Category: Shakespeare
DVD Review: Hamlet (2014)
“A man’s life’s no more than to say ‘one’” One of the main problems with the countless…
Film Review: Henry V (1989)
”Customs curtsy to great kings” It is instructive to watch performances from Kenneth Branagh such as these,…
Film Review: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
“You take pleasure then in the message?” The good bits of Much Ado About Nothing, when done…
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…
Film Review: Othello (1995)
“But yet the pity of it” Oliver Parker’s directorial career has taken in glossy takes on Wilde…
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…
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…
Film Review: Private Romeo (2012)
“Proud can I never be of what I hate” What first attracted me to a gay remake…
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