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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Superheroes, Star Wars, and other Big ‘Ol Franchises
If it’s a major fantasy franchise, it goes here
Marvel’s LOKI
Joon Kim returns to talk about the tricky waters LOKI treads with aplomb, its lackluster action scenes, and finally to share a group therapy session over the anxiety that the impending deluge of Marvel content presents to those living in the flood plain.
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
As a sort of counterpoint to all the fawning over Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, John and Al look at another adaptation of an epic fantasy series that fell flat on its face. Both have intense love for Stephen King’s magnum opus, despite wildly different views of the ending stretch.
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The Falcon, The Winter Soldier, the Snydercut, the Cook and His Lover
It’s dancing barons versus singing fishwives as Joon Kim drops in once more to compare the world building of the MCU and DCEU.
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Lord Of The Rings, pt 3
The giant-sized LOTR conversation concludes with a lot of gushing over the performances. Other topics include (of course) the multiple ending meme and the series’ enduring influence over blockbuster filmmaking.
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Lord Of The Rings, pt. 2
The guys continue to rain praises on the production design, unique humanism, special features, location work, and wizard fights of the LOTR trilogy.
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The Snydercut and the Winter Soldier
The long-prophesied SnyderCut of JUSTICE LEAGUE is upon us, and the guys are not impressed. After an hour of pondering the merits of “mature” superhero stories, unfiltered artistic visions, Steppenwolf’s makeover, and the ambiguous mourning of musical Finnish fishwives, we switch to a quick recap of the WANDAVISION finale (1:04:00) and the premiere of
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Lord Of The Rings, pt 1
The guys decamp to Middle Earth/New Zealand to talk over the crowning achievement of blockbuster filmmaking in the 2000s, Peter Jackson’s epic, maximalist adaptation of LORD OF THE RINGS. In part one, we look at the miraculous realization of Gollum, the cascading successes the production pulled off in each area of the story’s world, and
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TV Set – WandaVision
Joon Kim drops by to discuss the impressively Lynchian highs and bafflingly doofy lows of the first 7 episodes of WANDAVISION.
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Special Report – ALIEN and ALIENS Are Actually Great!
Before kicking off their next David Fincher series with the deeply imperfect ALIEN3, John and Al geek out over Ridley Scott’s perfect creature feature ALIEN and James Cameron’s perfect sequel ALIENS. They gush over the incredible creature design, intricate world-building, forgotten plot twists, and Cameron’s facility at making R-rated movies for kids.
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