HAMNET (2025) Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, David Wilmot, Jacobi Jupe, Olivia Lynes, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Freya Hannan-Mills, Dainton Anderson, Elliot Baxter, Noah Jupe, El Simons, Louisa Harland, Jack Shalloo, Sam Woolf, Hera Gibson, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Justine Mitchell, Eva Wishart, Effie Linnen, Faith Delaney and Smylie Bradwell. Screenplay by … Continue reading
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Macbeth (A PopEntertainment.com Theater Review)
MACBETH Starring Ruth Negga, Daniel Craig, Maria Dizzia, Amber Gray, Danny Wolohan, Michael Patrick Thornton, Asia Kate Dillon, Che Ayende, Danny Wolohan, Amber Gray, Emeka Guindo, Paul Lazar, Maria Dizzia, Grantham Coleman, Bobbi MacKenzie and Phillip James Brannon. Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Sam Gold. Playing at Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St., New York, NY, … Continue reading
Romeo & Juliet (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
ROMEO & JULIET (2013) Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Ed Westwick, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lesley Manville, Natascha McElhone, Christian Cooke and Stellan Skarsgård. Screenplay by Julian Fellowes. Directed by Carlo Carlei. Distributed by Relativity Media. 118 minutes. Rated PG-13. William Shakespeare’s classic love tragedy Romeo & Juliet has been filmed so many times over … Continue reading
Matt Sax – The Merchant of Venice
Matt Sax The Merchant of Venice by Jay S. Jacobs Musical theater thrives on change and actor/singer/songwriter Matt Sax wants to help usher in a new generation of musicals. His first musical Venice is a collaboration with longtime friend Eric Rosen. (Sax wrote the score, Rosen handled the book.) Venice weaves traditional theatrical music with rock and hip … Continue reading
Josh Hartnett Pulls the Strings with Bunraku
Josh Hartnett Pulls the Strings with Bunraku by Brad Balfour The California-born Josh Hartnett had developed a steady career appearing in such Hollywood films as The Faculty, Black Hawk Down, Lucky Number Slevin and Pearl Harbor. In 2002, he starred in an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello, O, set in an American high school, as Hugo – the film’s version of Iago. … Continue reading
Gnomeo & Juliet (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
GNOMEO & JULIET (2011) Featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Maggie Smith, Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen, Jim Cummings, Richard Wilson, Julie Walters, Matt Lucas, Ozzy Osbourne, Dolly Parton and Hulk Hogan. Screenplay by Kelly Asbury, Mark Burton, Kevin Cecil, Emily Cook, Kathy Greenberg and Andy Riley. Directed by Kelly … Continue reading
She’s the Man (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SHE’S THE MAN (2006) Starring Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Jonathan Sadowski, Robert Hoffman, James Snyder, Alex Breckenridge, Amanda Crew, Jessica Lucas, James Kirk, Emily Perkins, Vinnie Jones, Robert Torti, Julie Hagerty and David Cross. Screenplay by Ewan Leslie and Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith. Directed by Andy Fickman. Distributed by Dreamworks SKG. … Continue reading
Shakespeare in Love (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998) Starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rupert Everett, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, Colin Firth, Judi Dench, Martin Clunes, Tom Wilkinson, Simon Callow, Steve O’Donnell and Sandra Reinton. Screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman. Directed by John Madden. Distributed by Miramax Pictures. 122 minutes. Rated R. Proof in these post-Farrelly times that … Continue reading