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An audioblog supplement to RandomChatter.com, covering mostly entertainment news, current events, and rants about life in general. Primary Format : Blogs Language : English Also Listed as: City : Washington State/Province : DC Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of RandomChatter Podcasts Methings.com listings of RandomChatter Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of RandomChatter RQRM #1: Fame Welcome to the sneak preview of our new podcast, Real Quick Reviews! We're still waiting for the iTunes page to go live (there's always a bit of a delay there; should be today or tomorrow), but in the meantime, you can preview our new podcast series here! Real Quick Reviews is a series of podcasts where we give quick reviews of five minutes or less. Each podcast will cover a different topic. For starters, we're doing a "Movies" podcast and an "iTunes Apps" podcast. Check out Andrew's r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #42: Cutting the Cable This week on RandomChatter: Tired of the high prices of cable or satellite television? Wish you could just get all your content via the Internet? In this week's show, we take a look at how to "cut the cable" and get all your video content through other methods. What sources are available? How much bandwidth will you need? Should you get a media PC or just get devices to supplement what you already have? How do you get the content from the Net to your television? Check out this week' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #41: Aliens Among Us This week on RandomChatter: After a brief discussion of G.I. Joe, Avatar, and some other films, Erik, Andrew, Ned, and Ren take a spoiler-free look at District 9 and some past movies and shows about aliens living among us. Leave us voicemail at 866-574-5400, or email us at podcast@randomchatter.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #39: Looking Back at Comic Con This week on RandomChatter: Erik and Andrew look back at the movies and television covered at Comic Con, and Brian drops in for a few minutes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #40: Morgan, We Love You! This week on RandomChatter: Are we finally getting a Halo movie? Will Joss Whedon get full creative control over Dollhouse? Will the next season of 24 be its last? Is Redbox undermining the DVD market? Find out on this week's episode of RandomChatter! Leave us voicemail at 866-574-5400, or email us at podcast@randomchatter.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC_001: Cloverfield Technically, this review contains spoilers. However, they're so minor I seriously doubt they'd affect anyone's enjoyment of this movie. Especially not to people like Jeff, who's more concerned about the fact that the movie didn't explain anything about the monster. Or to people like Ren, who felt the monster was merely a victim and misunderstood. For normal people like Brian and I, the movie was great. Show Notes * 00:15 - Brian skips his usual obnoxious intro * 0 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC_003: Jumper It's Anakin Skywalker versus Mace Windu in one last, final, knock-out brawl! Final, that is, until the inevitable sequel they set up in the film. Oh, and there's not really any knock-out. Or even a brawl, really. I dare say our review of the movie was more interesting than the movie itself. If nothing else, it was more fun to record than it was to see the movie. But before we get to that, there's news to cover. After all, now that the writer's strike is over, we need to know when our favo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #38: Virtuality, Caprica, and Ron Moore This week on RandomChatter: Did you miss FOX's latest premature cancellation, Virtuality? Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek) created a great new series, and true to form, FOX shot it down before it ever had a chance to get off the ground. You can still check it out on Hulu, and Erik & Andrew discuss why you should. They then talk about Ron Moore's other upcoming series, the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica. They wrap up with a quick update on Andrew's trip to China and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #37: The IMAX Experience...? This week we start out with some nice, peaceful good news, such as which television series are getting renewed. Dollhouse will be back! Woohoo! (Note: Terminator: TSCC has been canceled, but we recorded this weeks ago, before it was announced.) Then we get into some... well, not-so-peaceful discussion. See, they're releasing more and more films in IMAX, and there seem to be more IMAX theaters popping up everywhere, especially in the AMC and Regal theater chains. However, the screens a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #36: Unforgivable Cancellations When you think of shows that were canceled before their prime, some obvious mentions come up, such as Firefly and Arrested Development. But what other unforgivable sins have the networks committed? Show Notes: Shows that were canceled too soon:Farscape The Invisible Man NYPD Blue (minor mention) Touching Evil Freaks & Geeks Undeclared Crusade Babylon 5 The 4400 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Brisco County Junior Shows that should have been canceled sooner:X-Files The A-Team Knight Rider ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #34: Turgid! Today's episode is brought to you by the word "Turgid."We're running without show prep this week, so Ned and Erik ramble on about unemployment, the infamous "Fox Wolverine Review Firing," piracy, and other topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #35: Pushing Buttons Brian gets his buttons pushed, and then later in the episode he pushes back at Erik. Ned, in the meantime, just sits in the background instigating both sides. Ned: 1. Brian: 0. Erik: 0.After discussing some television, including the now-infamous "missing" Dollhouse episode, the three of us talk about some of the recent movie rewrites resulting from scripts being leaked online. Are the writers/studios handling the issue appropriately, or are they being arrogant buttheads?And finally, in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #33: SEX! SEX! That's right, this week's RandomChatter episode is all about sex. Sex in film, rather. There seems to be no more controversial topic in film than sex. Why is it the MPAA is stricter on sex than on violence? Why is it female nudity is okay but male nudity isn't? Why is there such a double-standard for homosexuality in film?[This week's show is technically "safe for work," as there's nothing particularly explicit, but we do discuss a lot of mature themes (and we discuss them mature ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #32: BSG Finale; Did Watchmen kill comic films? While many of us loved Watchmen, it didn't do all that great at the box office. Sure, it was R-rated, non-mainstream, and very long. Still, a 67% drop-off in its second week isn't exactly anything to brag about. Warner Bros. has already stated they won't do any more R-rated superhero films, nor any R-rated tentpole blockbusters. Will other studios follow suit? Did Watchmen do more harm than good? One of the biggest sci-fi television shows in recent years has finally come to a close. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #30: Box Office Economy The studios have been feeding us excuses for a long time now about how we can't get new ideas in Hollywood because they need the "sure thing" of known licenses/franchises, remakes, and sequels. However, we've had record-breaking months at the box-office recently. January was the eighth best month in modern film history. And that's January — a month normally seen as a dud. February is also doing well. March is going to do very well. So can we please have some fresh ideas now? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #31: Watchmen Discussion Less a full-blown review and more a general discussion, Nathan and Joe from LostChatter join Erik and Ned to take a look at Watchmen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #29: Ned's Lack of Cybernetic Implants Just a quick mini-episode this time, as Ned and Tony rant about Baby Boomers and the responsibility they bear for Ned's lack of cybernetic implants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #30: Box Office Economy The studios have been feeding us excuses for a long time now about how we can't get new ideas in Hollywood because they need the "sure thing" of known licenses/franchises, remakes, and sequels. However, we've had record-breaking months at the box-office recently. January was the eighth best month in modern film history. And that's January — a month normally seen as a dud. February is also doing well. March is going to do very well. So can we please have some fresh ideas now? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC #28: Ned's TP Plea Guess what -- you like commercials! No really, you do. Trust us. Rather, trust a recent study that shows people enjoy their television viewing experience more when commercials are included. Of course, wait until you hear how the study was conducted... We also talk about Dollhouse, whether or not Joaquin Phoenix is pulling our leg, and... well, I'll leave Ned's weekly rant as a surprise this time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RC_027: Oscar Nods, 2009 Movie Preview Got another long one for you this time, but we're not splitting it up. No, once Ned and Morgan get on a roll, there's nothing we can do to stop it, no matter how hard Andrew or I may try. The Oscar nominations were especially bad this time around. Way too many people got snubbed, and I'm still not entirely sure several of the nominees deserved their noms. Still, it is what it is. Fortunately, we've got lots of great movies to look forward to in 2009! Or do we? Find out in our 2009 Mo ... 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