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fromConsequence
1 day ago

The Replacements' Biography Trouble Boys to Be Turned Into Biopic By Finn Wolfhard

At the time, he indicated that he'd been "writing a lot of music and writing this movie with my dad, which has been really amazing." However, he couldn't "talk about the actual band because I don't have the rights officially yet." Still, he once again echoed a personal connection with The Replacements, adding, "It's about a band that I think weirdly I have a lot in common with, a lot of the members."
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fromVulture
1 day ago

Joe Wright Won't Let You Look Away from Mussolini

Joe Wright uses theatrical artifice and maximalist cinematic techniques to depict Mussolini's performative charisma and destructive political rise from 1914 to 1925.
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fromIndieWire
1 day ago
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What Turns Filmmaker Shane Black on About Today's Action Landscape? The 'Competence Porn' of 'Play Dirty'

fromIndieWire
1 day ago
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What Turns Filmmaker Shane Black on About Today's Action Landscape? The 'Competence Porn' of 'Play Dirty'

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fromArs Technica
1 day ago

Trailer for del Toro's Frankenstein is pure macabre mythology

Guillermo del Toro's film adapts Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with Victor's creation igniting mutual ruin; film releases Oct 17, 2025 and streams on Netflix Nov 7.
fromInverse
1 day ago

207 Years Later, An Iconic Sci-Fi Story Is Getting Its Most Faithful Adaptation Yet

The latest adaptation of Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix, appears to be recentering the story on the creature (Jacob Elordi) and his perspective on his creator (Oscar Isaac). After being kept in the shadows, the creature takes center stage in the latest trailer, and we even get to hear his (surprisingly articulate) voice. Check out the trailer below: "My maker told his tale," the creature says, "And I... will tell you mine." This trailer positions the creature as the hero, with the doctor shown as an angry villain. "If you are not to award me love," the creature warns, "then I will indulge in rage."
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

I am quite tough': Schindler's List star Embeth Davidtz on her explosive film about Rhodesia's final days

Embeth Davidtz, US-born and raised under apartheid, directed her first film at 60, adapting a memoir that reveals colonial racism through a child's eyes.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

She wrote the best first line and the most chilling stories': Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier

Her classic story The Birds opens with this: On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter. Short, chilly and to the point. It could almost be a weather report. It works so well at the outset of the gripping tale that follows, in which every species of bird attacks humankind, because it's flat, declarative and realistic.
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fromThe Nation
1 week ago

Paul Thomas Anderson's Wild American Epic

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another adapts Pynchon's Vineland into a contemporary film about radical activists, betrayal, and underground survival.
fromGameSpot
1 week ago

Silent Hill F Modders Have Already Removed The Game's Signature Fog

Silent Hill f won't officially launch until tomorrow, September 25, but PC users with early access have already released a handful of mods for the game. One of the mods even removes the franchise's signature fog from the Japanese town of Ebisugaoka. And suddenly it's a much nicer day for high school student Hinako Shimizu, at least until something tries to kill her.
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fromInverse
1 week ago

Death Stranding Is Expanding Its Weird Universe In All The Right Ways

Kojima Productions revealed multiple upcoming projects including OD, a Death Stranding film, and new collaborations across games and film.
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fromInverse
1 week ago

'Hamlet' Is A Visceral, Much-Needed Shakespearean Remix

Riz Ahmed and Aneil Karia present a lean, West London Hamlet retaining Shakespeare's prose while excising peripheral scenes and characters to focus solely on Hamlet.
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fromGameSpot
1 week ago

Resident Evil Movie Director Says He Is "Following The Rules" But Also Telling A New Story

Resident Evil film set in the Resident Evil 2 universe features new characters and an original story following one protagonist's descent into hell.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Film Review: Why One Battle After Another' is the talker of 2025

Paul Thomas Anderson delivers a hyper-relevant, technically dazzling adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland that captures contemporary American madness despite imperfections.
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fromGameSpot
4 weeks ago
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Spielberg Wanted To Make A Call Of Duty Movie But Activision Passed, Here's The Reported Reason Why

fromGameSpot
4 weeks ago
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Spielberg Wanted To Make A Call Of Duty Movie But Activision Passed, Here's The Reported Reason Why

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fromGameSpot
2 weeks ago

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Celebrates 50th Anniversary With 4K Steelbook Edition

