We have Brent, Chris, TJ and David finally discussing the last homework assignment (The Handmaiden), before the main topic: our mom’s favorite movies – in honor of Mother’s Day. Talking about how our mom’s taste in movies helped shape our taste. So, here’s your gift! … Uh, we’ll probably get a nice card too… And flowers? … And a real gift.
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Homework Follow-up: The Handmaiden (1:07) Main Topic: Movies our Moms Love (23:40) New Homework Assignment: The Manchurian Candidate (2004 Remake) (Netflix) (50:22)
Talkie Talk Ep. 15: Who Watches the Watchlist? - 5/9
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We’re trying something new – splitting our podcast IN TWAIN. First pod for the week will be Watchlist and Breezy on the Streets (News) – second pod will be Homework and a main topic. Same RSS feed – no change needed from your end, but these will end up being more digestible [but let us know your thoughts].
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Watchlist/Playlist (1:44) Brent: Frenzy (2:10), Clerks (3:14), Raiders of the Lost Ark (4:21), The Handmaid’s Tale (5:07), Survivor (6:07) David: Captain America: Civil War (11:49), Ant-Man [TJ] (13:22), Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (13:59), Feud: Bette and Joan (14:59), Dear White People (16:05) Chris: Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (20:06), The Simpsons Movie (24:48), The Challenge (25:42), S-Town (27:08), Playing: Player Unknown’s Battleground (28:51), Skyrim check-in [Brent] (30:17), Persona 3: FES Portable [David] (30:50) TJ: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (33:07), The Life Aquatic (34:14), The Monster (35:18) Breezy on the Streets (38:10)
New(ish) Trailers (The Dark Tower 38:37, Kingsmen: Golden Circle 41:07, The Big Sick 41:47, Blade Runner 2049 teaser 42:37)
HBO announces there will be GoT spinoffs (of course) (43:38)
M. Knight announces “Glass” follow-up to Unbreakable (47:42)
Slight warning: Some mild language
(Intro courtesy of The Willow Walkers / Outro “Onions” courtesy of Mega Gem, via the Free Music Archive, CC-BY)
In this very special mini-episode (we’re calling it Small Talk), we have Brent, Chris and David discussing their Watchlists and deliver some Breezy on the Streets (Movie & TV News!) that goes off the rails. We got a homework extension for The Handmaiden – we’ve all seen it, we just want the whole crew here to be talk about it – same with a main topic. TJ is on assignment at the Sands Resort, fighting the good fight.
David is trying out a sieve jammer – Chris is becoming a Maester – and Brent reconfigures the Oracle. Makes sense to me.
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Watchlist/Playlist ( 1:35 )
David: Fargo (1:40), Silicon Valley (4:10), Veep (5:09), Stranded with a Million Dollars finale (6:08), RuPaul’s Drag Race (8:05), Don’t Think Twice (11:15) Chris: The Good Dinosaur (14:30),The Leftovers (18:10), The Get Down (20:22), Alt+Shift+X (Youtube series) – Valyrian Steel: Where are these swords currently in GoT? (21:39) Brent: Two for the Road(25:03), Suspicion (28:33), Fantasia (30:15), American Gods (33:08), The Handmaid’s Tale (40:30), Survivor (44:19) Breezy on the Streets ( 48:33 ) Avatar sequels 2-5 announced starting 2020. Okay… New X-Men sequel title: Dark Phoenix New Narnia film (#4) – Jay Johnston doing The Silver Chair David Fincher doing a World War Z sequel? Z2?
Best bet coming out this week – Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Slight warning: Some mild language
(Intro courtesy of The Willow Walkers / Outro “Cantina Rag” courtesy of Jackson Smith, via the Free Music Archive, CC-BY)
In this episode, we have Brent, Chris, TJ and David discuss last week’s homework (Monsters), their Watchlists, some Breezy on the Streets (Movie & TV News!) before going into the main topic: in honor of this week’s NFL Draft – we are doing our own draft – drafting desert island movies with NFL team names. But it’s more complicated than that. Delightfully arcane rules of elimination and selection are abound in this week’s podcast – even if you don’t like football, this should be fun.
