Best Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole Podcasts (2024)

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Train to Busan, or Trains, Brains, and Negligent Fathers 1:47:04

41m ago1:47:04

1:47:04

We're going international baby to see how other countries do their blockbusters! (Super producer and editor Miguel) picked, you (paying Patrons) voted: 2016's Train to Busan, South Korea's hit zombie flick . You're probably more than aware that South Korean movies (and a lot of their recent cultural exports) have been dog walking the slop America's…

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TEASER: Tactical Twink-strategy (feat. Angie) 3:14

5d ago3:14

3:14

This anime bullshit is actually giving us a real political discussion if you can actually believe it. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.By Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole

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Spider-Man: Far From Home, or Batalon Royale 1:51:56

11d ago1:51:56

1:51:56

Right off the back of the milestone of watching/shitting on Avengers: Endgame, followed it up with another Spider-Man movie, and to nobody's surprise it literally doesn't matter. This is an anime beach episode that has no bearing on anything else that happens in a cinematic universe. Spider-Man accidentally drones a school bus driving through the C…

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Avengers: Endgame, or This is (Not) the End 2:30:34

17d ago2:30:34

2:30:34

It's all led to this. 21 movies, tens of billions of dollars made at the box office, a movie going public willing and hungry to return to the trough to see even more purple Josh Brolin. It's the second highest grossing movie of all time (unadjusted for inflation) and the episode you've all been waiting for since the very beginning: Avengers: Endgam…

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TEASER: Cara Loft - Womb Raider 2:16

23d ago2:16

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It's exactly what you think it is. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.By Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, or The Real Glup Shitto 2:14:37

1M ago2:14:37

2:14:37

A $4 billion dollar Disney acquisition, Reddit internet flamewars, and three film trilogies of the so-called “Skywalker Saga” have finally led to this: a movie so desperate to backtrack on The Last Jedi and meet its 2019 release date that the end result is something akin to a term paper written half an hour before you’re supposed to turn it in. Ris…

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Joker, or How I Got These (Psychological) Scars (Feat. Ty) 1:15:10

2M ago1:15:10

1:15:10

Comedian and friend of the show Ty from TGOF(V) joins us to discuss the most well adjusted and normal practitioners of the greatest art, and it's greatest artist: Noted non-rapping Insane Clown and sometimes Bats-men pesterer: The Joker. A role now more prestigious than MacBeth, it both won an Academy Award and turned every lonely man that saw it i…

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TEASER: Anti-Rape Super Saiyan 0:58

2M ago0:58

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We ended up talking a lot about Dragon Ball Z in our discussion of Bitter Moon and the many sex crimes of one Roman Polanski. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.By Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole

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Dark Phoenix, or Professor Baldy's Academy for Freaks 1:49:46

2M ago1:49:46

1:49:46

In our first run at the Fox X-Men films proper we tackle Dark Phoenix, a film that turns one of the classic story arcs in comics that turns it into a flaccid two hours of cinematic rice cake. We explore the film's very troubled production history, the career of writer/director Simon Kinberg, and discuss the source material, how commercially oriente…

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TEASER: Our Idea for Big 2 1:08

2M ago1:08

1:08

We came up with not one but two pitches for legacy sequels over the course of our discussion about Bound. This is one of them. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.By Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters, or Boston Strong (feat. Andy again) 1:37:28

3M ago1:37:28

1:37:28

In our first stab at Legendary's Monsterverse, we tackle 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which is really just a shiny American remake of Invasion of the Astro-Monster, Destroy All Monsters, and All Monsters Attack except there are no aliens dressed like a New Wave band and nuclear radiation is net positive for the environment. We've got our …

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Detective Pikachu, or Adult Baby Consent Machine 1:42:55

3M ago1:42:55

1:42:55

We discuss a pokemon movie that a lot of people where tricked into liking because it had cinematography and a cute little guy. Along the we cover the (mis)casting of Ryan Reynolds, the growing synergy between American and Japanese entertainment industries, adapting anime characters to live action, childhood memories, childhood atavism, Drake, Roger…

