Film
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #12: Hamlet (1996)
#12: Hamlet (1996) With his Hamlet (1996), the gulf between Kenneth Branagh’s acting and that of his Hollywood peers widens. In the early going of Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Denzel Washington doesn’t quite know what to do. In the early going of Hamlet, Jack Lemmon (like Washington, one of the finest actors Hollywood has… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #82: April Fool’s Day
The Curator of Schlock #82 by Jeff Shuster April Fool’s Day Pranks can kill, kids! I have to admit, I didn’t care for these slasher movies when I first started watching them. It’s kind of like your first beer. You not only get used to it, but eventually life doesn’t seem as good without it.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #81: Leprechaun 2
The Curator of Schlock #81 by Jeff Shuster Leprechaun 2: The Legend of Funkswittle’s Golden Lox Another Leprechaun movie. Yay. Yeah, I know St. Patrick’s Day was a couple of days ago, but it’s a Leprechaun movie so I’m not going to lose any sleep over this. The only Leprechaun movie I care about is… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #78: Harry Brown
The Curator of Schlock #78 by Jeff Shuster Michael Caine is Harry Brown Michael Caine is ABOVE THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vigilante Month: International Edition continues with a trip to merry old England, only old England ain’t so merry. It seems like a bunch of hoodlums have taken over the city streets and there’s nothing the coppers… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #77: Street Law
The Curator of Schlock #77 by Jeff Shuster Street Law Franco Nero is ABOVE THE LAW!!! Okay. Back to Vigilante Month: International Edition. This week our journey around the world brings us to Italy, a country that was plagued with more street crime in the 1970s than New York City, if the cinema has anything… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #28.1: Four Observations About Othello
Shakespearing #28.1 by John King Four Observations About Othello 1. In Shakespeare is Hard, But So is Life, the Irish theater critic Fintan O’Toole says, If you look at the character of Othello in isolation, and in particular if you look at him through the notion of the “tragic flaw’, then he is not, for all… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #75: Above the Law
The Curator of Schlock #75 by Jeff Shuster Above the Law Yuen Biao is ABOVE THE LAW! It’s high time we had another vigilante month. Why? Because I like seeing low-life scumballs get what’s coming to them, and so do you! We’re going to do something a little different. You guessed right, it’s Vigilante Month:… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #74: Zapped!
The Curator of Schlock #74 by Jeff Shuster Zapped! Placing an exclamation point in your title really makes it stand out! Your Curator of Schlock has long had the wish for a Chucky vs. Leprechaun movie. Another dream of mine is to one day see a Scanners vs. Highlanders movie. Oooh. Maybe the movie could… Continue reading
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The Lists #16: Notable Zombie Movies
The Lists #16 by John King Notable Zombie Movies Night of the Living Dead (1968):George A. Romero basically invents the genre in a low budget masterpiece that used actually news reporters to report on the zombie apocalypse in the film and used actual real entrails as props. A little zombie girl who looks like she’s… Continue reading
28 Days Later, Bill Murray, Dan O’Bannon, Dawn of the Dead, Don Calfa, George A. Romero, Jesse Eisenberg, Linnea Quigley, Night of the Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead 3D, Nightmare City, Planet Terror, Rachel McAdams, Return of the Living Dead, Rose McGowan, Ryan Gosling, Shaun of the Dead, Sig Haig, The Notebook, Woody Harrelson, Zombieland -
The Curator of Schlock #73: Scanners 3
The Curator of Schlock #73 by Jeff Shuster Scanners III: The Takeover Everybody wants to rule the world, but only Liliana Komorowska deserves to! If Scanners 3: The Takeover isn’t schlock then I don’t know what schlock is. I know what you want to know. Does this movie feature exploding heads? Yes, it does, but… Continue reading
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