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  • At Midnight, All the Agents - Episode 34

    In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen., we discuss Alan Moore's groundbreaking comic Watchmen along with Zack Snyder's film adaptation. Throughout the discussion, we refer to KaptainKristian's video "Watchmen - Adapting the Undadaptable" and nerdwriter1's "Batman v Superman: The Fundamental Flaw", as well as "Why It Has to be the Squid" by Scott from GeekNights.

    This Week:

    Duane: More of The Office (US); The Beatles' Revolver

    David: Gerard Way's Hesitant Alien (2014); KaptainKristian's "Superman - The Golden Age of Animation" and "Batman - Evolving the Legend"

    If you would so kindly rate and review us on iTunes, we would very much appreciate it. And, if you have any feedback or comments for us, email us at watchreadlistenpodcast at gmail dot com!

    2 hr 20 min
  • You Stole My Story

    In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen., we discuss Stephen King's novella "Secret Window, Secret Garden" and David Koepp's adaptation Secret Window (2004) starring Johnny Depp.

    In our This Week segment:

    Duane - Metroid Metal; Alice Isn't Dead and Within the Wires (from the folks at Welcome to Night Vale); As the Story Grows - interview with Mark Garza of Embodyment and The Famine

    David - Joe Begos's The Mind's Eye (2016)

    1 hr 14 min
  • What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stranger - S02E09

    In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen., we discuss Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy: Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). In the discussion we also compare Nolan's treatment with those of other directors, especially Tim Burton, Joel Schumacher, and Zack Snyder.

    This Week:

    Duane - podcasts: Mythgard Academy series on JRR Tolkien's The Lost Road; History of Westeros on "The Forsaken" (a Winds of Winter chapter read by George RR Martin); and Faculty of Horror on Fright Night (1985) and The Lost Boys (1987).

    David - Cujo (1983); Ben Rock's 20 Seconds to Live; the trailer for Blair Witch (2016)

    We also discuss the trailers for Wonder Woman (2017) and Justice League (2017).

    If you would like to support the podcast, the best thing you could do is rate and review us on iTunes and/or share us with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks!

    1 hr 52 min
  • Humans are Such Easy Prey - S02E08

    In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen., we discuss two more adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton - Stuart Gordon's From Beyond (1986) and Charles Band's The Evil Clergyman (1987).

    This Week:

    Duane - Singin' in the Rain, Colour from the Dark (2008), and The Thing on the Doorstep (2014)

    David - Stranger Things (2016), The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (Season 3)

    1 hr 21 min
  • Another Dead Hero - Part Six - S02E2X

    Due to circumstances beyond our control, there is not another new episode of Watch.Read.Listen. But you do get to listen to David explain why there isn't a new one. Isn't that awesome? It isn't! Well, there is a new episode coming the following Thursday in which Duane and David get down on Stuart Gordon's From Beyond, and Charles Bands's The Evil Clergyman.

    But Thank You, as always, for listening to Watch.Read.Listen.!!

    Contact us at @WRLPodcast on Twitter, and at WatchReadListenPodcast on Facebook, and E-mail us (you won't) at [email protected]

    Clips courtesy of Bill Hicks... Another Dead Hero.

    8 min
  • Get a Job in the Sideshow - S02E07

    In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen., we discuss H.P. Lovecraft's "Herbert West - Reanimator" and its film adaptations, Stuart Gordon's H.P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator (1985) and Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1989).

    This Week:

    Duane - Watch: The Office (U.S.), MST3K's Manhunt in Space, The Decline of Western Civilization (1980); Read: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Listen: Mineral's The Power of Failing (1997) and EndSeranading (1998); Scarlett Johansson's reading of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Joe Hill's Horns on audiobook.

    David - Watch: Louis CK's Louie, Listen: The Podcast Under the Stairs and Doing the Nasty (podcast on the U.K.'s Video Nasties)

    1 hr 42 min
  • Taking a King's Landing - S02E06

    In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen., we are joined by Shoe, Tony, Louie (Jennifer) and Jen for a round-table discussion of Game of Thrones Season 6. What are our favorite moments from the season? How do we think this stacks up compared to other seasons? Where do we think the show is going from here?

    No This Week segment on this episode. It's long enough already!

    Next episode, we are discussing H.P. Lovecraft's "Herbert West, Re-Animator" along with two movies based on that story: Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator.

    Be sure to check out Shoe's podcast, All Booked Up, and check back for her new episode on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

    2 hr 55 min
  • You Didn't Think It Was Going To Be That Easy? - S02E05

    In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen., we continue our discuss of the films of Quentin Tarantino with an exploration of his "revenge trilogy" -- Kill Bill (2003), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained (2012).

    This Week:

    Duane - Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012); Selected Shorts: Deceiving Appearances - Stories by Shirley Jackson; Rifftrax Live! MST3K Reunion Show (rebroadcast on July 12!)

    David - Burying the Ex (2014); Green Room (2016)

    1 hr 56 min
  • The Path of the Righteous Man - S02E04

    In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen, we discuss the first three movies by Quentin Tarantino: Resevoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), and Jackie Brown (1997). Explicit language warning (I mean, it's Tarantino) and spoiler warning for those films.

    This Week:

    Duane: Watched - Assasination Classroom and Watamote; Read - Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur; Listened to - Starflyer 59's Slow, Selected Shorts - We're So Excited (About the '80s) from June 16, 2016.

    David: Watched - trailers for Joe Begos's The Mind's Eye and Rob Zombie's 31; Goosebumps (2015) with Jack Black; Odd Thomas (2013) with Anton Yelchin.

    Next week will be Examining Tarantino, Part 2, in which we discuss Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained (and also Death Proof, because it doesn't fit anywhere else).

    1 hr 55 min
  • Man is the Warmest Place to Hide - S02E03

    In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen., we discuss John W. Campbell Jr.'s novella "Who Goes There?" and it's film adaptations: 1951's The Thing from Another World, 1982's John Carpenter's The Thing, and (briefly) 2011's The Thing (prequel to Carpenter's film). We also discuss the audio short story "The Things" by Peter Watts, which explores the events of John Carpenter's The Thing from the perspective of the alien.

    In our This Week segment:

    Duane: George A. Romero's Knightriders (on the Shout TV Roku app; trailer), Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma (on Crunchyroll)

    David: Jonah Ray's Hidden America (first episode on YouTube for free) and The Canon's episode on Ed Wood (with Jonah Ray)

    There are several ways to read Campbell's original novella out there. Amazon has a Kindle version that pairs with the Audible narration (for $2.99 extra). There is also a PDF of the Astounding Science Fiction issue here, or a flip book here from the Pulp Magazines Project.

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    1 hr 37 min

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Watch.Read.Listen. is a discussion-format podcast, hosted by brothers David and Duane Watson, in which we discuss movies, TV, books, music, comics, and other things we're watching, reading, or…