Episodes
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Macbeth Pitches
After watching 21 cinematic adaptations of Macbeth it's about time that Paul and Katy pushed into new genres! Can the Scottish Play be fully realised as a western? A whodunnit? A rom-com? A sci-fi? Find out only exactly here.
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The Macbeth Awards
Paul and Katy have managed to watch 21 adaptations of Macbeth during the 2020 Coronavirus Lockdown! But which of them had the best Donaldbain, I hear you cry. Well we're going to settle that along with best everything else! This is the absolutely cream of the crop, so have a listen and find out…
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Macbeth 2018
We did it! We reviewed every cinematic adaptation we could reasonably get our hands on without influence over time or the Thai authorities. We finish up with Macbeth 2018, a tragedy entirely in Green Screen! Are Paul and Katy ready for what is surely the future of Shakespeare? Or are they just a...
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Veeram
When you take Shakespeare's timeless tragedy and a North Indian folk tale and mix them all together in three languages at once and look at it through the lens of a Zack Snyder movie you get something pretty unique. But is it also good? Is this the Macbeth adaptation we've been yearning for?
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Macbeth 2015
Paul and Katy fail to find a banned Thai film and so have to settle for perhaps the greatest cinematic adaptation ever made! A film of sound and fury, signifying certainly enough for us to talk for an hour or so about.
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Macbeth 2010
Patrick Stewart is here with all his Shakespearean bombast! An adaptation of Sound and Fury and bleak 60s cold war era dystopia. Can Paul and Katy get out of the Gulag with all their bones intact? Find out only here!
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Macbeth 2006
Struth! It's only an Australian gangster adaptation of Macbeth. Have the Aussies found a way to make Shakespearean language work in a modern setting? Is this Baz Luhrmann or whoever directed The Craft? Find out!
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Shakespeare Re-Told: Macbeth (2005)
In one of the boldest adaptations yet, Paul and Katy find Macbeth back in the kitchen! This time it's the kitchen of a three star Michelin restaurant. Will Macky B be able to murder his way to the top? Will Lady M be able to shift that damned spot with some modern hand wash? Are things so tough…
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Maqbool (2003)
Āpakā svāgata hai! It's time for Paul and Katy to experience the Indian Macbeth adaptation. Will this film convincingly adapt the tragedy in to a modern day crime story, or do we have another "Men of Respect" on our hands? Will this film feature any musical numbers! All is revealed!
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Scotland, PA (2001)
The comedy of Macbeth! Paul and Katy head to Scotland Pensylvania for some deep fried Chicken Macbeths. Whilst there, they stop at a drive in for some awkward comedy! Join them in their most finger lickin' cinematic adventure yet!
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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Macbeth (1992)
What could be better than a Welsh television adaptation of the Scottish play put to screen by an insane Russian animation studio. In one of the all time strangest, and definately shortest, adaptations of Macbeth, Paul and Katy discover morphing witches, sexy maids made of wolves and some of the...
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Men of Respect 1991
You come to us? On this, the day of our daughter's wedding, to ask a favour? Well if it involves watching an iffy attempt to turn Macbeth into a gangster movie, you're in luck because we've done that. Starring Steve Wright!
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Verdi Macbeth 1987
Paul and Katy voyage even further into the high arts with Claude D'Anna's French film of Verdi's Opera of Shakespeare's Macbeth. They discuss the music, the cinematography and the naked ladies of the ambitious staging. WARNING: This episode begins with explicit and full on attempts at opera…
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BBC Television Shakespeare Macbeth 1983
Paul and Katy are starting to a get a case of the Mondays when it comes to the Bards immortal tail of bloody ambition and revenge. Another week, another heretical regicide. But can the world renowned BBC make this fairly straight forward adaptation something special? And who is the sexiest member...
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Hungarian Macbeth 1982
Üdvözlet! Get that Lángos ready, because Paul and Katy are heading to Hungary for Béla Tarr's 80s television adaptation of Macbeth. Filmed in just two shots, Tarr fights convention and his own cinematic inclinations to deliver our shortest Macbeth yet! But did he still manage to capture the…
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RSC Macbeth (1979)
Life might be a poor player, but Ian Mckellan and Judi Dench aren't! Paul and Katy enjoy two masters of the form strutting their hour (and hour and thirty minutes) upon the stage but can't help but be distracted by that Palpatine looking porter!
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The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
Not a podcast about Scottish Films. Paul and Katy slither down into the murky depths of 70s cinema for the most violent and sexually explicit Macbeth yet! But could it be the best one so far?
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Macbeth TV (1960 + 1970)
Not a podcast about Scottish films! This week Paul and Katy find out what a difference a decade can make when it comes to cinematic adaptations of Macbeth. Will the directors be able to do the grand play justice on the small screen? Just who is Michael Jayston so angry with? Find out here!
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Throne of Blood (1957)
Not a podcast about Scottish Films! Hajimemashite! Paul and Katy make for Japan to experience Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Is it the best adaptation of the bard's tragedy yet? Or has something been lost in translation? Join us as we find out!
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Joe Macbeth (1955)
Not a podcast about Scottish Films! Listen here, fellas! We gotta talk about Joe. He's a shady kinda fella, and he's got quite the story! A familiar story. Almost exactly like that old British play by that other fella. Our guy and gal on the scene has the scoop and all the angles!
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Hallmark Hall of Fame (1954)
Not a podcast about Scottish Films! Paul and Katy review every cinematic adaptation of Macbeth they can lay their hands on. Episode 2 features a live television adaptation of the William Shakespeare play presented as the November 28, 1954 episode of the American anthology series Hallmark Hall of...
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Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948)
Not a podcast about Scottish Films! Paul and Katy review every cinematic adaptation of Macbeth they can lay their hands on. In this first episode they enjoy Orson Welles formidable impressionist vision of The Scottish Play.