Marvelous! or The Death of Cinema
Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole Netscape 185 episodes Nov 5, 2026
Marvelous! or The Death of Cinema is a critical, tongue-in-cheek podcast examining the bleak landscape of modern IP-driven Hollywood blockbusters. Hosted by Tyrell James (aka Discourse Stu), Nicole Veneto, and Cole Netscape, the show unpacks the Marvel era and broader questions about cinema's artistic and cultural decline. Episodes blend sharp commentary, humor, and media criticism. Audio production is by Miguel Tahni, with art by Zoe Woolley, Kly, and Johanna Hermeer.
Episodes
[TEASER] The Fate of Bush
A brief snipped from our discussion of the cult-classic sci-fi adventure sex comedy.
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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Dawn of the Dead, or Dead Mall Blues
WHEN THERE'S NO MORE ROOM IN HELL, THE DEAD WILL WALK THE EARTH
It's our first ever listener-selected Halloween Special! And you where all kind enough to gift us a classic: George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. The cult hit and canonical classic that launched an entire sub-genre of horror, spawned every "what would you do in the zombie apocalypse" conversation, pioneered shocking new gore and make
[Teaser] "They don't make them like they used to..."
A snippet from Stu and Nicole's wide-ranging conversation about Bram Stoker's Dracula, the horny, weird, baroque and lavishly over the top 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film with Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves.
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Five Nights at Freddy's, or Where A Kid Can Be A Corpse
In 2014 a weird Christian guy made a videogame about spending the night with scary haunted animatronics. What followed was a cultural sensation, with a boatload of sequels and an increasingly weird and esoteric lore. Did you know that the animatronics are concealing the corpses of murdered children? Do you know about Golden Freddy? Did they somehow succeed at fitting this all into a Blumhouse movi
[TEASER] Coming out of my well and I've been doing just fine
A sample from our discussion of Gore Verbinski's The Ring, the American remake of the 1998 Japanese film 'Ring', the first of a wave of such remakes and the only one that's any good.
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Godzilla Minus One, or Less Than Zero
Atomic Horror month concludes on Marvelous! with the most recent and so-far most lucrative Godzilla movie of all time: Godzilla Minus One. Champion fourth mic Seqarts joins us to discuss the reasons for the films massive success, its flaws and virtues, where it fits into the wider canon, discuss its political themes and to explore the the prismatic ways in which it reflects the various concerns, a
[TEASER] Godzilla has been my best friend since I was a little girl
A sample from our newly released Patreon episode on Ishiro Honda's original 1954 film "Godzilla".
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[TEASER] Live Nicole Reaction
For our movie and MCU news catch-up bonus episode, Cole reads out the leaked Avengers: Doomsday plot synopsis to Nicole and Stu. Nicole reacts very, very badly.
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Oppenheimer, or Merry Christmas Mr. Nolan
This week on Marvelous!, the second and inarguably superior half of the monocultural fugue state that was Barbenheimer summer: a three hour biopic-cum-courtroom drama that's partly in black and white about the world's most consequential product launch. And it had (almost) as much pull as girl toy IP. In the long awaited return of Christopher Nolan to the podcast, Nicole, Stu, and Cole dissect the
[TEASER] Israeli Entertainment (feat. Liz)
Fun fact: not only was the 1987 He-Man movie Masters of the Universe largely responsible for bankrupting the already flailing Israeli cultural institution that was Cannon Films, but it was also directed by an (alleged) serial gay pedophile.
