Jean Claude Van Damme
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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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The Curator of Schlock #41: Double Impact
The Curator of Schlock #41 by Jeff Shuster Double Impact, or Black Silk Underwear for Men! I seem to recall when I was younger reading about an upcoming film adaptation of video game Double Dragon, which would star Jean-Claude Van Damme. Now I don’t know if there was a falling out with Van Damme and the people… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #39: Van Damme and Trejo, Together Again for the First Time
The Curator of Schlock #39 by Jeffrey Shuster Desert Heat: Van Damme and Trejo, Together Again for the First Time In Desert Heat from director John G. Avildsen, Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Eddie Lomax, a motorcycle enthusiast who has given up on life. He drives his Indian out to middle of the desert with a bottle… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #38: The Order
The Curator of Schlock #38 by Jeffrey Shuster The Order (or, Charlton Heston Gracefully Exits his Career) Guess what? It’s Van Damme month here at The Museum of Schlock. The scuttlebutt around the Internet is that Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career took a nosedive after the poor performance of Street Fighter at the box office back in… Continue reading
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