Tagline

Or, ‘The One Where We Forget The Names For Everything’.

It seems as though New Year took a heavy toll on us at Tagline HQ, and between Al’s jetlag and my… er.. fading braincells, we manage to forget the names of just about everything in this podcast. Actors. Movies. Book titles. The lot.

Still, I managed to cut out most of the ‘umms’ and ‘errrs’ so it all looks super-smooth. The magic of editing.

Show notes

00:00 – Intro theme clip is (again) from The Matrix OST – Leave You Far Behind, by Lunatic Calm.

00:11 – Intro time… general backslappery and welcomes.

01:00 – Guess The 25 Word Review. Al can’t get it. CAN YOU??

01:52 – News, and it’s Peter Jackson vs. New Line again. The story that will not die!

06:15 – And apparently, the story we can’t stop talking about. Off we go into talking about Petey’s potential next projects, including the Temeraire novels by Naomi Novik.

07:35 – Neal Stephenson is adapting his novel The Diamond Age for the Sci-Fi channel… quite possibly, by hand using a fountain pen. (Just listen.)

09:30 – It’s nomination season! (Actually it’s awards season, but we can’t read a calendar.) So first, the Golden Globe… nominations! More fun than the real thing… honest.

12:40 – Just how pissed is Clint Eastwood?

13:57 – And the nominee is… and again… can you get nominated twice for the same award? Apparently so. Cheaters!

15:18 – The name I can’t pronounce here is the wonderfully named… Chiwetel Ejiofor.

16:25 – The BAFTAs. Less important than the awards you give out on your blog. No. Seriously.

20:45 – Peter O’Toole. Shoo-in for the ‘he may die if we don’t give him something soon’ award.

22:50 – Best story for a while. Harrison Ford turned down a Han Solo flick. We call BULLSHIT.

24:54 – Al mentions a movie called Space Truckers. I don’t want to know and neither do you.

26:00 – “This isn’t working out. Cut!”

26:10 – Trailers! First of all, Music & Lyrics, with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore… see it here:

http://musicandlyrics.warnerbros.com/

28:24 – Wild Hogs, the biggest career rehab movie since the Harry Potter series. See it here:

http://wildhogs.movies.go.com/

29:07 – William H. Macy was so not in Boogie Nights! (Actually he was. Don’t tell Al I said so.)

31:37 – “Movies we have actually seen… in some cases, in a cinema.”

31:40 – Al’s seen Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness. And therein lies a tale….

37:59 – Things you’ve heard about but never actual seen, number 323: American moviegoers getting very excited.

39:15 – The Last Kiss. A movie to see on a plane, apparently.

43:30 – Deja Vu, with Denzel Scott and Tony Washington. Or something.

49:40 – A great Reid family tradition… seeing shitty movies on Al’s birthday. In this case, Night at the Museum.

54:02 – And the answer to our 25 Word Review quiz… will Al get it??

56:05 – The first set of goodbyes… sniff. Visit us on these social networks, yo!

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57:00 – Whoops! Me going solo, back with a postscript on who actually won the Golden Globes. Ahem. Damn timing….

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!