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TEASER: Nicole Does an English Accent 1:17

3M ago1:17

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Enjoy Nicole's impeccable posh English accent in this excerpt from our Patron-exclusive episode about the recent 'indie' hit Saltburn and writer/director Emerald Fennel. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.…

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Hellboy (2019), or The Right Hand of Goon (feat. Graham) 2:13:24

4M ago2:13:24

2:13:24

In 2019 they rebooted Hellboy. Remember that? They rebooted Hellboy. They made a new Hellboy movie. With David Harbour! Remember him? The stranger things guy? No you don't. Be glad! They really messed this one up. The guy who made "The Descent" then nothing else for 15 years was in way over his head. The producers kept trying to make this a Marvel …

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Captains Marvel: The Twin Fakes 2:30:28

4M ago2:30:28

2:30:28

We open 2024 with a deluxe-sized double feature episode as we compare two titanic 2019 superhero releases: Captain Marvel and... Captain Marvel!? Ok, it's Shazam, but realheads know. If you don't, listen to this episode, and find out all about the Captains Marvel, phony pheminism, corporate cuckoldry, bad relatable teen writing, bad relatable grown…

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Spider-Man 2 (The Game), or Cookie Monster Symbiote [BONUS] 1:11:21

4M ago1:11:21

1:11:21

We're taking a little extended holiday break before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming (talking about capeshit movies). To tide you all over, Cole talked about Spider-Man 2 (the game) with Ty from Those Good Old Fashioned Values along with Gus and Charlie from Most Controversial in a Stu and Nicole-less episode. If you can, please h…

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Black Christmas, or The Pod is Coming from Inside the House (feat. Spencer) 1:26:41

5M ago1:26:41

1:26:41

Merry Christmas everyone (or Happy Holidays if you're on that liberal anti-Christmas bend)! It's the two year anniversary of the pod, and rather than wasting our time watching Deadpool 2 retrofitted into a PG-13 Christmas edit with Once Upon a Deadpool, we let our Patrons pick what our Christmas/anniversary episode would be about from a curated lis…

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PATREON PREVIEW: Cole’s Rant 3:30

5M ago3:30

3:30

Cole loses their mind in this excerpt from our Patreon exclusive book report on the recent hagiography MCU - The Reign of Marvel Studios. Like what you hear? Subscribe to our patreon for exclusive episodes, fan-pick raffles, VIP discord events and more!By Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole

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Alita: Battle Angel, or Cyberbodies and Spaces (feat. Esther) 2:13:53

5M ago2:13:53

2:13:53

Esther Rosenfield (@capybaroness) from Get Cynical joins us to discuss a movie... we all actually quite liked! The Robert Rodriguez directed, James Cameron produced manga adaptation of Battle Angel Alita (aka GUNNM). In this episode: Earnestness in adaptation, good action, big dick jimmy, modifiable and interchangeable bodies, trans and queer theme…

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Solo: A Star Wars Story, or L3R34 1:56:06

6M ago1:56:06

1:56:06

In this episode: Solo, a film cobbled together from memberberries and reshoots. An annoying bisexual 'sjw' robot. Pansexual Lando. A plot driven around space gasoline. It's a film less interesting than it's troubled production. They fired the Lego movie guys and hired the kid from Andy Griffith, who is too old to understand how digital cameras work…

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Patreon Teaser: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED 1:33

6M ago1:33

1:33

We launched the podcast in 2021. Since then, thanks entirely to our efforts, the MCU has taken loss after loss. Diminishing box office returns, declining critical support, plummeting audience enthusiasm. Under-performers have given way to flops have given way to fiascos. On the eve of 'The Marvels' disastrous box office returns, we take to the mics…

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Bumblebee, or Birds In the Trap Sing Travis McKnight (feat. Liz) 1:42:26

