{"id":201980,"date":"2025-11-26T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=201980"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:43:31","slug":"review-the-thing-with-feathers-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=201980","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Thing with Feathers<\/i> (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIf you insist on making a film adaptation of a book where said book takes its entire thematic structure from Ted Hughes’ 1970 poetry collection Crow<\/i>– and if in your adaptation you cut out all references to Ted Hughes – well, it is your prerogative to do so, but I feel duty-bound to say “why on earth would you do that.” Especially with such a well-known book. My review of The Thing with Feathers<\/em> at Ebert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you insist on making a film adaptation of a book where said book takes its entire thematic structure from Ted Hughes’ 1970 poetry collection Crow– and if in your adaptation you cut out all references to Ted Hughes – … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2546,2208,2668,607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201980"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201986,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201980\/revisions\/201986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}