After a brief delay due to, well, current events, there’s a new episode of Framed & Bound. This time out, Drew Buxton joins Tobias Carroll to get very metafictional as they discuss 2022’s Adaptation, featuring two of Nicolas Cage’s best performances.

Discussed: writing about wrestling, Brian Cox’s agelessness, Charlie Kaufman’s work as a director, the challenges of adapting unadaptable books, and the greatness of Wojciech Has.

Drew Buxton’s So Much Heart is available directly from the publisher and wherever books are sold. If you’ve ever been curious to read The Orchid Thief, it’s available from Bookshop and your local bookstore. Shout Factory’s blu-ray of the film can be ordered here. Tobias wrote about another Charlie Kaufman adaptation for Literary Hub. Our logo is by Mack V.

Framed & Bound is back with a look at the 1987 film Barfly, directed by Barbet Schroeder and written by Charles Bukowski. Host Tobias Carroll and guest William Lessard discuss the pros and cons of Bukowski adaptations, Mickey Rourke’s career, and the Stallone family.

You can find out more about William Lessard on his website. Our new logo is by Mack V.

On the sixteenth episode of Framed and Bound, David James Keaton joined host Tobias Carroll to discuss the 1987 film Best Seller, starring Brian Dennehy and James Woods. Turns out we were not the only ones to find the end credits song to be a little bit stylistically jarring, as this review makes clear.

You can find Keaton at his website; his latest book is the novel Shallow Ends. And if you enjoyed hearing these guys talk about movies and books, there are more interviews where that came from.