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Homework Follow-up: Monsters ( 0:50 – 11:56 ) Watchlist/Playlist ( 11:56 – 30:53 )
TJ: The Leftovers, Titanic, Free Fire Chris: Fargo, playing: Yooka-Laylee David: Girls, S-Town (podcast) Brent: American Crime, Arrested Development Breezy on the Streets ( 30:53 – 37:49 ) Deadwood movie script has been completed Farenheit 451 HBO movie with Michael Shannon and Michael B. Jordan Half Nelson directors Fleck & Boden tabbed for directing Captain Marvel
Will Smith (probably) to be the genie in Guy Ritchie’s live-action Aladdin
Joss Whedon directing Batgirl, after getting blessing from Marvel chief
Bidding war amongst studios for who gets the James Bond franchise
Best bet movie coming out this week – The Circle Main Topic: Movie Draft ( 37:49 – 1:09:08 )
Team TJ: The Lion King, The Maltese Falcon, Under the Skin, Steel Magnolias, St. Vincent, The Jetsons, Le Chiefs, Gypsy Colt Team Chris: Space Cowboys, Lady and the Tramp, Uncle Buck, Eddie the Eagle, Ravenous, Dolphin Tale, Bolt, The Lucky Texan Team David: Kill Bill, The Iron Giant, Jackie Brown, Bad News Bears, Green Card, Hudson Hawk, Gentleman Broncos, Ladder 49 Team Brent: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Remember the Titans, Black Panther, The Patriot, Erik the Viking, Six Pack, Storm Over Bengal, Jaguar Lives New Homework Assignment: The Handmaiden (Amazon Prime) ( 1:09:08 )
The twelfth episode of The Media By Us pan-media podcast, Talkie Talk.
In this episode, we have Brent, Chris, TJ and David discuss last week’s homework (Filth), their Watchlists, some Breezy on the Streets (Trailers, returning TV, etc.) before going into the main topic (another Facebook suggestion!): checking what movie or TV show you mentally associate with an actor or actress. Like, who is Idris Elba to you? – Luther? Stringer Bell? That branch manager for two episodes of The Office? Shooter McGavin? A psychologically revealing episode this week.
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Homework Follow-up: Filth ( 0:45 – 19:55 ) Watchlist/Playlist: ( 19:56 – Brent:Man of Steel, Tangerine, The Leftovers, Survivor TJ:Jurassic Park, Survivor Chris:Survivor, Stranded with a Million Dollars, The Challenge David:Win It All, 20th Century Women, Patriot, Reading: Annihilation Breezy on the Streets:
Trailer Time (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Thor: Ragnarok, Detroit)
Josh Brolin cast as Cable in Deadpool 2
Returning TV (The Leftovers, Veep, The Handmaid’s Tale, Fargo, MST3K) Main Topic: Actor & Actress Associations General Discussion: Catherine O’Hara, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gary Oldman, Scarlett Johanssen, Stanley Tucci, Natalie Portman, Harrison Ford, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Carell, Ricky Gervais, Nicholas Cage, Aiden Guillen, Tom Hardy, Liam Neeson, Kirsten Dunst, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Jude Law, Ryan Reynolds, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Buscemi, J.K. Simmons, Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Cameron Diaz, Seth Rogen, Julia Roberts, Christopher Lee, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matt Damon, Parker Posey, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Robin Williams, Maggie Gyllenhaal, TJ Miller, Chris Pratt, Denzel Washington, George Clooney New Homework Assignment:Monsters (Netflix)
Slight warning: Some mild language
(Intro courtesy of The Willow Walkers / Outro “5000 Candles in the Wind” courtesy of Mouserat, standard license NBC Universal)
MUSIC SEEN – remembering some of our favorite confluences of music in movies, television, video games, anything. Pairing the moving image with musical notes is a time honored craft – about which, we will clumsily say is pretty awesome and pretty cool.
“Auto Rock” (Mogwai) in Miami Vice (2006)
Why this movie? Why this song in this movie? Why now? So many questions.
Michael Mann re-made his 1980’s TV show in 2006 with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, alongside an underrated supporting cast of pre-Moonlight Naomie Harris, pre-Leftovers Justin Theroux and an ahead-of-its-time visual aesthetic, both surrealistic and gritty. It’s not a perfect movie, by any estimation. But it does do some things very well. Take music for instance.
