Tag: William Shakespeare
This Above All to Thine Own Expression of Grief Be True: Hamnet Reminds That Mourning Takes Different Shapes
While it can be said that movies about William Shakespeare (whether his life or something less straightforward than that [e.g., Shakespeare in Love, which focuses [Read More…]
Just Like the Song, “The Fate of Ophelia” Video Has Little to Do With Shakespeare’s Character in Hamlet
Because Taylor Swift has increasingly decided to cast herself in the role of “English teacher” to the masses, maybe it should come as no surprise [Read More…]
PinkPantheress’ Gambit: The “Romeo” Video
The success of PinkPantheress’ nine-track mixtape, Fancy That, continues with yet another video from one of the songs on the album, “Romeo.” A mid-tempo ditty that [Read More…]
Kali Uchis Gets Shakespearean on “Sunshine & Rain…”
Long before weather became such an au courant a.k.a. “hot” topic, William Shakespeare was wielding it as a means to mirror the emotions of his [Read More…]
Postcards from Sydney (Australia and Sweeney)
It’s no secret that the rom-com is an ever-dying genre. One that’s harder and harder to “spoon-feed” audiences that have gotten both younger and more [Read More…]
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: The Sandman
With a total of seventy-five issues that were printed from 1989 to 1996, some might classify The Sandman as being among DC Comics’ “less influential” [Read More…]
White Folk Sure Are Crazy: The Northman
“Hate is all I’ve ever known. I want to be free of it.” Wanting and doing, of course, are two entirely different things. Particularly for [Read More…]
The Existential Question of Our Times: Netflix or Hulu? (Baby, You Choose)
While the remix of “34+35” might not have done much to assure one’s faith in the original, it did leave an opportunity for Megan Thee [Read More…]
That Night: A Long Island Romeo and Juliet
In 1961, there wasn’t much in the way of excitement on Long Island (there still isn’t really). For ten-year-old Alice Bloom (Eliza Dushku, in her [Read More…]
She’s The Man Is Strangely Anti-Feminist
Karen McCullah (once known as Karen McCullah Lutz, but perhaps changed it because of being associated with Lutz on 30 Rock) founded her entire screenwriting career [Read More…]
