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With three new versions on stage this month, the ancient Greek classic – and its reflections on authority and devotion – remains as compelling as ever

Starring Ian McKellen and directed by Sean Mathias, it really resonates in a time of ongoing pandemic.

So it wasn’t Cinderella but Hamlet who was first out of the post-lockdown starting blocks – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much trumpeted musical premiere being foiled by a ping at the weekend. Instead the historic first curtain-up was 20 miles up the River Thames in Windsor, on a Shakespeare production that itself has been disrupted over and over during the past 16 months – possibly with even more urgent, unspoken worries, as the star is Ian McKellen, who was 80 when rehearsal began...

© Marc Brenner Headlines have accompanied every step of the long, pandemic-delayed run-up to the opening of this production of Hamlet. The main one was that at the age of 82, Ian McKellen was about to become the oldest Prince of Denmark the UK has ever seen. He was doing so in a production that was age, colour and gender blind, with Francesca Annis, once McKellens Juliet, now cast as the ghost of Hamlets father and an Ophelia in the shape 20-something Alis Wyn Davies. So far, so intriguing. T...

Hey there, film score lovers! Welcome to another edition of CS Score. This week we’re taking a look at Intrada's re-released expanded score for Jerry Goldsmith's The Mummy, and speaking with Tree Adams about his score for the documentary BELUSHI.

CinemaBlend This is a big year for Steven Yeun. The Walking Dead standout has been proving his star power for a while now (even when it was under-appreciated), particularly with acclaimed turns in Burning, Okja, Sorry to Bother You, and Invincible. But in March, Yeun received his first Oscar nomination for his lead role in A24s Minari, which means that the future looks bright for the film-TV actor. While his schedule is a little light (for now, at least), Yeun has some promising titles on t...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard When I think of blockbuster films, much younger folk nowadays instantly have their minds turn to Marvel or maybe Harry Potter, but for me, my idea of a blockbuster film was never a movie, but a man and his name is James Cameron, creator of two of my favorite movies of all time, Avatar and Titanic. Titanic was one of the biggest hits ever, taking pop culture by storm and creating a mob of men and women alike wanting to flood to the theater to see the reenacted dr...

Like a great iron Sphinx on the ocean floor, the Titanic faces still toward the West, interrupted forever on its only voyage. We see it in the opening shots of “Titanic,” encrusted with the silt of 85 years; a remote-controlled TV camera snakes its way inside, down corridors and through doorways, showing us staterooms built for millionaires and inherited by crustaceans. These shots strike precisely the right note; the ship calls from its grave for its story to be told, and if the story is m...

Fantasy film Jumanji turns 25 20 Dec 2020 This image has been used for illustrative purpose. Jumanji, the delightful fantasy film featuring and entertaining children, that also starred one of the finest actors of all time, Robin Williams, has completed 25 years. However, a lot of cinegoers do not know what the title means. In the movie, Jumanji is the deadly board game found by its characters.  Williams plays Alan Parrish, a man who becomes trapped inside Jumanji as a young boy....

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