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Barbie, or Life in Plastic
"It’s about a fucking doll!" - Amy Taubin
This week, the Marvelous! crew sets their sights on the hot pink pop cultural phenomenon that is Barbie, a billion-plus dollar (post-)feminist object/Mattel rebrand strategy grappling with the fraught, symbolic legacy of the world's most famous doll by giving her a kitschy existentialist crisis. We talk about how the film's priorities as an officially lice
The Flash, or The Flush
The flailing DCEU runs at light-speed into a brick wall with this misbegotten penultimate pre-reboot entry. Ugly and unfunny, even the film's sole interesting element - Ezra Miller's weird and hysterical performance - is ultimately abandoned for Batman nostalgia and a failed, flat attempt to launch an (immediately recast) Supergirl. It's a bad, bad movie, but at least we had a lot of fun talking a
Blue Beetle, or The Carapax View (feat. Chris Bell)
As the DC Extended Universe nears its inevitable reboot, filmmaker Chris Bell (Failed State, Attention Shoppers, The Winds That Scatter) joins the pod to dissect one of its last offerings in the form of Blue Beetle, a comparatively decent entry from a franchise that's still got another very expensive bowel-movement or two waiting for us. We once again debate the merits and limitations of Hollywood
[TEASER] Smallville Season 2 with Cole and Seqarts
A sample from our latest patrons-exclusive TVChat, wherein Cole and our long time friend and recurring guest Seqarts continue their retrospective on the 2000s superhero-monster-of-the-week-teen-melodrama Smallville.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, or The Third Greatest Animated Film Ever Made
... according to Letterboxd, anyway, but your pals at Marvelous! aren't quite so sanguine. From Phil Lord's tyrannical rule of production to the tedium of infinite Spiders-Men and the so-facile-it-might-be-accidental queer representation — we dig into all the things that keep this (sometimes good) film from achieving the greatness its reputation implies.
For this episode we relied especially on
Fast X, or The Wheels Come Off
After concluding our long patreon-exclusive retrospective on the series, we arrive at last back in 2023 with Fast X, the bloated, messy, chaotic beginning of the end for the 'Fast Family'. Along the way we discuss Justin Lin's sudden exit, too much bluescreen, Vatican pinball, Jason Momoa as an evil gay guy, sticking Michelle Rodriguez in a concrete room for most of the movie, alternate storylines
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3, or Troll's Remorse
Cole's back and they've learned the secret of the orient: not being that mad anymore.
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[TEASER] Oh... Canada. (feat. Remember Shuffle)
Fellow Canucks Remember Shuffle join Stu and a hopelessly outnumbered Nicole for a lively and in-depth discussion about Blackberry, and the seething neurotic resentment that comes from living in the Great White North.
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Air, or Soleless
Cole was too busy watching actual basketball, so Nicole and Stu are left to fend for themselves in alien territory as we enter the worlds of shoes and sports with the Affleck/Damon brand-biopic. Is it a fleeting microgenre, or are products the new comic books? We discuss what makes the film hollow and irritating, the limits of slipping 'subversive' messages into hyper-corporate movies, the odd way
[TEASER] They Got Him
Before we (Nicole and Cole) fulfill their contractually obligated second Patreon Raffle pick on Trần Anh Hùng's under-appreciated neo-noir I Come With the Rain, we pay our respect to Stu, who at the time caught the hantavirus from that cruise. Remember when that happened?
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[TEASER] Unidentified Traumatic Object (feat. Jane Altoids)
An excerpt from our conversation with Jane Altoids about Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, adapted from the novel by Scott Heims.
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie, or Realistic Panic Attacks (feat. Kyle Amato)
Boston Hassle film critic, animation enthusiast, and co-host of Hawke Cast Kyle Amato joins Stu, Nicole, and Cole to dissect the second highest grossing toy commercial of 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie. It's your stock standard low-effort kiddie fodder reskinned for Nintendo IP and jam packed with as many Easter eggs and Top 40 needledops as algorithmically possible. If animation actually wants
[TEASER] Twenty Years of Failed American Akiras
As of 2025, Warner Brothers officially lost the rights to make a live action feature film adaptation of Akira, ending over 20 years of a development hell for something nobody wanted or asked for. But god, did they try. Nicole takes Stu on a deep dive through each and every painfully misguided iteration of what thankfully will never be.
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[TEASER] The Anime of Anime
On the eve of having to review The Super Mario Brothers Movie, the gang decides to find reprieve in what is possibly the greatest technical and craft achievement in the history of animation: Akira.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, or Merciful Competence
A long, long time ago, in a remote, wild and mystical land called Minnesota, a bunch of nerds with polyhedral dice decided to play-act Lord of the Rings using the rules and miniatures from a medieval war game. That game became a product, that product became a brand, and that brand became popular with women, so they made a pretty decent movie out of it. We watched that movie, and had a nice chat ab
[TEASER] Arthurian Hitlerism
At the outset of a nearly 3 hour discussion about mythic cuckoldry and shit looking cool as hell in John Boorman's Excalibur, Cole teaches Nicole and Stu about an even stupider king of ethnonationalist beliefs.
