Even for a studio that made huge box office returns out of space raccoons and Ant-Man, Doctor Strange feels like a bit of a gamble. The adventures of the good doctor have always been among some of Marvel’s most esoteric, and the free-form psychedelic odysseys packed to the rafters with pseudo-Lovecraftian names make them hard material to…
Well, it has been a wild ride. Henry VI, Part 1 was—for lack of a better word—horrible. Yeah, horrible pretty much sums it up. Henry VI, Part 2 was pretty good. It certainly did a lot despite the terrible groundwork provided by Part 1, and it gave me hope for this week’s rendition of Richard…
Last week, I gave a resoundingly negative review to the BBC’s continuation of The Hollow Crown series. Their rendition of Henry VI, Part 1 was actually an adaptation of Part 1 and Part 2, and cut out over fifty percent of the two plays, and was otherwise just kind of terrible. That didn’t leave me…
A few years ago the BBC adapted Shakespeare’s first four canonical histories Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, and Henry V under the collective title of The Hollow Crown, and a little while after that I reviewed each installment as part of my ongoing Brush Up Your Shakespeare series. Well, the BBC recently…
Yesterday was William Shakespeare’s birthday. More importantly (this year), it was his 400th deathday. I feel like we ought to commemorate those more often. I guess it’s considered more cheerful and positive to do birthdays… yeah, fair enough. IMDb reckons there have been over one thousand films and TV shows based on Shakespeare’s works, including…
I don’t mean to toot my own horn or anything like that, but I do say with no small amount of smugness that my predictions are better than anyone else’s. Am I perhaps being a wee bit arrogant, considering that I base that statement on only the fact that I predicted last year’s Academy Awards…
This week I continue to punish myself with biopics. They’re a tricky business, and can be incredibly good, but I feel like the mentality pulsating through Hollywood these past few years and on to the coming few is something along the lines of, “Everyone should have a movie made about them. Why are we wasting…
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