Episode 818: How Often Do You Think about the Tokugawa Shogunate?
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the new adaptation of “Shogun,” streaming on Hulu.
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Episode 742: Girlboss! I Wanna be a Girlboss!
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the phenomenon of Disney live-action remakes.
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Episode 688: He Has Completed the Side-Quest to Return Winifred’s Head
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the super-arty film “The Green Knight,” and its medieval source material, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”
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Episode 684: The Film’s Heart Was in the Middle of the Starfish
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle James Gunn’s take on “The Suicide Squad.”
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Episode 649: She’s Not a Bird, Not Yet a Woman
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we watch Disney’s live action remake of “Mulan” and ask ourselves, “Is it Loyal, Brave, and True?”
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Episode 475: What If They Built a Dark Tower and Nobody Came?
On the Overthinking It Podcast, it’s Western week, as we tackle the disappointing adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, starring Idris Elba, and celebrate the release of West of Loathing from our friends at Asymmetric.
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The Age Before Ultron: A Brief History of Super Hero Movies, Agony to Avengers
Before (or after!) you see Avengers: Age of Ultron, take a look back through X-Men, Spider-Man, and the history of superhero movies.
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How to Squeeze Stories from Stones — or, Why The Lego Movie was Good and Battleship was Bad
There’s a right way and a wrong way to turn toys into movies. I’m here to tell you what they are.
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Ninja Turtles 2014 in Context
How does the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie compare to other notable adaptations? Richard Rosenbaum gives you The Ugly, the Bad and the Good (in that order).
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Episode 305: Destroying Star Wars In Order To Save It
The Overthinkers tackle Star Wars: Episode VII and what makes a good sequel.
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