CONAN THE BARBARIAN
John and Al discuss what is good in life.
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Superheroes, Star Wars, and other Big ‘Ol Franchises
If it’s a major fantasy franchise, it goes here
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS
Joon comes in to reminisce about the unassailable original MATRIX and ambitiously disappointing sequels before getting into some very mixed reactions to RESURRECTIONS’s hard turns into metacommentary and naked sentimentality.
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Ranking All The Spidermen of NO WAY HOME
Joon Kim portals in for a rambling discussion about men, spiders, and the sorcerors that cheerfully shred the fabric of all realities to indulge their childish whims.
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DUNE
Denis Villaneuve’s extravaganzic DUNE crushes the scope and visuals, but could use a bit more blood in its veins. It raises the question of whether this adaptation could be fairly imperfect but still impossible to improve upon. Guest Alex Ricciardi, producer of a documentary about a visionary madman’s earlier attempt at adapting the material, is
SHANG CHI, and the legend of the HAWKEYE Premiere
John and Al do an MCU check in, offering lukewarm takes on the charming performances and shaky structural decisions of SHANG CHI and cautious optimism about the opening salvo of the HAWKEYE series.
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The Suicide Squad
James Gunn tries to bring some Troma energy to superhero hijinks, and the guys are sort of here for it, but a little lukewarm? We try to figure out if that is because vulgar violent superhero excess has become ground too well-trodden to be shocked by, or because Gunn himself has done better versions of
BEST OF THE MCU pt 2
In which we talk up our personal favorite entries that fell off the consensus Best list.
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BEST OF THE MCU
Joon Kim drops out of a sky portal to help the guys make a definitive (sure, why not?) ranking of the ongoing megalith that is the MCU. In this installment, we talk through our consensus top 5 of this genre-unto-itself, while next week will feature us each stumping for a personal choice that did not
THE LAST JEDI
The guys welcome Brett Blake to the podcast in order to finally put to bed all the controversy surrounding the Star Wars sequel trilogy to bed. It is mostly a reasonable, civil discussion of differing philosophies on the meaning and handling of franchise IP in the streaming era, that may eventually take a hard swerve
BLACK WIDOW and the LOKI finale
In which important questions are asked about superhero vulnerabilities, how recently you can set a period piece, Hawkeye’s ugliness, and what exactly is a Kang.
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