Those Oscars are rehhtahhded.

Original Airdate: 2 - 25 - 13
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. -Gaffer

We heard music from:

Life of Pi, 2012 - Mychael Danna

Gladiator, 2000 - Hans Zimmer

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These sequels die hard.

Original airdate: 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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Something old in something new...leaves us blue.

Original airdate: 1 - 28 - 13
After a week locked out of the studio, we came back with guns blazin', 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 of the present.

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

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We cover awards so you don't have to.

Original airdate: 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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Worst films of 2012: The Podcast.

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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