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Coriolanus

Ralph Fiennes makes a bold directorial debut with this contemporary adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s later, lesser-known tragedies, transplanting the Bard’s original poetry to a modern-day city rife with foreign warfare, class conflict and political power plays. The present-day parallels are obvious and numerous—from the Russian-Chechen hostilities that Fiennes and screenwriter John Logan drew on during preproduction to today’s Occupy Wall Street scuffles. But what one encounters in the theater is less the delivery of a pointed message than a powerful, rapturous viewing experience that strikes the delicate balance between Shakespeare’s iconic iambic pentameter and an ultra-modern plot, setting, characters...  read more

Watch the Trailer for Machine Gun Preacher

The first trailer has been released for director Marc Forster's (_Monster's Ball_, _The Kite Runner_) upcoming action biopic _Machine Gun Preacher_, starring Gerard Butler and Michelle Monaghan.  read more

RockNRolla

A decade ago, Guy Ritchie became the new British icon of pop violence...  read more