Category: Film

Posted in Film Shakespeare

Film Review: The Merchant of Venice (2001)

“For your love I pray you, wrong me not” Any filmed adaptation of The Merchant of Venice…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

DVD Review: Macbeth (2001)

“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” Gregory Doran’s production of Macbeth for…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

Film Review: Macbeth (2015)

“I feel now the future in the instant” For one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Macbeth is…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

DVD Review: Macbeth (1979)

“Round about the cauldron go” Who’d’ve thought that it would be a production from 1979 that would…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

DVD Review: Othello (1990)

“Horribly stuffed with epithets of war” When starting this DVD rewatching enterprise, I knew I’d be happy…

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Film Review: Richard III (1995)

“I am not made of stone” The boldness of Shakespearean adaptation can be a car crash when…

Posted in Film John Logan Shakespeare

Film Review: Coriolanus (2011)

“What would you have, you curs that like nor peace nor war?” Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

DVD Review: NOW – in the Wings on a World Stage

“We’re not doing in fucking tights, with whatever those fucking old jock-strap things are called that they…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)

“I’m clean, I’m conscientious and I travel with my own tits” Where else would you get to…