Damien Lewis

Romeo and Juliet Review

There’s almost nothing that I can say about Carlo Carlei’s big screen staging of Romeo and Juliet . It would be redundant to say there’s nothing here that you haven’t already seen before, and yet it’s worse than that. This is EXACTLY what you have seen before. It’s a drab, lifeless Shakespearean melodrama perked up ever so slightly by a few decent performances that does absolutely nothing whatsoever to warrant its existence.

This Week in DVD: 4/2/13

This week at the video store marks the arrival of three European imports - the Swedish gangster saga Easy Money , British cop thriller The Sweeney , and the comedic Irish slasher Stitches - as well as the home video debut of the HBO original movie Hemingway & Gelhorn .