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This time we cover the remake/re-adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man. Rankings!: Colin: Book/2025 movie/1987 movie James: Book/2025 movie/1987 movie Seth: Book/1987 movie/2025 movie

It’s been 10 years since we covered this topic last, and we finally have a great adaptation! We got to see the new Frankenstein adaptation in theaters and recommend you do the same.

Double-dipping this month, covering a couple of previously covered books that got new adaptations. First up, the absolutely delightful nonsense that is The War of the Worlds, starring Ice Cube.

Seth was under the weather after returning from doing the Cotswold Way hike in England, so to protect the other guys from germs, this was recorded on his backyard patio, so please forgive the neighbor dog’s squeaky toy accompaniment. Rankings! Colin: movie/book James: book/movie Seth: movie/book Post-credits scenes for this episode include some discussion of … Continue reading Assistant *to* the Regional Major (The Long Walk, by Stephen King) →

Wrapping up (for now) the informal Robot series we’ve been doing, we discuss Brian Aldiss’s short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” adapted (loosely) to A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Rankings! Colin/James/Seth: Film Short Story Notes: https://brianaldiss.co.uk/writing/story-collections/collections-r-z/supertoys-last-all-summer-long/