Celebrating the Best of ’00s Stephen King [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

By closing the book on 2009’s Under the Dome, The Losers’ Club have finally reached the end of Stephen King‘s prolific run in the ’00s. That means it’s time to hand out some awards. Constant Listeners, you are cordially invited to another round of The Kingies – a night where the Losers celebrate the best […]

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The King of Father’s Day: Stephen King’s Best and Worst Fathers

Beware! Spoilers for the work of Stephen King abound.  Stephen King has always been a self-referential writer. In addition to his poignant memoir On Writing and a multitude of forwards and afterwards in his Uncle Steve voice, the Master of Horror tends to inject his fiction with characters that bear a striking resemblance to his […]

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Stephen King’s ‘Cell’ Adaptation Never Really Escaped Development Hell [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

“You can ring my bell, ring my bell…” The Losers gather at Boston International Airport to close out their coverage on Stephen King‘s Cell. Now that they’ve explored the 2006 novel, they’re dialing into the 2016 adaptation. Originally announced as an Eli Roth project two months after the book’s release, the film spent 10 torturous […]

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Stephen King’s ‘Cell’ Dials Up the Gore and Calls Back to Familiar Hits [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

“Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.” The Losers are taking that to heart as they run out of Boston Common. All around them, The Pulse has turned the world […]

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Stephen King’s ‘Cell’ – Finding the Good in a Missed Opportunity [The Silver Lining]

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Tod Williams’ 2016 Stephen King adaptation, Cell. Stephen King is no stranger to the apocalypse. From the fallen worlds of his The Dark Tower series to his viral opus The Stand (which remains one of my all-time favorite literary works), the writer has an undeniable […]

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