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Popcorn Book Club
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A group of smart, funny friends meet together every week to talk about the book they’re reading—a book that just so happens to be incredibly buzzy and in the zeitgeist because it has an adaptation coming up on the big screen or via streaming. Because when everyone at work is talking about it, we want to be the smug ones who can say we actually read the book first. Hosted by Dana Schwartz, Jennifer Wright, Korama Danquah, Melissa Hunter, and Tien Tran. New episodes every Monday!
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Final Episode
Dec 14, 202000:54:49Tap to summarizePopcorn Book Club comes to you with sad news this week in that this will be our final episode. We spend it talking about the books we covered, the books we wish we'd covered, and some of our favorite adaptations. Thank you for listening and please follow us as we continue making things.@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@HiMelissaHunterand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktina Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Screen Time: V For Vendetta
Dec 7, 202001:11:31Tap to summarizeAfter covering books one through three of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's graphic novel V For Vendetta, we are getting into the 2005 film adaptation, directed by James McTeigue, written (and perhaps shadow-directed) by the Wachowski Sisters, and starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving. We'll talk about this being a rare case where the film may be better than the book, and what changed from the page to the screen.Follow us on Twitter!@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@MelissaFTWand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktina Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →V For Vendetta (Part 3)
Nov 30, 202000:55:31Tap to summarizeIt still being November, just a little bit, we are still talking V For Vendetta. We have made it to Book Three, the final part of the graphic novel, and this week, we'll hash out our issues with the ending and discuss the allowances and issues with art-as-manifesto.Follow us on Twitter!@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@MelissaFTWand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktinaNext week, we'll jump into the film adaptation! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →V For Vendetta (Part 2)
Nov 23, 202000:57:31Tap to summarizeThere were plenty of options for our first graphic novel adaptation to choose from, and I think there are few more appropriate ones for November 2020 than “V for Vendetta,” the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd, and adapted for film in 2005. This is part two of our conversation and we were left with several questions last week: What’s going to happen to Evey? And is V secretly a theater kid?Follow us on Twitter!@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@MelissaFTWand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktinaStill ahead, we'll start in on book 3 of V For Vendetta before jumping into the film adaptation! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →V For Vendetta (Part 1)
Nov 16, 202001:00:29Tap to summarizeThough we are a little late for November 5th — Guy Fawkes Day — we unfortunately seem to be right on time for the impending threat of totalitarianism. This week we begin our discussion of V For Vendetta, the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd, and adapted for film in 2005.Follow us on Twitter!@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@MelissaFTWand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktinaStill ahead, we'll start in on book two of V For Vendetta! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Screen Time: Lovecraft Country (Part 2)
Nov 9, 202001:22:08Tap to summarizeHalloween is over and Biden is president-elect, but luckily (?) for us, the horrors of America and its past are with us always! And so this week we are getting more Screen Time with the second half of the season of HBO’s Lovecraft Country.Follow us on Twitter!@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@MelissaFTWand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktinaStill ahead, we'll start in on our next book, V For Vendetta! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Screen Time: Rebecca (2020)
Nov 2, 202001:12:02Tap to summarizeYou ever read an entire book and not really get what it’s about? I bring that up for no real reason. This week on Popcorn Book Club we’re taking in some Screen Time with the movie adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca.” Last week we talked about Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film, now we’re moving on to the brand new Netflix version, and we have some NOTES.Follow us on Twitter!@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@MelissaFTWand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktinaStill ahead, we'll pick up where we left off with HBO's Lovecraft Country, and we'll start in on our next book, V For Vendetta! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Screen Time: Rebecca (1940)
Oct 26, 202001:07:45Tap to summarizeOver the past couple weeks, we’ve been talking about the novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier—it’s a story about murder, obsession, and finding out the person closest to you harbors an awful secret. Honestly, it already sounds like a Hitchcock movie. And so sure enough, we’re taking in some Screen Time this week with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film adaptation to talk about the charm of the Transatlantic accent, and how the Master of Suspense diverged from the book.Follow us on Twitter!@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@MelissaFTWand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktinaStill ahead, we'll have Screen Time with the 2020 Netflix adaptation of Rebecca (oh we have thoughts...), we'll also pick up where we left off with HBO's Lovecraft Country, and we'll start in on our next book, V For Vendetta! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Rebecca (Part 2)
Oct 19, 202000:51:08Tap to summarizeHave you ever had a partner who just could not let go of their ex? I’m willing to bet Daphne du Maurier did! This week we continue our discussion of the second Mrs. de Winter and the long shadow of her predecessor, Rebecca.Follow us on Twitter!@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@MelissaFTWand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktinaIn the coming weeks, we'll have Screen Time with the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock adaptation of Rebecca ahead of the Netflix movie, we'll also pick up where we left off with HBO's Lovecraft Country, and we'll start in on our next book, V For Vendetta! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Rebecca (Part 1)
Oct 12, 202000:50:48Tap to summarizeHappy October, Popcorn Book Club listeners! We covered horror and monsters and cults of scary white people a few weeks ago with our discussion of Lovecraft Country, and so we’re covering the other side of this spooky season with the gothic thriller Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, soon to be a film on Netflix. Not “goth” in the sense of dressing in all black and listening to Bauhaus, but “gothic” as in romance and death!Follow us on Twitter!@DanaSchwartzzz@JenAshleyWright@koramadrama@MelissaFTWand Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta @hanktinaNext week we'll continue our discussion of Rebecca before taking on both the Hitchcock and Netflix adaptations for our "Screen Time" episode. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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