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It’s all fine and good to be sealed up in a house with Wagner Moura and Greta Lee, but the longer Netflix’s new The Last House keeps us there, the more time Matt and Jordan have for questions about the why and the how and… is that broccoli you’re growing in the floorboards, Greta? Matt and Jordan also discuss Netflix’s curious fascination with apocalyptic tales. Then, some Last House-inspired streaming recommendations (Universal Monsters! H.P. Lovecraft!) and a listener streaming request inspires recommendations for a forgotten Emma Thompson movie from the early 90s and a literary adaptation from Roger Corman. And Jordan hosts this week’s game: The Gaul of These People!
Welcome/Intro (00:00:00–00:2:54)
The Last House (00:2:55–00:27:17)
H.P. Lovecraft and Universal Monsters (Rec Seg!) (00:27:18–00:44:30)
Emma Thompson, Roger Corman, and Vincent Price (Listener Request Seg!) (00:44:31–01:03:16)
MLB's Field of Dreams Game on Netflix (01:03:17–01:09:26)
Game: The Gaul of these People! (01:09:27–01:26:10)
New to Streaming / Credits (01:26:11–01:31:04)
Show Notes
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Screenwriter and producer David Kajganich (Suspiria, Bones and All) joins Michael Phillips to test a provocative rule of adaptation from filmmaker Whit Stillman: "You owe everything to the movie and nothing to the original [source]."

But what about the opposite approach? As the Coen brothers once joked about adapting Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men: "One of us types into the computer while the other holds the spine of the book flat." Between those two extremes lies the art of adaptation.

Drawing on more than two decades of adapting novels, memoirs, plays, and films, Kajganich explores when fidelity serves a movie, when it becomes a trap, and why great adaptations sometimes have to break the bones of the original work. As you'd expect, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey enters the conversation, along with Howards End, The Shining, The Zone of Interest, and Where the Wild Things Are.

Is the best adaptation the one that faithfully recreates its source? Or the one that expresses something new? Join the conversation: email [email protected]
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Adam and Josh share their favorite discoveries, performances, and scenes from the recently completed Dissident Cinema Marathon, which included Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, and Rossellini’s Rome, Open City.
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SUBURBAKNIGHT: Act One
Walter Knope is having a bad week.
His antique store is bankrupt. The bank has locked him out. His house is now filled with everything he couldn't sell. His teenage daughter thinks he's embarrassing, his marriage has seen better days, and Walter is beginning to suspect middle age may just be a long series of humiliations ending in death.
Then Richard Sarandon moves in across the street.
Richard is rich, handsome, charming and spectacularly confident. The neighborhood women can't stop looking at him. The husbands barely notice. Walter notices everything.
Especially the two body bags carried out of Richard's house in the middle of the night.
Then Walter sees Richard do something no human being should be able to do.
Written by Nick Bannister, SUBURBAKNIGHT is a wicked suburban horror-comedy about marriage, jealousy, masculinity and the nightmare of discovering that the impossibly perfect man next door may actually be a monster.
Walter calls the police. They find nothing. Richard smiles. Walter looks insane.
Then comes the neighborhood party. Pool. Booze. Barbecue. Husbands watching football. Wives watching Richard.
With help from Andy, his beer-bellied neighbor and resident horror-movie expert, Walter finally puts a name to what moved in across the street.
An incubus.
A demon that seduces women and feeds on their life force.
Now Richard knows Walter is onto him. Walter knows Richard wants Samantha. And the fight Walter thought was about his pride, his marriage and his rapidly collapsing life is about to become something much worse.
Luckily, Walter's house is currently filled with swords, crossbows, armor and medieval weapons nobody wanted to buy.
Maybe the antique business wasn't such a bad idea after all.
Starring Darin Toonder, Jim O'Heir, Jade Tailor, Jack Daniel, Rob Fitzgerald, Logan Laurel, Emily Brolin, Ashley Platz, and Zeke Alton.
Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.
Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell.
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Jane Schoenbrun’s uncategorizable third feature, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, marks the director as among the most assured and provocative filmmakers of their generation. Adam and Josh agree that it’s the film of the year so far. Plus, other notable third features this decade, listeners pick their favorite Spider-Man movie, and Adam reviews The Brink of War.
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Intro (00:00:00-00:02:38)
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (00:02:39-00:45:20)
Filmspotting Family (00:45:21-00:51:21)
The Brink of War (00:51:22-01:01:11)
Polls (01:01:12-01:11:25)
Credits / Releases (01:11:26-01:15:26)
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