Interviews with Scholars of Film about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film
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Are you the sort of person who likes to read the book before you see the movie? So are Luke and James—a writer and filmmaker respectively who bring their backgrounds studying stories to the table for in-depth discussions of the adaptations of the past and present. If you love delving into the craft behind the art you love, then Ink to Film is for you.
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The Selling Your Screenplay Podcast helps serious screenwriters sell their screenplays. We offer practical advice about how to market your script and get it into the hands of agents, managers, producers, and directors who can get your screenplay produced.
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A podcast about two sisters and their obsession with period film.
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Cover to Credits is a bi-weekly podcast that analyzes books and their movie adaptations. Hosts Ian George and Adina Hilton cover a variety of genres, critiquing both the film and novel it's based on, while trying to understand what makes a good adaptation. Stories are also frequently viewed from a feminist lens, where representation, gender roles, and other elements are often times explored.
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A weekly podcast about young adult literature, their film and television adaptations and everything in between. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Whether you're a comic book nerd, literature nerd or just weird in general, then the Comic Literate Podcast is just what you need. Join actual, real life friends Ryan and Jamie as they do deep dives in to old and new comic book titles as well as examining their literary influences and effects on the modern culture. New episodes every week until AI learns how to host podcasts.
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Our Focus is Fandoms with a particular specialization in Book to Screen adaptations such as; Outlander, Bridgerton, Harry Potter, Shadow & Bone, and The Witcher, but certainly not limited to. Longtime time fandoms such as the Marvel Universe and Friends to newer pop culture phenomena, like Stranger Things, are also in our wheelhouse. We love discovering new fandoms as well as circling back to our old favorites. When it comes to binge-able television we know, the obsession is real. We’ve read ...
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Join Andie, Kali and friends as they re-discover Middle-earth together by comparing the Lord of the Rings books to their various adaptations, starting with Peter Jackson's epic film trilogy.
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Jake and Spence cast their dream roles for film adaptations of your favorite shows, books, video games, reboots and more!
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The podcast where we discuss books and their film adaptations. Join us for new episodes every other Monday. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for behind-the-scenes content and upcoming books!
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A new podcast where we discuss books and their movie adaptations! Follow us on: Instagram and Twitter @wywpod Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/watchyourwords
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A podcast about books and their film adaptations. It's a safe place for those who really did like the movie better than the book.
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A librarian and a person of questionable film expertise discuss books and their movie adaptations.
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A bi-weekly podcast where a group of cinephiles discusses classic books and their cinematic adaptations, from new releases to forgotten gems, exploring the power of both the written and visual word. Hosted by Nicolò Grasso & Ewan Gleadow.
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Join comedian Maddy and writer/ director Briana for their book to film podcast, recorded all the way from middle-earth (aka Aotearoa, New Zealand). Each month we discuss how well, or not so well, a movie was made from the book it was based off, e.g. Twilight. If you love movies, books, and funny lesbians talking about movies and books, then this is the podcast for you.
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BASED ON A TRUE CRIME is a podcast where Chelsea’s love of true crime and David’s love of horror movies intersect. We discuss murders and mysteries and how they have inspired film adaptations, television, books and more.
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Two valiant Heroes muse on a Media Franchise every week from the lunchroom of their dead end job.
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An early science fiction novel written by the second most translated author, French writer Jules Verne, the classic tale depicts an incredible sea expedition on board a state-of-the-art submarine. First published in 1870 and a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series, the novel is regarded as one of the most thrilling adventure stories and one of Verne’s greatest pieces of work. Immersed in themes of exploration, avant-garde technology, and man’s insatiable desire for knowledge and scienti ...
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An English tourist in a small, rural town in the South of France discovers an ancient manuscript with a strange illustration on the last page. A young orphan is sent to live with his elderly cousin, a secretive man who is obsessed with immortality. A picture that tells stories that change according to who is viewing it. These and other delicious, goose bump evoking tales are part of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague R James. A master of his craft, MR James was an academic and adminis ...
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Everyone is passionate about something. Except Scott Strange. So join him each week as he goes on a journey into someone's mind and out of their mouth, diving into the what, why, how, ...huh? and "no, really, what?" of that one thing, big or small, that they always want to talk about, but never get to.
