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Page and Screen is a podcast where four average guys read a book and watch the thing based on the book. They then talk about it, and often go off on pointless tangents. A roundtable discussion with your best pals, Page and Screen is the book/movie club where you don't even need to do the homework to have a lot of fun.
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13. Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die
Its our Halloween SPOOKTACULAR folks! We‘ve read Shirley Jackson and Henry James, but the most terrifying author we could find for this occasion is the one and only R. L. Stine. Listen to our deep dive into Goosebumps lore and the inimitable Canadiana of it‘s TV adaptation.
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12. Captain America: Winter Soldier
The most exhaustive dinner party conversation these days certainly seems to be ”Aren‘t there too many Marvel movies”. Well we will not be addressing that. Instead we‘re just here to gush about Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan.
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11. In A Grove/Rashomon
Back on the Kurosawa hype train, this episode we examine his 1950 masterpiece, Rashomon, and its source material, In A Grove. This is a headscratcher for sure, and we‘re still not entirely sure we understand all of it.
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10. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven/Smoke Signals
The 1998 film Smoke Signals left an indelible mark on modern native/aboriginal culture. On this episode we examine it‘s origins in Sherman Alexie‘s short stories, and the phenomenon of inside jokes and shared cultural experience that would follow.
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9. The Death of Ivan Ilyich/ Ikiru
We managed to do an episode on Russian Literature without spending half a year reading! We discuss Leo Tolstoy's novella and it's influence on Japanese direcctor Akira Kurosawa.
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8. The Ghost in the Shell
A masterpiece of cyberpunk science fiction and a touchstone of 90's anime, we discuss Ghost in the Shell. And against all odds, we unfortunately touch on that 2017 movie.