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Half-Baked Challenge of a Traditional Hero

4 days ago | indiependent.co.uk | Jamie Rooke

★★★☆☆Rami Malek’s career has reached quite an interesting point. Despite reminding us of his talent when he made a cameo in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and having also impressed in Papillon, Short Term 12 and No Time To Die, his controversy-sparking Oscar-winning work in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) has remained at the forefront of people’s minds.
Everything We Know About 'Elle’, the 'Legally Blonde' Prequel Series

1 week ago | indiependent.co.uk | Khushboo Malhotra

Reese Witherspoon is officially bringing Elle Woods back—but this time, we’re rewinding the clock to high school. Amazon MGM Studios has greenlit Elle, a brand-new prequel series diving into the early life of the iconic Legally Blonde heroine. Long before Harvard Law and courtroom mic drops, we’ll see a teenage Elle navigating the chaotic, competitive halls of high school—and filming is already underway.
TV Review ‘Mid-Century Modern’: A Hysterical Hug in Sitcom Form

1 week ago | indiependent.co.uk | Khushboo Malhotra

With a premiere on March 28 on Hulu, this breezy new sitcom is precisely the kind of television we didn’t realise we were missing: smart, sentimental, and unapologetically camp in a sea of emotionally muted prestige dramas. Created by Will & Grace duo David Kohan and Max Mutchnick and directed by the legendary James Burrows, Mid-Century Modern is a nostalgic, golden-hued homage to classic multicam comedies—reimagined through a proudly queer, contemporary lens.
Insanely Effective Gimmicks & 80s Nostalgia

1 week ago | indiependent.co.uk | Jamie Rooke

★★★★☆Directorial duo Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden unite once again to deliver a tale of a funky and fictional Oakland in 1987. US rapper Too $hort narrates the film’s four separate chapters, which ultimately come together as one, and stars on stage in the second—which is perhaps the standout. The audience are thrown straight in at the deep end with young punk rockers taking a stand against the Nazi group terrorising them.
‘I Am Love’ Review: Lush, Sensual and Surface-Level

1 week ago | indiependent.co.uk | Cian McGrath

The senses are everything in Luca Guadagnino’s romantic drama I Am Love. This film is at its best when it enters purely dreamlike territory, in which protagonist Emma Recchi (Tilda Swinton) has her world upended in favour of a lush, evocative landscape of shifting images.
Travelling to: Rome, Italy

1 week ago | indiependent.co.uk | Phil Thomas

Already full-to-bursting during summer, Rome is expected to see record tourist numbers this year thanks to the Catholic ‘Jubilee’ celebrations. The swell of visitors is likely to make the Eternal City’s blockbuster sites (the Vatican, Colosseum and Roman Forum) somewhere between irritatingly busy and utterly unbearable. It would be easy to write off a trip to Rome this year as more hassle than it’s worth but that would be a mistake.
UK Mentorship Program Limit Break 2025 Now Accepting Applications

1 week ago | indiependent.co.uk | Khushboo Malhotra

Limit Break, the UK’s flagship mentorship initiative for championing underrepresented and marginalised talent in the games industry, has opened applications for its 2025 cohort. Now in its seventh year, the volunteer-led scheme returns amid a challenging industry climate marked by widespread layoffs, studio closures, and structural inequities. Founded in 2019 by industry advocate Anisa Sanusi, Limit Break has grown from a grassroot initiative of just 100 participants into a nationwide movement.
Track Review: Smoke // Mouth Water

1 week ago | indiependent.co.uk | Khushboo Malhotra

There’s something quietly disarming about Mouth Water’s latest single ‘Smoke’ — like walking through fog and realising it’s not weather, it’s memory. Released on 4 April 2025 via Through the Void Records, the track is a spellbinding drift through synth-pop melancholy, delivered with hypnotic ease. It doesn’t demand your attention so much as it draws you in, orbiting with the quiet confidence of something meticulously crafted.
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review: Thematically Inspired and Tonally Confused

2 weeks ago | indiependent.co.uk | Cian McGrath

It is both a blessing and a curse that Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister has been heavily associated with Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance. A blessing in that the film will receive far more attention than it likely would have otherwise, and a curse in that The Ugly Stepsister is almost certainly doomed to live in the shadow of its very recent forebear.
Book Review: Hunchback // Saou Ichikawa

2 weeks ago | indiependent.co.uk | Emily Fletcher

For fans of Sayaka Murata, Mieko Kawakami, and translated fiction in general, I can’t recommend Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa enough – I suspect it will be your next fun, short read. Hunchback is the first novel by a disabled author to win Japan’s top literary award and was immediately recognised as one of the most important Japanese books of the 21st century.