Valentine’s Day weekend

Deadline reports that,

Universal is positioning its Valentine’s Day entry Colleen Hoover’s Reminders of Him, in just the right place, moving the Vanessa Caswill directed movie from Feb. 13, 2026 to Feb. 6. That’s ahead of another female skewing film for the frame, Warner Bros’ Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi from filmmaker Emerald Fennell. [...]

Left on Valentine’s Day weekend with Wuthering Heights is an untitled NEON horror movie, the Sony Animation feature Goat and the Chris Hemsworth-Barry Keoghan Amazon MGM Studios movie Crime 101. (Anthony D'Alessandro)

The i Paper recommends an 'unpretentious West Yorkshire city break with Pop Art and independent spirit' in Bradford.

Bradfordians rarely boast about their city’s food scene, yet it once won Britain’s Curry Capital award for a record six consecutive years; nor the literature it has inspired, yet its Gothic nature has made it the perfect setting for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the poems of JB Priestley [sic; alas, he wrote everything but poetry], and the work of novelist Amit Dhand. Since the BBC broadcast the crime drama Virdee, based on Dhand’s book City of Sinners, walking tours have popped up around Little Germany and Centenary Square, delving into the city’s gritty and diverse history. [...]

Less than half an hour from the city centre, past fields and along winding roads (or via Keighley by train and Brontë Bus), is Haworth, the village that was once home to the Brontë sisters.

Take a tour around the Brontë Parsonage, a museum of their life (£12.50/£7.50, under-11s free). Their family home has been well-preserved, even down to the wall colours and their drawings still scribbled on the wall.

After strolling the grounds, follow the Brontë Way up into the moors. A series of new installations, Wild Uplands, has just been installed on Penistone Hill, celebrating the area’s literary legacy.

Walk past the Brontë Waterfall and Bridge (a favourite walk of the sisters) to the site of the ruined Top Withens farmhouse, said to have inspired Heathcliffe’s home in Wuthering Heights.

Head back to Haworth for lunch at the Old Post Office, a cosy café where the Brontës sent their manuscripts and correspondence. (Eleanor Peake)

The Los Angeles Times visits the Carole Caroompas: Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale Go on Tour at the Laguna Art Museum:

There’s vibrant color, engaging imagery and a strong sense of subversiveness. And at the center of Carole Caroompas’ posthumous exhibit at Laguna Art Museum is Heathcliff.

But this is no “Wuthering Heights.”

“The show has this Heathcliff series and there’s 10 works in the series and all 10 of them are included in the show,” said Rochelle Steiner, guest curator at Laguna Art Museum who curated “Carole Caroompas: Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale Go on Tour,” which runs through July 13.

“It’s the first time that the series has been shown completely, which is very exciting,” Steiner said. “She made them between 1997 and 2001. This work was inspired [in part] by her interest in ‘Wuthering Heights,’ that’s the Heathcliff reference.” (...)

Steiner also included Caroompas’ own copy of “Wuthering Heights” as part of the exhibit. The classic novel was written by English author Emily Bronte and published in 1847.

“So she wasn’t just kind of superficially interested in ‘Wuthering Heights,’” Steiner said. “She read it and read it many times and I reproduced a page from it. She marked on almost every page, like different passages, and she took notes, and she, you know, really studied it.”

At the heart of the Heathcliff series is relationships. (Jessica Peralta)

Northern Public Radio recommends 'A homemade baker’s dozen for summer reading':

Alternatively, if you are in the mood for something more madcap with a literary bendT Jasper Fforde’s The Jane Eyre Affair is a witty romp through a world where fiction really matters. The heroine, Thursday Next, is a SpecOps in an alternate universe with some significant differences: the Crimean War never ended, Wales exists as a separate socialist country, and debates about the authorship of Shakespeare’s work is common among the general population (because everyone knows the plays by heart). In her efforts to achieve peace and thwart the evil Goliath corporation, Thursday Next enters works of fiction and accidently rewrites the ending of Jane Eyre. There is non-stop action for bibliophiles in this first book of the series. (Frances Jaeger)

Quadratín (Mexico) mentions, in passing, the literary connections of the Sargasso Sea, including Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.