That is the question of "Grand Theft Hamlet," a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out-of-work British actors who spent a chunk of their COVID-19 lockdown staging Shakespeare's masterpiece on ...

Playwright James Ijames’ Broadway play is now getting its first Chicago-based production with an ensemble cast.

How three out-of-work friends spent COVID staging a tragedy inside a comedy in GTA Online — and made a doc about it ...

Faced with COVID lockdown, two out-of-work actors reach for Shakespeare in an experimental documentary that creates art on ...

However, Grand Theft Hamlet explores this unique combination of past and present while revealing new and unexpected narrative ...

During pandemic lockdowns, two actors decided to try to stage a Shakespeare play entirely inside the game Grand Theft Auto.

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride attempted to summon the spirit of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet during a House of Commons attack ...

It’s commonplace these days to find movies in which the level of technical excellence is better than the material deserves. “Hells Angels on Wheels,” for example wasn’t much of a movie but the ...

Why, its ads asked, does “Soldier Blue” show, “in the most graphic way possible, the rape and savage slaughter of American Indians by American soldiers?” Because it’s true, the ads replied, and “now ...

One of the most unpleasant conventions of movie shorthand is that when adults are happy they act like children. The hero and heroine fall in love, and lickety-split the camera goes all mushy and they ...

“Le Petit Soldat” was Jean-Luc Godard’s second film, made in 1960 when “Breathless” was creating a sensation and the French New Wave made the cover of Time. It wasn’t much of a success. Godard, it was ...

Arthur Penn’s “Little Big Man” is an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of a yarn. It mostly works. When it doesn’t — when there’s a failure of tone or an overdrawn caricature ...