When filmmaker Joel Coen emailed Kathryn Hunter, an actress with deep roots in Shakespeare who has taken revolutionary turns playing the lead roles in the Bard’s King Lear and Timon of Athens, and ...

Lightning strikes and three witches appear. They tell the Thane he will become king of Scotland - once, of course, the current king dies. Macbeth decides that to fulfill this prophecy he will commit ...

Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is, among other things, visually gripping, a stark, haunting dreamscape that often seems to exist outside of time. While the film is carried by Denzel Washington ...

Does the world need another cinematic version of Macbeth? Quite simply: No. There are over 20 film versions of the Shakespearean tragedy already, including ones featuring some of history's greatest ...