Shakespeare meets modern day warfare? Actor turned director Ralph Fiennes takes on the Shakespeare classic "Coriolanus," now available on Blu-ray from Anchor Bay Entertainment and The Weinstein Company. The battle of the bard begins below!

Title: "Coriolanus"

Grade: 2

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox

Director: Ralph Fiennes

Rating: R

Runtime: 124 minutes

Release Company: Anchor Bay/The Weinstein Company

Website: www.anchorbayent.com

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Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, "Coriolanus," scripted by John Logan, updates one of William Shakespeare's more difficult plays without sacrificing the Bard's original dialogue.

Set in modern times, the movie stars Fiennes as the title character, a fierce General able to fight Rome's most dreaded enemies as well as quell civil unrest from a lack of food. When politicians convince Coriolanus to become a political leader, his natural fierceness and lack of political instincts lead to him being disgraced by other politicians and eventually forced to leave Rome after being branded a ...

I felt incredibly silly last week when I was supposed to see Mark Wahlberg’s “Contraband.” I showed up at the wrong theater, and ended up missing my screening. From what I’ve heard from my colleagues though, I didn’t miss anything fantastic. One of them compared it in quality to last year’s remake “The Mechanic,” better than expected, but nothing special.

Hitting the box office this week: the Kate Beckinsale vampire action flick “Underworld: Awakening,” the Steven Soderbergh spy thriller “Haywire,” the Ralph Fiennes helmed Shakespeare adaptation “Coriolanus,” the World War II fighte...

Ralph Fiennes called on his dialect coach to help him with his directorial debut because he knew she'd be honest about his performance in his film "Coriolanus."

The star admits he was wracked with "continual anxiety" when filming started on the movie adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy because he couldn't be sure he was giving the best performance in front of the camera as he attempted to direct himself.

So he called on his friend and coach Joan Washington to help him.

He tells WENN, "I couldn't tell if I was delivering it. I very much relied on Joan Washington, who is admired as a dia...