Emily, the new movie about Emily Bronte (featuring DL fave Oliver Jackson Cohen)

She looks like a mulatto. FORCED DIVERSITY! WE HATE HER!!

I’m a sucker for this genre so I am slightly optimistic.

I knew nothing about it and am now looking forward to it. Thanks for posting.

Dreary though it got better as it went along.

Wow, Oliver is an amazing actress, I didn’t even recognize “him!”

Saw it last year. It's an Austen style retelling of the Brontë sisters' lives which is ironic because in real life they violently loathed Austen. Fionn Whitehead's giant chin mole should have gotten separate billing - he looks like Frau Blucher.

Is it the one where she goes to Paris?

These are so painful to me. I wish I could understand the appeal.

Chick flicks, R8.

Or specifically, chick flicks for chicks who love English Lit & history, wrapped up in a pseudo fictional film, loosely based on real events and/or a real person, dead or alive.

Wuthering Heights the novel IS a chick flick. Greatly beloved of high school and college-aged girls, it seems to have nothing to say to anyone else.

Well this isn't exactly a romcom. Everyone dies tragically young and never having fulfilled their potential. It is indeed quite dreary and OJC has no sexual chemistry with the Margot Robbie clone even in their one sex scene.

‘Wuthering Heights’ reaches its climax about a quarter into the novel, when Mr Lockwood sadistically rubs Cathy’s fingers against the broken window panes [granted she’s already *dead*, but still]

Then it’s downhill all the way

Heathcliff’s final death just barely lifts up the narrative a little

I wasn't that impressed with OJC in "Man In An Orange Shirt." Closeted men sometimes make dull actors, probably because they're constantly trying to dampen down the flame.

It looks like the straight version of "Lesbian Period Piece"

He's playing the same character in this film as in Man in an Orange Shirt except 70 years earlier and straight.

Was Emily Bronte on the autism specter?

Was she a lez?

She might have been but it's at least a likely she was autistic or very introverted and socially anxious. She was such a shut in that she would turn away if she talked to people too long. There is no record of her having any romantic relationships, so this is a "reimagining." Her younger sister Anne was the one who was in love with OJC's character IRL and was also a talented and famous poet and novelist, so I'm not sure why they didn't just make the film about her.

Well, everyone's reviews are disappointing. I want OJC to be a better actor than he is. I saw something in him when he was starring in that Dracula TV show with JRM and his now-out ex-girlfriend Jessica Gouw (sp?). And I liked him in the Netflix "Haunting" series as well.

Holding out hope that it's watchable at least and that he starts turning out some better performances.

I thought OJC was the most interesting thing about this (yes, very dreary unimaginative) film, for whatever it's worth. He keeps getting cast in absolute dreck, though, and needs better material.

Cool chick