Analysis

The impact of – and worldwide love for – JK Rowling's Harry Potter franchise can never truly be dimmed, but this doesn’t mean that the legacy of those seven books and eight films is invulnerable. The...

I have seen the Harry Potter films before—it’s currently a legal requirement for British citizens—but long enough ago that most of the twists and turns that weren’t announced on banners suspended over...

Space Jam was released in the United States exactly 20 years ago. That’s a lifetime. That could be many lifetimes. That’s five presidential terms – in fact, it coincided with the 1996 election that saw...

Something that was constantly heard from Donald Trump's supporters on election night was that it was a victory for people who have long been ignored by the system. Less than 24 hours later, journalist Zach...

The idea of visitors from other worlds is one of the oldest in all of science fiction, but Denis Villeneuve's new film Arrival is one of the very few that poses a genuinely thorny problem: how would we...

As I write this, Hillary Clinton is giving her concession speech. It’s gracious, well-meaning, self-effacing and hits the same old marks we hear every four years from the only person who can order 40,000...

For many it must have been simply implausible that Nicolas Roeg's fourth feature could work at all. David Bowie's star power aside - the rock icon was operating at the peak of his powers by the mid-1970s -...

"Too much grease is bad for you. I read it in a fitness magazine someone left on the bus." All films are guilty of wanting something. Just look at 2016's offerings: March played host to the...

Derek Cianfrance’s highly anticipated The Light Between Oceans has finally been released, and it's somewhat disappointing. Even having never heard of the novel, it was easy to get excited by the big names...

OK, so there are more than 13 things we know about the 2017 Oscar race. We know, for instance, all the usual givens such as the 0% chance of Captain America: Civil War being nominated for Best Picture, or...

Over the past few years there has been a renewed push for representation of black voices in Hollywood. With recent online campaigns such as #OscarsSoWhite, and more physical movements like Black Lives Matter,...

With the disappearance of notorious bigot and perpetual pain in the ass Ike Perlmutter, the future of Marvel looks bright. In the last decade Marvel Studios has released a long series of consecutive box office...

Andrea Arnold is a filmmaker who stands out for a number of reasons, but her focus on social realism as a subject and style is one that stands out more than others. Before American Honey, her first American...

If you were to glance at the Amazon reviews for Andrea Arnold’s 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights you would find a storm of one-star reviews. Most of the ire seems to come from fans of Emily Brontë’s...

Welcome to By the Book, where we compare books with their cinematic adaptations. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling, or are the authors turning in their graves through these unholy...