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I’ll make up a whopper you can’t refuse! Why do we love to believe cinema’s best lines were improvised?

From The Godfather to Saltburn, the internet is awash with claims that actors are ditching the script and making it up as they go along. What’s behind our desire to invest in these behind-the-scenes ‘secrets’?

The Guardian - UK

The rise of ‘Brotox’: men now face the same pressure that’s dogged women for decades

IN FOCUS: Male beauty standards have become as unrealistic as they are for women. With actors such as Barry Keoghan and Ryan Gosling showcasing fuller faces, Charlotte Cripps suggests that, rather than reach for the filler to quell their insecurities, men need to do some inner work

The Independent UK

A bust of Barbra Streisand and beautiful memories: Richard E Grant’s garden – in seven extraordinary items

The actor has played many classic roles and his love of film is clear in his garden, from the Saltburn proscenium arch to the pergola where Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd have partied the night away

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Barry Keoghan Has Finally Revealed What He Was Drinking in That Saltburn Bath Scene

Lovely.

Marie Claire

Archie Madekwe says he won’t 'jinx' Bafta win by writing speech as he's set to reunite with Saltburn co-star Jacob Elordi

The Lurker star is up for the EE Rising star Bafta at Sunday’s awards

Evening Standard

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is big movie with a very small mind

The maximalist adaptation of the gothic romance shows great interest in production design but very little in character

The Guardian - US

Is this love? Don’t be Heathcliff and Cathy – what you should watch, read and play this week

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a loose (very loose) adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. The film is, as the director has attested, the intense, “unhinged”, gothic story she remembers reading as a 14-year-old. As such, it is full of imagined passages and heightened romance and violence. It’s truly Fennellian in…

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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: “Wuthering Heights”: A horny and vapid take on Brontë's classic

Director Emerald Fennell guts one of the most emotionally violent novels ever written for a surface-level flirtation with corset kink that's as vapid as it is bafflingly tame.

Euronews

From ‘resplendently lurid’ to ‘emotionally hollow’: Critics divided over new Wuthering Heights film

Some critics have called the latest adaptation of the classic novel ‘pseudo-romantic,’ while others praised it for being ‘oozy and wild’

The Independent UK

Why Emerald Fennell was so well placed to adapt Wuthering Heights – period drama expert explains

From Kate Bush’s otherworldly pop anthem to Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon embracing on the wild Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is one of the most adapted works of literature in the western world.

The Conversation

‘Intoxicating, bewitching... and horny’: The first reactions to Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights are in

It seems the ‘Saltburn’ director’s latest project may well live up to the hype

The Independent UK

Margot Robbie to Owen Cooper: meet the stars of the new “Wuthering Heights” film

Introducing the director and main cast of one of the most anticipated reimaginings of the classic masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

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Top films to watch week beginning Saturday, January 31

The Independent UK

Emerald Fennell is an auteur of rage-bait — and we're all falling for it

Her take on Wuthering Heights looks salacious, sexy and messy. Which is exactly how Fennell wants it

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TechRadar

If the new Prime Video movie Hedda reminds you of Saltburn, you’re not the only one – but the cast don’t see it

Is the new movie Hedda really the next Saltburn? The cast ‘don’t see it,’ but you still can stream both on Prime Video.

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'I could see this little synopsis that'd be someone naked...' Sophie Ellis-Bextor reveals why she said yes to Saltburn

Sophie Ellis-Bextor gave the green light for Murder on the Dancefloor to be used in Emerald Fennell's Saltburn when she found out Barry Keoghan would be dancing naked to her hit single.

TechRadar

New Prime Video movie Hedda isn't just this year's Saltburn – it’s cooler, more calculated and serious fun

Hedda is more than the original play or a Saltburn wannabe, and Nia DaCosta's craft makes all the difference

The Guardian - UK

Lady review – outrageous mockumentary is like Saltburn on shrooms

With supreme entitlement, Sian Clifford’s Lady Isabella shines as ‘aristocracy’s answer to the Kardashians’ in this barnstorming comedy

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Evening Standard

Wuthering Heights, House of Guinness: is iPhone face taking over?

Historical dramas have never looked so modern. Is that a problem?

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m in my sod-it era’: Sophie Ellis-Bextor on speaking up, suing the tabloids and finding power in perimenopause

The singer’s kitchen discos and that Saltburn scene have given her the mother of all career resurgences. So how is she capitalising on this midlife moment? With an album about the perimenopause

The Guardian - US

Hedda review – Ibsen gets a Saltburn makeover in Amazon’s ill-advised romp

Nia DaCosta ups the nastiness of Hedda Gabler in a stylish but over-egged adaptation with lead Tessa Thompson losing the film to a standout Nina Hoss

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights is getting the Saltburn treatment – no wonder its devoted fans are in revolt

COMMENT: As the trailer for Emerald Fennell’s film arrives and causes outrage among many Emily Brontë fans, Katie Rosseinsky writes about why those who grew up with this story are so protective over it

Cinemablend

I Wasn’t Expecting A Jacob Elordi Reference When Sydney Sweeney Was Asked About Selling Her Bathwater

Bathwater causes quite the reaction.

Total Film

Thor star and The Marvels director's new Prime Video movie unveils its first trailer – and it looks like a deliciously queer mix of Saltburn and The Great Gatsby

Nia DaCosta turns Henrik Ibsen's classic works into a punky period drama centered on a lesbian love triangle

Evening Standard

Whips, nuns and horse-rein sex – everything we know about Emerald Fennell’s wild Wuthering Heights adaptation

The Saltburn director’s take on the classic book is set to ruffle a few feathers

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