Berri's Couch

And now we sit and discuss the second ghost story in this anthology of hauntings. What made this one so different from the other that it alienated some but truly terrified others? Does the change of location do more than supply different accents and architecture? Is that ending happy? Sit and listen, this story is not short but we shall try to make it so for you.

Well we're here in a house with some haunted siblings talking about what has been talked to death, life and unlife about. Why do we like this tale of trauma and how it haunts the now adult children? Do we like any of the siblings and why?

Well as we have finished this journey it is time to look back on where we've been, and speculate on where we should go. Which is just a fancy way of saying now that we've discussed movies that have come and gone we start to elevator pitch stories of yore that we want to see given a media treatment and the vibes we want it to come with.

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.