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Jimmy is now cutting across Texas so its only a week or two before we get back into the swing. Here's an early one that we liked from late in December 2017.

Ep 013 Star Wars Solo & Best 2018 Oscar Trailers

Watch the new teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story and see it in theaters May 25.

Wow! This week Jim & Ted cover a lot of ground. Before getting into the #TJPdeepDIVE for this week, Solo, A Star Wars Story, they discuss the trailers that premiered during the Super Bowl.

Including #3wordREVIEWs for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Skyscraper, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Cloverfield: Paradox, Avengers: Infinity War and Jack Ryan. Jim leads a bit of a discussion on the Dundee spoof.

Ted and Jim are torn about the idea of cannon versus fresh takes on the Star Wars Universe. The nuanced nature of a "Star Wars colon" movie versus "a Star Wars Story." They touch on a lot of theories and some big picture ideas on expanding a cinematic universe.

Ron Howard teaches directing in his first ever online filmmaking course for MasterClass.

We go long on this movie but there's a lot of Star Wars information to go over and Ted's excited to share a picture of his new Han and Chewie figurine.

We are proud to host the first annual TJP Solo Cup where we pit the trailers for the Best Picture Nominees against each other to win this cool keg cup. You might ask: How are they scoring these trailers? Here is Jim's rubric for this round. Scoring five areas on a scale from 1 to 5. Music, Editing, Story, Acting, & Directing. But remember these are all in reference to the trailers. Here is the bracket for the next few weeks. 

Programme website: http://bbc.in/2FkwhuK Tom Cruise talks about how he broke his ankle when a stunt went wrong on his latest film. He also shows some exclusive footage of the incident.

Below are the trailers for the three Best Picture nominees we are reviewing this week.

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI is a darkly comedic drama from Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh (IN BRUGES). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award® winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, commissioning three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award® nominee Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police.

SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/A24subscribe From writer/director Greta Gerwig and starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. LADY BIRD - Now playing in select theaters.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family's 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel).

...more Oscar nom trailers next week!

Ep 011 Joaquin Phoenix, A Trailer-Spective

Can you learn all you need to know about an actor from trailers? Jim and Ted try and find out.

Joaquin Phoenix has had a long career and quiet a variety of films but something about his look gives his audience the idea that it's him acting there, and surprisingly - that is a comforting feeling.

Up first this week is this indie flick with Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara and Jack Black in the streaming film, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot. 

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot - Teaser Trailer - Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara and Jack Black. A film by Gus Van Sant. Coming to select theaters May 11.

On March 9, 2018 he's in theaters in You Were Never Really Here. 

A missing teenage girl. A brutal and tormented enforcer on a rescue mission. Corrupt power and vengeance unleash a storm of violence that may lead to his awakening. Starring Joaquin Phoenix and from acclaimed director Lynne Ramsay, the gripping thriller YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE is in cinemas March 9th.

These are great directors why do they like working with JP? Here's a great, yet underrated Paul Thomas Anderson film that reads more like a Coen Brothers script than the typical focused percision of a PTA film.  OK, Ted put this one in to hear Jim's Terrible British accent impersonation.

INHERENT VICE, in theaters December 2014. http://inherentvicemovie.com http://www.facebook.com/InherentViceMovie "Inherent Vice," is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel.

...and to round it out Walk the Line.

Singer. Rebel. Outlaw. Hero. With his driving freight-train chords, steel-eyed intensity and a voice as dark as the night, the legendary "Man in Black" revolutionized music - and forged his legacy as a genuine American icon.

The Super Bowl cycles through the major networks (NBC, CBS & FOX) so the AFC and NFC championship games go to the other networks. The sweet renewal contract is here at TV by the Numbers. NBC got the best part of this deal.

"Cold Open," "Tease," etc. we don't know why we call these things what we call them we just do. This look inside... baseball? in the TV promo space. Sometimes I think media marketers make stuff for their own amusement but this time the meta message rings true to the everyman.

John Malkovich delivers powerful cold open for the 2018 AFC Title Game on CBS.

Ep 009 Red Sparrow and Much More

This week Jim and Ted discuss four trailers, but before they get into the big screen they start off with a Syfy show that Jim has been watching, The Expanse.  At only halfway through the first season, Jim's already a fan.  Ted, on the other hand, is not convinced, but continues to hold out for Ronald D. Moore's return to the sci-fi genre.  Not on Syfy, but with a new unnamed Apple show.  Yes, confusing.

The Expanse follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

Next up, this week's TJPdeepDIVE is Red Sparrow. A thriller action film with great actors and a hastening pace that builds on the anticipation and seduction of the Cold War elements in this trailer and, they hope, subsequently in the movie.

Dominika Egorova is many things. A devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at all costs. A prima ballerina whose ferocity has pushed her body and mind to the absolute limit. A master of seductive and manipulative combat. When she suffers a career-ending injury, Dominika and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future.

Shhhhhhhhh! this TJPhotTAKE on A Quiet Place sends Jim and Ted off the rails remembering John Krasinski as the Dunder Mifflin paper salesman, Jim Halpert, and they get derailed with fart jokes.

Silence is survival. Watch the teaser trailer for #AQuietPlace, starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski. In theatres April 2018. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AQuietPlaceMovie Twitter: https://twitter.com/QuietPlaceMovie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/AQuietPlaceMovie Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a major global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), home to premier global media brands that create compelling television programs, motion pictures, short-form content, apps, games, consumer products, social media experiences, and other entertainment content for audiences in more than 180 countries.

Last, but certainly not least, the Trailer Junkies have a third  TJPhotTAKE this week where they discuss Breaking In. It's the new Gabrielle Union thriller which adds to the list of films pitched as "Die Hard in a (fill in the blank)".  Ted's Three Word Review will you give you a hint - "Die Hard, Heiress".

This May, payback is a mother. #BreakingInMovie in theaters Mother's Day. -- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breakinginmovie/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakinginmovie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breakinginmovie/ Website: https://www.breakinginmovie.com -- Next Mother's Day, Gabrielle Union stars as a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security.