The Top 10 Female Performances of 2013

By Simon Miraudo December 10, 2013 The performance that enraptured audiences most in 2013 was Jennifer Lawrence as ‘Regular Human Woman’ – an ambitious gambit that paid off spectacularly. So novel was the humanity emanating from this Hollywood actress, gifs of her playfully flipping off photographers and spilling all her mints during a press conference […]

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The wives of others – Much Ado About Nothing review

By Simon Miraudo November 25, 2013 What it must be like to live in Joss Whedon’s mind, his neurons and synapses constantly electrified into formulating spunky one-liners for his talented pals to zing one another with. To paraphrase William Shakespeare, “Uneasy lies the head that wears that Buffy–creating crown.” No wonder, then, that Whedon takes […]

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Where there’s a Will – Much Ado About Nothing review

By Jess Lomas July 9, 2013 While Joss Whedon is best known these days for his Hollywood smash hit The Avengers, the skilled director proves he is equally successful when it comes to creating an engaging, witty, and fresh adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing on a micro budget. A between-blockbusters project of […]

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Trailer Debut: Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing

Joss Whedon follows up The Avengers with, of all things, a black-and-white adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Whedon shot the picture over 12 days in Santa Monica while The Avengers was in post-production. Basically, in the time it took to render Hulk in just a couple of scenes, Whedon called up his friends and made this little […]

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Joss Whedon shot a Shakespeare adaptation while working on The Avengers

Taking a leaf from the book of super-prolific director Steven Soderbergh (who probably began and completed production of a film in the time it took you to finish this sentence), Joss Whedon has revealed he filmed an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing whilst working on The Avengers. Details were released via the […]

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