Film
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The Curator of Schlock #315: Uncle Buck
The Curator of Schlock #315 by Jeff Shuster Uncle Buck An unsung John Hughes classic. Maybe I should thought this whole staying-in-a-cabin-in-the-middle-of-the-Florida-Everglades-while-the-world-goes-to-pot scheme through. Granted, I’ve got enough Campbell’s Pork and Beans to last me three months, but I forgot to buy Beano and I’m down to four rolls of toilet paper. Still, there are… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #314: Leprechaun 3
The Curator of Schlock #314 by Jeff Shuster Leprechaun 3 Vegas, Baby, Vegas. I wish a belated Happy St. Patrick’s Day to one and all. I hope you all had a good time feasting corned beef and cabbage, maybe a pint of Guinness. I stayed in due to that worldwide pandemic that’s got everyone freaked… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #312: Gerry Anderson’s UFO
The Curator of Schlock #312 by Jeff Shuster Gerry Anderson’s UFO Old TV > New TV No movie this week, but that doesn’t mean I have nothing to blog about. Besides movies, I have wasted a large portion of my life watching copious amounts of television shows. And let me tell you that there is… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #84: Julius Caesar (2018)
84. Phyllidia Lloyd’s Julius Caesar (Part 1 of The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy), 2018 Last time I discussed Phyllidia Lloyd’s Tempest, and I am glad I watched these out of sequence. This all-woman cast of Caesar isn’t a bad Caesar—but I do think that Caesar is not an especially strong play. Brutus is such a wet blanket,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #311: Space Raiders
The Curator of Schlock #311 by Jeff Shuster Space Raiders It’s got robots in it. We’re on Week 4 of Star Wars/Star Trek Wannabe Month here at the Museum of Schlock, and this cannot end fast enough. Is there anything in this world worse than bad science fiction? Is there anything worse than Star Trek: Picard?… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #308: The Stuff
The Curator of Schlock #308 by Jeff Shuster The Stuff You are what you eat. I finally got around to trying Popeye’s chicken sandwich. For those of you living overseas, the Popeye’s chicken sandwich was a bit of a phenomenon over here in the United States. It’s a good chicken sandwich, but nothing worth crashing… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #83: The Tempest (2019)
83. Phyllidia Lloyd’s The Tempest (Part 3 of The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy), 2019 I have a fondness for prison theater. When Beckett directed a trilogy of his plays at San Quentin in 1985, he found actors who embodied his existential tragicomedies with an ease few professional actors could muster. Those productions were much… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #82: Hamlet (1964)
82. Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev and Iosef Shapiro’s Hamlet I am not sure why I enjoyed this Russian Hamlet so much. Jaded churl that I’ve become. I have had a surfeit of Hamlet (this is my eighth for this blog), and I don’t see that Kozintsev and Shapiro’s’s gorgeous, yet understated presentation is breathtakingly original. I have no… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #305: It’s Alive
The Curator of Schlock #305 by Jeff Shuster It’s Alive There’s only one thing wrong with the Davis baby: it’s alive. How ‘bout that Babu Frik? Okay. I’ve got nothing to talk about. It’s a new year and a new decade and why do I get the feeling that this decade will not be as… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #301: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
The Curator of Schlock #301 by Jeff Shuster Silent Night, Deadly Nigh Part 2 It’s not the most wonderful time of the year! When you’re written three hundred blogs about movies, you tend to forget what you’ve covered. For instance, you would think in the six years I’ve been doing this that I would have… Continue reading
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