Dec 21, 2018

Happy Holidays, friends! This year the HDYR gang meets up with a few other misfits in Christmastown for a look back at the Rankin/Bass claymation classic, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. It’s aired on CBS every single year since 1964, but there have been quite a few nips, tucks, additions, and subtractions in that...

Nov 30, 2018

On our Batman & Robin episode, we mentioned how part of the fallout of that film was that suddenly these adaptations were a little apprehensive about getting too comic book-y.

To that end, movies like Blade and X-Men wound up taking some pretty extreme liberties with their source material. They were dark... they were...

Nov 16, 2018

For a movie called Street Fighter, there aren't many streets and there's even less fighting. When it comes to liberties taken with the source material, however, that's only scratching the surface.

After the meteoric success of the Street Fighter II video game, a live-action feature film was all but inevitable -...

Nov 2, 2018

The HDYR gang is off to the polls with a look back at Alexander Payne's subversive comedy Election. Nearly every step of the way, the film (and the novel it was based on) faced the same problem - the perception that it was a more run-of-the-mill teen comedy. The marketing department wasn't sure how to sell the...

Oct 26, 2018

Bonus Episode! Kristen & Mike from The Sunnydale Stacks podcast join Chris for a conversation about the brand new Halloween. Which is not to be confused with Halloween (1978). Or Halloween (2007). And even though this is technically Halloween II, it has nothing to do with Halloween II (1981). Or Halloween...