🌀 The Bride! Review Highlights Strong Performances and Chaotic Story

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Lately it seems that writers and directors are less concerned with canonical accuracy when adapting or reinterpreting a familiar story. One such creative interpretation, Wuthering Heights, is barely in the rear view mirror, and in today’s newsletter you’ll find a review for the equally off-kilter, neo-classical The Bride! which praises its lead performances while admitting to some confusing storytelling.

Television showrunners are in on the game as well, as you’ll see in our review of Guy Ritchie’s Young Sherlock, a Prime Video series which invents a whole new backstory for the famous detective and his archenemy Moriarty. We’ll even hear from Star Trek legend Jonathan Frakes about the brave interpretation of the franchise’s long-established optimism in the latest spinoff, Starfleet Academy, particularly in the penultimate episode of the first season, which Frakes directed.

This trend is not without its critics, but overall, audiences seem receptive. Where do you fall on the canon faithfulness spectrum?

— Michael Ahr, Newsletter Editor

IN THIS ISSUE

• Our review of Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale in The Bride! 👰

• A review of the “relentlessly entertaining” Young Sherlock 🕵🏻‍♂️

• Our Starfleet Academy interview with episode director Jonathan Frakes 📣

• …and more!