Adam Page remembers the late Sir Patrick Stewart…Before he was a knight, before he was the captain, before the Royal Shakespeare Company gave him a spear and told him to stand at the back, Patrick Stewart wrote obituaries. A teenaged hack on a local Yorkshire paper. By his brother’s account, he would skive off to […]
Movie Review – Hamlet (2025)
Hamlet, 2025.Directed by Aneil Karia. Starring Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, Timothy Spall, Art Malik, Jasmine Jobson, Sheeba Chaddha, Joe Alwyn, and Avijit Dutt.SYNOPSIS:Hamlet comes home for his father’s funeral and finds his uncle Claudius marrying his widowed mother Gertrude. His father’s ghost reveals Claudius murdered him, leading Hamlet toward revenge and introspection.Aspiring to be a […]
Trailer for modern Hamlet reimagining starring Riz Ahmed
Universal Pictures has released a trailer for director Aneil Karia’s (The Long Goodbye) modern retelling of the William Shakespeare classic Hamlet.Riz Ahmed stars in the title role, as a man who returns to London to attends his father’s funeral, but when the spirit of his deceased parent appears before him claiming he was murdered by […]
New trailer for Hamnet starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal
Focus Features has released a new trailer and poster for Hamnet, director Chloe Zhao’s upcoming adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel which reimagines the creation of William Shakespeare’s masterpiece Hamlet.The period romantic drama stars Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn. Check out the trailer below…HAMNET: From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, […]
Riz Ahmed to play Hamlet for Netflix
Riz Ahmed is heading over to Netflix for his next project. The Night Of and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story star is in talks with Netflix for a contemporary take on William Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet, with Deadline reporting that the Emmy-winning actor will take on the title role, with the film written by Mike Lesslie (Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed).The film […]
