Lady Macbeth movie review: the serpent under the innocent flower
An astonishing tale of privilege and power: stark, searing, and brutal, almost a Victorian companion to Get Out. Florence Pugh is a force of nature.
MacBeth
Strange Magic movie review: bad spell
Apparently this was inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it has about as much in common with that as Burger King does with Macbeth.
staying in on a Saturday night to watch Doctor Who is the new cool (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Does it matter if Shakespeare wasn’t the author of the Shakespearean plays?
Not to be too obvious, but aren’t the plays the thing?
question of the day: What actresses should play Shakespeare’s great male characters?
Woo-hoo! Helen Mirren is going to play Prospero — the wizard has been redubbed Prospera — for a new film adaptation of The Tempest from director Julie Taymor…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The End of Time: Part Two”
Tons of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
no Shakespeare in the Park for me
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, then you may have followed my mini saga this morning as I attempted to get a pair of free tickets to tonight’s performance of Twelfth Night, starring Anne Hathaway, at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. She’s been getting spectacular reviews, which is nice, but that’s … more…
trailer break: ‘Friday the 13th’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… So Marcus Nispel, the guy who made the pointless 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is at it again, eh? Except don’t call it a remake: it’s a reboot, if you please. Do we really need a reboot of Jason, though? Is he a character … more…
