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Sometimes this show has us watching really interesting movies that are forgotten or underconsidered because of their association with King and horror. It's a classic tale of the genre gutter, you know, and the idea that just because something has a ghoulie in it then it must be lesser than a film about a college professor. Other times we watch just straight up terrible movies where John Cusack talks to people about his graphic novel lore. You'll have to listen to the episode to learn which kind of movie 2016's Cell is!

Check out the episode on the bonus episode post.

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mostlylegible

Pausing the pod to come here and say yes please to Swervin' with Irving! Garp is the first "grown up" novel I remember reading, aged 9 - found a battered old copy in a box of secondhand books given to my mum and devoured it. A few concerned adults asked mum if I should be reading it, so she read it after me and (to her immense credit) calmly asked if I had questions. Apparently no?

mostlylegible

Anyway, went on to read a lot of Irving and, violence and many flaws and bears and wrestling obsessions acknowledged ... still have a soft spot for Garp.

rat

While zooted on painkillers, racked with pain after dental surgery, Cell was the movie I chose to watch. The Trololo knocked me on my ass. It didn't help when I saw Pacific Rim 2 with some friends later that year and saw Trololo appear on film, again.

Beppy

Also just paused the podcast to say the sequel to Michael on Michael should be Michael on Michaels, a la Alien.