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For the first time on the show, Brenna and Joe check out a documentary...or rather a pair of documentaries: Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine's Boys State (2020) and Girls State (2024) These docs fill us with dismay for the future of US politics. But while Boys State has a dark nihilism to it, Girls State feels slight and surprisingly unaware; even its…
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Is there anything so refreshing for a film fanatic as a film about grownups? The mid-budget We Own the Night (2007) is a tonic in a world of films costing five times the money but offering only one fifth the talent. Join Mike and Dan for an appreciation of a film without seven reversals at its ending or a series of explosions, but one about adults …
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Void Rivals- The Transformers/G.I Joe Universe Starts Here....sort of
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In this weeks episode, Ryan and Jamie discuss the 2023, ongoing series from Image Comics, Void Rivals, written by Robert Kirkman, drawn by Lorenzo De Felici and colored by Matheus Lopes. They also go on some long tangents about the British version of G.I. Joe, the upcoming Community movie, and how Marlon Brando was a difficult actor. So there's som…
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As promised/threatened, we're back with a review of Roku's The Spiderwick Chronicles S01. Join us as Joe walks Brenna through the highs (the focus on Jared's mental health) and lows (that theme song!) of the series' first eight episodes. Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and BlueSky @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod: >…
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A Rabbit Hole of Controversy in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865 novel)
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Lewis Carroll gave the world perhaps the most iconic children’s books of all time with ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, but his legacy has become shrouded by controversy by modern scholars. In episode 309, join Luke & James as they follow the White Rabbit into a magical world, play logic and word games, appreciate pun…
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Road Trip! All About Our Trip to Paleyfest!
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Tune in today as we dish and spill the tea about our trip to Paleyfest!By The Fan Girls Podcast
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This episode we look at the first adaptation of a Jack Reacher story with the film... Jack Reacher! Starring Tom Cruise and adapted from the Lee Child novel, One Shot. We get to discuss so many things this episode, like Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise's height, and what an asshole Tom Cruise is in this film! We also talk about our beloved hometown Pittsburg…
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Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" (U California Press, 2024)
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In Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema (University of California Press, 2024), Dr. Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness. She considers film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters who are unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed—…
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Alexander Greenhough, "Albert Brooks: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
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Albert Brooks: Interviews (UP of Mississippi, 2024) brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his show business upbringing, an ambivalence about the film industry, the nature of fame and success, and the meaning and purpo…
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Brenna and Joe are back in fantasy territory with the first five books in Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's The Spiderwick Chronicles, as well the 2008 adaptation from Daniel Waters. We're mixed on lead Freddie Highmore's success playing twins, though we both like Sarah Bolger's Mallory, the use of fencing and Brenna even likes the CGI! Plus…
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“I envy normal women—they’re free,” laments Irina Dubrovna Reed, in Jacques Tourner’s 1942 film, one as noir as Out of the Past which he would direct five years later. Join Mike and Dan for a conversation about a film that explores the same subject as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and has received, justly or not, “The Criterion Treatment.” They also talk…
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#1- Sensational She-Hulk- Superhero, Rom-Com, Legal Drama and More?
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In this weeks episode, Ryan and Jamie discuss the 2023 ongoing series, Sensational She-Hulk, written by Rainbow Rowell and art by Andrés Genolet and Dee Cunniffe. Not so many tangents this week as Jamie was recovering from illness and Ryan was just tired. YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_2GA9q40JoBmnbOrkjGuJg Apple Podcasts- https://podc…
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Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Elena, Princess of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl (Rutgers University Press, 2023) by Dr. Diana Leon-Boys explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of culture …
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Seeing Beyond the Singularity in “3 Body Problem” (2008 novel & 2024 Show) eps. 5-8
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It's time to finish Liu Cixin’s novel THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM & the Netflix adaptation, then discuss the biggest questions it poses. In episode 308, join Luke Elliott & James Bailey as they play a game of “Would You Do It?”, unfold a sophon, react to Chekov’s nanofiber, cryogenically freeze a brain, sail on bursts of radiation, and debate the ethics…
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Summer Solstice Soiree with the Lovely Ladies of A Court of Salt & Snow!
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Tune in today as we chat with the lovely ladies of ACOSAS about their upcoming "Summer Solstice Soiree"!By The Fan Girls Podcast
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Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
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Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Cathy Yue Wang's Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy (Wayne State Univer…
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Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
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Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Hollywood and pave the way for future icons from around the world. Her career began in the silent era, when her beauty was enough to make it onto the silver screen, but with the rise of talkies, Velez c…
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At listener Kaetlyn's urging, Brenna and Joe check out S01 of the Percy Jackson TV show on Disney+. It's a much better text than the film! With more time, the central trio gels better, the motivation of Percy's mom is more clearly defined, and the adventures aren't as rushed. Plus: our fave Gods, a "feminist" Medusa episode, a few rushed elements, …
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Everyone loves gut-busting belly-laughs in a film. But sometimes, big laughs slow things down. There’s something to be said for films that amuse us for their duration. Join us for a conversation about a film that makes us smile from its first moment to its last: The Ladykillers, Alexander Mackendrick’s 1955 dark comedy starring Alec Guinness as the…
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Fallout: New Vegas- All Roads- There's somehow only ONE Fallout comic
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In this weeks episode, Ryan and Jamie discuss the only Fallout related comic book that Bethesda have ever allowed to be produced for some reason. Fallout: New Vegas- All Roads is a prequel to the video game and was written by Chris Avellone, pencils by Jean Diaz and Wellinton Alves, and inks by Belardino Brabo and Nelson Pereira They also fill time…
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From the theatre mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long performed as an instrument for the protection and concealment of identity. Even as they conceal and protect, masks – as faces – are an extension of the self. At the same time, they are a part of material culture: what are masks m…
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Grazia Ingravalle, "Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
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Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital (Amsterdam UP, 2023) is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exh…
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Mailbag returns after a brief hiatus, so we're showcasing listener recommendations from Clara, Charlotte, and Tea, Books and Chocolate, including: > Silverhorse by Lene Kaaberbøl > A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson > Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur by writers Brandon Montclare & Amy Reeder and artist Natacha Bustos > Fake Dates and Moonca…
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Who Speaks for Humanity? “3 Body Problem” (2024 TV Series) eps. 1-4
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The first four episodes of Dan Weiss and David Benioff’s Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s novel THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM show some promise, but they’ve burned us in the past so it’s hard to get too excited. In episode 307, join Luke Elliott & James Bailey as they propose humanity’s envoy for a first contact scenario, discuss the choice to change Wan…
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Who Ya Gonna Call: The Ghostbusters Are Back at It With "Frozen Empire"!
