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As I (being Stephen) live in California now, it has a tendency to get hot some days. Take 90-degree temperatures, lock a movie fan in a room with no AC, and record his ramblings for 30 minutes: the result isn’t pretty, people. It also explains the weird ever-present sound of… nothing in the background.

Don’t worry, next time out we switch and Al has all the weird interference.

Anyway! Despite sweating more than Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, we managed to put together a semi-coherent half-hour of movie talk, as we catch up with the news we’ve missed talking about for the last six months, including:

• Al’s thoughts on Watchmen, the DVD Experience
• our pre-backlash backlash on Avatar
• Leo D-C in Inception and Shutter Island
• the trailer for Men Who Stare at Goats, which leads naturally into us starting rumours about Ewan MacGregor and The Hobbit
• Al’s thoughts about Frightfest (of course, he didn’t go) and The Wolfman
• Then a final movie medley including Captain America, Youth in Revolt, Ninja Assassin and Kick Ass!

All that packed into 30 minutes! What more could you want in a free podcast??

Hey-hey! Look who’s back! Us, that’s who!

Well, after an exceedingly long hiatus in which I’m sure you thought at least once “What happened to that podcast I was listening to… that one.. with those guys…” we are back and hopefully back to stay. For a while. Where exactly we’ve been and why we’ve been there is explained in the first minute or two of this episode (Hint: It doesn’t involve jail time) and then we get into the real reason we have a podcast… to witter on about the new Indiana Jones movie!

Besides that, some aggressive conversational steering by myself manages to get us on to other topics, such as the big May movies – Iron Man, Speed Racer, Prince Caspian and… er… Indiana Jones, again. We also talk briefly about things like The Hobbit movie, that Incredible Hulk trailer and… Indiana Jones merchandise.

I swear it’ll all pass by, say, mid-June.

In the meantime download away! You know you want to.

Some boring techie notes about this episode… one, it was edited (barely) by me in Garageband, which has a totally different interface to Audacity. As a result it’s not quite as slick… although it does sound good. It’s also been exported as an MP4 file, against my will, so hopefully that’ll still play for you. It should.

Oh and also… erm… well it took me a while to get to editing it so ignore the references to any movies that might have opened… this weekend. We’ll strive to be more up to date next time.

Back before you knew it, and we’ve both been to the flicks – myself to see Joe ‘Narc’ Carnahan’s Smokin’ Aces, and Al went off to see Ed Zwick’s – or is it really Leo DiCaprio’s? – Blood Diamond. A nice, quick, sub-30 minutes podcast for the busy moviegoer on the, well, go.

Listen in to hear all about those two flicks, as well as the latest crazy news about the proposed Hobbit movie, Indy IV and more. Show notes below…

SHOW NOTES

00:00 – The King gets us started. We’re looking for a theme tune, can you tell?

00:50 – This is the news… is Sam Raimi potentially going to direct The Hobbit?? And if so, who’s Bruce Campbell going to play?

03:43 – Indiana Jones IV… god save us… will Sean Connery be in it? Are nuns Catholic? Well, depends on the nun, doesn’t it?

05:20 – Darren Aronofsky. Put down the crackpipe and put your hands up against the wall, dude. He’s off on one about Batman, again….

13:13 – I’m up with my thoughts on Smokin’ Aces. To summarise: no, I won’t tell you. Listen to it, dammit.

20:05 – Al tells us all about Blood Diamond, and yes, that is an excuse for him to do the accent again.

28:10 – Wrapping up and saying goodbye.

That’s it for now – come back soon for more podcast fun. In the meantime write us an email, send us a voice message or leave a comment on the site… g’wan, we wanna know you’re out there!