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We continue our Graphic Novel adaptation series with Scott Pilgrim, by Bryan Lee O’Malley, the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and the limited series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. Rankings! Colin: Movie, Series, Book James: Movie, Book, Series Seth: Movie, Book, Series

Continuing with the summer of graphic novels and comics, we cover Judge Dredd, the 1995 movie, and Dredd, the 2012 movie, both adapted from the character and world of 2000AD comics. Rankings: Colin: movies/book James: 2012 movie/1995 movie/book Seth: 2012 movie/1995 movie/book Anthrax “I Am The Law!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Pga70f_YQ

Starting our series of comic/graphic novel adaptations with a whimper from a Kryptonian (entirely computer graphics) dog, we dive into the new movie Supergirl, at least somewhat based on Tom King’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, after talking generally about comics for really quite some time. Rankings!: Unanimous: Book/movie

This time we discuss 12 Monkeys, the Terry Gilliam film adapted from La Jetée, an experimental short film. Rankings! Colin/James/Seth: Feature Film / Short Film

The time has come again for us to talk about a weird, slow science fiction movie, so I reached out to my favorite guest for such films, Ben DeBono from The Sci-Fi Christian. Thanks to Joe Smith for suggesting it, and to the Oregon  Museum of Science & Industry for screening it during this year’s … Continue reading Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem (feat. Ben DeBono) →

Peter Kuskie, who joined me for the Hugos There episode on Project Hail Mary, joins us for a discussion of the new movie, with some brief discussion of the book as well. For more book discussion, refer back to the Hugos episode. The movie is a terrific adaptation and a great experience in the theater. … Continue reading Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (with guest Peter Kuskie) →

Following up on our previous episode, we cover the latest season of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters, which is by almost any measurement a better adaptation than the movie. I’d been sick a looong time and wasn’t quite out of the woods at the time of recording, so make some … Continue reading The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan, Part Two (Disney+ series, season two) →

We return to Percy Jackson and the Mystifying Adaptations with Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the 2013 movie based on The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan. Will this movie right the ship and kick of the remaining three movies into a successful and beloved quintilogy? (It will not.) We’ll reconvene next month for the … Continue reading The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan, Part One (2006 book/2013 movie) →

We all attended a screening of the Star Wars Holiday Special in Vancouver, Washington a couple of weekends ago, and I reached out to one of the co-producers on the documentary film A Disturbance of the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened, who happens to live in our town, and he agreed to … Continue reading Star-Wikileaks! (The Star Wars Holiday Special, with guest Scott Kirkwood from starwarsholidayspecial.com) →

This time we cover the remake/re-adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man. Rankings!: Colin: Book/2025 movie/1987 movie James: Book/2025 movie/1987 movie Seth: Book/1987 movie/2025 movie

It’s been 10 years since we covered this topic last, and we finally have a great adaptation! We got to see the new Frankenstein adaptation in theaters and recommend you do the same.

Double-dipping this month, covering a couple of previously covered books that got new adaptations. First up, the absolutely delightful nonsense that is The War of the Worlds, starring Ice Cube.

Seth was under the weather after returning from doing the Cotswold Way hike in England, so to protect the other guys from germs, this was recorded on his backyard patio, so please forgive the neighbor dog’s squeaky toy accompaniment. Rankings! Colin: movie/book James: book/movie Seth: movie/book Post-credits scenes for this episode include some discussion of … Continue reading Assistant *to* the Regional Major (The Long Walk, by Stephen King) →

Wrapping up (for now) the informal Robot series we’ve been doing, we discuss Brian Aldiss’s short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” adapted (loosely) to A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Rankings! Colin/James/Seth: Film Short Story Notes: https://brianaldiss.co.uk/writing/story-collections/collections-r-z/supertoys-last-all-summer-long/

We discuss the final four episodes of Season One of Murderbot, then discuss the season as a whole, and then have a long post-script about what project to undertake after we cover one more robot story. (Hint: both possibilities begin with the letter S.)