Turner & Looch (with Special Guest Emily Moulder) - Episode 8

Soundtracks Special. (Warning: Contains industrial quantities of soundtrack-based nerdery).

This week we're joined by the lovely Emily Moulder, formerly of OnTheBox.com and now part of the MovieVortex team. Join us as we discuss the week's new releases (including Blue Valentine, Conviction, The Green Hornet and Henry's Cat Crime), have our minds BLOWN by some amazing Movie News, diss the Orange Rising Star nominations (sorry, Orange Rising Star nominations) and exclusively reveal our Top Ten Favourite Soundtracks. As does...um...previous special guest Vicki Isitt, who we apparently promised could join us for the Soundtracks Special. Whoops. Anyway, Vicki sent a list in too.

COMPETITION TIME! Astute listeners will notice that this week's podcast contains excerpts from a number of different soundtracks, all cleverly layered over the podcast using the magic of EDITING. If you can name every soundtrack used, in order, then you can win some very special* movie merchandise. Just email your entry in to turnerandlooch@gmail.com. All correct entries will win merchandise.

*specialness not guaranteed.



Index (m/s):

00:00 - 02:45 - Intro. This week's Turner & Looch comes to you live, from The Blue Posts, Rupert Street! Emily introduced. Emily's favourite episode of Turner & Looch revealed. Vicki apologised to, profusely. Announcement: Turner & Looch will soon be available on iTunes. Watch this space.

02:45 - 06:50 - Emily reviews Blue Valentine, since we've both reviewed it at least twice each on the LFF podcast and elsewhere. Blue Valentine revealed as everyone's Film of the Week. Number of seconds before Turner interrupts: 12. Number of seconds before Looch interrupts: 23. Discussion of Blue Valentine. My Good Friend Ryan Reynolds briefly confused with Ryan Gosling. Notebook effect noted. Shocking name-drop from Looch.

06:50 - 10:40 - Conviction discussed. Turner declares love for Minnie Driver, proposes marriage. Minnie's response eagerly awaited.

10:40 - 20:50 - The Green Hornet discussed. Looch revealed to have seen Green Hornet in both Ds (but is only allowed to discuss one of them). Amusing high-pitch voice moment. Looch overcomes Rogen indifference, at least temporarily. Cameron Diaz ruminated upon. 3D scenes discussed. Turner revealed as obsessive credits-watcher; Looch revealed as obsessive credits-ignorer.

20:50 - 27:11 - Henry's Cat Crime discussed. Plot explained to Emily, who hadn't seen it. Keanu jokes busted out. James Caan "in full-on twinkly old bastard mode". Vera Farmiga praised. Flaw in film noted. Lack of promotion / publicity for Henry's Cat Crime speculated upon. Practice of "going in cold" discussed (benefits of professional film reviewing).

27:11 - 28:00 - Argument over inclusion of remaining three films of the week. Remaining three films of the week briefly listed. Although one of them is actually out the week after. Remaining three films of the week: Travellers (rubbish), Brotherhood (good, though hadn't seen at time of podcast) and Ride, Rise, Roar (also good, but out next week).

28:00 - 35:25 - MOVIE NEWS. Enormous box office success of The King's Speech discussed. Orange Risen Rising Star nominations revealed (and dissed). Emily voices OUTRAGE that Tamsin Grieg not on BAFTA longlist for Tamara Drewe. Previous Orange nominees discussed. "Text vote" motives questioned. Hobbit cast members confirmed.

35:25 - 37:32 - SOUNDTRACK SPECIAL. Rules laid out (i.e. we chose our favourites, not the best; themes left aside, which accounts for general lack of John Williams; "soundtracks" here includes both original scores and soundtrack albums made up of songs). Vicki apologised to again. Difficulty (or lack of difficulty) in choosing ten soundtracks revealed.

37:32 - 41:07 - Vicki Isitt's Top Ten Soundtracks revealed (on a list read out by Looch). Crossover with Looch's list occurs but is kept secret. Vicki's list causes Turner to revise his own list, mid-reading. The phrase "If we'd done a top twenty, that would have been on mine too" occurs.

