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Room

May 2021

  • ‘Writing the screen adaptation certainly has opened doors to me.’ Emma Donoghue.

    Emma Donoghue on writing Room: ‘I toned down some of the horror of the Fritzl case’

    Donoghue’s bestseller drew on the case of Felix Fritzl, who was held captive in a dungeon by his father, and her observations of her own children

September 2017

  • Cipher … Sharon Williams in Don’t Look Now.

    From Don't Look Now to The Child in Time: why do we crave stories of lost children?

    It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. As a new TV adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel starring Benedict Cumberbatch hits our screens, we explore our fears and fantasies around the ultimate horror

June 2017

  • Stefan Rhodri as the Captain and John Boyega as Woyzeck

    The ten best things to do this week
    The 10 best things to do this week: Woyzeck and My Cousin Rachel

    It’s the last two weeks to catch John Boyega’s on the stage as a soldier in 80s Berlin, while Rachel Weisz stars in a seductive, gothic thriller

April 2017

  • Swallows And Amazons film still

    Emma Donoghue: seven kids and four parents – bigger is better in children’s books

    In classics from Eve Garnett to Arthur Ransome, there are always enough kids to form a world without adults – and a hardcore tomboy can have a place in the gang

September 2016

  • rural ireland

    Book of the day
    The Wonder by Emma Donoghue review – a thrilling domestic psychodrama

    Miracle, fraud or medical anomaly? A gripping investigation into an Irish girl’s fasting by the writer of Room

May 2016

  • Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tom Roth in The Hateful Eight.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    The Hateful Eight; Room; A War; Welcome to Me; Janis: Little Girl Blue; Welcome to Leith – review

  • Emma Donoghue portrait

    This much I know
    Emma Donoghue: ‘I’ve ended up having a family as well as being a lesbian. I thought it would be one or the other’

February 2016

  • Brie Larson as Ma, a kidnapped woman living in a shed with her son, in Room.

    Brie Larson wins best actress Oscar for Room

  • Carol - 2015<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX Shutterstock (5335946o) Cate Blanchett Carol - 2015

    The week in books
    A new chapter in cinema: why books are big at the 2016 Oscars

January 2016

  • ‘I could trust them to say the right thing’ … Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson in <em>Room.</em>

    Emma Donoghue on how she wrote the screenplay for Room

  • Room film still Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Room review – Brie Larson shines in a dark dungeon

  • 140x84 trailpic for Room

    Room director Lenny Abrahamson: 'I find kids' optimism incredibly moving' – video interview

  • Lenny Abrahamson

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Lenny Abrahamson: ‘It’s a way of talking about childhood and parenting’

December 2015

  • Brie Larson in Room

    Room author Emma Donoghue: ‘The situation is horrible, but the story is not’

    Like the five-year-old hero of her 2010 novel, the Irish writer has been on a journey of change. Now, having turned her tale about an enslaved family into a film – released later this month – she plans to reinvent it for the stage

November 2015

  • Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson in Lenny Abrahamson’s Room.

    Studio apartment: Room's tiny, innovative film set goes on display

    Claustrophobic self-contained set of the Oscars contender, about a kidnapped mother and child raised in confinement, has been reassembled in an LA cinema

September 2015

  • Brie Larson and Lenny Abrahamson at the press conference for Room

    Toronto 2015: Room adaptation doesn't directly reference Fritzl case, say film-makers

    Although both Emma Donaghue’s novel and the well-received film adaptation recall the horrifying Fritzl case, the film-makers said they stayed away from the story in the making of the drama.
  • Brie Larson premiered Room at the 42nd Telluride film festival

    Brie Larson at Telluride: 'It’s so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone'

    As awards buzz builds around her role in Room, the Short Term 12 star discusses the downsides of being a white, blonde 25 year old and why European cinema produces more interesting heroines

    • Room premieres at Telluride: what did the audience think?

    • First look review
      Room review: Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay escape confining adaptation

    • Suffragette and Steve Jobs start march towards Oscars at Telluride film festival

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