Being a completely objective comparison of the two features "From Bard To Verse" (Heat magazine, Feb 20th, p19) and "Good Will Hunting" (US-based Entertainment Weekly magazine, Feb 12th, p8-9). There were a couple of other films at the end, but these first ones appeared in exactly this order...
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Ten Things I Hate About You A modernised Taming Of The Shrew (due for US release in May) stars Party Of Five's Andrew Keegan with newcomer Heath Ledger. |
10 Things I Hate About You This modern-day Taming Of The Shrew (due in May) stars newcomer Heath Ledger, Party Of Five's Andrew Keegan... |
Love's Labour's Lost Director Kenneth Branagh turns this tale into a 1930s musical (due to start shooting this month) starring Clueless's Alicia Silverstone and Scream's Matthew Lillard. |
Love's Labour's Lost With Alicia Silverstone and Scream's Matthew Lillard... director Kenneth Branagh has turned his Labour's - which goes before the cameras this month - into a 1930s musical. |
O Set in a prep school, this version of Othello (due in the US later this year) stars I Still Know What You Did Last Summer's Mekhi Phifer in the lead role with Josh Hartnett from Halloween: H20 as Hugo (Iago). |
O ...this version of Othello... stars Mekhi Phifer (I Still Know What You Did Last Summer) as the only black student in a prep school... Due late this year, it features Halloween: H20's Josh Hartnett as Hugo (Iago)... |
Hamlet Following in the footsteps of Baz Luhrmann's 1997 funky Romeo & Juliet, this Hamlet is set in 90s New York City and stars Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard and Bill Murray. |
Hamlet Set in 90s New York City but using traditional text (think Leo DiCaprio's 1996 Romeo & Juliet), this tale of the melancholy prince stars Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard, Bill Murray... |