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187 – Top 5 Movies of 2024

February 20, 2025 2:50:22 0 Comments

Walking the red carpet one last time.

It’s hard to believe that we have been ranking movies (almost) every year since our very first episode of this podcast back in 2017. In fact the whole conceit of this show came from first wanting to talk about our love of movies which eventually spun out to talking about all sorts of random topics. So it’s very fitting that in our final year of Ranked we get to go back to where it all began and chat about the cinematic rollercoaster that we went through in 2024. So join Tuong La, Alyssa Wooldridge, Taylor Fleming, and Laura Gordon as they come out of the Criterion Closet one last time to rank Top 5 Movies of 2024.

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180. Big Night (1996) ft. James Hawes

January 28, 2025 0:58:02 0 Comments

This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and special guest James Hawes (@turrethousepressmtl) break down Stanley Tucci’s 1996 cult classic, Big Night! This iteration of the No Bad Food Food Film Festival gets into the push and pull between food as art and food as business, the immigrant experience and the emotional roller coaster of a particularly busy dinner service.

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PTP On Ranked: Top 5 Lists of Stuff That Don’t Matter – Top 5 Fictional Swords

October 11, 2024 1:57:19 0 Comments

“We’ll be back next week with an all-new episode of Pull the Plug, but for now, here’s a little treat for ya.

Here’s the episode that Justin G and PTP alum Jordan G recently guested on with host Tuong La and Tom Zalatnai for Ranked: Top 5 Lists of Stuff That Don’t Matter.

Listen in as we try and rank the Top 5 Fictional Swords! There’s hilarity. There’s innuendoes. There’s an uncomfortable amount of Lord of the Rings and anime lore. It’s a good time maybe!

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159. Chef (2014) ft. James Hawes!

August 5, 2024 0:57:50 0 Comments

This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and special guest James Hawes (@turrethousepressmtl) talk about Jon Favreau’s 2014 movie “Chef”- this conversation contains some mild spoilers! We get into the themes of The Chef as An Artist, parent-child relationship redemption stories, and how food service workers can touch people’s lives with their work.

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From the Dummies Vault: Top 5 Pixar Movies

July 17, 2024 2:16:11 2 Comments

Over a year ago the Dummies ranked Top 5 Disney Animated Feature Films in a special CROSSOVER episode after spending a few years discussing and catching up to all of the Disney movies. Well we did it all over again, as Pixar Pals this time, watching every single Pixar movie (so far)! That’s right, we’re once again assembling the ultimate top five list as your Pals Tuong, Laura, Sam, and Brad duke it out to decide which story from the adventures of talking toys, to robots finding love, to listening to your emotions, and much more will be crowned our champ!

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130 – Top 5 Movies of 2021

March 24, 2022 01:51:46 0 Comments

Wait did any movies even come out last year?

The pandemic has made the timing of movie releases weird. Movies endlessly have been getting delayed and it really seemed like nothing came out in 2021. With the Oscars coming up, y’know the most prestigious awards show nobody watches, we once again took it upon ourselves to reflect on if there was anything even worth watching or talking about for this year’s best movie podcast. The answer was YES! Even in a sea of delayed films, there was a number of great stuff that came out last year that supplied that much-needed escapism that only movies can provide, transporting our minds away from the harsh reality of real life and into a world of imagination and wonder. So join Tuong and Movie Lovers Nivala Maharaj, Jesse Anderson, and Alyssa Wooldridge as they binge all the films from last year to bring you a Top 5 Movies of 2021 list!

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Ep 100 – 100th Episode Spectacular Bonanza

December 6, 2021 01:47:07 0 Comments

We made it to 100!

We did it everyone! Talkin’ Tuong has officially hit a big ol’ milestone today with the release of episode 100! Join the titular Tuong from Talkin’ Tuong as he reminisces about the history of this very special show while looking ahead to the future. Also if you have never listened to an episode of TT, there has never been a better time! With relentless stupidity and determination, Tuong decided to celebrate today’s occasion by giving a micro-review of EVERY SINGLE movie, game, show, etc. he’s ever talked about on this show all the way back starting from episode 1. Will this be an episode you want to miss? No. Will this be entertaining for you as a listener? Maybe. Will Tuong have fun anyways recording this thing even if talking to yourself for a long stretch of time makes you go a little crazy? Absolutely. So sit back and enjoy Tuong ramble on and on with Talkin’ Tuong’s 100th Episode Spectacular Bonanza!

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Ep 75 – The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021) with Meghan Murphy

May 9, 2021 01:21:41 0 Comments

“Families can be hard but they are so worth fighting for.”

Stop us if you heard this before: A movie about an unlikely group of people saving the world from killer robots. You’d think with the amount of times this type of movie has been done before that there would be no way to tell us this movie in a fresh exciting way. Well we were wrong! This week on Talkin’ Tuong join Tuong and Overlord Robot A.I. Meghan Murphy as they talk about the latest movie from the minds behind Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse and The Lego Movie – The Mitchells vs. The Machines!

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EP36 – Stroke of Genius

March 18, 2021 00:36:53 0 Comments

Angus shows Walter Ego (Matt Barrow) the ropes at S.H.A.R.T. while visited by the great Super City director Claude Lancaster (Paul JP, The Pen Is Mightier). The guys get a graphic look into the business of making films in Super City.

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Ep 62 – Dope (2015) with Stenley Philippe

February 7, 2021 00:58:30 0 Comments

“Why do I want to attend Harvard? If I was white, would you even have to ask me that question?”

Geeky kids. A party gone wrong. Geeky kids are forced into a life or death situation involving drugs. These are all beats from thousands of other movies that we’ve seen before. So is it possible to have a unique perspective with these well worn tropes? Short answer: YES! This week join Tuong and special guest Stenley Philippe as they discuss Rick Famuyiwa’s Comedy/Drama drug-filled adventure – Dope (2015)!

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