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The World’s End? How The Long Walk/The Mist Mirror Today’s Society

Paul Klein — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:23:21 +0000

It may be rather obvious to say but these are dark, divided times. It may even feel as if this is as bad as it’s ever been, but the reality is, things have always been divided. People have always drawn up battle lines and major events have always polarised people. It’s in these times that […]

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IT Chapter Two ★★★

Dimitri Kraus — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 21:06:22 +0000

Director: Andy Muschietti Stars: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Bill Skarsgard Released: 6th September 2019 (UK) Adapting Stephen King’s works has never been the easiest of tasks — the vast majority of silver screen interpretations either ended up being vastly inferior to their novel counterparts or, in severe cases, undermining the true […]

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Alex Ross Perry To Write/Direct Stephen King Adaptation Rest Stop

Calvin Prickett — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:21:02 +0000

Her Smell’s Alex Ross Perry (who also co-wrote Christopher Robin, for Disney) has lined up Rest Stop as his next project. The feature will be an adaptation of a Stephen King short story, first published in Esquire magazine in 2003 before winning the national magazine award for fiction in 2004, and being included in King’s […]

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Pet Sematary ★★

Van Connor — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:23:03 +0000

Director: Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer Stars: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow Released: April 4th (UK) Here’s a statistic that’ll blow your mind: over the past six years, films starring Jason Clarke have earned a cumulative box office total in excess of three and a half billion dollars. It doesn’t rank him among even the top five […]

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Jurassic Park, Brokeback Mountain, The Shining and More Added To The National Film Registry

Calvin Prickett — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:40:02 +0000

America’s Library of Congress has announced the twenty-five films it will add to its National Film Registry this year, and there’s some big names; including Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, groundbreaking romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, and Stanley Kubrick’s Stephen King adaptation The Shining. Earning a spot on the coveted list, now 750 entries long, will mean […]

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‘Gerald’s Game’ Official Trailer

Luke Walkley — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 22:03:27 +0000

Breaking free will require more than keeping her sanity. Based on a novel by Stephen King, Gerald’s Game comes to Netflix on September 29. Only on Netflix.

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BFI Announce ‘Stephen King On Screen’ Season

Darryl Griffiths — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:13:16 +0000

Many a filmmaker have deemed his work worthy of adaptation. From Brian De Palma’s bloodsoaked Carrie to the iconic ‘Here’s Johnny!’ antics of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. All the way to this year, as fans eagerly await the new version of IT (8th September) and The Dark Tower (18th August) starring Idris Elba and Matthew […]

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