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The Guardian - Culture: Film Edit Unfollow Flip the script: how Here Today defies the grim fate for screenwriters on film by Ryan Gilbey Aug 30, 2021 Unlike in Adaptation or The Player, the new Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish comedy presents its main character’s job as a glorious career peak John August, who has written several Tim Burton films including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, had harsh words for anyone thinking of putting a screenwriter at the centre of their script: “It shouldn’t be a surprise that Hollywood is not knocking down your door to make that movie because it’s just about a screenwriter. And who cares about a screenwriter?” Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... Continue Reading Save Share Candyman: the politics, the gore, the ending – discuss with spoilers by Charles Bramesco Aug 30, 2021 Did Nia DaCosta’s ambitious sequel match up to the 1992 original? And what about the newly revised and modernised lore? This article contains spoilers for Candyman As surely as the sun keeps rising in the east, Hollywood will keep remaking horror classics to inconsistent returns, but there’s a better argument to be made for exhuming and reanimating 1992’s canonized Candyman than most. The adaptation of Clive Barker’s short story The Forbidden was so forward-thinking for its time that in many respects, we’ve only caught up to it now; its resentment of gentrification has only grown more commonplace in the mainstream, and same goes for its canny insight into how black people’s suffering gets codified into urban legend. Rather than reiterating the major bullet points, Nia DaCosta’s new film takes the original as a jumping-off point, first and foremost by trading protagonist perspectives. Continue reading... Continue Reading Save Share Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: 'I'd love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn't want me' by Hadley Freeman Aug 30, 2021 He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - then became a brilliant comedy director. What is he most proud of? I ask Frank Oz if he feels like the Paul McCartney to Jim Henson’s John Lennon, the one left behind to carry the flame after his revered creative partner suddenly and shockingly died. Oz takes a deep breath and turns his head to the side, thinking. If you grew up in the 1970s and 80s, your childhood was shaped by Henson and Oz and their work with the Muppets, just as the kids who grew up in the 50s and 60s did so in the shadow of Lennon and McCartney. Even if you weren’t a devoted fan of the Muppets themselves, you couldn’t help but take in their influence osmotically, what with The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, the Muppets movies and Labyrinth swirling in the atmosphere. I was pretty much raised on the Muppets, just as I now raise my own kids on them, and I cannot remember a time when Henson and Oz’s creations were not stamped in my mind’s eye. Continue reading... Continue Reading Save Share

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