41:07 - 46:20 - Emily's Top Ten Soundtracks revealed. Crossover with Vicki's list revealed. (Note: the audible "ding" noise is the dumb waiter at the Blue Posts. Sorry about that.) Unexpected number of soundtracks from the same composer revealed. Emily uses the word "fantastic" a lot. Emily's Guilty Pleasure soundtrack revealed. Emily challenged to hum an excerpt from one of her choices. Some EDITING occurs.

46:20 - 49:46 - Turner's Top Ten Soundtracks revealed. Connection between soundtracks and all-time favourite films touched upon. Turner's Guilty Pleasure revealed (and shared with Mark Kermode, apparently).

49:46 - 55:20 - Looch's Top Ten Soundtracks revealed. Crossover with Vicki's list revealed. Pay attention to this bit (53:20), as it is IMPORTANT FOR LATER. Looch's love of soundtracks surprises no-one.

55:20 - Matters arising from soundtrack lists. Some extra choices slip in. Brilliantly scored scenes in films briefly touched upon. Brief Phil-Mitchell-on-crack reference.

57:13 - 60:50 - Why Emily Hates Time Travel Movies. Time After Time recommended (even if you hate time travel movies as much as Emily does).

59:17 - 60:50 - Outro. Surprise guest appearance by Richard Burton.

Turner & Looch (with Special Guest Mike Edwards) - Episode 7

All Hail The Glorious Return of Mike Edwards

This week we're joined by Mike Edwards from MovieVortex.com, who some of you may remember from Episode 3. Join us as we discuss Tron: Legacy, Catfish, Burlesque and all sorts of other things.

Also, if you skip to the bottom of this post, you can find the Best and Worst Films of 2010 podcast for MovieVortex that we recorded at the same time.



Index (m/s):

00:00 - 1:15 - Intro

01:15 - Preview of our Special MovieVortex Films Of The Year podcast, which can be found here and also below (see "BONUS FEATURE"). Lists compared. There's only one film that makes all three of our lists. Can you guess which one?

02:15 - 02:40 - BIO-pic vs Bi-OP-ic.

02.40 - 03:50 - Black Dynamite tomfoolery.

03:50 - 05:15 - Discussion of things we're looking forward to (and not looking forward to) in 2011. Seth Rogen hater revealed. Some editing skillz busted out.

05:15 - 10:00 - Tron: Legacy discussed. More editing skillz busted out. CGI Jeff Bridges dissed. Michael Sheen also dissed. Garrett Hedlund dissed. Olivia Wilde's costume enthused about. Link mentioned that I can't find (something about someone dancing in a Tron suit).

10:00 - 14:14 - SMOOTH TRANSITION! Catfish discussed, obliquely.

14:14 - 21:11 - Burlesque reviewed. SOMEONE revealed to have included Burlesque in their Top Ten Films of 2010. "IT'S NOT BURLESQUE!" Argument about what "burlesque" actually means. Cassam actually wrong for once. Proof: Cassam = wrong. Karaoke challenge laid down. "There's ballet dancers complaining about Black Swan..."

21:11 - 22:38 - Mike's entertaining RANT about the horror that is Fred: The Movie. "I actually felt like I'd been waterboarded after seeing it". And no catering!

22:38 - 25:00 - "One-line" review of Animals United 3D. James Corden dissed.

25:00 - 26:10 - "One-line" review of Cuckoo. Massive "one-line review" FAIL.

26:10 - 28:17 - "One-line" review of Loose Cannons. Loose Cannons discussed.

28:17 - 38:47 - MOVIE NEWS! RIP Blake Edwards (not Mike Edwards). Turner left callously unmoved. Celebrity split rejoiced about. "You're Very Tall". Downey Jr replaced in Gravity. SAG award nominations discussed. Some True Grit-based taunting occurs. Golden Globe "Musical or Comedy" category nominations derided. Agreement that Black Dynamite wuz robbed.

38:47 - 40:15 - Some Tangled-based taunting occurs. Tangled discussed by the two people who weren't embargoed on it.

40:15 - 47:00 - MOVIE NEWS CONTINUES! Jon Favreau not directing Iron Man 3. Good thing? Bad thing? Iron Man comic book geekery revealed. Two words: Bethany Cabe. (Fantasy casting of Bethany Cabe = Christina Hendricks). Captain America and Green Lantern movies speculated upon. Thor's chances pondered. Inevitable guesswork about the Avengers movie. Good Kenneth Branagh story from MovieCon. Green Hornet NOT discussed, because of embargos (and the fact that one of us hasn't seen it).

