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‘Hamlet’ Review: A Smart Adaptation That Sparks but Doesn’t Catch

South Asians love adding a bit of subcontinental flavor to everything. It’s mostly food and drink we do this to, like mixing baked beans with diced onions and cumin seeds, or spicing tea with cinnamon and fennel and cardamom. But now Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed has injected some spice…

The Mary Sue

Is this love? Don’t be Heathcliff and Cathy – what you should watch, read and play this week

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a loose (very loose) adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. The film is, as the director has attested, the intense, “unhinged”, gothic story she remembers reading as a 14-year-old. As such, it is full of imagined passages and heightened romance and violence. It’s truly Fennellian in…

The Conversation

Meet the A-Teams: London's new power couples

The capital is a nexus of dynamic duopolies, from the old guard of the Beckhams to Brat-ish newcomers Charli xcx, Dua Lipa and their other halves. By Claudia Cockerell, Joe Bromley and Maddy Mussen

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Paddington star praises Guy Ritchie’s multitasking skills as director

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The Independent UK

Downton Abbey star opens up on working with ‘proper multi-tasker’ Guy Ritchie

Hugh Bonneville remained tight-lipped about appearing in the next series of Ritchie’s Netflix crime drama The Gentlemen

The Independent UK

Hugh Bonneville: Guy Ritchie is a ‘proper multi-tasker’

The Downton Abbey star also told ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show that audiences should not expect to see him in another Paddington film.

Evening Standard

Riz Ahmed’s British south-Asian Hamlet is a moody tale of grief and shady family business

For Shakespeare’s Hamlet “the world is out of joint”. In screen writer Michael Lesslie’s collage of Shakespeare’s play, directed by Aneil Karia, Riz Ahmed’s intense, grief-wrecked Hamlet pays a high price as he tries to “set it right” in a corrupt corporate world.

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Hamlet review – Riz Ahmed’s tortured prince drives chilling modern take through London’s streets

Timothy Spall and Art Malik co-star in Aneil Karia’s intelligent and stark retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy, set in the world of shady family business

The Guardian - UK

‘Culture is something that we all share’: Riz Ahmed on his South Asian Hamlet

Ahmed says he hopes this version of Hamlet is accessible to everyone.

Evening Standard

Hamlet stars Riz Ahmed and Morfydd Clark on their "urgent and exciting" Shakespeare adaptation "We brought this visceral first-person energy to it"

Big Screen Spotlight | In a big year for the Bard, the latest adaptation of Hamlet is doing things differently

Total Film

Tom Cruise movie Digger is “nothing like that experience I've ever had before” according to Rogue One star Riz Ahmed

"The energy he has and the positivity is crazy."

Total Film

5 best Netflix thriller movies with a twist you must stream this weekend

Netflix offers plenty of thriller movies with twists you'll never see coming, and these are my (spoiler-free) top picks to watch right now.

Tom’s Guide

Tom Cruise's nine-figure movie budget

Tom Cruise's new movie Digger - the upcoming Alejandro G. Iñárritu black comedy - reportedly has a nine-figure budget.

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5 best thriller movies of 2025, ranked

It's been a fantastic year for new thriller movies, and I'm picking out the best ones I've seen in 2025, including "Relay," "Black Bag" and more.

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3 new to Netflix movies to watch this weekend (Dec. 19-21)

Looking for some new Netflix recommendations for the weekend? Here are three new-to-Netflix movies you might want to add to your watchlist right now.

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Netflix just got one of the most overlooked thriller movies of 2025 — and I challenge you to guess the twist

Netflix just added one of the best thriller movies of 2025 that you (probably) missed. Here's why "Relay" is an overlooked gem.

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3 new to Netflix thriller movies you need to stream this week — and one of them has a twist you’ll never see coming (Dec. 18-24)

Netflix viewers looking for some excitement this week are in luck, because the streaming service is adding a trio of thriller movies.

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6 top new movies to stream this week on Netflix, Peacock and more (Dec. 16-22)

This week's top new movies across streaming services include "The Running Man" on PVOD and overlooked thriller "Relay" on Netflix.

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The Independent UK

What to Stream: 'Emily in Paris,' iHeartRadio Jingle Ball, 'Him,' Peter Criss and Riz Ahmed

Marlon Wayans starring in the Jordan Peele-produced football thriller “Him” and the iHeartRadio Z100’s Jingle Ball 2025 featuring Conan Gray, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll and Olivia Dean are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

The Independent UK

AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Danny Ramirez's entrance into Hollywood began on the soccer field

Danny Ramirez's acting career began unexpectedly on a soccer field

The Guardian - UK

‘Christmas paid for the extension on my house!’ How Guz Khan became an unlikely festive TV icon

He’s played a reindeer, spent hours recreating Home Alone’s most lethal stunts – and now he’s having a yuletide disaster in Stuffed. The Man Like Mobeen star talks about interfaith Christmas … and why he refuses to go back to Lapland

Tom’s Guide

I’ve seen 100 movies in theaters in 2025 so far — here’s the 7 best you (probably) missed

I see dozens of movies each year in my local theatre, and these are the 7 new films released in 2025 that really deserved more attention.

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I want my life to be an adventure, says Lily James

Lily James admits that she's seeking "challenges" in her professional life.

The Independent UK

Lily James: ‘Every time I watch Alien, I go... my God, that’s my grandma!’

INTERVIEW: The star of ‘Baby Driver’, ‘The Iron Claw’ and ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ now plays a woman fleeing constant surveillance in the thriller ‘Relay’. She talks to Adam White about losing her privacy in the public eye, the time she boasted about her lineage to impress Edgar…

Evening Standard

Riz Ahmed's guide to London: From the Tayyabs-Needoo debate to Stompy the tank

Born and bred Wembley boy Riz Ahmed has strong feelings on Trellick Tower, Tayyabs versus Needoo, and his favourite takeaway in the capital

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