We're back! James Bond touches land, air and sea in this episode as we talk about our favorite Bond cars, the Spy-Fi Archives exhibit coming to the Queen Mary, and the re-opening of the 007 Stage in London. We also talk to a special guest in this episode, screenwriter and Young Bond Dossier expert John Cox -- who takes us into the literary world of the Young James Bond novels, which are very popular right now.

Some links and highlights from this episode:

• The 007 Stage reopens: visit their revamped website and check things out.
• The James Bond Car collection: subscribe and have Bond replica cars sent to you.
• Spy-Fi Archives at the Queen Mary: on exhibit April 7th through September 2007.
• John's amazing Young Bond Dossier site: check out the links to the Young Bond "apache" gadget, and the new Centenary Bond novel coming out next year.

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Who's a critic? Who's a journalist? Do people really use multimedia content? How much does gossip matter? In this second edition of Cinematical's new podcast, The Rocchi Review, our bi-weekly look at the online film community, our guest is Movie City News editor and columnist David Poland. Poland's a veteran of online film journalism -- and the driving force being a terrific News site, a column and his own off-the cuff blog. David and I talk about all the topics above -- and much more. You can download the entire podcast right here -- and we hope you enjoy.

Wondering about what the buzz is in the world of film? Well, why not download this newest edition of Coming Distractions -- Cinematical's weekly podcast? This time around, I'm joined by Cinematical's Managing Editor Kim Voynar. Kim and I talk about the box office performance of Apocalypto, awards-season mania, the decline of kid's filmmaking and our picks and pans on DVD for the week as well. As ever, you can download the podcast right here -- and don't hesitate to let us know what you'd like to hear in future broadcasts! Plus, be the first person to mail us the name of my and Kim's DVD pan for this week to jamesDOTrocchi@cinematical.com, and you'll win a Cinematical T-shirt -- how cool is that?

It's time for another editon of Coming Distractions -- Cinematical's weekly podcast. This time around, I'm joined by Cinematical contributor Kevin Kelly. On the agenda this week? Bond and Borat, plus Spider-Man III trailer news, DVD picks and pans and Fast Food Nation -- plus the upcoming choice between deep thought with The Fountain and Deep Purple with Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny. As ever, you can download the podcast right here -- and don't hesitate to let us know what you'd like to hear in future broadcasts!

Welcome to yet another edition of Cinematical's podcast, Coming Distractions. As ever, I'm your host, Cinematical editor-in-chief James Rocchi, and this week's co-host is Cinematical's Scott Weinberg. This week, we're talking about everything from Google's acquisition of YouTube to the upcoming Oscar season -- as well as DVD picks and Pans, how it feels to be out of the Movie stream for a week while traveling and Todd Fields' Little Children. You can download the whole podcast right here, and, as ever, let us know what you'd like more of -- or anything you think we should be talking about!

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In an effort to promote his new production of Oscar Wilde's Salome which runs in LA through May 14, Al Pacino created a podcast, located on the show's webpage. Though in theory there will be several episodes, there's currently only one (and it went up almost three weeks ago) -- but since the site offers the option of subscribing to the podcast's feed, it seems reasonable to hope there will be more.

In the current episodes, Pacino introduces the play, wears Crocs, explains his reasons for staging the show as a reading rather than a full production (I'm not sure I buy it, but he claims that period costumes would distance the audiences from the story -- call me crazy, but can't you just stage it in modern dress? It strikes me that seeing people walking around with scripts would be at least as distracting as period clothing.), and discusses whether Salome is going to get naked (they're working on it). It also includes footage of readings, so you can get an idea of what the production looks like. If you're not in LA, never fear -- there's always the movie, which is expected to hit festivals later this year.

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...but really, we didn't mean to. I really hoped to be able to get audio editions of our podcast out every day this week, but with Randall in LA covering Milken, and me, here in New York, busy busy busy with Tribeca, we haven't been able to make it happen. So, we're just going to give up on this week, and come back on Monday, with super magical video coverage of Tribeca, as well as your daily news update. Don't cry – it's only a couple of days away. In the meantime, use the comments on this post to tell us what you'd like to see more/less of on the podcast. We aim to serve you.

Celebrate! Two weeks in, the readers (that's you) have finally settled on a permanent name for our daily podcast. Thanks to reader Alex, our morning missive will now be called ... Cinematicast! We're actually taking today off from the podcast, as producer Randall is currently on a jet plane, but we'll be back with an audio-only version tomorrow. In the meantime, if you are Alex, contact us at karina AT cinematical DOT com so that we can appropriately thank you.

As Indian film fans rioted yesterday, Jennifer Aniston fans were pandered to by Universal, and a Japanese firm announced a sure-fire way to get kids to pay to see The New World. Remember, this is your last day to suggest permanent names for the podcast, so drop 'em in the comments if you haven't. And, with our first week of 'casting wrapping up, let us know what you think of the show so far. Happy assorted religious and secular holidays!

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Hosts
Karina Longworth

Editor
Randall Bennett

Music
Love as Laughter - I'm a bee

Format
5:08, 29 MB, MPEG4 (iPod / PSP compatible)

Program
00:00 - Smell-o-vision, not just for John Waters's films anymore
02:15 - Indian film fans riot over Raj Kumar's death
03:23 - George Lucas selected Guest Director of LA Film Fest
04:17 - Re-shot ending of The Breakup *gasp* might have turned out as bad or worse than original!