Chris Canfield (Macbeth)Kat Olsson (Lady Macbeth)Breanna Rankin (Witch 1)Sierra Laverty (Witch 2)Sasha Allen-Grieve (Witch 3)Kevin Swanstrom (Macduff)Cameron Cortens (Banquo)Jack Ball (Malcom)Carl ...

There are only three actual witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. That’s the story of the “Scottish Play” as we know it: foul, foggy, and — if karma is real — damningly fair to its titular king-to-be, who ...

Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which was first published in 1623. The story follows a Scottish general named Macbeth (Washington), who discovers a trio of witches ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

“The Tragedy of Macbeth” is a template for a thoroughly modern take on Shakespeare as Denzel Washington excellently navigates a royal descent into madness but still gets upstaged by one fantastically ...

In his first solo outing, Joel Coen sets "Macbeth" in a ravishing old-movie world that envelops the audience, as Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand take a desperate stab at power. So it’s no ...

In the 18 feature films he has made with his brother Ethan, Joel Coen has proved himself, over and over again, to be as fetishistically visual a director as anyone from the independent film world of ...

In The Tragedy of Macbeth, director Joel Coen slashes away at Shakespeare's text, distilling every scene to its furious essence. At 105 minutes, this is a shorter Macbeth movie than most. The ...

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Orson Welles’ horror-tinged, loose adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedies returns to Blu-ray in Macbeth: Special Edition (Kino Lorber, not rated, 119 minutes, 1:33:1 aspect ratio, ...

"Something wicked this way comes..." A24 has unveiled a short teaser trailer for the film The Tragedy of Macbeth, the latest big screen Shakespeare adaptation coming this fall. It will be the first ...

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