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I'm getting in the festive mood early this year so I caught the Royal Shakespeare Company's Christmas show last weekend, and it's a total joy. Nancy Harris's adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story, about a young girl who loves to dance but is controlled by a pair of magical red shoes, is a brilliant blend of Angela Carter darkness and Matilda the Musical-esque mischief. It has eye-popping costumes, brilliant setpieces, and, most importantly, some very good jokes for the adults. |
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It must feel especially cruel to be lonely in Mumbai. It's true of every metropolis, every place with a 24/7 clang that we're told leaves no room for quiet and disconnection. To be lonely there is to be plagued by silence in a storm, and anyone who's experienced it will find that Payal Kapadia's fiction debut All We Imagine as Light glows with an all-too-familiar ache. It's a film that feels like a long exhale, the moment of unburdening after a tight embrace. It's beautiful. |
Clarisse Loughrey | Chief film critic |
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Oscar Wilde hardly hid the queer subtext in his frivolous drawing room comedy – designed to enjoyably scandalise Victorian audiences without quite saying the word "gay" – but director Max Webster's bold, brash and beautifully-cast production blows away every trace of wink-wink nudge-nudge subtlety from this classic. Ncuti Gatwa plays a gorgeously flamboyant Algernon who peacocks in silk corsets and ruffled negligees between scenes. Sharon D Clarke shines as his formidable aunt Lady Bracknell, her Caribbean tones dripping with disapproval as his shenanigans upset the teacups. |
Alice Saville | Chief theatre critic |
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Meet Detective Inspector Mackenzie Clarke. She's an Australian copper who migrates to London and makes a brilliant career there, but ends up, frustrated and resentful, back home in Australia's idyllic, sleepy Dolphin Cove, because of some "misunderstandings" at the Met about her "tampering with evidence". Hence Return to Paradise, the new Death in Paradise spin-off on BBC One. |
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Black Friday is the busiest shopping season in tech and – luckily for Christmas shoppers – price wars between the industry's main players can quickly heat up. This week at IndyBest we watched a familiar game of cat and mouse play out between old rivals PlayStation and Xbox, two of the biggest names in gaming. Who would drop their prices first? And by how much?
PlayStation ended up first out of the gates, slashing the popular PlayStation 5 console to an all-time low of just £309. Microsoft followed shortly afterwards with some slightly less impressive deals, including a £40 saving on the less popular Xbox Series S. We've covered both deals and more in our IndyBest shopping guides.
I think either console would be welcome under the Christmas tree: the PS5 for its enviable catalogue of exclusive games, and the Xbox for its revolutionary, Netflix-style Game Pass service. At these Black Friday prices, there's never been a better time to buy. |
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Katherine Waterston: 'Actors are usually in a sort of first date state with their co-stars' (Maarten de Boer/Shutterstock for SAG Awards) |
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The US star of Fantastic Beasts and Alien: Covenant talks to Louis Chilton about reuniting with Michael Fassbender for Paramount's new spy thriller The Agency, yearning for a return to the old Hollywood studio system, and the "waste and recklessness" of franchise filmmaking. |
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I, spy: Katherine Waterston as Naomi in 'The Agency' (Luke Varley/Paramount+) |
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Read an extract from our Saturday Interview below… |
"I fantasise sometimes about the days of the studio system," she continues, "which has its undeniable downsides… but actors had to work together in multiple films. It meant you could jump off in the deep end and get into the work faster." There is in fact something quite Old Hollywood about Waterston, a certain poised erudition. She smiles widely, and frequently, but has a well-keeled sincerity – to make a point, she arches her eyebrows, widens her eyes. And she has a penchant for simile. "An actor in film and TV is kind of like a blindfolded painter," she says. "What artist would do all their paintings blindfolded and then let them hang them on the wall, asking somebody else if they're good? But that's what we do." Read the full interview here |
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