6M ago1:42:26

1:42:26

Special guest and Transformers scholar Liz (@liz_irl) enters the graveyard to discuss 'Bumblebee', the moderately successful and unexpectedly likeable spinoff of the Michael Bay Transformers franchise. In this episode: Franchise refreshes: the softest of reboots and how they try to shed their skins without losing their audiences. Fullmetal Fujoshi:…

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Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, or Baby Talk 1:47:55

7M ago1:47:55

1:47:55

Cole (zoomer with attention deficit disorder) somehow talked us (Nicole and Stu, aging millennials) into watching the Teen Titans Go! movie. Not sure why we did this because we all maybe talked about the movie itself for a total of twenty minutes and somehow milked the conversation to almost two hours? Lotta cartoon talk, some debate over whether a…

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The Book of Henry, or American Mishima 1:24:22

7M ago1:24:22

1:24:22

Why did we buck our own regularly scheduled programming of Funko Pop capeshit and IP pig slop to watch The Book of Henry, from the twisted mind of the demon Colin Trevorrow? Well, because it more or less killed his chances at what would become Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and effectively nuked a totally separate film franchise than the one he was a…

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, or Sexual Tyrannosaurus 1:34:31

8M ago1:34:31

1:34:31

It might be the dumbest movie about dinosaurs ever made. Too bored (and, in Nicole's case, incensed) by the first one to bother talking about it, we parachute into the second entry in this ur legacy-franchise-sequel-reboot for all the adult babies that never let go of their childhoods. The dinosaurs are your friends. Your pals. They're literally pu…

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Ant Man and the Wasp, or Small Soy-diers 1:36:28

8M ago1:36:28

1:36:28

It's another Marvel movie, and like most sequels in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant Man and the Wasp doubles down on everything that was irritating and boring about its admittedly okay predecessor. It doesn't stand on its own as a film because it's just a prolonged set up for a plot mechanic in a future Avengers movie. Not too much to say here a…

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Aquaman, or The Water Boy (feat. Graham) 1:53:29

9M ago1:53:29

1:53:29

Friend of the show and comic artist Graham joins the crew for a thorough filleting of one of the DCU's post-Justice League successes, the gleefully dumb light-hearted sci-fantasy romp "Aquaman." We discuss the origins of the character and his comic iterations, his nemesis Black Manta, the affable screen presence of star Jason Momoa, gestural enviro…

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Deadpool 2, or The Cable Guy 1:35:27

9M ago1:35:27

1:35:27

We're heckin back again with another freaking awesome Deadpool movie you little epic piggies to listen to. Just kidding, it's a step-down from the really just okay first one in literally every way possible. The jokes aren't very funny, the action sucks (and got a stunt person killed), all the meta-stuff you're supposed to point at is lame, and the …

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Avengers: Infinity War, or Oh Snap! 2:06:28

9M ago2:06:28

2:06:28

Sorry for the delay on this one everyone, but on this super special episode of Marvelous!, we finally reach the moment Kevin Feige and his murderers row of enablers and sycophants have built up to since 2008. Hailed by critics and audiences alike and celebrated for its "complex" sneaker-faced purple villain/having the audacity to kill half its cast…

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UNLOCKED - Patreon Raffle #1: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 1:25:06

10M ago1:25:06

1:25:06

For our inaugural Patreon Raffle, Nicole's friend Jack* won and mercifully gave us the option of watching either the defanged RoboCop remake or European mega-bomb Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets starring two of the worst actors we've watched on the pod thus far: sick and dying actor Dane Dehaan from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Cara "Pe…

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Ready Player One, or ”Nerdgasm” 2:01:58

10M ago2:01:58

2:01:58

Steven Spielberg. Colossus of film. Father of the modern blockbuster. Gamer. Ernest Cline. Author. Dreamweaver. Redditor. United, these two titans bring us the ultimate in entertainment product, that last movie ever made, the one where a guy jumps Doc Brown's DeLorean over the Iron Giant while RX-78 Gundam Fights Mechagodzilla. This week, the gang …

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Venom, or Tom Horny’s Wild Ride (feat. Andy) 1:19:39

