Film
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The Curator of Schlock #234: A Death Wish Addendum
The Curator of Schlock #234 Kersey vs. Kersey (A Death Wish Addendum) Here we are again. I had a request from my editor last week to compare Charles Bronson’s performance in the original Death Wish to Bruce Willis’s in the remake. My initial reaction was “Charles Bronson gave a performance in the original Death Wish?”… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #232: As Above So Below
The Curator of Schlock #232 by Jeff Shuster As Above So Below Your Curator of Schlock got dragged to see Solo. If I’ve learned anything from horror maestro, Lucio Fulci, it’s that are seven cursed gateways in seven cursed places. Where do these seven gateways lead? Straight to hell of course. And don’t expect a… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #75: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000)
75. Paul Kafno’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2005) Normally, dear readers, cute middlebrow approaches to Shakespeare fill my heart with hate, so I was aggravated when a friend of mine just gave me a copy of The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). The good news is that the… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #231: The Last Exorcism Part II
The Curator of Schlock #231 by Jeff Shuster The Last Exorcism Part II Nope. There’s no sequel when something is the last of anything! I’m sorry, but if we can get The Last Exorcism Part II, we can get The Last Starfighter Part II. I’ve been waiting over three decades for a follow-up. I want… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #230: The Last Exorcism
The Curator of Schlock #230 by Jeff Shuster The Last Exorcism The Citizen Kane of found footage demonic possession movies. So I’m on the Interweb and take notice of an upcoming motion picture called Death Kiss? The title sounds familiar. It stars Daniel Baldwin and some actor I’ve never heard of, a Robert Bronzi. Still,… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #74: Hamlet (2015)
74. Margaret Williams’s film of Sarah Frankcom’s stage version of Hamlet (2015) The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester’s gender-bending production film of its stage version Hamlet makes me dwell on this passage: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #73: King Lear (2008)
73. Trevor Nunn’s King Lear (2008) I’ve taken a few months off my Shakespeariation, dear readers. I presume if you are reading this blog, you want to know which films to seek out, which to avoid due to being fatally boring, and which ones are weird enough to huff some glue to watch. Well, the… Continue reading
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Episode 316: Laura Lee Bahr!
Episode 316 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to the fiction writer, screenwriter, and film director Laura Lee Bahr at the close of her residency at the Kerouac Project of Orlando. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Episode 316… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #227: Assassination Games
The Curator of Schlock #227 by Jeff Shuster Assassination Games Play this game and you might get burned. (Nope. Let me try this again.) In this game, the winners are the losers. (Nope. That subhead doesn’t make any sense. Third time’s the charm.) Check, mate! The great Sidney Lumet once said that being a movie… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #226: Pound of Flesh
The Curator of Schlock #226 by Jeff Shuster Pound of Flesh Bad movie! Bad! It looks like there’s some scuttlebutt online about a new TV show in the works set in the Batman universe. It’s called Pennyworth? Oh, it’s about Alfred Pennyworth, Batman’s butler. And it’s a prequel series. So I expect we’ll be seeing… Continue reading
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