Dorin, Corey and Kendyl review the film version of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, discuss the future career of Logan Lerman and wonder if today’s teens know what a cassette tape is.
For our discussion of the book check out Adaptation #15: The Perks of Being an Infinite Lorax!
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After seeing the newest film in the franchise, the hosts get together to discuss Resident Evil as a whole, what they like about the games, their favorite of the films and which ones didn’t measure up.
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In episode #20, Jess and Jenn discuss Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, debate whether Pi’s story is actually true and make predictions for how Ang Lee will translate it to film.
Also check out the episode on the film!
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In episode #19, we return to discuss Joe Wright’s film Anna Karenina (2012), talk about the many metaphor’s contained in it and give some love to our favorite character, Boris.
Also check out our episode on the film!
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In episode #18, Dorin and Kendyl discuss Matthew Quick’s novel The Silver Linings Playbook, the balance between optimism and realism, and the epicness of Total Eclipse of the Heart.
Also check out our episode on the movie!
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Hosts Kendyl, Dorin, Ryan and Chase get together to discuss Philip K. Dick’s short story We Can Remember It For You, Wholesale and its two movie adaptations: Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 Total Recall and the current Len Wiseman remake.
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Corey and Dorin discuss Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina, the destructiveness of Anna’s relationship and the Russian aristocracy she was part of.
Also check out our episode on the 2012 film!
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Kendyl and first-time host Nicole sit down to talk about some interviews Kendyl did at the From Page To Screen festival earlier this year. The interview with screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (Salmon Fishing in the Yeman, Catching Fire) gets the girls excited for the new Hunger Games installment as well as discussing the role of screenwriters in film making. The interview with English and Film lecturer at the University of Exeter, Dr. Corinna Wagner about DH Lawrence’s Women in Love and the 1969 adaptation leads into quite the discussion about how relationships are viewed today.
A special thanks to everyone at From Page to Screen for making these interviews possible!
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Kendyl, Corey and Dorin finally get to see the film Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax and then discuss the high school experience via Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Discussion of Perks starts at 31:47
Also, check out our episode on the Perks film!
*WARNING*
The Perks of Being a Wallflower contains mentions of child molestation, rape, suicide, teen pregnancy, abortion, drugs, sex, and mental health issues. As such, they are all a part of our discussion. If any of this offends you or could be a trigger for you, please proceed with caution.
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Kendyl, Jess and Ryan get together to discuss their reactions to The Dark Knight Rises: the surprises, the predictions and the debatable satisfaction received from THAT ENDING. Also, they get a little too distracted by the logistics of that bomb and how much can actually be accomplished in 11 minutes.
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In episode #13, the hosts gush over The Amazing Spider-man, verbally flog M. Knight Shyamalamadingdong’s The Last Airbender and then profess their love to the television version.
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Episode #12 brings to you the host’s opinions on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter the film and comes to the conclusion that we should write all the scripts in Hollywood from now on.
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In episode #11 discussion of Snow White and the Huntsman and the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter leads to talk of awkward accents, hot archers, and history lessons from fiction novels. Plus some lessons that Disney probably shouldn’t have taught us.
In the 10th episode of Adaptation (hurray for double digits!), the hosts gather to discuss Joss Whedon’s The Avengers based on the Marvel comics and Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows based on the 1966 cult soap opera.
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Everyone is back to talk about the Grimm Brothers’ Little Snow White and Tarsem Singh’s Mirror, Mirror (2012) plus many other interesting and occasionally disturbing adaptations of the classic fairytale.
On the last morning of Bridport’s From Page to Screen festival, host Kendyl Bryant sits down with festival committee members Maisie Glazebrook, Polly Gifford, Paul Marshall and Nic Jeune as well as this year’s guest curator Francine Stock to discuss From Page to Screen‘s origins, objectives and favorites moments from this year.
First time host Dorin joins the rest of the crew to discuss the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, how it compares to the book, what the filmmakers did brilliantly and what opportunities they missed.
Our other HG episodes: The Hunger Games (book), Catching Fire (book) (movie), and Mockingjay (book) (first movie).
Our hosts are joined by friend and fellow Hunger Games fan Chase Pifer to discuss Suzanne Collins’s brilliant young adult dystopian novel and make predictions for the March 23rd movie release.
Our other HG episodes: The Hunger Games (movie), Catching Fire (book) (movie), and Mockingjay (book) (first movie).
In the fifth episode of Adaptation, our hosts discuss the movie One for the Money (and Corey vents her frustration). This is followed up by gushing over the brilliance that is Dr. Seuss, analyzing The Lorax and predicting where the film will go right.
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