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We review “Margaret”, “Drive”, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (12:00 – 17:30 spoiler-filled discussion), “Hugo”, “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” and “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol"; discuss our favorite music, TV and books of 2011 and look ahead to which movies we're anticipating in 2012.

Brief discussions about "Les Miserables" casting, reviews of "Moneyball", "Immortals", "Martha Marcy May Marlene" (WITH SPOILERS), "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "War Horse", and we each count down our Top 10 Movies of 2011.

"Les Miserables" casting news, "Young Adult" and "My Week with Marilyn" reviewed, and 2010 Breakout Stars revisited. What are Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, et al. up to one year later?

The BAFTA Rising Star longlist dissected, "Hugo and "We Bought a Zoo" reviewed, and Australia's latest acting exports discussed, including Chris Hemsworth, Mia Wasikowska, Sam Worthington and more.

We discuss the Battle of the Snow Whites some more, celebrate Kit Harington finally landing "Arthur and Lancelot" and review "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn." Also some gushing over "The Descendants" and "Shame." In depth discussion with special guests on book to movie adaptations, particularly big franchises.

This week we discuss the new "Hunger Games" trailer (LOVED IT!) "Snow White and the Huntsman" vs. "Mirror, Mirror", "The Host" casting, Jessica Chastain playing Princess Diana and other news. We review "Another Earth" (with spoilers), "Shame", "Haywire" and "Tin Tin." We go in-depth into discussing actors like Blake Lively, Aaron Paul, Alexander Skarsgard and others who are TV actors but have a great shot at becoming movie stars.

This week, we discuss some breaking news, review "J. Edgar" and "Take Shelter", and go in depth into discussing the actors who will have big auditions for high profile projects coming up.

Thank you for joining us again if you listened to our first podcast or if you are new to the program, welcome! Once a week, Linda and Rebecca will take to the internet airwaves to discuss a variety of subjects, including all the latest news, movies we’ve seen recently, the Oscar season and more topics that interest us (or you! Please send us your suggestions for topics to talk about).

Also, it's our first birthday today! UpandComers.net is 1 year old today! Woo-hoo! Thank you so much for visiting and supporting us and hope you stick with us as we keep growing!

This week's podcast WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS so please read below for the specifics before hitting PLAY.

• 00:00 - 09:25 - Discussion about some recent news, including the "Rosaline" trio; Justin Timberlake joining the Coen Bros latest and more.

• 09:25 - 14:00 - We finally get into the nitty gritty of Drake Doremus' Sundance hit "Like Crazy" since we have both now seen it (10:45 - 12:45 CONTAIN SPOILERS ABOUT THE ENDING of the film). Listen at your own risk!

• 14:00 - 23:30 - We each talk about some movies we saw recently: "Another Earth", "The Artist", "The Ides of March" and "The Help."

• 23:30 - End - We delve into the guys who are vying for Best Actor and Best Supporting nominations in this year's awards race; particular emphasis on Michael Fassbender, Jean Dujardin and some of our favorite longshots like Tom Hardy of "Warrior."

Welcome to the very first podcast of UpandComers.net! Once a week, Linda and Rebecca will take to the internet airwaves to discuss a variety of subjects, including all the latest news, movies we've seen recently, the Oscar season and more topics that interest us (or you! Please send us your suggestions for topics to talk about).

This is our very first podcast so we welcome any and all comments, suggestions, what you like, what you don't like, etc. And because our schedule is a bit off (we recorded this more than a week ago and lots has happened since!), Podcast #2 will be posted tomorrow. From then on, we will post a regularly scheduled weekly podcast every Tuesday (hopefully).

This week's podcast contents:

• 00:00 - 15:00 - Discussion about recent news, including Joseph-Gordon Levitt joining "Django Unchained"; Garrett Hedlund and "Akira"; "Chronicle" trailer; and more.

• 15:00 - 27:30 - We go in-depth into discussing Kirsten Dunst in "Melancholia"; Felicity Jones in "Like Crazy" and Elizabeth Olsen in "Martha Marcy May Marlene" (no spoilers)

• 27:30 - End - More general discussion about the Best Actress/Supporting Actress race; we talk Rooney Mara in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Melissa McCarthy in "Bridesmaids" and more.