Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

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

An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropi...

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 a 90-120 minute conversation, acco...

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.

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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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 autofiction mistaken for another navel-gazin...

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 man (loosely, debatably) adapt Kenn...

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.

Link to join the still active Morbius Discord

"The Cult of Leto"...

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, and discuss Robert Picardo's (Star Tr...

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 the Way of Water. We all loved it e...

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 absurdist and 'metamodern' philosophica...

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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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? 

Subscribe to the Patreon to hear us struggle through as really bad video game movie before we say fuck it and talk about the pleasures of crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and listening to lamentations of t...

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, brought to you by decades of billio...