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest gets a 50th‑anniversary 4K steelbook; the film is a faithful Kesey adaptation and five‑time Academy Award winner.
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fromBustle
2 weeks ago

'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Movie Is Officially On The Way

Prime Video will release a feature film continuing Belly and Conrad's storyline from The Summer I Turned Pretty, focusing on a milestone in Belly's life.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

One Battle After Another review Paul Thomas Anderson's thrillingly helter-skelter counter-culture caper

Vineland becomes a frenetic, politically charged, pulpy action thriller that blends counterculture, paranoid American politics, and father–daughter dysfunction.
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fromInverse
2 weeks ago

30 Years Later, An Overlooked Sci-Thriller Is More Impressive Than You Remember

Hackers 1995 functions as a loose cinematic adaptation of Neuromancer's cyberpunk vision, capturing techno-existentialist themes despite critical dismissal and inaccuracy.
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fromVulture
3 weeks ago

The Long Walk's Brutal Twist Hits Harder Than Stephen King's Original Ending

The Long Walk portrays a televised, brutal endurance contest where young men must keep walking until one survives, exposing violence, camaraderie, and dystopian social control.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The Fence review Claire Denis stumbles with a grim and grating misfire

The Fence revisits post-colonial West Africa but underwhelms, feeling theatrical and less convincing than Claire Denis's stronger earlier films.
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fromConsequence
3 weeks ago

Willem Dafoe, Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop & Nadia Latif on The Man in My Basement and Genre as a Weapon: Podcast

A psychological thriller explores race, trauma, and grief through a mysterious stranger in a decaying Sag Harbor home, anchored by Willem Dafoe and Corey Hawkins.
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fromConde Nast Traveler
3 weeks ago

'The Thursday Murder Club' Was Filmed at This Classic English Country House

The Thursday Murder Club film pairs a star-studded British cast and top production team with meticulously designed locations that fuse grand estates and classic English countryside.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Hamnet review stately Shakespeare drama with emotionally overwhelming finale

Maggie O'Farrell's lauded 2020 novel Hamnet is a dense and lyrical imagining of the lives of William Shakespeare's family, full of interior thought and lush descriptions of the physical world. It would seem, upon reading, near impossible to adapt into a film. Or, at least, a film worthy of O'Farrell's so finely woven sensory spell. Film-maker Chloe Zhao has attempted to do so anyway, and the result is a stately, occasionally lugubrious drama whose closing minutes are among the most poignant in recent memory.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

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

A 1950s-set Hedda Gabler adaptation emphasizes subterfuge and sexual intrigue, pairing assured direction with stylistic excess and uneven narrative choices.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The energy is infectious': why Bride and Prejudice is my feelgood movie

Bride & Prejudice successfully adapts Pride and Prejudice into a joyous cross-cultural Bollywood-Western musical resonating with contemporary India.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

California Schemin' review James McAvoy's directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale

Two Scottish rappers posed as Californians to land a London record deal, exposing industry prejudice and straining their friendship.
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fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

20 years later, is it time to quit 'Brokeback Mountain'?

Spare, austere language channels suppressed love and masculine fear in Ennis and Jack, making a film unlikely to replicate the characters' internal tension.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago
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Wuthering Heights: first trailer for Emerald Fennell's erotic adaptation

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi and promises an erotically charged, provocative reinterpretation that sparked controversy.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago
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Egg yolks, horse sex and necrophile nuns: Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights confirmed as unconventional'

Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Wuthering Heights features provocative content that deviates significantly from the original novel's themes.
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fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Do Not Let Preparation for the Next Life Pass You By

Aishe, an undocumented immigrant in Flushing Chinatown, forms a fragile, transitional connection with Skinner amid precarious work and social invisibility.
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fromIndieWire
4 weeks ago

I Survived 'The Long Walk' Treadmill Challenge - What 5 Miles with the New Stephen King Classic Felt Like

Survival requires relentless physical endurance under a fascist regime's coercive 'voluntary' death-game, emphasizing psychological resilience and communal conformity.
fromEngadget
4 weeks ago

