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Talkie Talk Ep. 2: The Talkening (Movie: Subtitles)

Talkie Talk
Talkie Talk Ep. 2: The Talkening (Movie: Subtitles)
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The official second episode of The Media By Us pan-media podcast, Talkie Talk.

In this episode, we have TJ, Brent, Chris and David discuss their Watchlist/Playlist, some quick SAG Award news (Winona loves pizza), before going into subtitled movie titles – Think Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo and its ilk, through the beautiful majesty of some movie subtitle-related trivia quizzes and general colon discussion. Grammatical colons.

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And Then There Were Ten – Expanding the Best Picture Nominees in 2008

Introduction: Why We Care

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The Academy Awards. Where white people are finally recognized.

The Academy Awards holds a special place for many people – for some, it is a celebration of cinema, competition and glamour, with warm, family-time memories spent watching tuxedos and sparkling dresses exchange gold statues. For others, it is a backslapping, near-masturbatory, never-ending, annual slog about movies that you do not care about. And for a select portion of the population – it is an afterthought.

For years now, a cottage industry (which is an understatement – more like a mansion industry) has cropped up around prognosticating who gets what on the big night. For the awards nerds out there, the cinema equivalent of the Super Bowl is Oscar Nomination Day. The saying goes, it is an honor to be nominated – and there is truth to that. There are those among us who know when Nomination Day is coming up, and make plans to tune in the live webcast of the announcements early in the morning.

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