Shakespeare: Comedy Tragedy Romance - DVD

Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own morality in an imperfect world. Inch... an utterly engaging performance by Paapa Essiedu.Inch (The Times) InchThis is a landmark production; Paapa Essiedu is the first black actor to play Hamlet for the RSC in it's 55-year history. He is charismatic, capricious and compelling an impulsive, arresting presence at the heart of a production that reframes the dilemmas in the play by setting it in an unnamed African state.Inch (The Financial Times)

Cellular biologist Lena's (Natalie Portman) husband Kane (Oscar Isaac) suddenly returns from a mysterious region known as Inchthe ShimmerInch after being missing for a year. When Kane falls into a coma, Lena joins a scientific expedition to the area where she and the rest of her team encounter mutated creatures and strange hybrids of plant and animal life while realizing that they themselves are being altered in bizarre ways. Based on Jeff VanderMeer's novel, this visually stunning sci-fi tale co-stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson. 115 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Two-disc set.

Alex Hyde-White, Blanche Baker, Esther Rolle. Shakespeare's tragic story of passionate young love thorn apart by an old family feud. 1982/color/165 min/NR/fullscreen.