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Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole

A critical, tongue-in-cheek look at the bleak landscape of the modern IP-driven Hollywood blockbuster. Hosted by Tyrell James (@DiscourseStwo), Nicole Veneto (RIP @kuntsuragi) and Cole (@Netscape_Black). Audio production by Miguel Tahni. Cover art by Zoe Woolley (@probablyademon). Banner by Johanna (@Why_I_Am_Art).Discord: https://discord.gg/7vRmbRJDgsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/marvelousdeath

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

124:12

Everything Everywhere All at Once, or "The Discovery...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/11/27

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' philosophical underpinnings, and the 'whimsical, sincere' sensibility that seems

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3:13

[TEASER] Lynchian Deep Tissue Massage

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/11/24

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.Support Marvelous! on Patreon to get the full episode and more!

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137:42

Black Adam, or "To Egg Fu, Thanks for Everything"

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/11/14

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. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: Gaza Funds PCRF (Palestinian Children's Relief

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6:52

[TEASER] Goatse to the New Dimension

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2025/11/10

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 their women (but in a woke way).

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113:24

Halloween Special: The Evil Within, or Poop Pilled...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/10/31

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 himFriend 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 billionaire psycho familial trauma and an insane amount of meth. Starring

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141:35

Top Gun: Maverick, or Take My Gay Away

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/10/17

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" awards to people who should have known better but got caught up in the Cult of Tom Cruise, the sense we

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112:14

Jurassic World: Dominion, or "Now This Just Happened"

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/10/03

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 performances, bad direction, and terrible xillennial writing.Thank you to Jake for joining us on this

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7:26

[TEASER] Brought to You by Tylenol

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/09/26

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.Support Marvelous! on Patreon to get the full episode and more!

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128:26

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, or "Death at a...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/09/19

Pulp month comes to a close and we get back to business as the gang discusses Black Panther 2: 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 "Namor: The Sub-Mariner", they could've called it Ironheart Origins: Latinx Wakanda. Other discussions

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5:41

[TEASER] #whoreremembers

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2025/09/11

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/. Full bonus episode on Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (along with full-length exclusive episodes, commentaries and more) on Patreon.

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126:12

Dick Tracy, or the Color of Pomegranates

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/09/05

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 blasts nip. And in our most brain damaged discussion since The Book of Henry, we delve into Beatty's

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09:51

[TEASER] The Rocketeer, or "Chekhov's Gum"

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/08/29

A preview of our episode discussing 1991's The Rocketeer and the Dave Stevens comic on which it is based. If you like what you hear, please subscribe to our patreon for more full-length exclusive episodes, commentaries and more!

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02:06:08

The Shadow... or Who Knows What Zesty Thoughts Lurk...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/08/22

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. A special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Sam, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: Gaza Funds PCRF (Palestinian Children's Relief Fund) MAP

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02:14:57

RRR, or "The British Really Were That Evil"

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/08/08

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-genre blockbusters both similiar and different from their Hollywood counterparts, and get into what

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06:41

[TEASER] Patron Raffle #12: Ang Lee's Hulk (2003)

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/08/01

Is it 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 episode, or just like what we do, please subscribe to our patreon!

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02:18:41

Thor: Love and Thunder, or Terminal Kiwi

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/07/25

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 of us takes very personal issue with bringing Natalie Portman back just to give her the cancer that

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02:19:35

Girl Mode #4: Josie and the Pussycats (feat....

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/07/18

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 Archie Comics for modern audiences, A Very Brady Sequel screenwriters Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan took

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02:34:30

Nope, or American Spectacle

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/07/11

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 the exploitative relationship between people of color and American entertainment, all of which coalesce

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07:21

[TEASER] Mamoru Oshii's "The Red Spectacles"

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/07/04

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. 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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02:28:16

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, or...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2025/06/27

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 Harmon's writers. And hey, Elizabeth Olsen is having fun for the first time in five movies? Was this movie

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