{"id":3357,"date":"2023-11-28T14:39:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2023-11-28T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:40:56","slug":"ken-and-robin-consume-media-elizabeth-hands-hell-house-sequel-please-dont-destroy-quiz-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/ken-and-robin-consume-media-elizabeth-hands-hell-house-sequel-please-dont-destroy-quiz-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken and Robin Consume Media: Elizabeth Hand’s Hell House Sequel, Please Don’t Destroy, Quiz Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon<\/a>. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we\u2019ll talk about in greater depth on a little podcast segment we like to call Tell Me More.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Black Sheep (Film, US, Allan Dwan, 1935) Suave gambler (Edmund Lowe) and kicky actress (Claire Trevor) team up to rescue a swell young fellow from the clutches of a predatory jewel thief. Effervescent shipboard con artist comedy.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

Christine <\/u><\/a>(Film, US, Antonio Campos, 2016) Troubled local TV news reporter (Rebecca Hall) spirals as her drive to succeed collides with her inability to read and interact successfully with her colleagues. Hall gives a precise and heartbreaking performance in this evocative character portrait docudrama.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

A Haunting on the Hill <\/u><\/a>(Fiction, Elizabeth Hand, 2023) Playwright Holly Sherwin rents the empty Hill House with her cast and tech designer to workshop her new witch-trial play, adapted from a Jacobean original, in this (estate-approved) sequel to Shirley Jackson\u2019s Pinnacle novel<\/u><\/a>. Hand was never going to equal the greatest horror novel of all time, so she writes a different story about human frailty colliding with the unnatural, rich in metafiction, drama, and \u201cI just can\u2019t read this next part\u201d dread. It\u2019s not a remake or even a cover version, and it\u2019s barely even a sequel, but it\u2019s another deeply satisfying (and horripilating) Elizabeth Hand novel. \u2014KH<\/p>\n

Madame Freedom<\/u><\/a> (Film, South Korea, Hyeong-mo Han, 1956) Reserved woman (Jeong-rim Kim) stifled by her self-centered wet blanket husband (Am Park) falls into the arms of a young jazz fan neighbor and a wealthy politician. Subtly drawn domestic drama of yearning for more in an age of modernization.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

Please Don\u2019t Destroy: the Treasure of Foggy Mountain (Film, US, Paul Briganti, 2023) Underachieving sporting goods retailers (Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall) test their childhood friendship when they discover a legendary artifact and must defend it from disaffected park rangers (Megan Stalter, X Mayo) and a purple-clad cult leader (Bowen Yang.) Joke-packed, loopy comedy updates the SNL movie to the kindly mores of the cozy generation.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

Quiz Lady (Film, US, Jessica Yu, 2023) When loan sharks kidnap her dog, a repressed accountant (Awkwafina) gives in to the urgings of her voluble train wreck older sister (Sandra Oh) and auditions to become a contestant on the quiz show that has obsessed her since childhood. Smart, affectionate buddy comedy flips expectations on who will play which side of the mythic Felix\/Oscar opposition.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

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The Devil is a Sissy (Film, W.S. Van Dyke & Rowland Brown, 1936) English boy (Freddie Bartholomew) enrolls in a tough NYC school and falls in with budding delinquents (Mickey Rooney, Jackie Cooper.) Strongly characterized comedy-drama seeks social responsibility but winds up showing that we prefer our onscreen rogues unreformed.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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