Episodes
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Episode 32: True Grit
Charles Portis wrote a fascinating novel True Grit, that was subsequently made into two very good films. We've shown our hand in this write up but know that you will still listen to get the details. The first film was a 1969 production starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, and Glenn Campbell. It was...
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Episode 31: Soylent Green, Make Room! Make Room!
Some science fiction books make an accurate prediction of the future, but not a whole lot of them. Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison misses the mark as far as 2019 goes. However, the predictions of climate change may make some of the food shortages depicted in the book come true. It is a...
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Episode 30: Bridge on the River Kwai
We must apologize for the muffled sound quality in the first 22:00 minutes of the episode. It does clear right up after that. In this episode we take a look at the Pierre Boulle novel Bridge Over the River Kwai and the similarly named film Bridge On the River Kwai. Roger Ebert gave the film 4…
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Episode 29: The Tower of the Elephant
Just to mix things up a bit we have decided to take a look at the original The Tower of the Elephant story by Robert E. Howard and two, count 'em two, comic adaptations of the same story. The first Conan comic Dave ever came to love is The Savage Sword of Conan, and it contained the beautifully...
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Episode 28: Conan the Destroyer
The second Conan movie, Conan the Destroyer is our topic this evening. We compare and contrast it to the original Robert E Howard stories, as well as the first DeLaurentiis / Schwarzenneger film. Roger Ebert said "The first Conan movie, "Conan the Barbarian", was a dark and gloomy fantasy about…
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Episode 27: Conan: The Scarlet Citadel and Queen of the Black Coast
As promised many shows ago we return to the Robert E. Howard's Conan Tales. We slice into The Scarlet Citadel, a tale of high adventure, oh, that's a cliche. It's the story of Conan's capture on the battlefield, imprisonment in a Citadel (Scarlet of course)subsequent escape and return to his...
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Episode 26: Ready Player One (Book and Film)
In an attempt to be more current and contemporary we review another recent film and book. READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline. The book was published in 2011 it takes place in a dystopian society where people spend a lot of time in virtual reality, in order to avoid the real run-down world. The book...
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Episode 25: Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie is the top selling author of all time. Her work was inspired by Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and she invented the Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot, who went on to become her most popular character. She had served in WWI as a nurse and had a famous disappearance that is still a...
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Episode 24: The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo
Some folk say when you've read one werewolf story, you've read them all. So, we decided to check around and we found a list of five werewolf books that contain an unusual twist, and after reading the The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo we found that we were not disappointed. Publishers Weekly said...
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Episode 23: An American Werewolf in London
Welcome back! This is the first of our Werewolf shows. We take a look at the cult classic film that took the werewolf transformations to the next level, with mechanical make-up effects that pre-date the wonderful computer graphics that we enjoy today. So does the film The Howling. While Roger…
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Episode 22: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Book and Film)
In this episode we investigate The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre, and by director Martin Ritt. That is because we are trying something a little different in this episode. We are combining the reviews of both the book and it's film in ONE episode. The novel received critical…
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Episode 21: We Were Soldiers Once (The Film)
The war in Vietnam was unique in many ways. Films that attempt to illustrate the conflict have some tricky ground to cover. One of the classic Vietnam War films was, of course, We Were Soldiers Once. If you'd like to watch the film before we cover it here, go ahead and do so now. Or, listen to…
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Episode 20: We Were Soldiers Once and Young (The Book)
One of the classic books about the Vietnam War, is of course, We Were Soldiers Once ...and Young by marine Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and journalist Joseph Galloway. It is the account of the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in November of 1965. According to Google Books "Each year, the Commandant of…
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Episode 19: Omega Man and I Am Legend Films
Charlton Heston, empty city streets, strange albino-like people created by germ warfare; what more could a person want from a film? Except perhaps, the removal of the hip jazz soundtrack and it being replaced with anything better. All of those theatrical elements can be found n the film The Omega...
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Episode 18: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
When Dave and Jeff got together to reveal their opinions of this classic (in the cult sense) horror novel, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, some unexpected surprises occurred. As the conversation developed, there was an intersting divergence of opinion. Matheson's novel is the vampire story that...
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Episode 17: The War of the Worlds in Film
When we were young, George Pal created a film called The War of the Worlds, and it captured the imaginations of a generation. In 2005 Steven Spielberg created another version of the H.G. Wells story to capture the imaginations of a new generation of Science Fiction fans. We ask the followings...
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Epsiode 15: A Bridge Too Far (1977 Film)
We review the classic war film A Bridge Too Far. Sure, it feels like a film that should have been made a decade earlier than it was, due to it's lack of a modern sensibility. Let's face it, the film was made in 1977, after the Vietnam War. Even so, we always enjoy an epic WWII film and our…
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Episode 14: September Hope
September Hope is an excellent book by author John C. McManus that chronicles the American side of the WWII campaign against Nazi Germany known as Operation Market Garden, the Allies attempt to cut through the Netherlands and to Berlin to "end the war before Christmas". It is a compelling and…
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