Film
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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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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #31: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
31. Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) Last summer I reviewed Michael Hoffman’s 1999 adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream while promising that someday I would review the 1935 film of the same play by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle. Despite not being allowed by my physician to booze my way… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #144: Satan’s School for Girls
The Curator of Schlock #144 by Jeff Shuster Satan’s School for Girls (Satan has a school…and it’s for girls!) You’re a Curator of Schlock and you don’t know how you wound up in this position, doing weekly reviews for B movies, some of which wouldn’t have passed muster for USA Up All Night back when… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #133: Nude for Satan
The Curator of Schlock #133 by Jeff Shuster Nude for Satan (This movie makes less sense than Lost Highway.) So I watched Olympus Has Fallen last night. That’s the one where Gerard Butler saves the President of the United States from North Korean terrorists. I like that movie. Butler kills the terrorists, saves the United… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #29: Richard III (1995)
#29. Richard Loncraine’s Richard III (1995) In Looking for Richard, Al Pacino seemed flummoxed by the possibility of coming to a basic understanding of Shakespeare, using the relatively obscure Richard III as his point of entry into the bard’s oeuvre. In a conspiracy of timing, Pacino must have been working on Looking for Richard around… Continue reading
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Episode #210: Ron Cooper!
Episode 210 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer and philosopher Ron Cooper, plus I chat with actor Jeremy Palko, who many of you might recognize as Andy from season 6 of The Walking Dead. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #28: Looking for Richard [Richard III] (1996)
28. Looking for Richard [Richard III] (1996) Al Pacino is among the absolute best American film actors, and he would have a triumph as Shylock in Michael Radford’s 2004 film of The Merchant of Venice, a triumph he would extend to the stage in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Merchant in 2010, which would… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #131: The Brotherhood of Satan
The Curator of Schlock #131 by Jeff Shuster The Brotherhood of Satan Not a brotherhood I’d like to belong to. Not one bit. It’s time for another Satan Awareness Month here at the Museum of Schlock, that time of year where I get serious and try to warn the public of the dangers of associating… Continue reading
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