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TV tonight: Kevin McCloud looks back on 25 years of dream homebuilding

Celebrating the grandest and greenest of house designs. Plus: who will get the gongs at The National Television Awards? Here’s what to watch this evening

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Joram to Source Code: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A captivating thriller about a man on the run with a baby, and Jake Gyllenhaal has to stop a train from blowing up in a glorious time-loop whodunnit

The Guardian - UK

Frankenstein review – a ruthless, stylish addition to the canon

Shake and Stir’s stage version finds plenty of modern parallels to Mary Shelley’s tale of creator and creation – especially as the lines between human and machine continue to blur

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Walk on the weird side: Tim Burton’s movies – ranked!

With his new sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice set to open the Venice International Film Festival on 28 August, we look back at the career of every goth’s favourite director

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16 Years Later, DC Just Totally Reinvented Batman's Most Complicated Villain

Inverse speaks to the new voice behind Two-Face and 'Batman: Caped Crusader's head writer Ed Brubaker to unpack this dark and pulpy new take on Harvey Dent.

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50 Villains The Media Tried To Portray As Evil, But People Are Not Buying It

From Count Dracula to Voldemort, some of the best stories in books and on screens have made a name for themselves, in large part, due to their unforgettable villains. The post 50 Villains The Media Tried To Portray As Evil, But People Are Not Buying It first appeared on Bored…

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Six Robert De Niro films that explore alienation, isolation and loneliness

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man.”

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Frankenstein review – muscular but ungainly update has visible stitching

Imitating the Dog follow their innovative Dracula and Night of the Living Dead with a version of Shelley’s classic that bolts on a contemporary story about impending parenthood

The Guardian - UK

Shudder Just Quietly Released the Most Subversive Thriller of the Year

Thoughtful, disturbing, and strategically gross, this 2023 medical thriller is the smartest take on 'Frankenstein' yet.

Inverse

‘Young Frankenstein’ will have you screaming with laughter at Mercury Theater Chicago

Mel Brooks’ musical comedy is a seasonally fitting giggle fest wrought with cheesy double-entendres and monstrous puns.

Chicago Sun-Times

Foe review: a Frankenstein tale of the not-so-distant future

Science fiction is never really about the future. The best sci-fi makes use of an imagined future world to provide a critical distance from our current time; to ask questions about what we are doing rather than where we are going.

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Monstrously big production of Frankenstein premieres

A new adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Shake & Stir theatre company is premiering in Brisbane.

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Joffrey Ballet tells ‘Frankenstein’ story with menace and beauty

In Chicago premiere of the late Liam Scarlett’s adaptation, Jonathan Dole powerfully conveys the hurt, twisted emotions and deep humanity of the creature brought back to life.

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What is intelligence? For millennia, western literature has suggested it may be a liability

In the age of the Anthropocene, humanity appears poised to destroy itself.

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Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again review – a self-made monster hit

The Smiths’ songs are transplanted on to the gothic horror of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – and it works

Evening Standard

Salty Brine at Soho Theatre review – an extraordinarily beautiful monster mash-up

The New York cabaret darling’s show knits together The Smiths and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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Creature Commandos: 5 Key Things To Know About The DC Comics Team Ahead Of Their Animated HBO Max Series

Before James Gunn brings the Creature Commandos to HBO Max, learn about their history in DC Comics.

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Frankenstein’s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today’s technoscience

Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than ever

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You Need to Watch Nic Cage's Trippiest Crime Thriller for Free Online ASAP

Sometimes, Cage’s manic energy is channeled for good.

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The ugly truth about Frankenstein’s monster: He came to life as a stud-muffin hunk

Frankenstein's monster started out not looking so bad, according to the first illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's classic novel. The 1832 volume is on

The National (Scotland)

Frankenstein is a monster of a classic deserving of a proper re-read

AS March, or UK women’s history month, draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to look at a woman writer of the past who wrote a work widely…

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Why thousands of volunteers are transcribing the notebooks of the scientist who inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is usually remembered as the inventor of a revolutionary miner’s safety lamp. But his wild popularity came as much from his influence on popular culture as it did from his contributions to chemistry and applied science.

The Guardian - UK

When You Walk Over My Grave review – metatheatrical musings on mortality

Sergio Blanco’s bad-taste drama uses deadpan humour and a tapestry of cultural allusions to probe our fixation with death

The Guardian - UK

Brian and Charles review – robot comedy is bromance of the year

David Earl and Chris Haywood’s story of an inventor’s relationship with his creation blends Caractacus Potts with Victor Frankenstein to heartwarming effect

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Frankenstein: how Mary Shelley's sci-fi classic offers lessons for us today about the dangers of playing God

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