47:00 - 54:54 - Discussion of films we're looking forward to in 2011. Tree of Life trailer eulogised. Basically: CAN. NOT. WAIT. To see Blue Valentine twice or not to see Blue Valentine twice? MovieVortex plugged. Transformers 3 dreaded. Reactions to Pirates 4 trailer. Cassam's controversial theory that Pixar are "finished". Pixar slate discussed.

54:54 - 57:25 - Rang-go vs Range-o. "It's Rango because it rhymes with Django". Also: Sucker Punch, Superman, etc. Theories about how best to make a Superman film. Cassam, shockingly, declares himself "done with Superman".

57:25 - 58:00 - Outro.

BONUS FEATURE:

As mentioned above, here's the Best and Worst Films of 2011 podcast for MovieVortex that we recorded at the same time:

Turner & Looch (with Special Guest Emerson Forde) - Episode 6

Emerson Forde: The Return

Emerson proved so popular in the previous episode that we decided we had to have him back again. Join us as we discuss the week's (ahem) releases (okay, the releases from two weeks ago), confess which films make us cry, have our minds blown by some awesome Movie News and chat about some of the best and worst films of 2010.



Index (m:s):

00:00 - 00:33 - Intro

00:33 - 04:00 - Emerson minutes allowed; Emerson introduced; origins of Smurfs disputed; Smurfs and Moomins confused; excited discussion of upcoming Moomins film; general nonsense

04:00 - 10:16 - Emerson's Best Films of the Year; Oscars discussion; shout-out to Robbie Collin

10:16 - 12:50 - Discussion of some of the worst films of the year; ending of Remember Me SPOILED in comedy fashion

12:50 - 14:45 - Ass vs Arse

14:45 - 21:10 - Toy Story 3 reduces grown men to tears (but not Cassam); we confess which films make us cry the most

21:10 - 24:20 - Cassam's Weird Weepies

24:20 - 38:28 - FILM NEWS! So much film news. Can't possibly fit it all in here.

38:28 - "New" releases discussed

38:28 - 43:00 - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader reviewed

43:00 - 47:45 - The Tourist reviewed; "To Catch a Fish"

47:45 - 51:55 - Somewhere reviewed

51:55 - 55:55 - For Colored Girls reviewed

55:55 - 1:01:05 - A Serbian Film reviewed

1:01:05 - Outro

Listen to Emerson Forde's radio show every Thursday on Colourful Radio.

Turner & Looch (with Special Guest Emerson Forde) - Episode 5

Turner & Looch - Episode 5, featuring special guest Emerson Forde

This week we're joined by the one and only Emerson Forde from Colourful Radio (check out his film review show every Thursday). Join us as we discuss the week's releases (including Unstoppable, Machete, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest and The American), some exciting Movie News, the Oscar documentary shortlist and a number of new trailers.

Apologies once again for sound quality. This week we were evicted from our venue mid-podcast and had to take it to the streets. Because that's how we roll, innit. Sticking it to The Man and so on.



Index (m:s):

00:00 - 02:09 - Intro - Emerson Forde introduced; list of topics for this week's show discussed (see above);

02:09 - 09:05 - Review of Unstoppable (aka The Train That Couldn't Slow Down); Forde and Turner attempt to list every Denzel Washington / Tony Scott collaboration; relative merits of Unstoppable related; SPOILERS included (but legitimate ones, as they're about the way the film lets you down if you've seen the trailer); bit with the horse spoiled; astonishing never-before-heard name-drop by Looch; claims that Unstoppable based on a true story questioned; joke about Rosario Dawson stolen from MovieJuice (sorry, MovieJuice); rating for Unstoppable agreed upon; Denzel's oh-so-hilarious Top Gun 2 joke

09:05 - 16:05 - Review of Machete, which Emerson hadn't seen; "It's like Robert Rodriguez didn't get his own joke"; trailer for Machete, including godawful "Machete don't text" line; Machete panned; Machete vs Black Dynamite; exploitation films discussed; SPOILERS revealed again (but again, only in the context of the way the film doesn't deliver on the promise of the trailer); conclusion reached: if you've seen the trailer, you've seen all the best bits of Machete; soundtrack rejected; idea of Jessica Alba in a catsuit ruminated upon; Ann Margaret randomly introduced; Stanley Kubrick's The Killing even more randomly introduced

