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It’s May already, and that means it’s time for movies! Movies! MOVIES!!!

Blockbuster summer movies, that is – Tagline’s specialty, our forte if you will. The stakes are high; the budgets are gigantic; the tentpoles are massive. There’s all to play for. Who will win? Who will lose? Who will get fed to the lions? We’ll find out over the next few months as the Hollywood studios duke it out for your hard-earned time and money.

Up first, it’s the biggest three movies of the summer – and they’re all three-time winners. These box office behemoths stand astride the month of May like… three very hyped movies. We’re talking about Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Are they worth your money? Are they worth their own budgets? And just how much might they make in US domestic gross receipts, anyway?

These questions and more (like, what would Empire Strikes Back have been like if Han Solo had been a creepy stalker?) are asked and answered in this, our greatest podcast yet. (No really. If you’re arriving for the first time, you totally want to download this, dude.)

We’ll be back for much more real soon, including our views on Spidey 3… in the meantime download, listen and enjoy. Drums, please….

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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