Shazam: Fury of the Gods, or Blunder the Dome
We enter the home stretch of the pre-Gunn DCU with Shazam: Fury of the Gods, a confused and inert mess of glop, nonsense and awful dialogue anchored by the unbearable anti-charisma of future Jesuslop washup Zachary Levi. Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu are wasted. Rachel Zegler needs a new agent; Diedrich Bader gets killed and nobody seems to notice; and the barely-explored villain scheme is stolen, ine
[Teaser] Bride of Chucky
BREAKING NEWS: Nicole Queens out!!!!!
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M3GAN, or MUMSN3T (feat. Evan)
As the gang ventures into uncharted territory in industrial scale genre filmmaking, Nicole taps in her beau Evan to help talk about one of Blumhouse's biggest hits, M3GAN, the PG-13 killer AI doll movie/meme generator. It's a manufactured, half-baked horror-comedy about the dangers of letting children have too much screentime, so transparently desperate to launch its titular character into the pa
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, or The Kang that Shouted At Women At The Heart of The World
Witness a failure so epic, it accidentally made the show good. It all goes wrong here.
"I’m a VFX Artist, and I’m Tired of Getting ‘Pixel-F–ked’ by Marvel" as told to Chris Lee, Vulture
"‘Honestly, I Equate It to Human Greed’" by Chris Lee, Vulture
"Jonathan Majors’ ‘Extreme Abuse’ Allegedly Goes Back Nearly a Decade" by Cheyenne Roundtree & Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone
"Jonathan Majors Had
TEASER: Patron Raffle winner delivers punishment (Justice League x RWBY feat. Ty)
The first of our two (long story) Patron Raffle winners passes judgement on Marvelous! and forces us to watch the direct-to-streaming two part OVA Justice League x RWBY. Ty from TGOFV bravely joins us, to salvage the episode, ask the big questions, and talk about comic books.
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BONUS: Smallville Chat Season 1 with Cole and Seqarts
Cole and beloved friend of the show Seqarts discuss the first season of "Smallville", The WB's successful attempt to replace Buffy with a Superman prequel show about hunky teen Clark Kent and his best friends: Lex Luthor and the chick from NXIVM.
Discussions of future seasons will appear exclusively on the Patreon.
Tickets and schedule for the Boston Underground Film Festival at Brattle (and Co
Him, or Winning the Touchdown (feat. Gus)
Gus from the very funny podcast Most Controversial joins Stu and Cole to discuss the strange Jordan Peele produced sports horror film "Him", a surreal saga about professional football and the relationship between the greatest quarterback of all time and his up-and-coming protege and rival. Our discussions include the many themes the film gestures at, it's ability or inability to corral them into a
[TEASER] Wuthering Your Heights at the Theater
Before delving into a 90 minute bitch sesh on Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights", Cole and Nicole share some details on their respective theatrical experiences being surrounded by BookTok fans and captive boyfriends on all sides.
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Dr. No, or Dr. I Told Her Twice
While Nicole's away, the boys laze about for Queen and Country. Witness the lackadaisical start for everyone's favorite series of Spy "Action" Thrillers as we dive into Dr. No. Duh duh duh-duh da duh indeed.
Tickets and schedule for the Boston Underground Film Festival at Brattle (and Coolidge) Theater
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2, or Derailing at the Speed of Sound (feat. Andy)
Wrapping up our trip through the 2022 blockbuster landscape, returning guest/friend of the pod/Sonic autist of note Andy (@Ex_AnarchoAnon) from Those Good Old Fashioned Values joins Nicole and Cole for what's supposed to be an episode about Sonic the Hedgehog 2. We really were going to try to stretch out a mediocre video game movie for children and their ironically detached millennial parents into
[TEASER] Pimp Your Wife
While Nicole and Cole wait for Stu to fix his internet connectivity issues so they can all finally talk about Blade, they venture into Bow Wow's (formerly "Lil") Wikipedia page and discover the greatest deleted Tweet of all time.
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The Gray Man, or Sorrow
The Russo brothers are boring, lame guys who make boring, lame movies. The Gray Man, appropriate to it's name, is perhaps the most boring and lame so far. Our suffering is Eternal, but the episode is only 80 minutes.
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TEASER: Mulholland Drive (feat. Jake Tropila)
Jake Tropila joins us to discuss David Lynch's dark side of the Hollywood dream (within a dream) masterpiece.
