HOST (George):In Macbeth, evil rarely arrives waving a pitchfork; it arrives wearing a suit and offering a reasonable argument that elections are no longer necessary.That’s how it works in public life—and it’s how it works in this pl...

Macbeth does not become evil because he’s confused. He becomes evil because he learns to call evil “reasonable.”Let me repeat that, because that’s the whole episode:He starts using good logic for a bad purpose.That’s how ...

People call Macbeth a monster. But Shakespeare’s trick is sharper than that: he shows you a man who can still choose—and then shows you the exact moment he starts outsourcing his choices to ambition, marriage, and prophecy.Macbeth—th...

Today I’m taking that same Shakespearean blueprint and placing it in a new world: the 1961 film West Side Story. I’m going to do this in the simplest and clearest way possible:I’m going to tell the film’s story in a straight line.

Welcome back. Verona is split by a feud. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love, marry in secret, and attempt to outrun a culture trained for violence.Then comes the turning point: Tybalt confronts Romeo, Mercutio fights, Mer...