Telluride: Aneil Karia does an effective job of setting the classic text among South Asian characters in London, but Ahmed's fittingly excessive performance is the star of the show. Whenever a new ...

The actor reteams with Aneil Karia, the director of his Oscar-winning short 'The Long Goodbye,' in a listless update of the classic play. Transposed to modern-day London, where Hamlet belongs to a ...

In 2025, it feels as if everyone's in mourning and wracked with indecision about what to do about an evil king. That's one possible explanation for why four different cinematic takes on William ...

Set in London's South Asian community, the Telluride-premiering film relies (mostly) on the Bard's language. By Caryn James This latest version of Hamlet begins with a death ritual. Riz Ahmed, as the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Riz Ahmed was after the Crown Jewels. Along with filmmaker Aneil Karia and screenwriter Michael Lesslie, he wanted to take Hamlet, the most iconic of British plays, and do it about Britain ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new audio drama with Chicago ties has just made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival. It's a new take on the Shakespeare play "Hamlet," and it was put together by the ...

If you’ve been keeping score like us, you’d know that Hamlet is one of the most recycled stories in human history. From countless movie adaptations to stage versions to Disney remakes to detective ...

EXCLUSIVE: To play or not to play Hamlet, that was never the question for Oscar Isaac. He had long wanted to take on one of the most complex and demanding roles ever conceived, the titular Prince of ...

The Oscar winner discusses reimagining Shakespeare through a modern South Asian lens — where ancestral spirits and corporate greed haunt the streets of London: "It's a timeless story." By Lily Ford If ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a new version of “Hamlet” premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday, because this particular Shakespeare tragedy seems to be in the air these days. Most ...