The Scottish Film – Ep #20 – Macbeth (2018)
We did it! We reviewed every cinematic adaptation we could reasonably get our hands on without influence over time or the Thai authorities. We finish...
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The Scottish Film – Ep #19 – Veeram (2016)
When you take Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy and a North Indian folk tale and mix them all together in three languages at once and look at...
The Scottish Film – Ep #18 – Macbeth (2015)
Paul and Katy fail to find a banned Thai film and so have to settle for perhaps the greatest cinematic adaptation ever made! A film...
The Scottish Film – Ep #17 – Macbeth (2010)
Patrick Stewart is here with all his Shakespearean bombast! An adaptation of Sound and Fury and bleak 60s cold war era dystopia. Can Paul and...
The Scottish Film – Ep #16 – Macbeth (2006)
Struth! It’s only an Australian gangster adaptation of Macbeth. Have the Aussies found a way to make Shakespearean language work in a modern setting? Is...
The Scottish Film – Ep #15 – Shakespeare Re-told: Macbeth (2005)
In one of the boldest adaptations yet, Paul and Katy find Macbeth back in the kitchen! This time it’s the kitchen of a three star...
The Scottish Film – Ep #14 – Maqbool (2003)
Āpakā svāgata hai! It’s time for Paul and Katy to experience the Indian Macbeth adaptation. Will this film convincingly adapt the tragedy in to a...
The Scottish Film – Ep #13 – Scotland, PA (2001)
The comedy of Macbeth! Paul and Katy head to Scotland Pennsylvania for some deep fried chicken Macbeths. Whilst there, they stop at a drive in...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Macbeth (1992)
What could be better than a Welsh television adaptation of the Scottish play put to screen by an insane Russian animation studio. In one of...
The Scottish Film – Ep #11 – Men of Respect (1991)
You come to us? On this, the day of our daughter’s wedding, to ask a favour? Well if it involves watching an iffy attempt to...