It's as simple as this: If you've got a play called The Heiress, it's absolutely obligatory that whoever assumes the eponymous role is utterly persuasive. Unfortunately, that's not the case at the Walter Kerr.
Magnificently reconceived and directed by Ralph Fiennes, this new adaptation of Coriolanus uses Shakespeare's language in a tightly condensed screenplay by John Logan that grips the audience by the throat within the film's first 20 seconds and never lets go.
When actress Jessica Chastain attended the Sundance Film Festival more than a year ago, making the rounds for the film Take Shelter, she spoke on a pa...
By Leonard Maltin
After the mad rush of December releases, the early months of the new year are usually fallow--except for films that opened briefly ...
Ralph Fiennes heard his first Shakespeare as a child, initially on phonograph records, then in films.
"I saw (Sir Laurence) Olivier's Henry V in a sm...