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Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I’m nearly 50, so I’ve lived a bit – I’ve experienced grief’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The Oscar-nominated star had to go deep for his role as a grieving father in the adaptation of Max Porter’s emotional bestseller ‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’. He and Porter speak to Ellie Harrison about masculinity, raising sons, and how Cumberbatch is using his Marvel cachet…

The Independent UK

Benedict Cumberbatch ‘let own emotions through’ for latest role

The Bafta award-winning actor stars in The Thing With Feathers, which explores the topic of male grief.

Evening Standard

Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'The Thing With Feathers' - Benedict Cumberbatch is Babadooked

Despite a committed central performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, 'The Thing With Feathers' doesn’t do justice to Max Porter's powerful novella.

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Max Porter on The Thing With Feathers: 'Benedict Cumberbatch went to extreme places'

The Things With Feathers is a remarkable film about grief, based on the book by Max Porter, who tells us the hallucinatory extremes reflect the human experience of this taboo topic

Evening Standard

The Thing With Feathers review – well-intentioned adaptation of Max Porter novella about grief

Benedict Cumberbatch gives an honest performance, but this is too self-conscious to challenge or work through loss with same power as the book

The Guardian - UK

The Thing With Feathers: a dark but uplifting exploration of grief and despair

Easily the most poignant film I have seen this year, Dylan Southern’s The Thing With Feathers is adapted from Max Porter’s 2015 novella Grief Is The Thing With Feathers. Using both subtle drama and horror spectacle, it cuts deeply into the tenderness of humanity and domesticity, reminding us that the…

The Conversation

Inside Arsenal's plan to nurture Max Dowman's ‘unreal’ talent

Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice playing key roles as Arsenal bid to help 15-year-old sensation fulfil his potential

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The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, and more

Check out our guide to the best movies and shows streaming this week, October 6–12

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7 best new movies to stream this weekend on Netflix, Paramount Plus, HBO Max, and more (Oct. 4-5)

Not sure what to watch this weekend? 'Bring Her Back,' 'The Naked Gun,' the 'Downton Abbey' finale, and more movie night hits just landed on streaming.

Tom’s Guide

Cillian Murphy wonders if it’s ‘too late’ for major roles despite Oscar win

Murphy won Best Actor in 2024 for playing scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Independent UK

TV tonight: Alan Partridge is back to tackle the wellbeing of Britain

Steve Coogan’s totemic character is back – and this time he’s talking mental health. Plus, a brilliant film adaptation of Max Porter’s Shy. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Netflix’s new drama with Cillian Murphy is one of the most chaotic movies I’ve ever seen — and you need to stream it now

Cillian Murphy stars in Netflix's new original drama movie "Steve," and it's a chaotic look at an English reform school full of unruly students.

Tom’s Guide

Steve to American Fiction: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Cillian Murphy is superb as the headteacher of a school for troubled boys in a tragic and brilliant drama, while Jeffrey Wright proves he can do no wrong in a knife-edge satire. Plus, Bridget Jones!

The Guardian - UK

‘They were so feral’: Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman and cast on nose-breaking remand school drama Steve

In the acclaimed new film about boys written off by the system, Murphy draws on his own past as a troublesome schoolboy while Little Simz plays a teacher – and writes a 90s-style banger of a song

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Cillian Murphy on trying to ‘challenge himself’ with different roles throughout career

Cillian Murphy has revealed he always tries to “challenge himself” by picking a wide range of contrasting roles.

The Guardian - UK

Steve review – Cillian Murphy is outstanding in ferocious reform school drama

Adapted by Max Porter from his novella Shy and co-starring Little Simz, Emily Watson and Tracey Ullman this brutal but ultimately hopeful story is fiercely affecting

The Independent UK

Steve review – Cillian Murphy drama exposes the perils of novel-to-film adaptations

3/5 Max Porter takes his novella ‘Shy’ and plants its protagonist into the background for this Netflix drama – it’s a puzzling decision, despite the strong performances from newcomer Jay Lycurgo and the rapper Little Simz

Evening Standard

Arsenal complete recruitment process as Max Porter is appointed new under-21's head coach

Gunners have opted to promote from within

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Netflix drops first trailer for Cillian Murphy’s new drama movie — and it already has me counting down the days

Netflix drops first trailer for “Steve,” an upcoming drama following Cillian Murphy as a teacher navigating troubled teens and personal struggles.

The Conversation

Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes to the stage with a glorious intensity of purpose

The idea of the titular Crow in Ted Hughes’ poems is wild, untameable and irreducible to words. In an early poem in the sequence, words come at Crow from all angles but he just ignores them. Finally, “Words retreated, suddenly afraid / Into the skull of a dead jester /…

The Guardian - AU

Grief is the Thing With Feathers review – Max Porter adaptation plays it safe

A new stage adaptation of the award-winning novel about a grief-stricken family visited by a giant talking crow takes imaginative flight but never truly soars

The Conversation

Mythical, slippery, shapeshifting: Grief is the Thing With Feathers transforms tragedy into literature

Max Porter lost his father when he was just six years old. He has described his first book, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, as “a love letter to my dad”.

The Guardian - AU

Grief is the Thing With Feathers: why Max Porter’s strange but ‘magnificent’ debut keeps inspiring adaptations

With a new Australian stage version and a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch later this year, the author’s boundary-pushing novella continues to soar

Euronews

'Heart Lamp': Indian author Banu Mushtaq makes history by winning International Booker Prize

It is the first time that the award has been given to a collection of short stories. "Heart Lamp" is the first book written in the Kannada language to win the prestigious prize.

The Independent UK

Indian author Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize with short story collection

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of more than 30 years, chronicling the everyday lives and struggles of women in southern India

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