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The Fabelmans, or Live from the Cuck Chair (feat. Aaron from Hit Factory)
Steven Spielberg: whiz kid of New Hollywood, maestro of cinematic spectacle, Lord Emperor of eighties kids nostalgia, and chief architect of the modern blockbuster as we know it . A spectral presence over this podcast, but first and foremost, he's our preeminent child-of-divorce auteur. We're joined by Aaron from Hit Factory to talk The Fabelmans, Spielberg's stunningly revealing work of autoficti
[TEASER] The Greatest Trailer Music of All Time
Before delving into the fabled (and shockingly good) Pyun work print cut of Captain America (1990), we revisit Captain America: The First Avenger and give some much needed and deeply reverential space to that one First Avenger trailer with Tool in it.
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Babylon, or The Ick Factor (feat. Jane Altoids)
Jane Altoids (@staticbluebat) of Pacino Pod joins us to relitigate one of Film Twitter's favorite discourses: is Damien Chazelle's mega-critical and commercial flop Babylon an underrated masterpiece or a heaping pile of elephant shit? Did Babylon deserve to fall or did the guy famously who lost Best Picture to Moonlight make one of the great misunderstood films of the 21st century? Can a straight
[TEASER] Speed Racer, or An Assault on Modern Aesthetic (feat. Esther Rosenfield)
Esther Rosenfield joins us to discuss the Wachowski sisters' innovative, stylish 2008 film Speed Racer.
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Morbius, or An Alleged Vampire in Brooklyn
A movie so nice they put it in theaters twice!
This week on the pod, Stu, Nicole, and Cole Netscape watched Morbius, the Sony Spider-Man Universe's (sans Spider-Man) follow up entry to Venom: Let There Be Carnage and a multi-million dollar vanity project for notoriously Method actor and (ALLEGED PLEASE DON'T SUE US) pedophile Jared Leto. You know its fucking terrible.
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[TEASER] Gentrifying Gary, Indiana
On the eve of the new year, the gang must improvise a last minute substitute for our delayed She Is Conann episode...
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Christmas Special 2025: Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Does a sequel to a Christmas movie count as a Christmas movie? It doesn't matter! Our patrons voted and Joe Dante's anarchic, loony tunes inspired, ahead of it's time fourth wall breaking creature feature was - to our delight - the winner. Join us in a fun, light episode in which we marvel at amazing creature effects, enjoy beloved character actors, share our favorite of the film's (many) gags, an
Avatar: The Way of Water, or Sullys Rizz Together (feat. John DeLillo)
Trending viral number one podcast Marvelous! Or the Death of Cinema trending viral number one movie Avatar: The Way of Water.
I see you. Yes, you. Eywa knows what you've done and she's ashamed of you. On christmas no less. Do the Na'vi celebrate christmas? Or is it more of a Life Day situation. Your sins aside, we're back on Pandora with our buddy wandering filmic troubadour John Delillo talking
[TEASER] The Marvelous Masks - Episode 1
Finally, a new adventure in podcasting and a new frontier of Patreon exclusive bonus content: an RPG.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once, or The Discovery of Multiverse Among the Libs (feat. Alice Moody)
The cynics strike back! Guest Alice Moody joins the gang for the ritual slaughter of a sacred cow, the Widely awarded, critically lauded and enormously popular Everything Everywhere All at Once. Along the way we try and examine what what made this movie so popular, and what puts us in the small minority of people who dislike (or even hate) it - ranging from the writing and production, to it's absu
[TEASER] Lynchian Deep Tissue Massage
Before Nicole and Cole get to discussing Lost Highway (a.k.a. one of the most cursed things ever made) for two hours, Nicole shares a funny Instagram account that made her laugh so hard she drooled on her phone.
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Black Adam, or To Egg Fu, Thanks for Everything
He was chosen by the Wizard Shazam as a baby boy, messed up his head and even changed the hierarchy of power. More like Brap Adam as the gang dive into The Rock's attempted takeover of Warner Bros.
An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2.
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[TEASER] Goatse to the New Dimension
We delay having to have a conversation about Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time by positing a new hypothetical nobody else in the world has ever considered: what if goatse was a portal to another dimension?
