Hi, this is Dana Steven Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with the Slate Spoiler Special podcast

on Where the Wild Things are, the new Spike Jones adaptation of the Maurice Sendak Classic.

I'm here with Dan Coice. Hello, Dan.

Hey, Dana.

Speaking to me from D.C., who is a movie critic for The Washington Post.

And also, Dan, do you want to elaborate on your introduction?

Sure. I also write movie reviews for True Slant, and I'm a contributing writer in New York

magazine.

I let you elaborate that time because I didn't actually know about the True Slant

gig until this call.

So there's three places.

The list gets longer every time as the freelance market dries up.

Well, it's nice that you're dominating some portion of it anyway.

Paid or unpaid? Let's warn everyone, of course, that we will be spoiling the hell out of where the

wild things are. So if you were not previously aware that Max survives, you shouldn't listen to the

rest of this. Yeah, he makes it back home. And the dinner's still hot. We can't spoil that fact that the dinner's

so hot. Oops, too late. Oh, no. So I have a lot to say about this movie. I don't know where

we want to start. I feel like even though I've had so many venues to talk about this

incredibly hyped movie this week, I still have more to say after reviewing it and talking about

it on this late Culture Gab Fest podcast, and I may write further about children's literature and adaptation

next week, but it's a pretty rich topic. I was disappointed in the movie, but I still feel like

there's a lot there to talk about. Let's just start out, number one, we didn't see it together,

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