Hamlet sweating in the 1948 version of Hamlet - Rank Film Distributors Ltd. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Literary critic (and notorious blowhard) Harold Bloom once claimed ...

Riz Ahmed takes on the titular role in Hamlet, director Aneil Karia's big-screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy debuting in theaters April 10 Discovering the play in high school, ...

Riz Ahmed stars in 'Hamlet'. Photo: Focus Features. In theaters on April 10 is ‘Hamlet’, a fresh update of William ...

Explore the most unconventional ways Shakespeare’s classic tragedy has been reimagined in movies, from Riz Ahmed’s modern ...

The Oscar winner discusses reimagining Shakespeare through a modern South Asian lens — where ancestral spirits and corporate greed haunt the streets of London: "It's a timeless story." By Lily Ford If ...

The new Hamlet talks adding "quite literal" stakes to the famous speech. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The new version of ...

Riz Ahmed has wanted to make a Hamlet movie since he was 16. The 42-year-old actor, plays Danish prince Hamlet in a new adaptation of the play, which relocates the tragedy to modern London, ...

“Hamlet” is having a moment. It’s hard to call anything William Shakespeare’s “best” play, but “Hamlet,” the story of a young man tormented by the ghost of his father and trying to decide whether or ...

“To be, or not to be,” Hamlet says in his best-known speech — questioning the value of life itself and, more immediately, his own. But surely, these words have rarely if ever been uttered with such an ...

Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Riz Ahmed about his work on ‘Hamlet’, taking on the iconic role, shooting the “To be or not to be” speech, and why Shakespeare’s work is so ...