Recent Posts
- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
- The Centre of My World [Die Mitte der Welt] **** (2016, Louis Hofmann, Sabine Timoteo, Jannik Schümann, Ada Philine Stappenbeck) – Classic Movie Review 13,213
- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
- The Weaker Sex * (1948, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 13,207
- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
- The Astronaut Lovers [Los Amantes Astronautas] *** (2024, Javier Orán, Lautaro Bettoni, Ailín Salas) – Classic Movie Review 13,205
Posts Tagged "shakespeare"
Check out all of the posts tagged with "shakespeare".
Much Ado About Nothing *** (1993, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Movie Review 10,317
Writer-director Kenneth Branagh again brings William Shakespeare to mainstream audiences with his 1993 hit adaptation of hit Much Ado About Nothing. It is a very jovial romp through Shakespeare’s attractive lightweight romance, filmed with much […]
King Lear [Korol Lir] ** (1970, Jüri Järvet, Elza Radzina, Galina Volchek) – Classic Movie Review 10,162
Director Grigoriy Kozintsev’s 1970 Russian film King Lear [Korol Lir] stars Jüri Järvet as a modest, one-note (bad-tempered) Lear leading a number of unstriking performances in this disappointment from the director of the great Russian […]
Hamlet **** (1969, Nicol Williamson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Marianne Faithfull, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 9601
Director Tony Richardson shoots his 1969 film Hamlet during the run of his acclaimed stage production of the play at London’s Roundhouse Theatre (The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm was a great venue in the late […]
Hamlet Goes Business **** (1987, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo) – Classic Movie Review 9600
Writer/ producer/ director Aki Kaurismäki’s 1987 Finnish black comedy film Hamlet Goes Business [Hamlet Liikemaailmassa] is an entertaining, irreverent black-and-white satirical film noir reading of the Bard. Cult director Kaurismäki’s highly personal telling of the […]
The Carer ***½ (2016, Brian Cox, Coco König, Anna Chancellor, Emilia Fox, Karl Johnson, Roger Moore) – Movie Review
The 2016 film The Carer is all about a legendary old thespian, played with the utmost skill and relish by a perfectly cast Brian Cox as the increasingly ill Sir Michael Gifford, suffering from an […]
Julius Caesar ** (1950, Harold Tasker, Charlton Heston, David Bradley) – Classic Movie Review 3387
Charlton Heston plays Marc Antony in writer-producer-director David Bradley’s enterprising 1950 film version of the play, notable as the first with sound. Harold Tasker plays Julius Caesar and David Bradley gives himself the role of Brutus. Bradley […]
Othello *** (1995, Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh, Irène Jacob) – Classic Movie Review 3340
Ideally cast Kenneth Branagh scores a triumph as the scheming villain Iago in this penny-plain, much-cut 1995 film version of the Shakespeare play of scheming and betrayal in 16th-century Venice. But, try as they might, […]