REVIEW: The Death of Robin Hood

Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood is the latest attempt to reinvent England’s most enduring outlaw.

We’ve had the iconic swashbuckler, the historical epic, the gritty origin story. Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood and Otto Bathurst’s version with Taron Egerton at least preserved the sense that beneath the grime remained a fundamentally heroic figure.…

Kurtzel’s Macbeth lacks not only significance but sound and fury too

 

What do you think is the greatest Shakespeare adaptation ever committed to celluloid?

Perhaps you favor the expressionistic majesty and revelry of Welles’ Chimes at Midnight, or maybe the jazzy, black-and-white sophistication of Joss Whedon’s contemporary Much Ado.…