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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #72: Richard III (2016)
72. Dominic Cooke’s Richard III (2016) This rogue who reviews Shakespeare films for you, dear readers, gets jaded sometimes. I expect these films to be good. Not just un-terrible, but quite seriously good. Henry VI Parts 1-3 were so good on The Hollow Crown that I approached its Richard III with some sense of crankiness.… Continue reading
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Episode 305: Jim Shepard & Jennifer Egan!
Episode 305 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 show, I share interviews I did with the short story writer Jim Shepard and one of my favorite novelists, Jennifer Egan. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Please leave a review of the show… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #218: Leprechaun: Origins
The Curator of Schlock #218 by Jeff Shuster Leprechaun: Origins Don’t get your hopes up. It’s not an actual origin story. The Suspiria Blu-ray came out this week. Synapse spent three years painstaking restoring the original film to full 4K glory under the supervision of the movie’s original director of photography, Luciano Tovoli. I could… Continue reading
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Episode 304: Book Fight! vs. The Drunken Odyssey (AWP Edition)
Episode 304 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 special AWP program, Vanessa Blakeslee and I face off against Book Fight’s Tom McAllister and Barrelhouse’s Poetry Editor, Dan Brady. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 304 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #217: Vendetta
The Curator of Schlock #217 by Jeff Shuster Vendetta Big Show vs. Superman Did you know that World Wrestling Entertainment has a movie division? Well, now you do. I used to watch wrestling back in the 90s. I remember one time Doink the Clown wrestled Bob Backlund. Doink won the match through some chicanery, but… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #59: A Pioneer Son at Sea: Fishing Tales of Old Florida
Buzzed Books #59 by Henry Hughes A Pioneer Son at Sea: Fishing Tales of Old Florida Gilbert Voss was born into a Florida pioneer family in 1918, back when panthers still roamed swampy jungles. He had a colorful career in commercial and charter fishing, and in the US Coast Guard, eventually becoming an eminent marine… Continue reading
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The Lists #35: The Top 10 Films of 2017
The Lists #35 by Brett Pribble The Top 10 Films of 2017 Lists that rank the best films of the year are inherently subjective and often lead to argument. But hearing other people’s opinions can also lead us to check out things we might not have or think about a film in a way we… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #58: Square Inch Hours
Buzzed Books #58 by Amy Watkins Review of Sherod Santos’s Square Inch Hours I read Sherod Santos’ collection of prose poems, Square Inch Hours (Norton, 2017) during a rainy cold snap—what amounts to bleak midwinter for a Floridian—and the poems were perfect for the weather. Not perfect like a warm cup of cocoa to comfort me… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #71: Henry VI Parts 2 & 3 (2016)
71. Dominic Cooke’s Henry VI Parts 2 & 3 (2016) Season 2, episode 1 of “The Hollow Crown” ends somewhere in the middle of Henry VI, Part 2. Our callow King Henry VI was expecting to oversee the trial of Humphrey, Lord Protector of England, only to learn that Humphrey was—ummm—assassinated in the Tower. In his… Continue reading
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