Tagline

The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards are out – or ‘Oscars’, if you will.

We know you need some guidance when you stagger into the betting shop, bottle of gutrot in one hand, fortuitously discovered fiver in the other. In this very special podcast we give you the scientifically proven methods you’ll need to pick Oscar winners like a.. er.. winner!

No show notes this time out because, well, that’d kind of spoil things, wouldn’t it? For your convenience though I’ll list the nominations we focused on right here, to save you having to go look and also to help you decipher some of our very, very poor pronounciation.

Oh, by the way – music is a clip from Blackmail Drop, by the Grey Boy Allstars, off the soundtrack to the underrated Zero Effect. You should watch it.

Oscar Nominations 2007 (well, the ones we really care about, anyway)

Best Picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best Director
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Who picked what? Who should you bet on? Let Tagline guide you, good people! And if you disagree with our choices, well hey, that’s what the comments section on the site is for. Or send us an email already!

It’s the great big Tagline 2007 movie preview, starring a cast of thousands! And 16 movies of all stripes. Just in time for the tail end of January (ahem).

As always, feel free to drop us an email about the show, leave a comment, or now send us a voicemail via Odeo – just click on the About tab at the site.

SHOW NOTES

00:00 – A blast from the past to get us going, talking about the future… excerpt from Prince’s Batman soundtrack.

00:30 – Intro time, complete with extended metaphors.

01:45 – Starting in no particular order with… 300.

05:30 – Call the fuzz… Hot Fuzz.

10:40 – Biggest movie of the year? And our only ‘threequel’ on our list… Spider-Man 3.

18:00 – Will Smith is the Last Man on Earth… kicking vampire butt in I Am Legend.

21:25 – Can Pixar get back into my good books with Ratatouille? Signs point to yes.
22:30 – Ridley Scott + Russell Crowe + Denzel Washington = American Gangster.

24:05 – A slight detour into talking about David Fincher’s ‘comeback’, Zodiac.

25:50 – Thinking about Christmas already? Hollywood would like you to remember the name… Fred Claus.

28:10 – Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez bring you three hours of shocks! Thrills! It’s Grindhouse.

30:35 – I refuse to speak about it, but Al wanted to… The Simpsons Movie.

32:30 – And the big finale. This summer you’ll have a choice… oooh… Live Free or Die Hard.

35:30 – That’s it for the movies we really want to see… but our honourable mentions (although they’re certainly not all honourable) include threequels Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End, Shrek the Third and Ocean’s 13.

39:50 – Not to forget Michael Bay’s Transformers…

43:25 – …and later in the year, the first part of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy – The Golden Compass (or Northern Lights, if you’re English).

45:49 – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. “Best title ever.”

48:08 – And we’re out.

Thanks again for listening. Send us an email, and/or money if you like.

Or, ‘The One Where We Forget The Names For Everything’.

It seems as though New Year took a heavy toll on us at Tagline HQ, and between Al’s jetlag and my… er.. fading braincells, we manage to forget the names of just about everything in this podcast. Actors. Movies. Book titles. The lot.

Still, I managed to cut out most of the ‘umms’ and ‘errrs’ so it all looks super-smooth. The magic of editing.

Show notes

00:00 – Intro theme clip is (again) from The Matrix OST – Leave You Far Behind, by Lunatic Calm.

00:11 – Intro time… general backslappery and welcomes.

01:00 – Guess The 25 Word Review. Al can’t get it. CAN YOU??

01:52 – News, and it’s Peter Jackson vs. New Line again. The story that will not die!

06:15 – And apparently, the story we can’t stop talking about. Off we go into talking about Petey’s potential next projects, including the Temeraire novels by Naomi Novik.

07:35 – Neal Stephenson is adapting his novel The Diamond Age for the Sci-Fi channel… quite possibly, by hand using a fountain pen. (Just listen.)

09:30 – It’s nomination season! (Actually it’s awards season, but we can’t read a calendar.) So first, the Golden Globe… nominations! More fun than the real thing… honest.

12:40 – Just how pissed is Clint Eastwood?

13:57 – And the nominee is… and again… can you get nominated twice for the same award? Apparently so. Cheaters!

15:18 – The name I can’t pronounce here is the wonderfully named… Chiwetel Ejiofor.

16:25 – The BAFTAs. Less important than the awards you give out on your blog. No. Seriously.

20:45 – Peter O’Toole. Shoo-in for the ‘he may die if we don’t give him something soon’ award.

22:50 – Best story for a while. Harrison Ford turned down a Han Solo flick. We call BULLSHIT.

24:54 – Al mentions a movie called Space Truckers. I don’t want to know and neither do you.

26:00 – “This isn’t working out. Cut!”

26:10 – Trailers! First of all, Music & Lyrics, with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore… see it here:

http://musicandlyrics.warnerbros.com/

28:24 – Wild Hogs, the biggest career rehab movie since the Harry Potter series. See it here:

http://wildhogs.movies.go.com/

29:07 – William H. Macy was so not in Boogie Nights! (Actually he was. Don’t tell Al I said so.)

31:37 – “Movies we have actually seen… in some cases, in a cinema.”

31:40 – Al’s seen Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness. And therein lies a tale….

37:59 – Things you’ve heard about but never actual seen, number 323: American moviegoers getting very excited.

39:15 – The Last Kiss. A movie to see on a plane, apparently.

43:30 – Deja Vu, with Denzel Scott and Tony Washington. Or something.

49:40 – A great Reid family tradition… seeing shitty movies on Al’s birthday. In this case, Night at the Museum.

54:02 – And the answer to our 25 Word Review quiz… will Al get it??

56:05 – The first set of goodbyes… sniff. Visit us on these social networks, yo!

Flixster: http://taglinepodcast.flixster.com/

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/taglinepodcast

57:00 – Whoops! Me going solo, back with a postscript on who actually won the Golden Globes. Ahem. Damn timing….