Episode 013 - NaNoWriters... Start Your Processors!

This week's non-movie topic was National Novel Writing Month.

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• In Theaters November 2.
• Mini-review of Gone Baby Gone
• Background and some statistics on National Novel Writing Month, also referred to as NaNoWriMo.
• Lots of yammery, stammery goodness about Novembers past and plans for the present, including kick-off and TGIO (Thank Goodness It's Over) parties.
• Special thanks to Kyohtee, who joined us on the phone for the first time! She was absolutely amazing.
• Free-roaming discussion of NaNoWriMo. (Thanks to Kyohtee and wendiigo for joining in and making it fun!)
• Some other links mentioned in the episode:
  • flickguy's Novel Sponsorship Page, to benefit NaNoWriMo
  • Wendiigo's 2005 NaNoWriMo attempt (Content Warning in effect)

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November 3:
Stranger than Fiction
Kicking off a month of NaNoWriMo-related episodes!

Episode 012 - What? No Laugh Track?

The Genre of the Month was Comedy.

• No listener mail again... ( Send some of your own to flickabrac @gmail .com - space added to protect against spambots. If you don't want it read on the show, please make a note of that. )
• In Theaters October 26.
• Mini-review of Michael Clayton
• What I like and dislike about Comedy movies.
• Free-flowing discussion of Comedy movies and stars, with a plethora of examples. (Thanks to Kim and wendiigo for joining in!)
• A podcast host who was so flustered it took a second recording session to get enough usable material to put out this episode.

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October 27
NaNoWriMo

November 3:
Stranger than Fiction
Kicking off a month of NaNoWriMo-related episodes!

Episode 011 - From Print to Screen and Back Again

The topic was Adaptations.

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• In Theaters October 19.
• Mini-review of The Seeker - The Dark is Rising
• Pro and Con arguments on Adaptations.
• Free-flowing discussion of adaptations, with a ton of examples (thanks to wendiigo for joining in!)
• Thanks to Brent Irwin for firsthand information on an upcoming adaptation project: Robert R. McCammon's Blue World, in production now!

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October 20:
Genre of the month: Comedy

November 3:
Stranger Than Fiction
Kicking off a month of NaNoWriMo-related episodes!

Episode 010 - SMT #2: Bright Light! Gizmo Ca-Ca!

This week's specific movie topic was Gremlins.

• Listener Mail this week from Jaime of the Girls Night In podcast! ( Send your own, if you dare, to flickabrac @gmail.com - space added to protect against spambots. If you don't want it read on the show, please make a note of that. )
• In Theaters October 12.
• Mini-review of The Game Plan
• What I like and dislike about the movie Gremlins.
• As in-depth a discussion of Gremlins and its sequel as one can get, considering what these movie are -- nothing more than ordered chaos. (With thanks, as always, to Kim and Wendiigo, as well as Other Kim, for their participation in the discussion.)

Corrections / Additions, etc.

11:42 - Host refers to Gremlin leader as "Spike", when it is Stripe in the first movie. Spike is the leader of the second movie's crowd of gremlins. We apologize for the host getting his gremlins confused.

14:04 - Host says Steven Spielberg directed... not sure why. Host knew better, as he had said at the beginning of the movie chat (even though he got it wrong then, too) that Spielberg merely Executive Produced. There is no excuse. The host is stupid. In truth, Joe Dante directed both Gremlins movies.

During the portion of the program where the host mentioned the various references he spotted in Gremlins 2, the two references he completely omitted -- and which were the most fun -- were the Leonard Maltin review of the first Gremlins film (and the criticism such a review subsequently garnered) and the "breaking" of the film, which admittedly is more amusing when viewed in a theater. (As I recall, actually, they had done a video-specific sequence for the VHS release... I wonder if they included that in the special features I didn't bother to watch.)

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October 13:
Adaptations

November 3:
Stranger Than Fiction