Story should always take precedence over metaphor, which is why films like “The Thing With Feathers” are almost always doomed to fail. Metaphors are a good way to bolster a story, but they ...

Cumberbatch got candid about grief, toxic masculinity and being an advocate in Berlin for the press conference of Dylan ...

That baby brings an essential ingredient to our concept of time, infuses us with possibility, and generates hope. Promising ... "The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft." ...

Dylan Southern adapts the Max Porter novella, ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers,’ about a widowed ... its central metaphor — sorrow made tangible in the form of a crow that moves in ...

This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundnace Film Festival. A horror movie taking place in the shadow of its central metaphor, The Thing with Feathers adapts a poetic novella steeped ...

Dir/scr: Dylan Southern. UK. 2025. 98 mins. ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ is a poem by Emily Dickinson; ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’ is a flighty, wonderful novella by Max Porter ...

Benedict Cumberbatch gives it his all in The Thing with Feathers, but the horror movie lives up to neither his performance, nor its own heavy-handed metaphor of a bullying crow-creature ...