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Some guy with a Boston accent who likes to say "rehhtahhhhded" with a Boston accent, vastly overestimating how funny that is, hosted last night's Academy Awards and offended quite a few people by doing exactly what they hired him to do and making in-winks at how offensive he was. He made a lot of people upset for saying and doing exactly what they paid him to do. I'll be.

We talked about the Oscars, of course, all the predictable wins and losses and all the self-congratulatory weaponized hegemonic culture that Hollywood represents. I went on my usual rants regarding the Best Picture/Director dichotomy and its unintentional critique of auteur theory; the freaking stupid, disingenuous system for Best Foreign Language film; and globalization as manifested by the bankruptcy of this year's Best Visual Effects winner (Rhythm and Hues). And some other stuff, I forget, but you should listen.

We heard music from:

Life of Pi, 2012 - Mychael Danna

Gladiator, 2000 - Hans Zimmer

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Episode 2 - 18 -13

President's Day weekend gave us A Good Day to Die Hard Except for Our Franchise and Beautiful Creatures, a True Blood Twilight Potter Craft plea for franchise dominance relevance existence. They both sucked, and we opined about it and the lack of consequences in our fictional universes. We also discovered the items in which create a powerful franchise, how Hollywood loses focus of said items and how we're stuck in a pre-packaged formula based movie market. Though, when don't we mention that?

We heard music from:

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 2008 - Randy Edelman
Murder on the Orient Express, 1974 - Richard Bennett
Paris J'Taime, 2007 - Various
Die Hard 2, 1990 - Michael Kamen

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Episode 1 - 28 -13

After a week locked-out of the studio, we came back with guns blazon', loaded with five film reviews and a fifth season of Tavern Trivia. On tap were reviews of John Dies at the End, Texas Chainsaw 3-D, A Haunted House, Broken City and The Last Stand. So, we were busy. We talked about postmodern culture, nostalgia, and the iron titans of the 80s who we cannot let retire. It was a whiz bang of a show, and we think you'll enjoy the look backward, the look forward, and the cross eyed look we give the present.

Musical Selections:
Cobra, 1986 - Sylvester Levay
Jaws 3-D, 1983 - Alan Parker
Red Heat, 1988 - James Horner

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Episode 1 - 14 - 13

Greetings duckies,

Back with our first real 2013 shakedown we're up and....talking about awards show nominations concerning the previous year and news stories of things in years to come, blegh. Golden Globes and Razzies and Oscars were discussed (for some reason). Spoiler: they're as boring and paint-by-numbers as we've come to expect. However, if you're in a betting pool...we've got you in a winning spot.  Beyond that, we reviewed Gangster Squad and Lincoln, both of which were sublimely mediocre.

We heard music from the following:

A Zed & Two Naughts, 1985 - Michael Nyman
Rango, 2011 - Hans Zimmer
L.A. Confidential, 1997 - Jerry Goldsmith

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Episode 1 - 7 - 13

Wow, so it's been about 3 weeks since our last show: we had quite a few films to review, mainly The Hobbit, Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, and Silver Linings Playbook. Then....then....we got to our annual worst-of-2012 and the venom really flowed. What you hear/heard was unfiltered, unrehearsed hate-jazz of the most disgusting moments of the past year. We talked for nigh on two hours and some change, all of it gold. Download it now. Just be warned that you may spew milk from your nose while listening...and you don't even have to be drinking any.

We heard a l'il music from:

Crimson Tide, 1995 - Hans Zimmer
The Last Dragon, 1985 - Various

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Episode 11 - 26 - 12

Having seen the aforementioned Red Dawn remake, I still have no idea how they made the North Korean invasion plausible, and neither did the movie! So, everyone is in a recession and "they" have some kind of electronic super-weapon? Hrm, ok. But then they invade...Spokane...and nobody stops them. But then they explain...something, and lo, the Russians are helping them, at least like six of them. But the movie itself? Ehhhhthbbbt. A useless enough action film with amusingly bad CG replacing PLA paraphernalia with *snicker* North Korean flags and Korean text. We had a good time talking about all the cultural underpinnings, though, so good?

DVD release highlights:
MIB 3, Paranorman, Berserk - Arc 1

In theaters nation wide this weekend:
Killing Them Softly

We heard music from:

1990: The Bronx Warriors, 1982 - Walter Rizzati
Mission to Mars, 2000 - Ennio Morricone
Black Hole, 1979 - John Barry
First Blood, 1982 - Jerry Goldsmith

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Episode 11 - 19 -12

I really hoped to see the new Red Dawn this weekend to see how exactly the film could depict North Korea invading the U.S. Frankly, envisioning a North Korean invasion of a KFC in Sheboygan, Wisconsin would be a stretch. Apparently the invading nation was changed from the plausible China to North Korea in post-production, probably so MGM and potential investors wouldn't alienate all the labor they've exported to China (and the distribution rights they've just purchased there). But seriously, in what geo-political alternative universe would that make sense? I really want to see this now, just to parse out more hilarious America-WWIII logic.

We heard music from the following:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1992 - Various
Miami Connection, 1987 - Various
Lost Boys, 1987 - Various
Doom, 2005 - Clint Mansell
The Breakfast Club, 1985 - Various

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