Episode 29: Long Day’s Journey Into Middle Earth [The Hobbit; Globe/SAG Reaction; Rise of the Guardians]
Discussed on the podcast:
Opening Segment: Reacting to the Golden Globe and Screen Actors’ Guild nominations and assessing how that affects the Oscar race [3:15 – 24:00]
*Preconception Corner*
Reviews of:
- “The Hobbit”
- “Rise of the Guardians”
- “Love Crime”
- “Babette’s Feast” (25th anniversary re-release)
- “Baraka”
[27:35 – 1:05:45]
Closing Segment: Dishing the dirt on 2012 releases we’ve been catching up with: “A Royal Affair”; “Caesar Must Die”; “The Deep Blue Sea”; “The Giant Mechanical Man”; “Vamps”; “Bye Bye Blondie” [1:05:50 – 1:20:10]
*Shag, Marry or Kill?*[Audio difficulties meant that *The Watson Factor* and *The Poupaud Range* failed to record this week — for interested parties, 1.0 and 1.0.]
Intro Music: New theme music!
Outro Music: Sigur Ros, Hoppipolla
Episode 28: Masculine/Feminine [Golden Globe Predictions; Seven Psychopaths; So Undercover]
Discussed on the podcast:
Opening Segment: Discussing the winners from the National Board of Review, LA film critics’ association, and Boston Society of Film Critics’. [2:35 – 14:40]
*Preconception Corner*
Reviews of:
- “Seven Psychopaths”
- “Tabu”
- “The House I Live In”
- “Knuckleball”
- “So Undercover”
[18:20 – 55:35]
Closing Segment: Predicting the Golden Globe nominations, and the Screen Actors’ Guild nominations [55:40 – 1:12:10]
*Shag, Marry or Kill?*
*The Watson Factor*
*The Poupaud Range*
Intro Music: New theme music!
Outro Music: Sky Ferreira, “Everything Is Embarrassing”
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