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Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole Netscape

A critical, tongue-in-cheek look at the bleak landscape of the modern IP-driven Hollywood blockbuster. Hosted by Tyrell James (aka Discourse Stu), Nicole Veneto and Cole Netscape. Audio production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Zoe Woolley and Johanna Hermeer.Discord: https://discord.gg/7vRmbRJDgsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/marvelousdeath

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

01:57:35

WandaVision (Part 1), or I Dream of Feige

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/01/24

Your three incredibly busy but dedicated hosts are finally taking the TV plunge with the only MCU miniseries we're going to cover until further notice. It's WandaVision, the critically acclaimed "change of pace" from the Marvel mines about two characters whose relationship we've never cared about getting some spotlight in a sitcom pastiche people with brain damage compare to David Lynch (RIP). Is it really as good as everyone made it out to be so far?(Subscribe to the Patreon for next week's

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11:50

PATREON PREVIEW: Clive Barker's Nightbreed (1990)

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2025/01/17

The gang discusses Clive Barker's deeply flawed yet striking sophomore horror-fantasy film Nightbreed (1990).If you'd like to here more, please subscribe to our Patreon!

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01:41:03

The Battle at Lake Changjin, or Maoist Cinematic...

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2025/01/10

This week on the pod we're diving into the elusive and booming Chinese film industry to see how they make their blockbusters. Funded in part by the CCP (i.e. definitionally propaganda), The Battle at Lake Changjin is the highest grossing movie ever made in China and spends a significant amount of its nearly 3 hour runtime on the PLA killing American imperialist pigs. Sounds sick right? Well...Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Porridge Fist, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Kevin

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01:52:52

Christmas Special: The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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2024/12/27

It's a boxing day content miracle! The gang assembles to talk in earnest about a beloved classic, a movie that might not be Christmas themes, but definitely shares those vibes: The Wizard of Oz. Nicole holds court in this special episode about family, technicolor, Hollywood horror stories myths loved and myths dispelled. And in the fine tradition of holiday specials, we're joined by a surprise guest star! Can you guess who? Tune in to find out!Special Thanks to our Executive Producer Tier Patron

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09:48

TEASER: A Very Special Episode

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/12/20

Remember that lady who didn't show her face and made the Dance Moms kid do interpretive dance to her songs who also happened to be one of the biggest pop stars of the 2010s? Well she made a movie about how autism is just seeing the world like a Christmas commercial for Target. 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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02:11:40

Shang-Chi, or the Castle of Simu Liu (feat. Seqarts)

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2024/12/13

Friend of the show/Discord moderator of the year/Asian correspondent Seqarts returns to guide us through a discussion of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings that takes us on a journey through Marvel's orientalist source material, American liberal understandings of Asian identity, the limits of representation politics, and Simu Liu's sordid internet history. Shockingly woke discussion.Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Kevin Feige doing the

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09:44

TEASER: Cat People

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/12/06

The Jellicle Moon is shining bright Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball Jellicle cats are black and white Jellicle cats are rather small Jellicle cats are merry and bright And pleasant to hear when we caterwaul Jellicle cats have cheerful faces Jellicle cats have bright black eyes We like to practice our airs and graces And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise Jellicle cats develop slowly Jellicle cats are not too big Jellicle cats are roly poly We know how to dance a gavotte and a jig Until the

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01:40:37

Free Guy, or NPC Home Cinema

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/11/29

Ryan and Reynolds and Taika Waitit? In a Shawn Levy movie? How could we lose! Easily, it turns out. Join us on a journey with the least imaginative minds into the least interesting virtual world since Zuckerberg's Metaverse. Are you an NPC? Listen and find out!Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Kevin Feige doing the Shmurda Dance, Jim (shout out to Jim!), jprestonpoole, Sam, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please consider supporting

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04:04

TEASER: Animation IS Cinema!!!!!

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2024/11/22

We take a brave stance on our Patreon Raffle episode for the 2009 CGI Astro Boy that bankrupted a studio that animated movies for children should be good, or even cinema.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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01:57:09

Black Widow, or Red (Ledger) Scare

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2024/11/15

We return to our regularly scheduled timeline and the MCU with one of COVID's most high profile release victims: Black Widow. It's a movie at least five years too late to be of any value and literally ends with Natasha saving ALL women. You probably know about the lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney about how co-releasing the movie on Disney+ fucked her bag up, but did you also know Disney was going to pay the original creators of Yelena Belova/White Widow a few thousand dollars as

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01:55:39

Halloween Special: Creepshow, or the (Stephen) King...

