Film
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Pensive Prowler #1: Departing from Arrival
Pensive Prowler #1 by Dmetri Kakmi Departing from Arrival After watching Arrival, Dennis Villeneuve’s new sci-fi outing, my friend Cam and I wandered to an upscale pizza joint in Melbourne to propitiate the mother of tears with melted cheese and red wine. We were deeply affected by the film. Yet something about the narrative niggled… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #42: Discovering Hamlet (1990)
42. Mark Olshaker’s Discovering Hamlet (1990) Documentaries about Shakespeare tend to bore me, as they must. I may be a rogue, but I do have some bona fide academic credentials, and most documentaries cannot gracefully bridge the needs of the novice Shakespeare viewer and the not-novice. If there was an A&E Biography of Richard Burbage,… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #41: Omkara [Othello] (2006)
41. Omkara [Othello] (2006) With the exception of The Tempest, the plots of Shakespeare’s plays are not actually original to him. What is original is the exceptional psychological depth that he granted the characters in these plays, and the exquisite language with which he chiseled their psychologies into existence. So when artists adapt Shakespeare onto film,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #155: Two of a Kind
The Curator of Schlock #155 by Jeff Shuster Two of a Kind (It’s kind of noirish.) Another week, another movie to cover over here at The Museum of Schlock. Tonight, we’re covering a 1951 film noir entitled Two of a Kind from director Henry Levin. It stars Edmond O’Brian and Lisabeth Scott. I’ll give the… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #25: Breathtaking Characters
21st Century Brontë #25 by Brontë Bettencourt Breathtaking Characters Last Saturday, I went to see Kubo and the Two Strings. The movie begins on a small boat at night, during a storm in the middle of an ocean. A lone, distraught woman is about to be swallowed by a massive tidal wave when she parts… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #33: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014)
33. Dominic Dromgoole and Robin Lough’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014) Plenty of film adaptations of Shakespeare actually happen to be adaptations of stage versions of Shakespeare’s plays, since the vision of theatrical directors and the experience of the actors can make an expedient transition to a two dimensional plane. Of course, the temptation and… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #32: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016)
32. David Kerr’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016) As I’ve often said, comedy and tragedy are not that far apart in Shakespearean drama. Comedies end with weddings, and tragedies … a pile of corpses. The tension between these two extreme outcomes is such an important part of Shakespeare’s appeal: Hamlet is really fucking funny, and Much Ado… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #145: A Lone and Angry Man
The Curator of Schlock #145 by Jeff Shuster A Lone and Angry Man (Aren’t we all) Yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaawwwwww!!! It’s Wild West month here at The Museum of Schlock where it’s my sworn duty as Sheriff to appoint y’all my deputies in seeking out the roughest, toughest westerns Italy ever produced. That or just dig up whatever… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #45: World of Warcraft (film)
McMillan’s Codex #45 by C.T. McMillan Warcraft (film) When adapting a work, all media struggles with the same dilemma. What do you include to maintain the spirit of the material while keeping within the bounds of the new medium? Song of Fire and Ice has depth that readers like, but most of the content would… Continue reading
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