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Macbeth  (2015) A Review by Grant Kanigan Directed by : Justin Kurzel Written by : J acob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie & Todd Louiso, based on William Shakespeare's play Macbeth   Starring: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, David Thewlis, Sean Harris &  Jack Reynor Rating: 14A Release Date: December 11th, 2015 (Limited) Michael Fassbender, awash in the blood of war in  Macbeth Image Source      There's a reason Shakespeare has been around for over four hundred years, and is still relevant. Philosophy, morals, humour and tragedy are explored brilliantly and uniquely in each one of his plays. His comedies explore social conventions, mores, and challenged hegemonic thinking in a way that wasn't offensive to the powers that be, but was poignant enough to be relevant. From obscure references to Greek tragedies to scatological humour, there's a bit of everything in Shakespearean comedy. Like it or not, Much Ado About Nothing,   As

Beasts of No Nation (2015) A Review by Grant Kanigan Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga Written by: Cary Joji Fukunaga, based on                  Uzodinma Iweala's novel Starring: Abraham Attah, Idris Elba Rating: Not Rated Release Date: October 16th, 2015, (Netflix Exclusive) I dris Elba and Abraham Attah walk a dangerous road in  Beasts of No Nation Image Source      Ask any biologist worth their salt the question of where life comes from and you'll get an answer quite close to the National Geographic's Genographic Project: "You and I, in fact everyone all over the world, we’re literally African under the skin; brothers and sisters separated by a mere two thousand generations. Old-fashioned concepts of race are not only socially divisive, but scientifically wrong."    - Dr. Spencer Wells       Wells' statement is an important fact when watching a story with the heft and weight of Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation . The s