Anyone who’s ever had a clueless professor give you two nights to read and understand, say, King Lear as you also try to manage two other classes, a part time job, friends, family, and probably a head cold knows how sucky it is to then find that the only readily available film adaptation seems to …
Whenever there is a new adaptation of ever-adaptable Shakespeare, there is an outcry from purists that will deride straying from the text. Or they’ll complain about sticking too close to the text. Or maybe scenes are added, or scenes are deleted. Or, heck, maybe some pop music is thrown in (hello, Baz Luhrmann!). I am …
I remember kind of loving Ten Things I Hate About You when I first saw it in college. I was just the right age to appreciate the film, and somehow everything worked. Ten years later, I wasn’t so sure I wanted to go back. It seemed like it might all be a little noisy and, …
I’ll be honest, I had zero interest in seeing it. The trailers made it look tedious and Elizabethan and, to me, woefully dull. After sitting through a recent string of cinematic disappointments, watching a 130-minute film about who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? No thanks. But, lo! What’s this? It was pretty excellent all-around. Instead of a …