Why is This Not a Movie?: A Man Called Doll w/Jason Woodbury
Jonathan Ames' detective novel A Man Named Doll, and its sequel The Wheel of Doll combine the playfulness of Bored to Death (which Ames created)...
Why is This Not a Movie?: Concrete w/Ted Anderson
Paul Chadwick's long-running comics series Concrete is about a man who's transformed into a hulking cement-like monster, who wants to use his newfound power to...
Why is This Not a Movie?: The Nice Guys 2 w/Scott Myers
2016's The Nice Guys was a terrific action comedy, with a smart script by Shane Black, and two charismatic, bankable leads in Ryan Gosling and...
Why is This Not a Movie?: Rube Waddell w/Randall Lotowycz
Rube Waddell was a pitcher in the early days of baseball with one of the most colorful stories in all of sports. In 1903 alone,...
Why is This Not a Movie?: Spider-Man PS4 w/Preeti Chhibber
We're back to kick off season 5 with Preeti Chhibber, multitalented podcaster (Women of Marvel, Desi Geek Girls, Tar Valon or Bust) and author (A Jedi...
Why is This Not a Movie?: Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League
1984's Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension was a fun, pulpy mess of a sci-fi adventure, which promised us a sequel... which we never got....
Why is This Not a Movie?: The Chronicles of Prydain
Friend of the show Scott Bunn (Run That Back, Recliner Notes) returns so we can co-pitch an adaptation of Lloyd Alexander's delightful YA fantasy series The...
Why is This Not a Movie?: The Coke Heist
It's not a secret that Coca-Cola's original formula included cocaine. But what's less well-known is that the soft drink still uses coca leaf, just not...
Why is This Not a Movie?: The Plot Against FDR
Franklin Roosevelt was wildly popular when he was in office, and is universally acknowledged as one of our greatest presidents. But in 1933, not everyone...
Why is This Not a Movie?: Starlight Tours w/ Tom Murphy
For forty years, police in Saskatchewan, Canada were in the habit of arresting Indigenous men for minor offenses - or sometimes no reason at all....