HeyJaredMarvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema
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.
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Godzilla has been my best friend since I was a little girl (opens the original)
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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!
[TEASER] Live Nicole Reaction (opens the original)
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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.
Oppenheimer, or Merry Christmas Mr. Nolan (opens the original)
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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
[TEASER] Israeli Entertainment (feat. Liz) (opens the original)
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Fun fact: not only was the 1987 He-Man movie Masters of the Universe largely responsible for bankrupting the already flailing Israeli cultural institution that was Cannon Films, but it was also directed by an (alleged) serial gay pedophile. Support us on Patreon if you'd like to hear the rest of
Barbie, or Life in Plastic (opens the original)
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"It’s about a fucking doll!" - Amy Taubin This week, the Marvelous! crew sets their sights on the hot pink pop cultural phenomenon that is Barbie, a billion-plus dollar (post-)feminist object/Mattel rebrand strategy grappling with the fraught, symbolic legacy of the world's most famous doll by giving her a kitschy existentialist crisis. We talk about how the film's priorities as an officially licensed commercial product limit its purportedly feminist politics, its 2016-internet conception of mas
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