Apr 26, 2022
A beloved young adult novel is turned into a beloved young adult film, but only one can break the centuries old curse, while the other will meet its end in the dirt surrounded by Yellow-Spotted Lizards. Maggie & Red discuss Louis Sachar’s Holes (1998) and it's cinema counterpart, the Shia LaBeouf vehicle Holes...
Apr 19, 2022
Disney sends Assistant Pig Keeper Jeffrey Katzenberg back to the Well with the task of adapting beloved fantasy novels into an animated film, what could possibly go wrong? Chuck Wendig joins Maggie & Red to talk Lloyd Alexander’s The Book of Three (1964) and The Black Cauldron (1965) as well as the film that almost...
Apr 12, 2022
A story that starts as Crime & Punishment for teens morphs into four Teen Beat Cover Models with an impossibly convoluted slasher angle, but which version is best? Maggie & Red talk Lois Duncan’s I Know What You Did Last Summer (1973) and the Jim Gillespie Directed film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).
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Apr 5, 2022
Today we learn the importance of forgiveness, OR the satisfaction of gruesome retribution, OR something more modern and complex, depending on which adaptation fits. FTA favorite and Cinderella scholar* Molly Sanchez returns to three versions of the folk tale including Charles Perrault’s The Little Glass Slipper...