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Operation Kino 113 Review: Join Us For The Great Gatsby, Old Sport

This week we’d like you to join us for a ride on our hydroplane, old sport, as we sweep up the confetti and champagne glasses left over from our screening of The Great Gatsby. Did Baz Luhrmann’s experiment with 3D actually work with his maximalist aesthetic? Are the crazy party sequences great, or great to the point that they’ll make you sick? And who is this Gatsby fellow anyway? (It’s Leonardo DiCaprio.) All that, plus your answers to our lightning round questions about other books you read in high school that ought to become movies.

Piggybacking once more… Redwall

Piggybacking… The Wind and the Willows

Lily Collins joins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

This week on Operation Kino, I interview Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Glenn Frankel on his new book The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend. The book chronicles the making of the John Ford/John Wayne classic and the true story of a family kidnapped by the Comanche that inspired it. A really astounding piece of writing.

Did anyone ever read this book? The original Good Burger ended with so many unanswered questions, I’m curious….

I don’t remember this part of the movie version.

Comic Legend Warren Ellis on His New Novel ‘Gun Machine’: to Write About America, ‘You Have to Know About Guns’

Had a blast with this interview!

Derek Haas Talks Leaving ‘Focus Groups, Budgets, Set Pieces’ in the Dust for ‘The Right Hand’

Great conversation with the screenwriter of Wanted and 3:10 to Yuma on his new thriller and the backstory of how it was immediately picked up by producers for a big screen adaptation.

Once again, I was not invited to Clifford the Big Red Dog’s Birthday.