11M ago1:19:39

1:19:39

Venom. He's a slime guy, he has big teeth, a Spiderman villain without a Spiderman, cast adrift into the seas of franchise uncertainty. In this appropriately amorphous, wide ranging episode we discuss the Venom character in comics, Tom Hardy's weirdo performance, Sony's jockying for position in it's tense shared-franchise relationship with Disney, …

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Black Panther, or The Revolution (Will Not Be) Commodified 1:41:19

11M ago1:41:19

1:41:19

In our most controversial episode yet, we take a look at the only black led movie ever made, the film that ended racism in America and dislodged the cheeto from the throat of its government: Black Panther (no relation). In this exciting episode you'll find: Stan Lee is a wily bastard, Jack Kirby talks like an old man, Afrofuturism as laser-shooting…

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, or Into the Cracker-Verse 2:12:01

11M ago2:12:01

2:12:01

In the grand tradition of raining on everyone's parade, we're bucking our usual schedule and revisiting/taking to task the critically acclaimed, Academy Award winning Sony Animation extravaganza Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a film Letterboxd users have rated as better than Goodfellas, Sunset Boulevard, and Persona. While the internet is curre…

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The Last Jedi, or At the Fandoms of Madness 1:55:04

12M ago1:55:04

1:55:04

Five years ago, a mysterious and terrible force struck our culture like a meteor - laying waste to fandoms, blogs, video essays and fanfic websites. Now, present day, present time, three intrepid podcasters set out across the irradiated rubble of dessicated dead discourse, into the scorched wounds of a dying film franchise, and sift through the ash…

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Justice League, or Two Guys One (Good) Cut 1:59:34

1y ago1:59:34

1:59:34

In this luxurious, deluxe episode the crew bring you two movies for the length of three: Justice League (2017) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). We outline the troubled production and personal tragedy that led to Snyder's ouster from his superhero magnum opus, and how WB brought in noted male feminist Joss Whedon to work his MCU magic, soy-u…

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UNLOCKED - A Marvelous! Special Report: We Need to Talk About Ezra, or Who Watches the They/Thems? 2:04:19

1y ago2:04:19

2:04:19

With the release of The Flash on the summer movie horizon, we're unlocking our Patreon bonus special investigative report on Ezra Miller and their crazy ass 2022. WB-Discovery cancelled basically everything except their upcoming The Flash movie, the basket in which the newly forged juggernaut of classic films, DC superheroes and Shark Week has deci…

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TEASER: Cara Delevingne’s Eyebrows 1:05

1y ago1:05

1:05

The winner of our first patron raffle, the crew is forced to talk about Valerian, the already-forgotten bankruptcy inducing french pedophile sci-fi epic. In this exclusive excerpt, Cole breaks the simulation on Cara Delevingne's eyebrows. For the full after-dark exclusive episode, subscribe to our Patreon. Just $3/month provides access to all subsc…

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Thor Ragnarok, or Taika This Movie and Shove It 1:39:25

1y ago1:39:25

1:39:25

On this episode Stu and Cole bully Nicole for enjoying things. Cole tells us about Thor and Hulk in comics, and how the MCU films have sold them both short. We discuss how a film that seems to want to be so whimsical and colorful seems to fall so flat, and how director Taika Waititi seems totally apathetic towards if not contemptuous of fantasy and…

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or Turtle Penis! (w/ Andy) [BONUS] 2:01:27

1y ago2:01:27

2:01:27

In this special bonus episode, Andy from Those Good Old Fashioned Values joins the pod to walk us through a retrospective on the formative years of this generation spanning cartoon franchise, its origin in independent comics, and a discussion of the surprisingly well-crafted and endearingly corny 1990 live action film. But first, Nicole makes a hor…

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Logan, or Children of X-Men 1:15:15

1y ago1:15:15

1:15:15

What if they made a comic-book movie... for grown ups? It's Logan! It's Wolverine! Remember Wolverine? He's old and sad. He says fuck. He chops dudes arms off. Professor X says swears and poops his pants. Everybody dies in the grim dark future of six years from now. We liked it ok, it's good but not as good as you remember, but we get to enjoy some…

