Saltburn director Emerald Fennell seems to have enraged the internet with the trailer for her new Wuthering Heights adaptation starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, but is this really ‘ragebait cinema’ or just her signature ‘stylised depravity’? We discuss! Also this week: Elordi’s other big trailer for Netflix’s Frankenstein, the Thursday Murder Club adaptation, queen of RichTok Becca Bloom’s wedding and the Etsy witches she credits with banishing bad weather, a viral Wired long-read about surrogacy, the rise and fall of Vice magazine, and what a new ‘nepo baby’ editor means for Vogue.

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Recs/reviews

• Popbitch, Substack
• Thursday Murder Club, Netflix
• Attack of the Rotten Tomatoes, Puck Magazine
• Atomic, NowTV
• Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films? Guardian
• Emerald Fennell’s Hyper-Sexualized ‘Wuthering Heights’ Gets Polarized Reception at First Test Screening, World of Reel
• Is Emerald Fennell the Bonnie Blue of cinema? Dazed
• $3 Million Watches and Caviar for the Cat: How Becca Bloom Became the Queen of RichTok, WSJ
• I hired an Etsy witch to save my wedding day weather. Here's what happened, Glamour
• Vice is Broke, Amazon Prime Video
• The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It? Wired 
• Can Vogue Go Niche, Business of Fashion 
• The Memification of Nepotism and How Proud Nepo Babies Are Rebranding Inequality, Substack

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