The Shakespearean monologue that is featured twice in “Hamnet” has long informed the movies, often in surprising ways that can make us rethink the words.

Hosoda’s Scarlet reinvents Hamlet, following a princess on revenge, forgiveness, and peace, guided by a modern paramedic.

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera ( Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous ...

Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda, known for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Mirai, and Belle, has reinterpreted William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in his latest movie, Scarlet. The film will be released in ...

Around 1905 or 1906, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay, unpublished in his lifetime, called “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.” The essay addressed the question of what we, as spectators, get out of ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

A virtual avatar selfie featuring Grand Theft Hamlet's director, Pinny Grylls, alongside co-star writers and directors Sam Crane (left) and Mark Oosterveen (right) How do you keep Shakespeare fresh ...

Thomas Ostermeier’s pedal-to-the-metal, German-language “Hamlet” has come to New York at last. It has been a fourteen-year wait: the Schaubühne Berlin production was first shown at the Hellenic ...

The cast of Hamlet (Ato Blankson-Wood, Solea Pfieffer, and Nick Rehberger) discuss what it means to bring Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” into the modern day. Solea Pfeiffer performs as Ophelia in The Public ...

At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, two actors decided to alleviate their boredom and put on a production of “Hamlet” entirely inside the online world of the Grand Theft Auto V video game. Four ...

Hamlet is typically seen as the epitome of a serious play: visualise it on stage and you’re probably imagining a sober black-clad prince, clutching a skull and brooding miserably on his own mortality ...