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Who represents Britain on screen? UK film and TV culture still has a worrying class problem

The British media has a class problem, according to recent research by The Sutton Trust. In short, the privately educated are over-represented in the creative industries, especially in film and television. The trust’s report, A Class Act (2024), demonstrates that this area of British culture is disproportionately produced by the…

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Bafta’s Best TV Drama winners ranked, from Happy Valley to Shameless

THE COUNTDOWN: As the Bafta TV Awards return for another year, The Independent’s chief TV critic Nick Hilton recommends the best of the past winners in the drama category – from supernatural tales to working-class stories and crime capers

The Independent UK

Tom Cruise is 'an underestimated actor', Sir Kenneth Branagh says

Tom Cruise should be seen as more than just a "movie star", according to his 'Valkyrie' co-star Sir Kenneth Branagh.

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Phyllis Dalton obituary

Costume designer who won Oscars for her work on the film epic Doctor Zhivago and for Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 Henry V

The Guardian - UK

Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence

Film star’s floundering performance in The Tempest exposes flaw in theatreland’s reliance on big names

The Guardian - UK

Emma Thompson Says Her ‘Love Actually’ Crying Was All Too Real, Actually

"I knew what it was like to find a necklace that wasn't meant for me..."

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To be or not to be: could actors really pull off staging Hamlet in the violent video game Grand Theft Auto?

During lockdown, an out-of-work actor discovered a venue within the bestselling game and decided to put on Shakespeare’s great work with friends... they just had to avoid the audience shooting them

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6 new horror movies on Prime Video, Shudder, Hulu and more in December 2024

Deck the halls with lots of horror movies this December, as there's lots to enjoy on the best streaming services.

TechRadar

Streaming: the best Hamlets on screen

Ahead of Grand Theft Hamlet, in which Shakespeare’s play is staged entirely inside a video game, check out cinema’s avenging princes, from Laurence Olivier to Ethan Hawke

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Kevin McCloud looks back on 25 years of dream homebuilding

Celebrating the grandest and greenest of house designs. Plus: who will get the gongs at The National Television Awards? Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Emma Thompson’s daughter takes brutal swipe at mum’s cheating ex Kenneth Branagh

Branagh’s extra-marital affair helped inform Thompson’s scenes in ‘Love, Actually’

The Independent UK

Marvel’s 15 weirdest celebrity cameos – from Elon Musk to Miley Cyrus

Louis Chilton looks at some of the strangest figures to have cropped up in the MCU

The Independent UK

Ranking the 34 Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including Deadpool & Wolverine

We've ranked all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies through The Marvels.

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Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman

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WhatToWatch

Walking with Dinosaurs 2025: release date, trailer, dinosaurs, narrator and everything else we know

Walking with Dinosaurs 2025 brings back a classic documentary series for the BBC and PBS.

WhatToWatch

Antiques Roadshow dropped from BBC One tonight — here's why

Antiques Roadshow isn't on BBC One this evening but you can watch it!

The Conversation

Six Robert De Niro films that explore alienation, isolation and loneliness

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man.”

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'Knives Out 3' Might Finally Take on Its Biggest Rival Franchise

Rian Johnson's passion project should go classic golden age for its third chapter.

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The Guardian - UK

Mark Kermode on… Danny Boyle, a director who defines British pop culture

As his dazzling debut, Shallow Grave, gets a 30th anniversary rerelease, here’s to an extraordinary career that ranges from Trainspotting to Slumdog Millionaire and that unforgettable London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Prince Andrew squirms again on Netflix’s Scoop. But who benefits from these ‘real-life’ dramas?

The viewer never quite knows if it’s just entertainment or a way to process recent, seismic events, says writer Elle Hunt

Tom’s Guide

5 best movies like 'Anyone But You' to watch right now

More movies like the surprise smash hit romantic comedy to watch, including "The Proposal" and "Much Ado About Nothing"

Evening Standard

Our guide to the best Shakespeare film adaptations of all time, from Hamlet to Macbeth

More than four centuries later and we still can’t get enough of Shakespeare’s thrilling, tortuous plots

Evening Standard

Máiréad Tyers on Extraordinary Season 2: 'your twenties are meant to be hard. You're meant to be broken'

The Irish actor on season two of Extraordinary, working with Kenneth Branagh and the problem with American crisps

International Business Times

Oppenheimer Wins Big At Screen Actors Guild Awards

Christopher Nolan's epic drama about the father of the atomic bomb also took the awards for best actor for Cillian Murphy, who plays the titular scientist, and best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr, portraying his bitter rival.

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Oppenheimer wins big at Screen Actors Guild Awards, boosting Oscar hopes

Christopher Nolan’s historical epic picks up top honour for outstanding cast in advance of next month’s Oscars.

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