Richard The Second

Proof positive that all you really need to make movie nowadays is a video camera, access to some digital editing equipment and a script that's been in the pubic domain for a few centuries — a Shakespeare play, for instance. Talent is a little harder to come by, but what director John Farrell's (admirable) attempt to stage Richard II lacks in that department — this is a far cry from the Royal Shakespeare Company, but that shouldn't necessarily be held against its hardworking young cast — it certainly makes up for in ambition. The play, the first of the Bard's great "Henriad," chronicles the deposition of one king, Richard II, and the ascension of...