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…
A few years ago I reviewed (and subsequently would not stop talking about) a sad Danish movie called The Hunt, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Danish Superstar Mads Mikkelsen. It is with a heavy heart that I report to you that my reason for bringing this up now is sadly unrelated to Danish Superstar…
Rooster Illusion 