Big Screen Drama: How The Housemaid Translates from Page to Screen

‘That didn’t happen in the book’. It’s the phrase that haunts every book-to-screen adaptation – and The Housemaid practically invites it. Whilst changes are inevitable (and often welcome), Paul Feig’s take had me saying it far more than usual. Adapted from the 2022 novel of the same name by Freida McFadden, The Housemaid had readers […]

100 Nights of Hero

4/5 As children, we were all brought up on fairytales in one form or another, whether through books or films, they surrounded us. But as we grow older, we tend to drift away from those fables that once shaped our imagination. 100 Nights of Hero, however, invites viewers to return to that childlike wonder, drawing […]

The Outun

‘The Outrun’ is a complex yet beautiful adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir by the same name. Unlike many stories portraying the battles of addiction in a linear fashion, the film shows it exactly as it is, not only how it affects Rona, the protagonist of the story, but also those around her – this is […]

All Of Us Strangers

‘One night in his near-empty London tower block, screenwriter Adam has a chance encounter with mysterious neighbour Harry, puncturing the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam finds himself drawn back to his childhood home, where his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they […]

wonka

As a musical movie and Timothée Chalamet lover, I was super excited to see Wonka and obviously had to make sure I was there the night it was released. To be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, so I went into the film fairly blind (bar the trailer and production shots) but I […]

The hunger games – The ballad of songbirds and snakes

As a book and film blog, I have the perfect opportunity to talk about a film that’s recently been adapted from one of my favourite books! The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The book (and film) is a prequel to ‘The Hunger Games’ (64 years before those books began) and is essentially […]

Daisy Jones & The Six

‘I am not the muse, I’m the somebody’ I fell in love with ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ a little over a year ago after reading ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ by the same author. I’ve always loved the books by Taylor Jenkins Reid as the characters and stories are so real, you almost […]

I need to talk about heartstopper

So last year I wrote a post about book adaptations of my favourite books and what I thought about them and as you may know (I think most people do at this point) the webcomic series turned graphic novels ‘Heartstopper’ was just adapted into an 8 part series on Netflix, and I think it’s perfect! […]