Marvelous! or The Death of Cinema

It's the biggest bomb in the entire MCU. The movie everyone hated. That flopped so hard it put the final nail in the coffin of Phase 5. And it's... the best MCU movie in like a decade? Damning with faint praise as that may be, join us as we bravely cross the cinematic universe Rubicon and discuss this deeply flawed but kind of winning movie, director Nia DaCosta, late period Feige, post-production meddling, Blue Frasier, and try to figure out why this is the one that nobody wanted to see. An extra special thanks to our $10-tier Executive Producers: Terri Edwards-Nixon, poohbear (aka the artist fka peebothesneebo), Luke P, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, Ronny Gardocki and Owen2.   Please consider donating to these organizations: Gaza Funds Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and Medical Aid for Palestinians Nikkei Progressives National Networks of Abortion Funds If you enjoy the show please consider: Supporting us on Patreon, where you can enjoy exclusive episodes, commentary tracks, and more. Like, comment, rate, and review as the algorithm demands.

A brief snipped from our discussion of the cult-classic sci-fi adventure sex comedy.  To hear the rest, and all our other exclusive episodes, just click here and support us on Patreon!

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-up effects, and conveys a satirical, apocalyptic vision of social collapse that feels as salient now as it did in 1978.  Join us as we discuss the film's production, themes, legacy, Romero's amiable and improvisational directorial style, ponder the rise and fall of the Shopping Mall in culture, and weigh our own options for when the dead inevitably rise to consume the living. Check out this circa-2001 Making-Of on Youtube. An extra special thanks to our $10-tier Executive Producers: Terri Edwards-Nixon, poohbear (aka the artist fka peebothesneebo), Luke P, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, Ronny Gardocki and Owen2. Please consider donating to these organizations: Gaza Funds Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and Medical Aid for Palestinians Nikkei Progressives National Networks of Abortion Funds If you enjoy the show please consider: Supporting us on Patreon, where you can enjoy exclusive episodes, commentary tracks, and more. Like, comment, rate, and review as the algorithm demands.

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.  To hear the rest, and all our other exclusive episodes, simply click here and support us on Patreon!

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 movie? Follow along as Cole, with the help of our Discord community, leads us on a journey into lore, madness, and child murder. Also we talk about the movie. An extra special thanks to our $10-tier Executive Producers: Terri Edwards-Nixon, Luke P, JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, Ronny Gardocki and Owen2. Please consider donating to these organizations: Gaza Funds Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and Medical Aid for Palestinians Nikkei Progressives National Networks of Abortion Funds If you enjoy the show please consider: Subscribing to our Patreon, where you can enjoy exclusive episodes, commentary tracks, and more. Like, comment, rate, and review as the algorithm demands.

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.  Click here to support us on Patreon and listen to the full episode!

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, anxieties and narratives of Japanese culture past and present.  An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: Luke P, JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. Please support Nikkei Progressives as well as consider donating to these organizations: Gaza Funds PCRF (Palestinian Children's Relief Fund) MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) National Networks of Abortion Funds If you enjoy the show please consider: Subscribing to our Patreon, where you can enjoy exclusive episodes, commentary tracks, and more. Like, comment, rate, and review as the algorithm demands.

A sample from our newly released Patreon episode on Ishiro Honda's original 1954 film "Godzilla". Listen to the full episode and more by supporting us on Patreon!

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.   Support us on Patreon to hear the full freak out and more.

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 figurative box office bomb that is Oppenheimer. Topics include Oppie's autistic rizz, the synthesis between Nolan and American Prometheus, the memetic appeal of Barbenheimer, the woman question, and how we begrudgingly have to thank James Woods for making this happen. And tune in Sunday to the Patreon for a brand new special Marvelous! report on the state of cinema, MCU news, and the angriest Nicole has ever gotten at anything in the history of the podcast. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: Luke P, JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: Gaza Funds PCRF (Palestinian Children's Relief Fund) MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) National Networks of Abortion Funds