{"id":20900,"date":"2025-07-25T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20900\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:41:08","slug":"12-of-the-best-films-to-watch-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20900\/","title":{"rendered":"12 of the best films to watch in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">One of Hollywood&#8217;s darkest ever anti-romantic comedies, The War of the Roses (1989) starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a couple going through a blisteringly bitter divorce. Thirty-six years on, it has been remade \u2013 or reimagined \u2013 with Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch as the unhappy couple. Cumberbatch is Theo Rose, a famous architect, and Colman is Ivy Rose, a small-time cook. But when his career crashes while hers goes into orbit, the Roses&#8217; relationship gets thorny. Co-starring Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon, the film is directed by Jay Roach (Meet the Parents, Austin Powers), and written by Tony McNamara (<a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20180831-film-review-the-favourite\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Favourite<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20210525-cruella-theres-something-hollow-at-the-films-centre\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cruella<\/a>), who says that his screenplay is even more outrageous than the 1980s one, but not, perhaps, as cynical. &#8220;We were like, &#8216;Let&#8217;s do a movie about people who want to stay married rather than two people trying to destroy each other,'&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yg6h22HjUT0\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McNamara said on Streaming Movie Night<\/a>. &#8220;A sophisticated adult screwball comedy didn&#8217;t seem like it had been done for a while in a proper commercial way, and so it seemed like an opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Hollywood&#8217;s darkest ever anti-romantic comedies, The War of the Roses (1989) starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-20900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}