Join us for another thrill-packed half-hour, filled with technical glitches (neatly edited out; see if you can spot the join) and talk of MOVIES! We’ve got a bit of everything for everyone this time out, including Mike Judge’s Extract, summer sleeper The Hangover, retro-classics Vanishing Point and An American Werewolf in London… plus a whole lot of raving about Anvil! The Story of Anvil, the real-life equivalent of Spinal Tap.

In fact, by complete coincidence, it turns out that Anvil’s story has only just made it to DVD – so do yourself a favour and run out and buy it when you’re done listening to us.

Oh! And before I forget! Yes, it’s the triumphant return of the Tagline Movie Quote Quiz! All you need to do is listen in and guess the quote Al comes up with at the end. (Hint: it’s from one of those movies we always, always quote….)

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Don’t worry, next time out we switch and Al has all the weird interference.

Anyway! Despite sweating more than Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, we managed to put together a semi-coherent half-hour of movie talk, as we catch up with the news we’ve missed talking about for the last six months, including:

• Al’s thoughts on Watchmen, the DVD Experience
• our pre-backlash backlash on Avatar
• Leo D-C in Inception and Shutter Island
• the trailer for Men Who Stare at Goats, which leads naturally into us starting rumours about Ewan MacGregor and The Hobbit
• Al’s thoughts about Frightfest (of course, he didn’t go) and The Wolfman
• Then a final movie medley including Captain America, Youth in Revolt, Ninja Assassin and Kick Ass!

All that packed into 30 minutes! What more could you want in a free podcast??

Where have we been? Several thousand miles and eight hours apart, in fact, but you can hear all about that when you download… along with us blabbering about the Summer That Was 2009, featuring such movies Stephen saw as The Hangover, Funny People, 500 Days of Summer, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, District 9, Inglorious Basterds and movies Al saw, such as… Moon. Well, nothing changes really.

It’s a fun-packed, film-packed, flub-packed forty or so minutes. And even better, we recorded another one straight after! We almost certainly won’t have another six month gap between them.

Oh and if you fancy saying hi, find us on Twitter… @Tagliners

A useless piece of trivia? Or perhaps something… symbolic of a show that dives into the ins and outs of the long-awaited Watchmen. Well I say dives, more ‘dips a toe in and then runs away ‘cos it’s cold’.

As well as that we have some stuff… to say… about things… but I forgot what it was, just like we did, repeatedly, while recording this. Come for the reviews! Stay for the… uhh.. what was it again?

With not much else to talk about, we concern ourselves this time out with trailers, wild speculation and libel on the part of a certain ex-Miramax chairman. If we weren’t quoting chapter and verse from Peter Biskind’s Down and Dirty Pictures, that is.

Al and I both have a few choice things to say about Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, or Inglorious Bastards, or however you want to spell it. That leads us neatly (?) onto Watchmen, just a few weeks away now people, and of course that leads on to books, and George Lucas, and… err… Frost/Nixon.

So obviously, you need to download the episode just to see how we got from A to Z.

PS: This show is dedicated to Henry Reid, born 17th February 2009 to Al and Liz.

Apart from picking over the bloated, swelled-in-the-sun corpse of ‘The Christian Bale Loses His Shit’ story, we also manage to do a few very bad impressions, and then segue into actually talking about Terminator: Salvation: The Stage Play.

From that, straight on to the biggest adverts of the year; yes, better than the summer blockbusters themselves, it’s the Superbowl Spots! Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, Land of the Lost, Fast and Furious, GI Joe (AKA ‘Action Force: The Movie’)… can you guess which of these we actually enjoyed? (It’s not that hard if you think about it.)

Year One leads us into an autopsy on Harold Ramis’ career – it’s not too late for Ghostbusters 3, Egon – and then we’re off and running again like we’ve just stuck our fingers in a live plug, just like Jason Statham in Crank 2: High Voltage. Not content with just electrocuting himself in Crank 2, apparently Statham’s going to be part of Stallone’s all-action-hero testosterone fest, The Expendables – but just which Oscar winning British actor is also part of the line-up? Listen and find out.

