Generally, with William Shakespeare film adaptations there are two ways to approach critical analysis, either by how well it adapts the Bard's play or how well it recontextualizes it. In both ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The Weinstein Company has released the first ...

Historically, adapting “Macbeth” into film has meant rich, detailed period pieces, from Orson Welles’ sweeping epic, to Akira Kurosawa’s visceral “Throne of Blood,” to Justin Kurzel’s luscious Palme d ...

Pretty much everyone knows the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth. (If you don't, I'm not going to explain it to you — that's what Sparknotes are for.) Not only did we all read it for school at some point, ...

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature. Macbeth issues a warning: the greatest risk to the inner life comes from the delusion that it does not exist. “A little ...

Malevolence, greed, the thirst for power and the never-ending quest for revenge dominate the Washington National Opera production of composer Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth. The vocals by the company of ...