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Tune in today as we dish and spill the tea on Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire!By The Fan Girls Podcast
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This episode we get to discuss the only adaptation in Quentin Tarantino's filmography, Jackie Brown, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard! This story of crime and likable anti-heroes feels typical for Tarantino, so it's surprising how faithful it is to the source material, but we still have plenty to discuss, including genre influences, f…
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Just in time for its 25th anniversary , Brenna and Joe check out Raja Gosnell's Never Been Kissed (1999). While Joe thinks this take on As You Like It is totally rufus, Brenna thinks he's blinded by nostalgia, particularly about the student/teacher romance. Plus: a charismatic David Arquette, Drew Barrymore's lisp, physical pratfalls, and - o…
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In 1965, Bob Dylan teased the squares by stating, “Something is happening but you don’t know what it is.” The same could be said for childhood and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) is a film that takes childhood seriously—as opposed to the way it is usually portrayed in big-budget, effects-laden films. Join us for a conversation about a film sometimes compare…
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Chip Zdarsky's Newburn- Too Cool for School or Just a Marty Sue?
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In this weeks episode, Ryan and Jamie discuss the 2021 ongoing series, Newburn, written by Chip Zdarsky and art by Jacob Phillips. They also go on tangents about cromulent T-shirts, the best John Wick films, and the superior modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. From 54.30, they also give their recommendations for The Bad Batch season 3, X-Men 97 a…
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Jane M. Ferguson, "Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Within the social sciences and the humanities, international research in Burma/Myanmar studies tends to lean toward political science and Buddhist studies, or what can be characterized as the “soldiers or monks” approach. The political situation within the country has restricted the access that foreign researchers have had to the country. It has al…
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Daniel de Visé, "The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic" (Grove Atlantic, 2024)
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The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic (Grove Atlantic, 2024) tells the story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. “They’re not going to catch us,” Dan Aykr…
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Just Getting Started With “The Three-Body Problem” (2008 novel)
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The first installment of Cixin Liu’s epic trilogy “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” takes its name from a famously unsolvable problem in orbital mechanics and that sets the tone for the heady, complex, hard science fiction of what’s to come. In episode 306, join Luke Elliott & James Bailey as they are just beginning their journey into this series with …
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Back at it with; Throne of Glass: Queen of Shadows
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This week we're heading back to the MASS-Verse in the "Throne of Glass" Series and ready to dish and spill the tea on "Queen of Shadows."By The Fan Girls Podcast
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SYS 521 – AI Filmmaking and Interview With Writer/Director William Eubank
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In this episode of the Selling Your Screenplay Podcast, our host Ashley Scott Meyers tells us his thoughts on how AI tools like ChatGPT and Sora from OpenAI might change writing and filmmaking. Ashley then interviews filmmaker William Eubank, who’s credits include being the Writer/Director of Land Of Bad (2024), The Signal (2014) and Directing […]…
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Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
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It’s the UConn Popcast, and today we discuss Netflix’s new screen adaptation of Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin’s Three Body trilogy. We discuss the battle between the eye and the idea in film and television science fiction, and whether the new show strikes a successful balance. We consider some of the challenges involved in adapting this …
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Brenna and Joe return to the world of Wattpad to check out Beth Reekles' 2020 sequel, The Kissing Booth 2: Going The Distance, as well as its Netflix adaptation. The book is better written, but where is the conflict? There's nothing here! The film is much better thanks to a committed performance by Joey King (and her wig), as well as the addition o…
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Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong- Much Better Than Pacific Rim
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In this weeks episode, Ryan and Jamie discuss the currently releasing, limited series, Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong. Written by Brian Buccellato, art by Christian Duce, and colour by Luis Guerrero. They also go on tangents about how Mike Tyson fixed Steve-o's nose, why Johnny Depp is weird, the insurance premiums of DC comics cities, and the …
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