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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...