Film
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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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The Curator of Schlock #299: Terminator Genisys
The Curator of Schlock #299 by Jeff Shuster Terminator Genisys No more Terminator movies ever! I know I covered this movie once before. I think it was back in 2015. I rambled about the summer movies that year. One has to wonder in twenty, thirty, or even fifty years, which movies from the 2010s will be remembered? Scott Pilgrim vs.… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #81: The Merchant of Venice (1972)
81. Cedric Messina’s The Merchant of Venice So Maggie Smith portrayed Portia in a 1972 BBC production ofThe Merchant of Venice, and since this wasn’t part of the BBC’s dreadful complete Shakespeare project (which looks as if Roger Corman directed it), I thought it safe to venture my eyes and ears on it. This Merchant was… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #80: Filming ‘Othello’
80. Orson Welles’s Filming ‘Othello’ I’ve neglected this blog for nearly a year, dear readers. I had suffered a surfeit of Shakespeare, something I didn’t think was possible. Fucking Hamlet again, I would think. Why? I mean, why? So far, I have reviewed seven films of Hamlet. Some of them are great, but I may… Continue reading
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390: The Batalogues, with Patty Hawkins!
Episode 390 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 share the talk Patty Hawkins and I had about Todd Phillip’s Joker. We put it in a Batman context,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #295: Cat People
The Curator of Schlock #295 by Jeff Shuster Cat People Cat People got no reason to live. My editor seems to think that Mad Love was first romance movie I covered on my blog. Not true. What about The Love Witch, Someone I Touched, Lola, Fist of the North Star, Day of the Dead: Bloodline, My Bloody Valentine, The Vengeance of She, The Boy Next… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #292: Death Kiss
The Curator of Schlock #292 by Jeff Shuster Death Kiss Death Wish 6: The Kiss of Death Sadly, we lost Charles Bronson back in 2004. Hopes of a Death Wish 6 went with him. Sure, we got the Death Wish remake with Bruce Willis and that was fine, but Bruce Willis isn’t Paul Kersey, he’s John McClane. Still, we’ve… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #291: 10 to Midnight
The Curator of Schlock #291 by Jeff Shuster 10 to Midnight After midnight, Warren gonna let it all hang down. Week 3 of Charles Bronson Month is here. This week will be a return to form with his salt and pepper hair and boss mustache, none of that black mop nonsense we bore witness to… Continue reading
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