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2024/11/01

It's a very special Halloween episode as the gang covers the classic EC-comics inspired 1982 George Romero/Stephen King anthology film Creepshow. Our conversation includes: The strengths of the anthology format, the history of moral panics, how much creatively minded boomers hated their dads, EC comics and the comics code, scary Leslie Neilson, and King's memorable turn as doomed simpleton farmer Jordy Verrill.Special thanks to our Executive Producer tier Patrons: Isaac, Walt Lewellyn of The

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01:55:43

X-Men: Days of Future Past, or Magneto Bullet Theory

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2024/10/18

X-Men: Days of Future Past is notable for three things. The first is that it splits the timeline continuity between the old X-Men movies directed by (allegedly) sex pests towards underage boys or adult women with the new ones that will eventually bring us to Dark Phoenix and New Mutants taking Fox's outing with Marvel off a cliff, and in doing so innovates the now lucrative concept of the "multiverse." The second is that aforementioned sex pest towards underage boys (allegedly) is back to directing

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02:47

TEASER: Diverse Racial Weapons Auction (feat. Ty)

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2024/10/11

In one of our many silly tangents about Steel Cole laments that there aren't enough big third act scenes where the climax is a weapons auction to different stereotypical racial ethnicities, seemingly forgetting about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Ty is also here.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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01:32:43

Kick Gyatts, Or The Reappraisal of Mark Millar By The...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/10/04

Finally, our most off topic episode. Like a Millarworld comic we've got dick and fart jokes, imminently dated jokes about what's in the news, and a slight fixation on race in maybe our most off topic episode yet. Maybe in 15 years Netflix will give us like 10 billion dollars to produce a live action version of the podcast that will be canceled after one season. Did anyone else ever watch the netflix released Jupiter's Legacy show?Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Porridge Fist, Walt

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01:44:16

Avatar, or They Done Screwed Up and Let Coal Upload...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/09/19

Did any of you guys get the pandora mental illness? I didn't for the first one but now I think I'd fuck a blue lady if she looked white enough. Do you guys read these? Anyways stu and nicole are having a JO sesh at the local theater so they let me do this and I had to spend like 45 minutes figuring out the login because nobody knows what the podcast email is. Anyways we had a great time with the homie john on this one. Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Porridge Fist, Walt Lewellyn

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01:55:26

X-Men: First Class, or No Darwin No Peace

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2024/09/05

So here's a movie everyone misremembers as being really good: X-Men: First Class. Not directed by a serial rapist pedophile or rampant sex pest of adult women, but by certified hack slop directed Matthew Vaughn a.k.a. Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond. It's the first of Fox's nu-X-Men movies in a saga that will end in Dark Phoenix (or New Mutants, however the fuck this canon goes). Basically we watched Star Trek again because this is also a prequel overstuffed with fanservice and weird shit about

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03:21

TEASER: Live Kang Reaction

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/08/30

Jonathan Majors couldn't stop doing DV and now they're giving an unfounded amount of money to Robert Downey Jr. and his brand new Oscar to come back as Doctor Doom. All that and more Marvel news covered in this Special Report.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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02:37:02

Star Trek '09, or Imbalance of Error (feat. Seqarts)

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2024/08/23

It's finally time for us to delve into a massive franchise we have yet to cover on the pod: Star Trek. Before J.J. Abrams was handed the keys to Star Wars to run into a brick wall and the hack fraud writing duo Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci gave us whatever the fuck the Tom Cruise Mummy movie was, they rebooted Trek with a glossy blockbuster prequel everyone loved and had absolutely no issues with. Does it really hold up after all these year? Three out of four podcasters say no, it doesn't. (Guess

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02:32

TEASER: AMV Hunters

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2024/08/16

Towards the end of our Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within conversation, we uncovered the gem of all gems: an 18 year old Evanescence "Bring Me to Life" AMV.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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02:17:08

Fantastic Four, or Josh Trank and the Wig of Despair

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2024/08/09

Coincidentally commemorating the 9 year anniversary of what’s been dubbed one of the worst superhero movies ever made, we watched Josh Trank’s 2015 mega-flop Fantastic Four a.k.a. Fant4stic this week. Doomed from the start by the competing forces of a hot young director and a studio trying to compete with the media conglomerate that will buy them two years later, the resulting attempt to reboot the Fantastic Four into darker, Cronenbergian territory was not so fantastic. It’s stinks actually, but

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