In This Issue

Big screen or small screen, some of the most-talked-about film media lately seem to be adapted from books, and I love to see it. Of course there's the widely acclaimed drama based on Maggie O'Farrell's Shakespeare novel, Hamnet, which one critic for Vulture described as "the most emotionally shattering movie I've seen in years." Not to mention the smoldering hockey romance Heated Rivalry, developed from Rachel Reid's Game Changers series, which has cultivated an ardent viewership as eager for each new episode as they are for each new book. My favorite happens to be Guillermo del Toro's recent take on Frankenstein--all those lavish costumes and set pieces, the unsettling possibilities of weird science underscoring the folly of human hubris. I know it's a story that's probably been done to death already, but Mel Brooks, Andy Warhol, Wishbone: I love every version. (And I'm a sucker for Mia Goth.)