The new Street Fighter movie lands in theaters next October

The new Street Fighter movie has been given a release date of October 16, 2026. Kitao Sakurai is directing the project and a few generic plot details have been disclosed. The story will be set in 1993, a nod to the year Street Fighter II was released in arcades, and will have familiar characters from the game uncovering "a deadly conspiracy" in the midst of all their street fighting.
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fromPitchfork
4 weeks ago

Charli XCX to Contribute Original Songs to New Wuthering Heights Movie

Emerald Fennell's film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, features original songs by Charli XCX and releases Feb 14, 2026.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

'The Long Walk' Is The King Of The Dystopian Thriller

The Long Walk film delivers a taut, intimate, masterfully directed dystopian survival story with heart-wrenching performances and ranks among the best adaptations in the genre.
fromCN Traveller
1 month ago

Where was The Roses filmed?

The plot centres around an English couple grappling with their relationship while their professional trajectories head in opposing directions. The pair meet in London, in one of London's best restaurants, Hide in Mayfair, where (co-founder of the Michelin-starred spot, Ollie Dabbous, makes a cameo about half way through the movie), where Theo (Cumberbatch), who plays a high-flying architecture about to make it big, is having a business meeting
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

No fears over playing man without a face' Putin, Jude Law says in Venice

Jude Law portrays Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin, emphasizing nuance while depicting the leader's tightly controlled, mask-like public persona.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Wizard of the Kremlin review Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

A satirical novel about a Putin spin doctor is adapted into a laborious, literal film weighed down by endless, dull voiceover.
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fromVulture
1 month ago

Dafoe vs. the Dandies

Late Fame portrays an aging poet rediscovered by pompous young literati who romanticize the past while hypocritically embracing modern affectations.
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

'Late Fame' Review: Willem Dafoe Plays a Former Poet Who Falls in with a Young Crowd in Kent Jones' Perceptive Urban Drama

Meier informs Saxberger that he read his slim collection of poetry, written and forgotten 30 years prior, and shared it with his "Enthusiasm Society" of ambitious writers. Meier encourages Saxberger to join the group, who are in the midst of organizing a reading that will debut their talents to Vienna. Flattered and reinvigorated by their admiration, Saxberger hangs around the young crowd and lets himself believe that he finally might be on the brink of recognition.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

No one hates you like someone who used to love you. 'The Roses' misses that

The Roses reframes The War of the Roses as a fundamentally loving yet increasingly combative marriage, softening the original's biting bitterness.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

The Star-Studded New Remake of The War of the Roses Loses a Crucial Part of Its Satire

A modern adaptation softens the Roses' cruelty, making the divorce tale more watchable but diluting the original conflict's force.
fromInverse
1 month ago

5 Years Ago, A Misunderstood Director Adapted An Impossible Thriller

For a man who wrote an entire movie about how awful adapting a book into a movie can be, Charlie Kaufman has really developed it into a unique skill. The Oscar-winning screenwriter is best known for original stories like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but he's recently branched out and adapted a children's book into the surprisingly cerebral animated movie Orion and the Dark.
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fromRoger Ebert
1 month ago

British Banter Envy: Jay Roach and Tony McNamara on "The Roses" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

The Roses adapts The War of the Roses into a darkly comic marital drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, focusing on ambition-driven marital collapse.
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fromGadgets 360
1 month ago

Kojima Has a Concept for Death Stranding 3, but Isn't Planning to Do It Now

A concept for Death Stranding 3 exists but no current development plans; Kojima Productions is focused on OD, Physint, and an A24 live-action film.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Roses review dieback blights Colman and Cumberbatch remake

They play Ivy and Theo, two high-achieving professionals whose marriage becomes a black-comic Chornobyl of toxic hate; it is adapted from the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, which was previously filmed in 1989 with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Tony McNamara writes this new version and the director is Jay Roach, known for Austin Powers and Meet the Parents.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

20 Years Ago, A Legendary Fantasy Director Secretly Started A Fascinating Trend

The early 20th century saw the debut of darker fairy tale tellings like Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes, but many of the timeless stories they drew inspiration from became synonymous with the Walt Disney Company's animated films. Even if the original fairy tales contained dark, provocative material, more mature film adaptations had to contend with family-friendly expectations tied to Disney classics like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
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fromInverse
1 month ago
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'Highest 2 Lowest' Review: Spike Lee's Bold Crime Thriller Remake Saves Itself From One Jarring Fumble

fromInverse
1 month ago
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'Highest 2 Lowest' Review: Spike Lee's Bold Crime Thriller Remake Saves Itself From One Jarring Fumble