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Halloween Special: The Evil Within, or Poop Pilled (feat. Thomsen)
Happy Halloween everybody! Here's our scariest offering yet: a failson vanity project by a Getty scion who did so much meth it ultimately killed him
Friend of the show and man who was not torn apart by dogs on October 26th 2025 as foretold by Afroman, Thomsen (@mood_probiotic), joins us to talk about 2017's The Evil Within (original title The Storyteller), the first and last film by Andrew Getty,
Top Gun: Maverick, or Take My Gay Away
This week on the pod your three favorite shithead haters find another thing to tell you sucks. Only this time, it's a movie everyone loves: Top Gun: Maverick, the sterile, Lockheed Martin sponsored legacy sequel to Tony Scott's (RIP) 1986 Air Force recruitment blockbuster that's equally as jingoistic but lacks the benefit of pure eighties cheese. We're mass issuing "fell for military propaganda" a
Jurassic World: Dominion, or Now This Just Happened
Friend and critic Jake Tropila, bravely joins us to talk about the third Jurassic World movie, which is the sixth Jurassic Park movie, in which the fist film's septuagenarian cast is reunited to putter vacantly around a lab looking at big grasshoppers. Meanwhile, in Malta, Chris Pratt does the "talk to the hand" at every dinosaur he meets and it works for some reason. It's a cavalcade of bad perfo
[TEASER] Brought to You by Tylenol
AnimeSerbia from Kemonofriendzone joins us on a breezy, digressive odyssey into zoomer nostalgia, 2000s toy lines, advertising, and the Tom Hanks Dynasty in an episode about a direct-to-TV CGI Hot Wheels movie.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, or Death at a (Wakandan) Funeral
Pulp month comes to a close and we get back to business as the gang discusses Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Disney and Ryan Coogler's brief Eulogy for Chadwick Boseman and the over-two-hour postscript in which they desperately cast around for replacements for all the guys that retired before Covid. An origin film for not only a new Black Panther, but a new Iron Man Jr. and completely revamped "N
[TEASER] #whoreremembers
For some people the mere mention of December 25th, 2010, or "The Day Gainax Ruined Christmas," instills fear and traumatic flashbacks to being Le Trolled. For Nicole, it was another day in dad's mancave on the family desktop computer lurking /a/.
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Dick Tracy, or The Color of Pomegranates
In our final Pulp Month outing before we return for duty back at the IP slop mines, we watched the Warren Beatty vanity/autistic-passion project Dick Tracy, yet another attempt by Disney to play catch up to Warner Bros. and Batman. A nearly $50 million black tank-top movie shot by the DP of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage where Al Pacino in heavy prosthetics eats out the scenery and Madonna blas
[TEASER] The Rocketeer, or Chekhov's Gum
A preview of our episode discussing 1991's The Rocketeer and the Dave Stevens comic on which it is based.
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The Shadow, or Who Knows What Zesty Thoughts Lurk in the Hearts of Men?
He can cloud men's minds with braps of mediocrity. We continue our foray into Pulp Month with our first actual pulp character, The Shadow, starring Alec "walkemdown" Baldwin as the titular character.
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RRR, or The British Really Were That Evil
We return to our 'International Blockbusters' series with a conversation about S.S. Rajamouli's breakout Telugu-language historical action romance. As complete outsiders to the world's largest and most diverse film culture, we try our level best to situate the film in a historical and cultural context, interpret it's nationalist politics, and discuss what makes India's maximalist 'Masala' blended-
[TEASER] Patron Raffle #12: Ang Lee's Hulk
Is it Ang Lee's Hulk as bad as everyone says, or a forgotten gem? In a rare confluence of reality and trite aphorism, the truth may be somewhere in the middle.
Every three months or so we host a raffle in which all active patrons are automatically entered. The winner is then allowed to select the topic for an episode. If you want to hear the full episode, or win the chance to select a future epis
Thor: Love and Thunder, or Terminal Kiwi
Oh my god shut the fuck up!!!!!! I'm going to turn these goddamn screaming meme goats into curry I swear to god.
