Adaptive Difficulty

Inconceivable! We finally made it to The Princess Bride, and it's got everything. Fighting, death, rodents of unusual size, true love, mawage, an evil life sucking machine. Most importantly: an enduring mockery for literary criticism!

Join us as we examine 1987 film The Princess Bride based on William Goldman's 1973 book The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The "Good Parts" Version. Yes, that is the actual name of the book.

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The Princess Bride is in another castle. We'll get there one day. In the meantime, let's chase some cultural... relevance feels too strong a word for 2025's A Minecraft Movie based on, of course, the video game Minecraft. It's more buzz than anything, and I hate bees! And this movie!

We strongly advise listening to this while you mine and you craft and even while you minecraft!

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A dead rabbit; a hard-boiled detective; Jessica Rabbit. Need I say more?

This week we are focusing on 1988's film Who Framed Roger Rabbit based on the 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, written by Gary Wolf.

I never considered that a book and movie about Toons would cause such existential dread. Imagine being stuck as a baby for your entire life? Imagine being witness to your own murder?

Have I already mentioned Jessica Rabbit?

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Sometimes you make poor choices, but you can take comfort in knowing that you never agreed to let someone chop off your head. Right?

This time, we are focusing on the 2021 film The Green Knight, a surreal reimagining of "Gawain and the Green Knight", the 14th century anonymous poem. It's quite the journey!

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There's no place like home, especially when listening to your favorite podcast.

While you walk the yellow brick road, enjoy a lively discussion about 1900's The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and it's classic 1939 adaptation starring Judy Garland. Plus some important information about the future of this show.

A long time ago, in 1977, George Lucas gifted the world with Star Wars, eventually renamed to A New Hope. But even before then a book was published that would earn the ire of two friends like never before.

Join us as we examine the 1976 novelization of Star Wars, credited to Lucas, but ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster.

Wonka! Wonka! Wonka! Wonka! Wonka! Wonka! Wonka! Wonka!

Two brave boys, Josh and Cameron, must take on their greatest challenge yet: the Wonka Verse! With three films - 1971 and 2005 and 2023 - and its original source material itself, they got their hands full and a hatful of dreams!

Man! These women sure are little! Until they're not, I guess! But that's life.

This week Cameron and Josh, along with a special guest, tackle the wonderful work of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation of the same name. Join us and maybe we'll give you a pickled lime.

Look, strange letters anonymously delivered is no basis for a dinner party.

Clue (1985), a black comedy murder mystery, stars Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren. They are sucked into a mystery that gets stranger and more confusing the longer they investigate.

To make a long story short (TOO LATE!), this film's got it all: goofs, gaffs, and a gay man (at least 2/3 of the time).

Lemme see what you have? A Knife! No!

Betrayal, power, and a severed head can sum up Macbeth the play and Macbeth the (2010) film, starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood, but everyone knows Shakespeare preferred an hour and fourteen-minute podcast as the medium to discuss his work.

Thankfully, we're here to provide what Billy needed.