Film
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Episode 459: Nicklaus Rupert!
Episode 459 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s episode, Nicklaus Rupert and I discuss the PhD in Creative Writing, the creative and professional benefits of working for a literary magazine,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #341: Madhouse
The Curator of Schlock #341 by Jeff Shuster Madhouse It’s February. I’m watching slasher movies. I escaped a vampire house and lived to tell the tale. Here’s the story: I gave three copies of my spec screenplay called The Taming of the Screw, a kind of My Dinner With Andre, but with vampires. Wally, Celestial, and Jervis… Continue reading
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Episode 456: Lily Brooks-Dalton!
Episode 456 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, Janna Benge and I talk to Lily Brooks-Dalton about the experience of having her novel adapted into a prominent Netflix flick,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #339: Black Scorpion
The Curator of Schlock #339 by Jeff Shuster Black Scorpion Joan Severance is Black Scorpion. You had me at Joan Severance. I’m putting the finishing touches on my screenplay that’s basically My Dinner With Andre. I’ve titled it My Dinner With Vlad. I hope Wally—who is a vampire if I haven’t lost my mind—likes it and that… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #338: Space 1999 (Season One)
The Curator of Schlock #338 by Jeff Shuster Space 1999 (Season One) Lightning strikes twice for Gerry Anderson. The kangaroo and I are finally getting along. Turns out she loves Fruit Roll Ups. I’ve gone ahead and named her Edwige. Apparently, she must be a professional boxer because she’s wearing baby blue gym shorts and… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #87: All is True (2018)
87. Kenneth Branagh’s All is True, 2018. I have a fraught relationship with Kenneth Branagh’s cinematic Shakespeare work. As an actor, he perhaps has no equal, certainly among his own generation. As a director, his indiscriminate courting of Hollywood has led to so many embarrassments. He has made more Shakespeare films than Olivier, yet as… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #337: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The Curator of Schlock #337 by Jeff Shuster On Her Majesty’s Secret Service The Bond everyone forgets. Okay. I got a little tipsy last night on too much of the bubbly. I wake up wearing nothing, but a pair of red polkadot boxer shorts. My right arm has a bloody gash. No doubt someone in the… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #336: Wild Card
The Curator of Schlock #336 by Jeff Shuster Wild Card You celebrate Christmas in your way. I’ll celebrate it in mine. I hate White Elephant. This was Celestial’s idea. All of us bought a gift under twenty dollars. Then each of us randomly picked a wrapped gift, but the rules allow others to snatch what… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #335: Young Sherlock Holmes
The Curator of Schlock #335 by Jeff Shuster Young Sherlock Holmes I liked it. Watching that Suspiria movie gave me an idea. What if I used black magic to get rid of these vampires who are forcing me write their spec screenplay? I’ve digging deep into the manor library finding all sorts of forbidden tomes like The… Continue reading
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450: Tron Legacy Roundtable Discussion
Episode 450 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s episode, I talk with Julian Chambliss, Leslie Salas, Todd James Pierce, and Jeff Shuster about the legacy of Tron Legacy (2010) and Tron (1982) and Tron… Continue reading
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