It's another demoralizing Marvel movie. You guys like these episodes huh? You like listening to us inflict great pain on ourselves? Well this one's a two hour Old Spice commercial that inexplicably costs $200 million and pisses away whatever good will Taika Waititi ever had. Wherein one
Girl Mode #4: Josie and the Pussycats (feat. Annapurna Sriram)
On this jerkin' (FREE BONUS!!!!!) episode of the Girl Mode subseries, Nicole is joined by the iconic multi-hyphenate visionary behind Fucktoys, Annapurna Sriram, to discuss the once maligned and deeply misunderstood Y2K pop satire Josie and the Pussycats, another cult camp classic proudly reclaimed by the girls (and the gays) as the Best Movie Ever. Before Riverdale updated and franchised the Arch
Nope, or American Spectacle
We're eating good again on the pod this week with Jordan Peele's spectacular, horrifying, and impeccably made third film, Nope, a modern masterpiece in its own right and (in)arguably one of the best blockbusters of the last twenty years. It's about bad miracles, filmmaking spectacle, the legacy and erasure of the black cowboy, aliens, UFOs, Travis the Chimp, how much Jordan Peele loves anime, and
[TEASER] Mamoru Oshii's The Red Spectacles
A sample from our discussion of Mamoru Oshii's (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor) surreal first live action film, and the first entry in the multimedia alternate-history 'Kerberos' series.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, or Gaping Orifices
Finally, some fucking mid.
Even late-period Sam Raimi (more the guy who made Oz the Great and Powerful than Evil Dead or Spider-Man 2) manages to pick the bar up from the depths of hell to make something we can at least trip and stumble on. We literally remember nothing about the first Doctor Strange, so this is a marked improvement even if it's marred by another bad screenplay from one of Dan Har
[TEASER] Raimi's Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2
Not even ten minutes into our Raimi Spider-Man (maybe we'll do the third one eventually I don't know) double feature episode and Cole goes old head about sixties cartoons and an X-Men reference in a Wings song.
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The Batman, or The Big One
It's finally here.
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Bloodshot, or Jim Shooters (feat. Graham)
Today we tackle yet another incipient cinematic universe that never made it past one movie because half the character rights went to another studio before release and then had its opening weekend just as every theater in America was closing due to COVID. It's Bloodshot starring Vin Diesel (who's terrible in it by the way), the first and last entry in the Valiant Cinematic Universe and a movie that
[TEASER] Michael Mann's Collateral (Patreon Raffle #11)
Thanks to Patron raffle winner Glenn Shook, the gang enjoys an opportunity to talk about the 2004 Michael Mann thriller 'Collateral'.
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Space Jam: A New Legacy, or Goo Filled Lebron
Hell holds no surprises for us.
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[PREVIEW] Pitt-chat
With Nicole away, Cole and Stu indulge themselves with a two and a half hour conversation about The Pitt, a popular new medical drama. It's just good TV.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home, or Dweeb Splooge
It's the movie that finally got people back into the theaters after a global pandemic, a billion-dollar hype machine/feat of emotional manipulation that successfully weaponized our collective nostalgia by retrofitting two previous iterations of Marvel's flagship character into a snake sucking its own dick. Everything you once loved and found heart-wrenching pathos in will be reduced to fan service
[TEASER] Hi-Octane Action Double Feature: The Raid and John Wick
This is a preview of our double feature episode on two films that help revitalize the action genre in the 2010s, The Raid and John Wick.
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The Matrix: Resurrections, or Assigned Morpheus At Birth (feat. Violet)
Divergent opinions on this episode as friend of the show Violet (@paradeofviolets) joins us to discuss this peculiar and belated fourth outing in the iconic turn of the millennium action sci-fi series. Whether or not you think it's good, it's certainly interesting and marks an artistically sincere change of pace from the usual franchise and 'legacy sequel' faire. Discussions include: Making art un
[TEASER] Nicole's Much Needed Vacation
While Stu and Cole were talking about Star Trek Nicole was hanging out in a dive bar watching metalheads mosh to music medieval bards played. Anyways we're talking about Cecil B. Demented and John Waters.
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The Suicide Squad, or Project Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Nicole is still on vacation so enjoy a groundbreaking 'Marvelous!' first time event: A Stu and Cole solo episode. Free to hate-it up we talk about the enigma that is James Gunn, his Guardians rehash plot, the concept of 'rubber edge', bad casting, revisiting gen xcellence, the abuse and misuse of quality source material and classic silver age monsters. Bonus: Extended digressions about some new ho
Ghostbusters: Afterlife, or Ghost Dad
Hey there, do you remember the 80s? We don't. We weren't even alive then. But somebody does, and they want to make sure you remember it to, remember it the way they did, as babies. In this episode we pick apart the falsely imagined perpetual childhood of the GenX Movie Guy, trace the counters of the crassly commercial 'Legacy Sequel', ponder the pitfalls of nostalgia, ponder Jason Reitman's daddy
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