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Wonder Woman, or Waiting for Godot (To Learn How to Act) 1:59:55

1y ago1:59:55

1:59:55

Nicole reckons with her cringe girlboss past, Stu spergs about how badly they got WWI wrong, new permanent third mic Cole has some wild shit to tell you about Wonder Woman comics lore. How could you take something as wild as a demigoddess created by a Freudian bdsm polycule and turn it into this bland rehash of First Avenger? How could you take a s…

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Spider-Man: Homecoming, or Peter Parker Custody Battle 2:06:35

1y ago2:06:35

2:06:35

Cole (@java_jigga) returns once again to help us out with Spidey's grand foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and Disney shareholders' wallets), Spider-Man: Homecoming. After a prolonged and ugly custody battle, Sony begrudgingly offered Marvel Studios to share parental rights over their little baby cash cow, and the result is yet another genr…

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Spiderman, A People’s History (feat. Cole) [Part 2 of 2] 1:49:47

1y ago1:49:47

1:49:47

Spiderman expert Cole returns to take us from the close of the 1980s Bronze Age of Comics and into the modern day, with the rise and fall of independent comics, 'adult' subjects, edginess, Marvel's bankruptcy, and the decline of mainstream American comics in the 21st century through the lens of Marvel's flagship webhead. This is the second part of …

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Spiderman, A People’s History (feat. Cole) [Part 1 of 2] 1:54:13

1+ y ago1:54:13

1:54:13

Noted comics scholar Cole (@java_jigga) joins us to discuss the History of Spiderman as a character and brand, from his origins in the 1960s, through major lore moments, changes in creative staff, behind the scenes shenanigans, and the long weird history of licensed spin-offs, including a Japanese live-action series from the 1970s that had a format…

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens, or Oedipal Phallic Power 1:38:47

1+ y ago1:38:47

1:38:47

We ring in the new year and year two of the podcast not adrift in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but somewhere a long time ago in a galaxy far far away (but still owned by the Walt Disney corporation). The Force Awakens: woke SJW propaganda, the Walt Disney Company's hollow retread of A New Hope, a Lacanian manifesto in white men's fragile masculin…

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Christmas Special: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), or Grinch Boners 1:47:00

1+ y ago1:47:00

1:47:00

Merry Christmas simps! While our Patreon subscribers will be treated to the much teased Batman Returns discussion like good little girls and boys, you freeloading plebs get a lump of coal in your shit stockings. But isn't every lump of coal capable of being a diamond — or at least an insanely horny and stylistically over-the-top curio of Millennial…

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Guardians of the Galaxy 2, or The Simple Feels Machine 1:43:46

1+ y ago1:43:46

1:43:46

Nicole kind of liked this one. Stu did not. It's kind of a movie. It's about found families. It's about feelings. It's fine. It's just fine. It's smooth. It's the vaseline you smear over your baby groot funko pop before you jam it up your ass and it's so smooth you feel... nothing. Nothing at all. If you enjoy the show please consider helping us ou…

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Doctor Strange, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Pronounce ’Synechdoche’ 1:42:04

1+ y ago1:42:04

1:42:04

The non-event Marvel film formula is perfected with Dr. Strange, a movie so perfectly smooth and spherical it's already become a fixture of neoclassical economics textbooks. All the pieces are here and they're all shiny and grey like a kitchen appliance. Join Nicole and Stu as they try and fail to talk about this movie and talk about everything aro…

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Captain America: Civil War, or Marvelous! Civil Discourse (feat. Cathy Brennan) 2:42:15

1+ y ago2:42:15

2:42:15

A civil war brews on this very podcast as Nicole and guest Cathy Brennan square off against Stu over whether this movie is terrible, or merely kinda ok. We've got Steve Roger's not-gays, quasi-incest and age gaps, dubious character motivations, contrived plotting and a centerpiece action sequence that takes place entirely in a call of duty tutorial…

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