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It's been over 400 years since playwright William Shakespeare posthumously broke big in 1623 with the "First Folio," after spending his entire life as a minor homegrown English celebrity. In that time, partly thanks to the British Empire and colonialism, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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History is constantly changing; as new details and discoveries come to light, the past (which half the time isn't even the past) takes on a new angle. Even subjects people have studied for centuries, like the life and times of William Shakespeare, can suddenly be turned on their
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In our current blockbuster era of CG-forward theatrical content churn from the major studios, a common lament from those who love movies is that old chestnut: “They sure don’t make ’em like they used to.” That “used to” typically reference films in the mode of John Cassavetes (A Woman
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Brady Corbet's The Brutalist was first announced in September 2020, just as the pandemic settled in for the long haul, with the optimistic filming schedule listed as beginning in January 2021, which, as most of us know, did not happen, as Lockdown 2 was declared in the U.
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Historical novels about William Shakespeare aren't uncommon; however, Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 fictionalization of Shakespeare's real-life family tragedy, stood out as head and shoulders above the others in the genre from its initial release. Shakespeare and his wife only ever had one
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It was only a couple of days ago that we discussed how hard it is to determine which projects that come to the Cannes market will be made and which ones are just fantasy packages in search of a funder. Those that already exist as finished projects have a leg
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Sally Rooney's Normal People was a surprise hit for Hulu when it debuted in 2020. The series, which was a co-production between BBC Three, Ireland's RTE, and the American streaming service, was assumed to be, like most British titles on Hulu, something that would do well