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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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It’s Christmaaaaaaaaaas! And in the world of movies, that just means one thing: John McClane is back. Well, he’s not back yet, he’s back next year, but there’s a teaser out for the fourth Die Hard flick and surprisingly, it takes up a lot of our talking time.

On top of that, loads of talk about Superman: The Ultimate Collection, more ragging on Eragon (geddit) and plenty of DVDs and stuff. A stuffed show for Chrimbo!

Take a listen and if you enjoy, please feel free to drop us an email and/or a comment on the site.

Show notes

00:00 – Our brief intro ‘theme’ – excerpted from Spybreak, by Propellerheads, from The Matrix Original Soundtrack.

00:15 – Introduction time…

01:23 – News! Starting with the traditional box-office rundown. Featuring Eragon, The Pursuit of Happyness and Charlotte’s Web. Who came out on top?

05:04 – The only nice thing we’ll say about Eragon for this podcast; we got some facts about it wrong. Oh, that and The Big Sleep.

05:44 – Pulp movies are coming back! Sam Raimi will (probably) direct a new version of The Shadow.

09:23 – And Guillermo Del Toro may direct a new Tarzan flick. Fancy.

13:14 – “We might as well talk about trailers because we haven’t seen any movies.”

13:30 – Live Free or Die Hard. Which totally is the title. Believe it or not, just about all that Al can talk about is Bruce Willis’ lack of hair.
22:42 – The Hitcher, as in the remake.

28:30 – Epic Movie. Oh Gods, save us from the remake of the spoofs of the remakes….

30:46 – Al’s seen C.R.A.Z.Y. As in, zee crazee French flick.

32:15 – Rollerball. The original, not the remake, kids.

36:00 – Lords of Dogtown, the ‘fictional’ version of the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, written by the guy who directed the documentary and is one of the main characters. But doesn’t play himself. Confused?

39:12 – Stephen’s finally got ahold of Superman: The Ultimate Collection (available at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and Play.com – although it looks sold out everywhere!). It just doesn’t get any bigger than this, Superman fans. Or nerdier.

48:23 – Christmas Hangover Movies That Make You Cry. This was all Al’s idea; you can tell.

53:30 – We’re not done! Al saw Brainstorm and just had to talk about Christopher Walken some more. But, you’ll be glad to hear, he can’t do an impression.

57:25 – But wait! We forgot to do ‘Guess the 25 Word Review’ – oh mercy me! A great chance to abuse our five listeners.

58:39 – The Great Escape slips in… a classic Christmas flick. If you like watching people getting gunned down.

59:32 – Closing down, and my traditional plea for email – send it to taglinepodcast AT gmail DOT com, ya bastards – or leave a comment below.

Have a great Christmas everybody, and we’ll talk to you in 2007!