Between this, a lot of confusion over who’s won what (or even been nominated) for any awards so far this year, we both manage to talk about DVDs you’ve probably never even heard of, let alone will ever rent. In other words it’s the sort of fun-packed forty minutes you’ve come to expect.

Musical intro and outro from the brilliant remix by RevoLucian of Bale’s infamous words.

Luckily for you, between us, in that time we saw seven of the ten highest grossing movies of 2008, including the number one! Which movie was that? Hint: it was very dark. At night.

So mostly we talk about that, including both of our excuses on why we saw Mamma Mia, and we take two of the most lauded movies down a peg or three.

After all that, we get to recent movies, including Slumdog Millionare (AKA: “The one that’s going to win Best Picture, allegedly”) and of course, The Wrestler, a tailor-made piece of cinema for Al, who cries at Olympic closing ceremonies. In fact, that is where our opening ‘rawk’ comes from.

Don’t forget: if you haven’t already, subscribe on iTunes (No really: we’re going to do more) and ‘follow’ Al on Twitter (@Tagliners), one scratched DVD at a time.

A little later than we’d like, but that does mean we got to see not one! But TWO new movies. As well as wailing on The Incredible Hulk and watching Marvel Studios shrug off our blows, we also managed to find the time to see… oh that film. The one with the guy? And the whip? The hat?

Yes, after what seems like an ETERNITY of listening to Al talk about Indiana Jones IV, FINALLY he gets to see it. What does he think? Was his life changed forever? Did he wet himself? Find out in this show. PLUS! The Indiana Jones that almost was… I’ve read the Frank Darabont draft of Indy IV and I’m gonna talk about it.

On top of that, we can’t stop arguing about who should play Captain America (Hint: I like Will Smith, Al likes Adam Sandler), talk a bit about the new (and old) Death Race, and even mention that new Punisher: War Zone trailer (“It’s so HOT right now!”) and naked men fighting in Eastern Promises.

Next time – maybe even more movies.

As well as that obsessive rambling from both of us – which hasn’t been this bad since ‘The Phantom Menace Period’ – I actually got to the movies to see Iron Man, and have plenty to say about that in a spoiler-filled chat, which naturally leads to plenty of geeky talk about Marvel’s movie slate for the next three years.

As well as all that, we let the Wachowskis know what their next career move should be after Speed Racer’s flop, give you the skinny on what James Cameron should do after Avatar and also decide the fate of the Spider-Man franchise. All before 40 minutes is up.

It’s a good one folks, or at least I think it is – hell, I laughed out loud, and I was there when we recorded it.

PS: Back to good ol’ MP3 this time out. Screw Garageband.

Well, after an exceedingly long hiatus in which I’m sure you thought at least once “What happened to that podcast I was listening to… that one.. with those guys…” we are back and hopefully back to stay. For a while. Where exactly we’ve been and why we’ve been there is explained in the first minute or two of this episode (Hint: It doesn’t involve jail time) and then we get into the real reason we have a podcast… to witter on about the new Indiana Jones movie!

Besides that, some aggressive conversational steering by myself manages to get us on to other topics, such as the big May movies – Iron Man, Speed Racer, Prince Caspian and… er… Indiana Jones, again. We also talk briefly about things like The Hobbit movie, that Incredible Hulk trailer and… Indiana Jones merchandise.

I swear it’ll all pass by, say, mid-June.

In the meantime download away! You know you want to.

Some boring techie notes about this episode… one, it was edited (barely) by me in Garageband, which has a totally different interface to Audacity. As a result it’s not quite as slick… although it does sound good. It’s also been exported as an MP4 file, against my will, so hopefully that’ll still play for you. It should.

Oh and also… erm… well it took me a while to get to editing it so ignore the references to any movies that might have opened… this weekend. We’ll strive to be more up to date next time.