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Prime Video's December 2024 schedule is just as vibrant as its previous lists. But these five movies have made their way into my watchlist.

Synthetic picture does not show a real statue and was never intended to resemble children’s author Roald Dahl.

She's been Jane Austen and assistants, Catwoman and con artists

Director said you could ‘get rid of everybody if you really wanted to’

From gentle witches to friendly ghosts, discover 11 Halloween films that balance spooky fun with family-friendly entertainment for all ages.

Many years ago I was a theatre critic, and over the years I’ve seen and written about plays of all sorts, from the powerful and provocative to the bland and banal. But I’ve never experienced the strange, eerie, even disturbing emotions that occurred recently when hearing my own name repeated…

John Lithgow as Roald Dahl towers over Nicholas Hytner’s production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her voice in a Wesker revival; and a John Osborne staging is a step backward

Mark Rosenblatt’s fearless script is one thing, but the play about the author’s vile antisemitism is made extraordinary by the performances, led by John Lithgow

Sophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the author’s life