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Hard to come up with a witty headline when all you’ve got to work with is glistening pecs, Hollywood’s version of history, and a pun on a number. I suck. It’s the cold.

Back online after we’ve watched at least one movie between the two of us. We’re here for you despite the pressing needs of gardens overgrowing with weeds and colds that might get lesser podcasters down. But not us! We’re here to talk about the fanboy phenomenon that is 300, or Frank Miller’s 300 if you prefer, because it surely isn’t Zack Snyder’s.

That’s the big movie review along with plenty of news about Indiana Jones and the Movie We Can’t Shut Up About, Rodriguez and Tarantino’s Grindhouse and Danny Boyle’s epic-sci-fi attempt, Sunshine.

Music this time out is a brief blast from Harry Connick Jr. No really. He did this blues album. Two of them actually, although one of them was a concept album. What? He’s an actor too. There’s a connection, dammit.

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It’s about time we got around to reviewing a few movies, so… here we go with almost wall-to-wall (or end-to-end, if you prefer) reviews of flicks we have seen down the cinema. Erm, and on DVD.

As well as my views on Rocky Balboa – a flick now so old, it’s starting to look like Sly Stallone (Oh, the hilarity) we also talk about Dreamgirls, Hot Fuzz and French action flick / le parkour showcase, District 13 (aka Banlieue 13). Oh, and somewhere in there Al saw Children of Men on DVD.

All this, plus news on 300’s box office success, some talk about Indiana Jones 4 (again) and a brand-new, punchy reviews format devised by that mad genius, my brother Al.

Opening and closing music is a gentle ditty from The Firm by Dave Grusin – me likey. Tried a higher bitrate for this show and I think it sounds a bit better… do let us know if you object to the larger filesize. You know where to find us!

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).

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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.

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