Martin's Musings

Between Everybody Wants Some!!, Top Gun: Maverick, and Hit Man — okay, fine, and Twisters, too — it seemed like Glen Powell was finally, deservedly, breaking through with mainstream audiences, and a bright future lay ahead for him.

Alas, between last year’s The Running Man and the new How to Make a Killing, it’s looking like the actor’s star may have already burned out. 

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the new “Wuthering Heights” adaptation comes in like a cold wind off the moors so strong that it immediately rips your shirt or bodice wide open. Writer/director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel is a hot take on a story that has always been about obsession, repression, and desire curdling into something feral, only now it’s a bit more dangerous.

In other words, if you’ve ever read the novel and thought, “I wish this story was hornier,” congratulations: This movie is for you.