Category: Film

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

“You take pleasure then in the message?” The good bits of Much Ado About Nothing, when done…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)

“I feel so absolutely stumped on the floor” Proving that not even Kenneth Branagh is infallible when…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: Othello (1995)

“But yet the pity of it” Oliver Parker’s directorial career has taken in glossy takes on Wilde…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: As You Like It (2006)

“We are not all alone unhappy” As the fifth of his big screen Shakespeare adaptations, there’s a…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

Film Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)

“A part of love as dreams, sighs, wishes, and tears” Perhaps taking influence from the roaring success…

Posted in Film LGBTQ+ Shakespeare

Film Review: Private Romeo (2012)

“Proud can I never be of what I hate” What first attracted me to a gay remake…

Posted in Dolly Parton Film Shakespeare

Film Review: Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)

“The story you’re about to hear as been told before, a lot” Oh my giddy aunt, I…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

Film Review: Romeo + Juliet (1996)

“Now, the two hours’ traffic of our stage” One of the more famous cinematic adaptations of any…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

DVD Review: Romeo and Juliet (2014)

“They stumble that run fast” David Leveaux’s production of Romeo and Juliet played Broadway in 2014, the…