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NET-FLICKS AND CHILL CARRIE (PRIME VIDEO)
October Stephen King has always been a darling of
the film and television adaptation game. The
most recent of his works to be adapted was
The Long Walk (2025) but his works have been
filmed for the screen since the 1970s. This
BY APOORVA MAHAJAN Mike Flanagan directorial will be the fourth
adaptation of Carrie, a novel about a bullied
young girl who has telekinetic powers. Mike
EAST OF EDEN (NETFLIX)
Flanagan is best known for his horror series
John Steinbeck’s modern American classic gets like The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and
a Netflix makeover. It seems as though literary Midnight Mass (2021). Carrie drops all seven
adaptations, both classic and contemporary, are in episodes at once, perfect for binging during
vogue with production companies these days. It’s the spooky season.
surprising that this monster of a novel has only had Release: October 7
two prior adaptations, one in 1955 and one in 1981,
before this Zoe Kazan seven-episode directorial.
Fun fact: the Netflix adaptation is directed by the
granddaughter of the director of the original 1955 film.
It stars Florence Pugh, Mike Faist, and Joseph Zada.
Release: October 1
PLUS: A release you might have missed in
A release you might have missed in
September
DON’T BE SHY! (PRIME VIDEO)
WAR (HBO MAX) Over a decade after her debut in the campy,
coming-of-age film Student of the Year
For a world as high-pressured and, occasionally, (2012), Alia Bhatt returns to the genre—this
glamorous as law, there seem to be very few time as a producer. Don’t Be Shy! follows
prestige television shows about the profession. 20-year-old Shy Das (Aarushi Bajaj) who
Aside from Suits (2011–2019) and How To Get Away believes she has her whole life figured out
With Murder (2014–2020), how many law-based but life, of course as it often does, has other
shows can you name? HBO Max’s new original series plans for her. Trapped between two boys
aims to change that. War, starring Dominic West and their affections, it seems like Alia Bhatt
and Sienna Miller, centres around a scandalous revisited some familiar lessons from her time
divorce case between a tech entrepreneur and his as a student in the Karan Johar directorial.
film star wife. Worth the watch? Maybe. If anything, it’s
Release: October 1 nice to see a cast of completely unfamiliar
faces for once!
Release: September 25
