The Indiependent

The Testament of Ann Lee © Searchlight Pictures, 2025 The Testament of Ann Lee is a musical journey that tells the untold story of Ann Lee, sometimes referred to as Mother Ann, as she leads the Shaker movement from Manchester to the open, rural lands of the Americas in the hopes of spreading their beliefs. Known for their unique movement-led worship style, the Shakers (an offshoot of the Quakers) are brought to life in this cinematic story.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You © A24, 2025 If I Had Legs I’d Kick You follows Linda (Byrne), a mother and therapist with a sick child, as her house becomes damaged due to a mysterious hole that has appeared in her bedroom ceiling. From there, Linda and her daughter must live out of a motel, but as time passes, things spiral out of control as the Doctor insists that Linda must get her daughter to her weight goal in response to her illness.

Sirat (2025) © Filmes da Ermida Sirat’s narratives centre on Luis (Sergio Lopez), a father looking for his missing daughter, who he suspects is at a desert rave. Along with his son Esteban (Bruno Nunez), he asks around with little luck before stumbling upon a group of ravers—Steff (Stefania Gadda), Josh (Joshua Liam Herderson), Bigui (Richard Bigui Bellamy), Tonin (Tonin Janiver), and Jade (Jade Oukid)—who, like them, are Spanish speakers.

Aimee Lou Wood as Aimee in 'Sex Education' Season Four. | Credit: Samuel Taylor/Netflix © 2023. Aimee Lou Wood, well known for her role as Aimee Gibbs in Netflix’s Sex Education, is set to star in the next big Brontë sister adaptation. Wood has made a name for herself since her role in Sex Education, with her going on to star in HBO’s The White Lotus and is soon to portray Pattie Boyd in the upcoming Beatles biopic.

RAYE is back on 27 February with her most vulnerable work to date, ‘Nightingale Lane.’—after her first single ‘WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!’ went viral—from the eagerly awaited sophomore album THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.. Following her historic triumph at the 46th BRIT Awards in 2024, where her debut album My 21st Century Blues and the number-one track ‘Escapism.’ achieved record-breaking recognition, this upcoming new record is set to be released on 27th March.

The Wedding (1973) © Film Polski There’s nothing quite like a sombre wedding in cinema. Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) is a benchmark of sorts, with Kirsten Dunst’s depressed protagonist struggling through her own wedding reception in a Swedish castle before cheating on her husband on the lawn. Later, the world ends.

7:35 de la mañana (2003) © Ibarretxe & Co. S.L I’ll keep my synopsis brief as this is one of those films where it’s better to go into it knowing as little as possible. Set in the early-morning hours inside of a small Spanish cafe, 7:35 in the Morning opens to the arrival of a young woman (Marta Belenguer) confused by the eerie silence of the cafe’s motionless patrons.

Image credit: Johan Persson ★★★ To go to church, or to not go to church? That was the question for Mary Ann Evans, the young woman who was yet to become George Eliot, writer of such formidable works in the English Canon as Middlemarch and The Mill on The Floss. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play reminds us, that men, woman and generation-defining authors like Evans, grappled with the constraints that they felt the church institution placed upon their minds during the Victorian period.

©Bungie/Visual Concepts/WWE/Capcom/Pearl Abyss/Deck Nine/Square Enix/Bit Bot Media/Crystal Dynamics A graveyard of opportunity awaits in this PvP action shooter. Marathon takes place on Tau Ceti IV, a planet being investigated by the UESC after a number of colonists vanished in mysterious circumstances.

Image credit: Manuel Harlan ★★★★ In this adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the National Youth Theatre delivers an exceptionally chilling production. By twisting gothic 19th-century lore with modern, club-attacking vixen vampires, Tatty Hennessy tells the gory story of Dracula across two worlds set decades apart. The production opens with a rather classic portrayal of Stoker’s Dracula.