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Clint reveals his 2017 Oscar ballot and tells you a depressing statistic about the ceremony. Andy talks about famous genre switches in popular music, including a recent one from The Band Perry. Also: Clint talks about which movies inspire him and why his favorites often don't. TV reviews of NBC's "This is Us" and FX's "Taboo." Andy talks about a little known use of studio magic in Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues." RUNDOWN [00:00-03:00] Greetings — A sad statistic about the Oscars [03:00-09:41] Greatest TV Show Theme Song: I Love Lucy [09:42-20:59] Disney's Moana, and which movies inspire you? [21:00-31:59] Clint reveals his 2017 Oscars ballot with help from celebrity friends [32:00-36:21] The Band Perry pulls a country-to-pop genre switch. Does it work? [36:22-38:34] Revisiting Michael Bolton's legendary genre switch [38:35-43:30] Skip Marley is the latest descendent of Bob to hit the charts [43:31-45:40] Poking holes in the famous live recording of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" [45:41-50:22] 5... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline from 2015 was his second Shakespeare adaptation and his second time working with actor Ethan Hawke.  Hawke played the melancholy Dane in Almereyda's Hamlet from 2000. Here he plays the scheming sexual predator Iachimo and joins Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, Dakota Johnson, John Leguizamo, Delroy Lindo and Anton Yelchin in the star-studded cast.   Dan and Vicky take on their first movie based on a Shakespeare play and Dan compares his experience doing Cymbeline in 2008 with this film's take on the material.  You'll also hear how Vicky spent her very wet birthday and about her visit to the Shake Shack with a hot friend.   Recently seen and discussed includes the new M. Night Shyamalan film Split, the Oscar contenders Moonlight and Jackie, Korean horror Train to Busan, and William Friedkin's lost classic Sorcerer.  And Vicky tuned into HBO's The Young Pope and FX's Taboo and has some very juicy thoughts about both.   Listen to Hot Date 45: Cymbeline and leave us a star rating or some feedback.  

Welcome Renegade Nation it’s me Naughty Nicole and it’s time for another Renegade Review. Today we’re taking a look at Taboo, FX's bleak new period miniseries. Now I’m the first one to say I love me some Tom Hardy. Seriously, the guy could read the phone book and make it fucking intense. And I love me some British drama’s – dry old Downton Abbey, sign me up. So when I heard that FX was taking two of my favorite things and making a showcase for star Tom Hardy's unapologetic weirdness, I jumped with glee. The eccentric 39-year-old English actor plays James Delaney, a mysterious figure who returns to London in 1814 following the death of his father and spends most of the first episode brooding and intimidating people. Like a gloomy reality-show contestant, Delaney is not here to make friends. It doesn’t take long to realize that “Taboo,” the heavy-breathing new FX series set in Regency England, is going to be very ripe viewing. Rain on the moors, tubs of offal, bodies with coppers on the eyes, grave robbers, a funeral procession led by a dwarf — we’re talking the whole dark-gothic playbook. And that’s before we get to the half-sibling incest and the slave ship flashbacks and the Native American incantations. But the most self-consciously gloomy thing about “Taboo,” which begins its eight-episode run on Tuesday, is its star, Tom Hardy, who created the show with his father, Chips Hardy, and the writer and producer Steven Knight. As James Keziah Delaney, who returns to London from abroad to reclaim his family legacy, Mr. Hardy growls, rasps, glowers and, when Delaney is caught without an answer, makes a popping noise that resembles a grunt.

What fictional characters would you take to Vegas? We check out FX's Taboo and witness a Series of Unfortunate Events...then give some advice on how to stay positive! Cloud, Milo, and Stacks are joined by Jeff at the tiny table!

Rob and Geoff wrap up the year by looking ahead to their most anticipated new movies and TV coming 2017. On the TV side, the two discuss David Simon's new HBO drama THE DEUCE (2:05), NicK Stoller's FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE (3:50), FX's TABOO (5:20), Netflix's OZARK (7:25), and Bill Hader's new HBO comedy BARRY (8:40). The conversation then switches to film, as the guys chat about their hopes for John Cameron Mitchell's HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES (10:55), Ridley Scott's ALIEN: COVENANT (12:15), Christopher Nolan's DUNKIRK (13:45), Kathryn Bigelow's 'Untitled Detroit Riots project' (15:30), and Denis Villeneuve's BLADE RUNNER: 2049 (16:50).