“The Shakespeare Code” is the second episode of the third series of the revived British television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC Oneon 7 April 2007. According to the BARB figures this episode was seen by 7.23 million viewers and was the fifth most popular broadcast on British television in that week. Originally titled […]
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existential, tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and the main setting is Denmark. The action of Stoppard’s play takes place mainly “in the […]
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In the Bleak Midwinter is a 1995 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. Many of the roles in the film were written for specific actors. This was the first film directed by Branagh in which he did not appear. Joe Harper, a depressed and down-on-his-luck actor, asks his agent Margaretta D’Arcy […]
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The Lion King is a 1994 American musical animated film produced and released by Walt Disney. it is inspired by Hamlet with elements from the Biblical stories of Joseph and Moses and Disney’s 1942 film Bambi. The film was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Don […]
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Strange Brew is a 1983 Canadian comedy film starring the popular SCTV characters Bob and Doug McKenzie, portrayed by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served as co-directors. Loosely based on elements of Hamlet, most of the film was shot in Toronto, and Hamilton, Ontario. Two unemployed brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, screen a […]
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A Bunch of Amateurs is a 2008 British comedy film directed by Andy Cadiff, and stars Burt Reynolds, Derek Jacobi and Samantha Bond. In November 2008, the premiere in Leicester Square was attended by Elizabeth II. The screenplay was written by Nick Newman, John Ross, Ian Hislop and Jonathan Gershfield. A washed-up Hollywood star is […]
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My Kingdom is a 2001 British crime film directed by Don Boyd and starring Richard Harris, Lynn Redgrave and Jimi Mistry. It premiered at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival on the eve of 9/11 and like many films that year was consequently compromised commercially. It was subsequently previewed in Los Angeles to heighten nomination […]
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A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. It was premiered as an opera by the Des Moines Metro Opera during their […]
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The Lost King is a 2022 British comedy drama film directed by Stephenm Frears and written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, based on the 2013 book The King’s Grave: The Search for Richard III by Philippa Langley and Michael Jones. It is a dramatisation of the story of Philippa Langley, the woman who initiated […]
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Tower of London is a 1962 historical drama and gothic horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price and Michael Pate. The film was produced by Edward Small Productions. The film tells a highly fictionalised account of the rise to power and eventual downfall of Richard III, freely combining elements derived from the […]