I will say this upfront as I have never read Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights." Judging from director Emerald Fennell's 2026 film adaptation, I can safely bet that most of the plot has been severely changed to fit Fennell's appreciation for sex and violence onscreen. This version is most definitely not your average period drama, as modern music, smoldering hot actors, and a frostbitten fever dream of montages encapsulate a premise so indistinguishable from the source material that it...

"Pillion" arrives in theaters this weekend with word-of-mouth that practically precedes it: leather, power games, and one of the two male leads whose animal magnetism could probably light a small city. On that level, the film delivers exactly what it promises. It is sexually charged, confident in its approach, and anchored by performances that understand how attraction and authority can coexist in the same glance.   Yet for all its pleasures and strong acting, director Harry Lighton's...

“That doesn’t even enter my consciousness.”   From the opening moments of director Josh Safdie's "Marty Supreme," with a jittery, sweat-soaked intensity and an anachronistic 1980s synth-pop score, the film announces itself as another entry in the Safdie canon. Featuring dynamic performances from its eventual leads, it falls into the "Uncut Gems" comparison of a propulsive man who mistakes unearned confidence for destiny. Like "Uncut Gems," the film is built around a protagonist who cannot...