Much Ado About Nothing

With Shakespearean language tripping off their contemporary tongues, the actors are more than game for Joss Whedon's informal, black-and-white take on this classic comedy.

"...The romantic banter in Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing flutters and flirts as it navigates..."

June 21, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Austin Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare’s rom-com gets a light staging with fine performances and lots of genuine laughs

"...Of all of Shakespeare's comedies, Much Ado About Nothing may be the one that most..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Much Ado About Nothing

Branagh, as the film's director and star – captures Shakespeare's captivating comic romance at the peak of flavor.

"...films, playing the comedy so broadly would seem too much, yet Branagh manages to push it right to that..."

June 25, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Nichols' Article 'Much Ado About Nothing'

"...Rail?” [News, April 8] reminds me of Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing. If and when Austin decides it..."

April 11, 2011 Postmarks

Much Ado About Nothing

DC rapper Wale makes a splash

"...For someone claiming to rap about nothing, Wale (pronounced wah-lay) sure has a lot to..."

Aug. 5, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

'Much Ado About Nothing!'

"...Dear Editor, To quote or misquote Shakespeare, "much to do about nothing.” This whole debate over shelter..."

Oct. 18, 2007 Postmarks

SXSW Film: Much Ado About Nothing Red Carpet

March 9, 2013. 28 photos.

"...Ashley Johnson at the Much Ado About Nothing red carpet at the Vimeo Theater..."

March 10, 2013 Photo Gallery

More 'Ado' From Director Joss Whedon

His labor of love 'Much Ado About Nothing' screens today

"...The Chronicle recently spoke with Joss Whedon about Much Ado About Nothing, which has its U.S. premiere..."

March 9, 2013 Screens Post by Robert Faires

How Much Is 97%? AURA and Adler Exchange Notes on CodeNEXT.

Everybody's in transition zones over land use

"...city land code rewrite is shaping up to be much ado about very little. They expressed that concern in..."

March 24, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Party All the Time

'Much Ado' and much fun with Whedon, Acker, and Denisof

"...after in his micro-budget film version of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, the play Whedon calls "the grandpappy..."

June 21, 2013 Screens Post by Robert Faires

The Disenchanted

"...with Claude Miller's La Petite Voleuse, and, like so much of the French New New Wave, contains echoes of..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hated: G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies

"...just how the phenomenon of G.G.'s excessive lifestyle came about, with little success. He also includes snippets of the..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life Itself

Maudlin multigenerational drama thinks it's profound (spoiler: it's not)

"...Much like life itself, This Is Us creator Fogelman’s decades-spanning,..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Noise

That droning sound you hear is White Noise.

"...Elia, Keegan Connor Tracy and Amber Rothwell. There’s not much more to this poorly scripted thriller than exactly one..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

"...who will doubtless miss all the earlier film's discussions about chaos theory. Loosely based on Michael Crichton's bestselling novel,..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paris 36

This French film set in late-Thirties Paris is something of a backstage drama, but it's marred by glossy reminiscing and melodramatic politicizing.

"...maudlin sort of way, but in the end, it's much ado about nothing. Oh, the ennui, the ennui...."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Waiting Game

"...Malavarca, Dwight Ewell, Debbon Ayer and Will Arnett. Films about actors waiting for their big break ought to be..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Underworld: Blood Wars

Vampires vs. werewolves (again)

"...be remembered for her exquisite performances in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing or John Schlesinger’s Cold Comfort Farm...."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Underworld

Kate Beckinsale bares her fangs as a vampire assassin in in a shaggy werewolf story.

"...a long way since playing Hero in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing a decade ago. For one thing,..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hollow Man

"...Flashdancing bare bottom. I suppose we're lucky to see much of the actor at all, though. Verhoeven and his..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twelfth Night

"...going on; they only suggest that Nunn didn't have much confidence in the way he shot the scene. Some..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Stealing Beauty

"...it's hard to care one way or the other about Lucy's situation. Like Shakespeare's (and Kenneth Branagh's) aptly titled..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ice Age: Collision Course

Latest entry of the series is overstuffed and meandering

"...films’ acorn-loving, squirrel-rat mascot and the single best thing about all the Ice Age films (the character is a..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cold Comfort Farm

"...Flora Poste (Beckinsale, who played Hero in Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing), the latest project of director John..."

June 14, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Geronimo: An American Legend

"...What we get is a somber orchestral morality play about two conflicting ways of life, the corporate civilized mentality..."

Dec. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

A Little Light Music

Branagh's a hambone, and he's better at comedy

"..."I Get a Kick Out of You" (he's singing about the country wench who stole his heart, anti-women proclamation..."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The High Art of Low Comedy

"...to this little experiment of ours (I've only read Much Ado About Nothing). After weeks of cramming the tragedies..."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Speak the Speech

"...as listening to Keanu Reeves botch up Branagh’s own Much Ado About Nothing five years earlier ... and not..."

Aug. 19, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Chronicle Recommends: Memory Loss

Films for when you're trying to forget everything

"...the misery of 2018 with a selection of films about amnesia...."

Jan. 8, 2019 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Princes to Act

"...a cartoon lion, and I don’t feel like writing about a cartoon lion because I’m not quite willing to..."

Aug. 21, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

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