Retelling of bard’s family tragedy

ELIZABETHAN playwright William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark, at the end of the 16th century. Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway, had lost their son Hamnet, their daughter Judith’s twin, at the age of 11, four...

Musical duo’s real diamond of a story

MILWAUKEE couple Mike and Claire Sardina became known in their home state for their Nineties Neil Diamond tribute act, called Lightning and Thunder. Their story was first told in a 2008 documentary by Greg Kohs and now writer and director Craig Brewer...

House of horrors and sports maverick

DESCRIBED by film critic Mark Kermode as having a camp feel in the vein of Mommie Dearest, psychological thriller The Housemaid (15), out now at the Regal Picturehouse in Henley, explores what happens when Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) takes on the...

Postwar trials that shaped new laws

IN the aftermath of the Second World War, when the atrocities of the Holocaust became apparent to the world, 24 high-ranking Nazi officials were imprisoned and put on trial. The site of Nuremberg was chosen by the Allies, as it had been a central...

Big ideas on what threatens planet

HIGH-flying chief executive Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone) seems to have it all as the powerhouse of a large company. However, when conspiracy theorists, beekeeper Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis), deem her responsible for...

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