Well, after another *cough* unavoidable delay in editing – at least, not tied to some awards show or other this time – we’re back with show #27. The same number as Batman’s debut in Detective Comics.
A useless piece of trivia? Or perhaps something… symbolic of a show that dives into the ins and outs of the long-awaited Watchmen. Well I say dives, more ‘dips a toe in and then runs away ‘cos it’s cold’.
As well as that we have some stuff… to say… about things… but I forgot what it was, just like we did, repeatedly, while recording this. Come for the reviews! Stay for the… uhh.. what was it again?
On the day of the Oscars, we bring you… a show that’s 10 days late in the editing, so don’t expect it to be bang up to date. However! Between us by the time we sat down to record this show, we’d see four out of five of the Oscar contenders. Can you guess which ones??
With not much else to talk about, we concern ourselves this time out with trailers, wild speculation and libel on the part of a certain ex-Miramax chairman. If we weren’t quoting chapter and verse from Peter Biskind’s Down and Dirty Pictures, that is.
Al and I both have a few choice things to say about Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, or Inglorious Bastards, or however you want to spell it. That leads us neatly (?) onto Watchmen, just a few weeks away now people, and of course that leads on to books, and George Lucas, and… err… Frost/Nixon.
So obviously, you need to download the episode just to see how we got from A to Z.
PS: This show is dedicated to Henry Reid, born 17th February 2009 to Al and Liz.
It’s been a big couple of weeks, not least because we discovered that Hollywood megastars occasionally swear… even when it’s not from a script. I know, I know. Don’t worry; together we can heal these wounds.
Apart from picking over the bloated, swelled-in-the-sun corpse of ‘The Christian Bale Loses His Shit’ story, we also manage to do a few very bad impressions, and then segue into actually talking about Terminator: Salvation: The Stage Play.
From that, straight on to the biggest adverts of the year; yes, better than the summer blockbusters themselves, it’s the Superbowl Spots! Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, Land of the Lost, Fast and Furious, GI Joe (AKA ‘Action Force: The Movie’)… can you guess which of these we actually enjoyed? (It’s not that hard if you think about it.)
Year One leads us into an autopsy on Harold Ramis’ career – it’s not too late for Ghostbusters 3, Egon – and then we’re off and running again like we’ve just stuck our fingers in a live plug, just like Jason Statham in Crank 2: High Voltage. Not content with just electrocuting himself in Crank 2, apparently Statham’s going to be part of Stallone’s all-action-hero testosterone fest, The Expendables – but just which Oscar winning British actor is also part of the line-up? Listen and find out.
Between this, a lot of confusion over who’s won what (or even been nominated) for any awards so far this year, we both manage to talk about DVDs you’ve probably never even heard of, let alone will ever rent. In other words it’s the sort of fun-packed forty minutes you’ve come to expect.
Musical intro and outro from the brilliant remix by RevoLucian of Bale’s infamous words.