Review: In ‘Juliet & Romeo,' Shakespeare gets malled

Review: In ‘Juliet & Romeo,' Shakespeare gets malled

Panning a movie like “Juliet & Romeo” is a little like kicking a puppy. A puppy that chews the furniture, soils the rugs and projectile...

‘Juliet & Romeo’ Review: Tryhard Attempt to Make Shakespeare 'Cool' Achieves the Opposite

Let’s get something straight: Making William Shakespeare’s plays “cool” is kind of the opposite of cool. The only thing older than trying to make Shakespeare’s plays “hip” is Shakespeare’s actual plays, which were plenty hip to begin with. Hollywood has been trying to hip up those bad boys for a hundred years. You’ll find John Gilbert and Norma Shearer making fun of studio execs trying to fix The Bard way back in “The Hollywood Revue of 1929,” a…