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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Reminded me of Agatha Christie': the shocking true story behind Ron Howard's Eden

A 1930s European settlement on Floreana descended into chaos, blackmail, betrayal, disappearances and possible murder—the enduring mystery known as the Galapagos Affair.
fromIndependent
1 month ago

Thursday Murder Club review: Screen version of the Richard Osman novel is sloppy, complacent and a waste of wonderful talent

Pierce Brosnan plays a retired trade unionist and his London accent keeps going on strike in sloppy and complacent attempt at bringing bestselling book to the screen
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fromwww.standard.co.uk
1 month ago

Dame Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan on the red carpet in Leicester Square for Thursday Murder Club premiere

The new film is based on Richard Osman's bestseller about four unlikely friends in a retirement home who meet weekly to solve cold cases. But when an unexplained death happens on their own doorstep, the fun and games become all too real. Dame Helen, 80, Brosnan, 72, Imrie, 73, and Gandhi star Sir Ben, 81, lead a stellar cast in the Steven Spielberg-produced whodunnit.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

49 Years Later, An Acclaimed Fantasy Thriller Is Getting A Wildly Imaginative Remake

The Broadway musical Kiss of the Spider Woman receives a star-studded film adaptation blending fantasy musical sequences with political drama and transformative prisoner relationships.
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fromTime Out London
1 month ago

Quentin Tarantino's first ever play is coming to London

Tarantino will stage a play in London's West End, may adapt it into his final film, and will move to England to work on it.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Map That Leads to You review sugary Amazon romance works best as travelogue

A book-loving American woman falls for a man with a tragic secret during a pre-career trip to Europe.
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fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

Movie Review: Highest 2 Lowest Is a Spike Lee Joint by an Akira Kurosawa Fan

High and Low is a masterpiece of cinematic storytelling that examines social themes, while Highest 2 Lowest is a fun summer adaptation.
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fromwww.esquire.com
1 month ago

All 9 Paul Thomas Anderson Movies, Ranked

Inherent Vice immerses viewers in the hazy world of 1970 Los Angeles through a stoned private investigator navigating various cases.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's Thrilling New Movie Reimagines a Classic

Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest is a homage to Kurosawa's High and Low, balancing style with substance and exploring legacy and moral dilemmas.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

We thought with The Crown: Is anyone going to watch this?' director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism and royalty

Night Always Comes highlights the plight of individuals struggling to afford housing while working multiple jobs.
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fromInsideHook
1 month ago

Amazon's "War of the Worlds" Scored 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. We Watched It So You Don't Have To.

The new War of the Worlds adaptation has a rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and received minimal promotion upon its release.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 months ago

Stephen King's 'The Long Walk' makes a chilling impact at San Diego Comic-Con

The film 'The Long Walk' highlights themes of brotherhood, horror, and life's journey.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Elden Ring Movie Might Star Alien: Romulus Lead Actress - Report

Cailee Spaeny is in talks for the Elden Ring movie directed by Alex Garland.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Review: Marvel's First Family Just Saved The MCU

The MCU is adapting comic book stories while often neglecting credit for original creators.
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fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

amBroadway | John Proctor' extends Broadway run one final time, a HamilTen' fundraiser and more | amNewYork

The play John Proctor Is the Villain critiques patriarchal narratives using The Crucible as a framework.
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fromPolygon
2 months ago

Link and Zelda aren't a couple, you freaks

The reactions to casting Bo Bragason as Zelda and Benjamin Ainsworth as Link reflect misconceptions about their potential romantic involvement.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Six Films Better Than the Books They're Based On

The folly of man, the chaos of progress, the forking around, the finding out, the dinosaurs—God, the dinosaurs.
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fromVulture
2 months ago

John Proctor Will Be a Movie Villain

The Broadway play John Proctor Is the Villain is being adapted for film by Universal, with Sadie Sink as executive producer.
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fromBustle
2 months ago

Lili Reinhart's New Rom-Com Is Going Viral For This Ironic Reason

Lili Reinhart will star in and executive produce The Love Hypothesis movie, adapted from Ali Hazelwood's novel about a fake relationship between a Ph.D. candidate and a professor.
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