Berri's Couch

If the best thing about your film is the trees you may want to go back and rewrite your script. Two films both based on the same story, both intent on reinvention but one is iconic and left a lasting impact on it's medium and the other is whatever the opposite of iconic is.

Awkward sibling movies. Well one is an awkward movie and the other definitely has sibling characters in it. Which form tells the tale better an artsy pseudo horror or dumb action fun witch hunting? Are they even telling the same tale? Let's find out who if anyone is willing to deal with wet sugar and ants.

The first epic poem in English and yet it has a storied history of hot garbage adaptations. Despite the veritable feast we have brought it down to two different adaptations that do share a single thread of similarity. A surprising gem is found and an over textured pile of slop is also here.

This labour of getting explanations and love is something else. The tale of Hercules (Heracles for all you pedantic Greek mythos kids) and his labours has codified itself for a long time in our myths and histories if media but when things change how does he fare. How does the story of the demigod and his labours hold up against the Hydra that is......cinematic re-telling's.

A cute title for a long running problem that instead of going away seems to have just reinvented itself and tried to hide away. The handling of sexuality and sex in media aimed at, and featuring character who are meant to be, teens. Hiding away under the guise of non explicitness we try to unravel the preoccupation media seems to have with teens and their bodies.

The eternal struggle when just writing a teenager let alone a piece of media that revolves around them and their struggles. As the world around the teen changes in both expectations and responsibilities how well does our media reflect this? Spoiler alert! Not that well.

Last time on the podcast we discussed the titular teenager and now we discuss Canadian teens forced to entertain a slowly devolving war criminal on fake reality TV, while another set of teens act as mallrats even though the concept was already outdated by the early 2000's.

Icon of the 90's, low energy monarch, and definer of teenage experiences. We begin this month of teen media with the one who began our understanding of what growing up could be. How does it hold up? Does she still ring true with her words? Or does this just sit on the shelf as a relic of bygone times?

We found out we have not been seeing Matthew at his full power when he acts. As a businessman and player at table top games he is unleashed to mayhaps not even his full power, sit back and get ready to hear us discuss his latest ventures.

Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit! Okay now getting serious, a movie based on a simple video game with a lore more twisted than contortionists playing twister and yet it still is watchable and arguably good. Yes it exists! Provided you're willing to deal with child death, endings that are rushed and the world's worst office fan.