Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Director William Oldroyd’s debut feature “Lady Macbeth” returns, again and again, to a single shot: Florence Pugh, as Katherine, a young woman forced into a ...

Adapting Shakespeare for the screen may be the easiest thing any filmmaker can do. It may also be the hardest. In terms of reducing the risk of failure, any director would love to begin with the most ...

“Macbeth” is awesome. For all of the mountains of praise we heap upon William Shakespeare for his fancy iambic pentameter, the Bard just flat-out knew how to write an old-fashioned potboiler with a ...

Forget the beach — an outdoor summer evening is an ideal setting for Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Dark skies, warm air, and sounds of nature place audiences in an eerie ambiance that suits Macbeth’s ...

More stories by Nigel M. Before its premiere on the Croisette, Indiewire sat down with Kurzel to find out why “Macbeth” appealed to him and what it was like to direct his incredible cast. From Cannes ...

If I had to guess, I’d say that “Macbeth” probably gets done more often, and more consistently well, than any of Shakespeare’s other tragedies. It helps, of course, that “Macbeth” is his shortest ...