetry. "Jane Eyre" was published under Currer…

Los Angeles Times

Missing Sergeant Cawood and Happy Valley? Here are creator Sally Wainwright’s other shows

Hoorah, there’s 30 years’ worth of Sally Wainwright dramas to watch

Evening Standard

Emma Mackey brings Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë boldly to life in Frances O'Connor's directorial debut

This creative departure from the biopic genre by Australian actor-turned director Frances O’Connor reframes parts of the author's life and inspirations that have long eluded biographers.

ABC News

January movie guide: Time to go wild with Oscar hopefuls Babylon, The Fabelmans and Tar

January movie guide includes three Oscar hopefuls including Babylon, Tar and a Steven Spielberg biopic, The Fabelmans

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The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best hopeful films for a new year

It’s time to embrace positivity – from the underdog idealism of Rocky to the transcendent A Matter of Life and Death and the gloriously morbid optimism of Harold and Maude

The Conversation

Emily Brontë's death needs to be radically reimagined – an expert explains

Novelist Charlotte Brontë was devastated when her sister Emily died from tuberculosis on December 19, 1848.

The Independent UK

‘Well, thanks for that’: Emma Mackey reveals nickname Russell Brand gave her on Death on the Nile set

Brand gave Mackey an interesting nickname based on her appearance

The Guardian - UK

Emily review – the wildest Brontë sister is set free in full-blooded gothic fable

The author of Wuthering Heights is no sickly recluse in actor turned director Frances O’Connor’s sensuous, spine-tingling feature debut

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The Guardian - UK

Film Emily will introduce Brontë sisters to younger audiences, says co-star

Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who plays illicit lover, says outsider theme is ‘hugely relatable’

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #56: From Britbox to Shudder, the best niche streaming services

In this week’s newsletter: Whether you’re after horror, arthouse, reality TV or teatime crime, don’t be afraid to look past the ‘big five’

Evening Standard

Emily movie review: Emma Mackey blazes but the Brontës deserve better

Frequently scintillating, but ultimately Frances O’Connor’s directing debut disappoints

The Independent UK

Emily review: A fictionalised Brontë biopic that captures the soul of an artist, if not her reality

‘Sex Education’ star Emma Mackey plays the ‘Wuthering Heights’ author with profound sensitivity

The Conversation

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë and the truth about the 'real-life Heathcliff'

When Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, outraged Victorian critics deemed it savage, indecent and immoral. One described it as “a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors”.

The Guardian - UK

Emily review – love, passion and sex in impressive Brontë biopic

Director Frances O’Connor shows author’s creative path to writing Wuthering Heights through the two great loves of her life

The Guardian - UK

Frances O’Connor: ‘I’m putting Emily Brontë in the centre of her own story’

The actor turned writer-director is taking an unconventional approach to her feature film debut about the Wuthering Heights author

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