I realised I have not written many film reviews in some time. I'm not sure I like my present format, so this one might be a little different. I think this film itself has inspired me to alter my writing style, too. Shakespeare is a name known worldwide, and conjures up images of romance, tragedy and flowery literature. The plays and works are known worldwide, frequently quoted and used in probably every English Literature class. Unique and perhaps difficult for most of us to get our heads around, this is the sort of work that cannot be produced by just anyone. But what if Shakespeare himself was just 'anyone', fortunate enough to come by the works of another ...  Read the complete review

Was Shakespeare a fraud? Have I been hating the wrong man for years and years ever since all the English literature classes, the painful, tear/headache-inducing analytical essays, and the incomprehensible plays, poems and sonnets almost ruined my GCSE years? The generally accepted idea is that no, Shakespeare was not a fake and wrote all of his work, but the debate will go on, new evidence will be found, and the sceptics will always find holes in the already laid-out, widely known historical events. It's an interesting notion though, something that shouldn't possibly be glanced over with immediate dismissal. If there is compelling reason to actually doubt the authorship .  Read the complete review

(film only review) Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? Was the man from Stratford on Avon who lived in London as an actor and part owner of a playing company the author of 38 plays, 154 sonnets and several other poems? Or did someone else write them? If so, who did and why did this person hide behind Shakespeare's name? Shakespeare's authorship was first questioned in the middle of the 19th century. Some prominent public figures such as Mark Twain, Henry James, James Joyce, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles shared the doubts of the anti-Stratfordians that Shakespeare, who was very likely raised in an illiterate ...  Read the complete review

Being a bit of an English nerd, I was quite excited to hear that there was a film coming out about one of the many conspiracy stories of one of the greatest writers of all time, William Shakespeare. Not to mention, that every time I went shopping at Westfield, which, by the way, was an awful lot, I saw the trailer being repeatedly played on that massive screen they have set up outside the shopping centre. I was slightly dissuaded by the bad reviews of this movie online and so I decided to not go and see this film in the cinema; however, I was pleased to find that they were playing it on the airplane on my way to from Chicago so I watched it absolutely free ...  Read the complete review

About the film Anonymous is a political/ historical thriller that was released at the cinema in late 2011 and on DVD in March of this year. The film has as 12 rating due to scenes of mild violence, nudity and the language used. Anonymous has a run time of 130 minutes. Plot Set during Elizabethan England, Anonymous sets out to tackle the question of who should really be credited with writing the plays known as those of William Shakespeare. The film covers the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the run of events that led up to the Essex Rebellion. In the midst of all of this happening, the film explores the notion that Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford ...  Read the complete review