16:05 - 20:10 - Review of The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest; Dave Edwards' poster quote ("The Thriller of the Decade!" ridiculed; discussion of upcoming Fincher remake; remakes of second and third film doubted; discussion of who might win Best Director Oscar come Oscar-time (note: pretty sure Emerson means The Parole Officer with Steve Coogan rather than The Social Worker with Paul Hogan)

20:10 - 24:04 - Review of The American; trailer for The American; familiarity of the plot discussed; argument about the meaning of the word "liaison"; more SPOILERS (sort of); idea that the poster and trailer seem to promise a different film agreed upon; The American = better thriller than Hornets' Nest (take that, Edwards)

24:04 - 24:56 - Review of An Ordinary Execution (which Cassam and Emerson haven't seen)

24:56 - 25:55 - Review of Leap Year (not to be confused with Amy Adams Leap Year), which Cassam and Emerson also haven't seen; CORRECTION: director is Australian / Mexican not British as I mistakenly say here

25:55 - 30:54 - London Boulevard discussed, unseen; Colin Farrell praised; merits of Daredevil debated (Turner hates it, Looch loves it); Looch's Colin Farrell impression unleashed; accents debated; Guess The Impression; "You're a bad man, Mister Burns"; Looch's astonishing accent ability presented for your delectation; good British accents from American actors discussed; lame name-drop from Turner

30:54 - 32:40 - Turner's Most Hated Actor revealed (clue: it's Gerard Butler); bad actors discussed

32:40 - 47:00 - MOVIE NEWS! "Ah never learned to read!"; podcast takes uncomfortable direction, racial stereotype-wise; discussion about Cats & Dogs II being somehow included on the Best Animated Feature shortlist; Chico & Rita sympathised with; Oscar documentary shortlist revealed (36:46); "I'm waiting for him to start quoting lines from The Jerk..."; potential Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations discussed; Cassam's Oirish accent busted out; Spider-Man casting news; Dennis Leary's casting as Captain Stacey scorned; "No-one is a better choice for J. Jonah Jameson than J.K. Simmons"; Brandon Routh out of the running for Superman; Cassam's potential as The New Superman discussed ("They could white him down!"); Smallville's Tom Wellings' suitability for Superman debated

47:00 - 50:00 - TRAILERS - Sucker Punch trailer excerpt; Sucker Punch trailer discussed; Turner & Looch's mutual love of the Lemony Snicket soundtrack revealed; Olivia Wilde-spotting credentials tested (Turner wins and here's the proof)

50:00 - EVACUATION SEQUENCE ACTIVATED!

50:01 - 53:30 - Venue changed; burritos consumed; podcast taken to the streets; Cowboys & Aliens trailer discussed; concerns expressed due to Favreau cocking up Iron Man 2

53:30 - 56:36 - Red Riding Hood trailer discussed; similarities to Twilight movies remarked upon; Looch sensationally reveals that he prefers the Twilight movies to the Harry Potter movies; burritos reminisced about

56:36 - 59:20 - Trailer for 13 (remake of Tzameti) discussed; cast listed

59:20 - 64:00 - Emerson's Best of 2010 list revealed (some of it, anyway); 2011 released discussed; Cars 2 debated; True Grit screenings questioned; general rough-housing

64:00 - 64:32 - Outro

Twitter addresses:

Matthew Turner - https://twitter.com/FilmFan1971

Cassam Looch - https://twitter.com/tonyjaaselbow

Emerson Forde - https://twitter.com/ecforde

Turner & Looch (with Special Guest Vicki Isitt) - Episode 4

Turner & Looch - Episode 4: Harry Potter Special

This week we're joined by designated Harry Potter fan Vicki Isitt from The Film Pilgrim. We discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, the week's releases, a couple of trailers and various other things. Non-Smallville fans may want to skip the first few minutes (see below), as it turns out we're the only three people we know who like and watch Smallville, so we took full advantage. Oh, and stay tuned for an epic trailer for next week's episode (with Special Guest Emerson Forde) at the end.

