Review: “Wuthering Heights” (2026)

The opening titles of Wuthering Heights— writer and director Emerald Fennell’s 2026 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel— dance across a black screen, accented by the sound of quick creaking, and a man’s increasingly heavy groans and sighs. It proves to be a moment of black amusement when the final credit cuts away to the […]

Review: “Saltburn”

Gloomy atmosphere, haunted castles, grotesque characters, cursed families, doomed romances— these elements and more have come to define the gothic genre, the first entry into which is generally considered to be English writer Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. Walpole’s tale of the lord of a manor and his family was inspired by […]