commentary Distributed by the studio behind "Sound of Freedom," this take on George Orwell's classic is uniquely insidious Published May 3, 2026 12:00PM (EDT) "Animal Farm" (Angel Studios) It may seem like years in the past at this point, but it was only three little months ago that the world got itself worked into a lather over Emerald Fennell’s “ Wuthering Heights .” The crux of the outrage surrounding Fennell’s film stemmed largely from the fact that she refused to rename her relatively loose, aesthetic-minded adaptation with a title that didn’t directly reference Emily Brontë’s novel. Literary purists were incensed. “This is not our ‘Wuthering Heights’!” they cried, pouring their souls out onto the internet. But Fennell’s film was a racy, adult-oriented retelling, made for people old enough to understand the difference between source material and an adaptation that remixes the themes and events of the original story necessary to produce a fresh take.…