On paper, Netflix’s
The Woman in the Window had all the components of a total tour de force. The intimate psychological thriller stars the perpetually Oscar-snubbed Amy Adams, is directed by Joe Wright (
Atonement, Hanna, Darkest Hour), with a screenplay written by the brilliant Tracy Letts, based on a mega-hit novel.
In its execution, this movie is an absolute mess.
With a movie like this, it can sometimes be hard to know where things really broke down. That’s not the case here.
The Woman in the Window feels less like a full film than a composite of studio notes an impression backed up by the numerous reports of extensive reshoots and massive changes made to better please test audiences.
Rachel Cuskâs New Novel Turns Up the Heat at a Private Artistâs Retreat
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April 26, 2021, 1:28 p.m. ET
You know when youâre reading a page of Rachel Cuskâs fiction. Her narrators tug insistently if coolly at the central knots of being. They analyze every emotion as if it were freshly invented. Nothing is extraneous.
The slightly detached, hot-but-cold quality of Cuskâs work is emphasized by her publisherâs striking use of the serifless roman typeface Optima, with wide leading between the lines. Optima is unusual to see in a novel; it delivers to my eyes a chill sense of the void.
Who is Charles Sobhraj, the Bikini Killer and conman?
4 Apr, 2021 07:03 PM
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Charles Sobhraj is bundled into a police van in Delhi in 1997, shortly after his release from jail. Photo / AP
Charles Sobhraj is bundled into a police van in Delhi in 1997, shortly after his release from jail. Photo / AP
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Handsome, charming, and fluent in several languages, Charles Sobhraj was like some bizarre real-life combination of Patricia Highsmith s Tom Ripley and Thomas Harris Hannibal Lecter .
His isn t a name that many would recognise yet the suave Vietnamese-Indian Frenchman was once one of Asia s most wanted criminals, the charismatic con artist and so-called Bikini Killer who lured at least a dozen young backpackers to their deaths in the 1970s.
Believe it or not, Showtime’s
Ripley has added another beautiful star to its very good-looking cast.
Dakota Fanning is joining the new Showtime drama based on Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels, opposite
Fleabag‘s
Showtime announced that Dakota Fanning (
The Alienist,
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) is joining the cast of its upcoming drama series
Ripley, based on the character of Tom Ripley from Highsmith’s acclaimed books, who would go on to inspire Anthony Minghella’s 1999 movie
The Talented Mr. Ripley. Fanning is set to play Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy “who suspects darker motives underlie Tom’s affability.” The role was played by Gwyneth Paltrow in the 1999 movie.