Apologies for sound quality, sound quality fans - we were forced to record in the pub this week. Thanks again to Michael (Blue Posts, Rupert Street).



Index (m/s):

00:00 - 02:00 - Intro; Vicki introduced; Potterfan credentials established; astonishing amount of once-owned Potter merchandise revealed

02:00 - 04:50 - The Smallville Three; Smallville discussed; sweary rant against E4's SHOCKING treatment of the Veronica Mars repeats

04:50 - 18: 55 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 discussed; further Potter credentials established, Looch revealed as one of those people who reads the last page of a book; theory that no-one will be reading Potter novels in 50 years raised; discussion on "the slow bits"; chemistry between actors treated with suspicion; concepts of "slash" and "ships" examined; too many characters; no-one knows who Mundungus is; scenes that aren't in the book; favourite Potter films shared; hopes for Potter trailer dashed

18:55 - 21:45 - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (aka Uncle Boonmee and the Monkey Space Ghosts) reviewed / explained to Vicki; terrifying nature of the Monkey Space Ghosts

21:45 - 24:52 - Adrift reviewed; 80s setting questioned; the 80s explained to Vicki; black and white television sets and reel-to-reel cassette players reminisced about

24:52 - 25:50 - Chico & Rita reviewed (by Turner, as Looch hasn't seen it)

25:50 - 44:50 - FILM NEWS! Discussion of shortlist for Best Animated Film Oscar nominations; general Oscar speculation; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies director revealed; Looch revealed as fan of book; remake of Total Recall talked about; bad Colin Farrell impressions attempted; Looch's awesome impressions "promised for later"; bad London accents discussed; London Boulevard discussed (unseen); Turner revealed as being terrible with numbers (but no-one notices); Aronofsky and The Wolverine discussed; Vicki contributes film news (Hulk TV series); Turner's Marvel / Spider-Man geekery revealed, discussion of Zooey Deschanel possibly playing Betty Brant in Spider-Man reboot; Dark Knight rumours; discussion of Green Lantern and Superman; discussion of Underworld 4 (world's least favourite franchise); discussion about Soderbergh remaking The Man From U.N.C.L.E; OSS-117 films recommended; remake of Martyrs discussed

44:50 - 54:00 - Trailerwatch! Trailers for Green Lantern, Your Highness and True Grit discussed; red band trailers discussed

54:00 - 58:50 - US Box Office Top 5; Skyline defended

58:50 - 60:02 - Outro

60:02 - Awesome trailer for next episode

Turner and Looch (and Special Guest) - Episode 3

We're hoping to get a player embedded here very soon and also sort out a link for iTunes but in the meantime, the latest episode of Turner and Looch is now up on MovieVortex (bottom left of the screen).

Content includes: post-LFF discussion, film news, US box office top 5, reviews of this week's (or rather last week's) releases.

Turner & Looch - Episode 2

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Turner & Looch - Episode 1

First episode of the hopefully weekly Turner & Looch podcast.

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Episode breakdown:

00m00s - 01m18s - Musical intro

01m18s - Introductions, discussion of Turner and Hooch, list of intended podcast contents (we didn't actually get round to talking about our favourite films of 2010 so far).

05m20s - Discussion of film we've just seen (The Last Seven, starring Danny Dyer); quick run-down of next week's releases, with discussion about Avatar Special Edition.

07m46s - Top 5 US box office films, continuing success of Inception, low opening figures for Scott Pilgrim

17m43s - We both pick five predictions for the London Film Festival, from pre-prepared lists of ten films each

35m54s - Film News - Rooney Mara cast in American remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, January Jones cast as Emma Frost in new X-Men movie, argument about whether Jon "Don Draper" Hamm will play Superman.

43m06 - Film On TV of the week: Junebug

45m30s - DVD of the week: Whip It

48m18s - Discussion of the week's releases: The Expendables, The Human Centipede, Salt, Pianomania, Marmaduke, Piranha 3D and I have just realised that Cassam cut my review of Mother, which is the best film of the week. Review here to make up for it: http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/films/mother-film-review-30106.html

1h00m00s - Your Questions Answered, recommendations of film people to follow on Twitter

1h04m23 - Next week on Turner & Looch

1h06m09s - Outro

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