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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.

The Conversation

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

I Only Rest in the Storm review – beguiling postcolonial blues in Guinea-Bissau

A disaffected Portuguese NGO worker dallies with a drag queen as he wrestles with white man’s privilege in Pedro Pinho’s intelligent drama

The Guardian - UK

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David Fincher's weird Xbox ad brings back early 2000s vibes

Games console ads just got weird again.

Creative Bloq

Which supermarket does picnic food the best? What to buy from Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Aldi and the rest

David Ellis and Josh Barrie scrutinise the supermarkets to find out who offers banquets on blankets, and who’s a few crisps short of a sandwich?

Evening Standard

The film’s the thing: Ian McKellen’s new Hamlet shows the screen can outdo the stage

Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of Shakespeare’s tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor’s Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen’s subtle performance

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Tammy Faye; Hamlet; Marvellous – review

Katie Brayben nails the title role in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new West End theatre is launched by an amazing life

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The meaning behind King Charles' 'flights of angels' line from first public address

"May 'flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest'."

Manchester Evening News

Cyclists raise £80,000 for ‘life-changing’ gardens at UK’s spinal injury centres

Presenter and TV gardener Arit Anderson joined the team for the final leg of their 1,100-mile trip across the UK.

The Independent UK

Was no gravestone left unturned to smear Keir?

Even the dead didn’t escape Nadine Dorries’s cynical misinformation campaign

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