Amongst the six novels shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize is Ben Markovits’s The Rest of Our Lives. Set in contemporary America, it follows law professor Tom Layward as he takes an impromptu ...

Following fan speculation, Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi has set the record straight, confirming that the game is not an open-world adventure. With Resident Evil Requiem fast ...

Co-created by Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a whacky musical comedy that follows our ‘crazy’ protagonist as she tries to win back her teenage sweetheart. Rebecca Bunch ...

The Indiependent sits down with director Travis Greene and screenwriter Jonathan Buchanan to talk about their new home-invasion horror, 8 Found Dead. The film was screened at Grimmfest 2023 on October ...

Inspired by real-life events, ‘the trip’ by two Senegalese teenagers is a must-see on the never-ending immigration across the Mediterranean Sea. The latest movie by Italian director Matteo Garrone is ...

Sit up; Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play might be the best play you’ll see in your summer holidays. Queen bee Paulina seems a shoe-in for the Miss Ghana 1986 pageant, ...

The poem for this week is ‘Colour Blind’ by Lemn Sissay. Whilst the poem is infused with beautiful natural imagery, Sissay uses this to illuminate an important message about racism, which is explored ...

At one point in Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-the-nation novel, Caledonian Road, one character tells another: “A real writer doesn’t reveal the truth. He hides it beautifully.” And that statement could ...

Darren Aronofsky has long been regarded as the auteur hellbent on exposing the fragility of human ambition and its inevitable collapse. Amidst his variable portraits of self-destruction, The Wrestler ...

Contrary to popular belief, I prefer erotic thriller maestro Adrian Lyne’s Lolita adaptation to the one made 35 years prior by Stanley Kubrick. But do either do Nabokov’s novel justice? Calling Lolita ...

The year 2024 seems to have been the resurrection of dance, hyperpop and indie sleaze. All of this having been captained by the one and only Charli xcx who, with her neon green album Brat, has ...

Suzie Miller’s latest play ‘Prima Facie’ is an original melancholic yet uplifting masterpiece. When Tessa, a newly graduated barrister falls victim to sexual assault, it causes her to re-elevate her ...