And Then There Were Ten – in which our intrepid hero goes back and expands the Academy Award Best Picture nominations to ten nominations, and goes about filling those hypothetical slots. This time – it’s 2008. Check out previous entries here.
Chapter 5: Indie Movies in our Temples of Gloom (A Wildcard Throw-Down)
INDIE MOVIES… BEING SO…. INDIE. (image: Complex)
And it comes down to this.
The last magical slot for expanding nominations in 2008.
If the rest of the movies previously assigned to the extra Best Picture slots are playoff division winners (Box Office Division, Acting Division, Animated Division and Comedy Division), then this last slot is the wildcard play-in game.
Looking at guild support, all the usual suspects have already made it: Frost/Nixon, Milk, Slumdog Millionaireand Benji B all wrapped all four major guild nominations (Producer, Director, Ensemble Acting, Writing). The other two with more than one guild nominations are The Dark Knight (DGA, PGA, WGA) and Doubt (SAG, WGA) which made the extra slots as described in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of this speculative manifesto. All that’s left are the WGA nominees, but this guild is a poor predictor for nomination success (43% correlation of WGA nomination to Best Picture nomination). This leads us down an appropriate avenue – the wildcard movie in the wildcard slot.
And Then There Were Ten – in which our intrepid hero goes back and expands the Academy Award Best Picture nominations to ten nominations, and goes about filling those hypothetical slots. This time – it’s 2008. Check out the previous entries here.
Chapter 4: The Quote-Unquote Comedy (A Three-Way Throwdown)
It Happened One Night (1934) – first Best Picture comedy (image: AV Club)
The “Comedy.” If you’re even reading this multi-post treatise of speculative Oscarology, then you’re probably already aware that comedies generally get little respect in this arena. Since the successful days of comedy/musicals in the 1950s, nominations are hard to come by and wins are harder still for comedies. 2008 is no slouch in this judgment, with zero comedies nominated for BP – the funniest of the bunch is probably Slumdog Millionaire, but one would be hard pressed to consider that a chuckle fest – aside from the poo scene – poo is funny.
In this self-celebration of seriousness, comedies are ranked as less significant than traditional dramas. Why do they get less love in this respect than their other genre compatriots? I don’t know yet – so, an analysis of the nomination statistics is in order. And later on, I’ll create my own Sadness Index to figure out a winner.
The official The Media By Us Oscar prediction showdown between TJ and David. Posted here for posterity, TJ and David talk through every single category for the February 26th ceremony:
(Image: DB Movies Blog)`
BEST SHORT: ANIMATED / LIVE ACTION / DOCUMENTARY
TJ: So, let’s start with the shorts. I’ve only seen one. But I’m picking it to win Best Animated Short. Piperwas adorable.
David: Piper should be the leading candidate. It has also been awhile since Pixar has one in Best Animated Short – a lot of upsets.
TJ: And with Pixar not having a nomination in the feature category, this could be a decent secondary prize for the studio.
David: Poor Pixar. I hope the billions help. I have not seen nor will see any short for this year. So I’ll take your word.
TJ: It was good. I’ll watch them before the ceremony, I hope. I’m taking Joe’s Violin and Ennemis Interieurs for Doc Short and Live Action Short respectively. Those two categories seem a lot closer than Animated Short.
David: I like to go with the saddest sounding ones, not knowing a lot about them. Give me La Femme et la TGV (film), Blind Vasha(animated) and 4.1 Miles (doc) as some wild cards. Shorts are typically ballot bloodbaths – separating ties and declaring winners
TJ: Nice. I picked Joe’s Violinin hopes that it’s just 5 minutes of my old friend Joe holding a violin. I’d vote for that.
And Then There Were Ten – in which our intrepid hero goes back and expands the Academy Award Best Picture nominations to ten nominations, and goes about filling those hypothetical slots. This time – it’s 2008. Check out the previous entries here.
Since the days of Steamboat Willieto the CGI movies of today, very few films have received top recognition in a Best Picture nomination. But the medium has also changed considerably during this time period. It’s hard to imagine the complicated and super-sad Anomalisaup against the bright songs of The Land Before Time, also super-sad in its own right. There are the children’s singalongs, hand-drawn for Disney from yesteryear, and there are the emotionally-wrought, complex and funny character studies that Pixar makes today for Disney.
