Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

A critical and comedic look at the bleak landscape of the modern IP-driven Hollywood franchise blockbuster. Hosted by Tyrell "Discourse Stu" James, Nicole Veneto, and Cole Netscape. Audio production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoey Woolley and Johanna Hermeer.
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A critical and comedic look at the bleak landscape of the modern IP-driven Hollywood franchise blockbuster. Hosted by Tyrell "Discourse Stu" James, Nicole Veneto, and Cole Netscape. Audio production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoey Woolley and Johanna Hermeer.
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/7vRmbRJDgs
Support us on Patreon for biweekly bonus episodes and more: https://www.patreon.com/marvelousdeath
Episodes
Episodes
Mar 8, 2026
Dr. No, or Dr. I Told Her Twice
Mar 8, 2026
Mar 8, 2026
1hr 34 min
While Nicole's away, the boys laze about for Queen and Country. Witness the lackadaisical start for everyone's favorite series of Spy "Action" Thrillers as we dive into Dr. No. Duh duh duh-duh da duh indeed.
Tickets and schedule for the Boston Underground Film Festival at Brattle (and Coolidge) Theater
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 Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
National Networks of Abortion Funds
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
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Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley, and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
Mar 5, 2026
Mar 5, 2026
1hr 34 min
Wrapping up our trip through the 2022 blockbuster landscape, returning guest/friend of the pod/Sonic autist of note Andy (@Ex_AnarchoAnon) from Those Good Old Fashioned Values joins Nicole and Cole for what's supposed to be an episode about Sonic the Hedgehog 2. We really were going to try to stretch out a mediocre video game movie for children and their ironically detached millennial parents into a 90-120 minute conversation, accounting for at least 45 minutes of derailments (as to be expected). But then Paramount and the Ellison crime family colluded with Trump's ROG (Reddit Occupied Government) to expand their slopaganda reich and successfully win the bid for ALL OF Warner Brothers, consolidating a vast chunk of American media under the control of an eyebrow-less failed-actor whose tech-billionaire daddy footed the bill for a movie studio as consolation for Flyboys eating shit at the box office. Plus, more Ken Penders talk and Live Reacts to Jim Carrey's new face.
Tickets and schedule for the Boston Underground Film Festival at Brattle (and Coolidge) Theater
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 Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
National Networks of Abortion Funds
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
If you enjoy the show please consider:
Subscribing to our Patreon, where you can enjoy exclusive subscriber only episodes.
Joining our Discord.
Checking out our Credits page where you can view a complete list of Patrons.
Leaving a rating and review on your podcast provider of choice.
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley, and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
Feb 26, 2026
[TEASER] Pimp Your Wife
Feb 26, 2026
Feb 26, 2026
6 min
While Nicole and Cole wait for Stu to fix his internet connectivity issues so they can all finally talk about Blade, they venture into Bow Wow's (formerly "Lil") Wikipedia page and discover the greatest deleted Tweet of all time.
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Feb 19, 2026
The Gray Man, or Sorrow
Feb 19, 2026
Feb 19, 2026
1hr 19 min
The Russo brothers are boring, lame guys who make boring, lame movies. The Gray Man, appropriate to it's name, is perhaps the most boring and lame so far. Our suffering is Eternal, but the episode is only 80 minutes.
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 Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
National Networks of Abortion Funds
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
If you enjoy the show please consider:
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Joining our Discord.
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Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley, and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
Feb 12, 2026
TEASER: Mulholland Drive (feat. Jake Tropila)
Feb 12, 2026
Feb 12, 2026
5 min
Jake Tropila joins us to discuss David Lynch's dark side of the Hollywood dream (within a dream) masterpiece. Would you like to hear more? Support the Marvelous! Patreon to get this and other exclusive episodes in full!
Feb 5, 2026
Feb 5, 2026
2hr 34 min
Steven Spielberg: whiz kid of New Hollywood, maestro of cinematic spectacle, Lord Emperor of eighties kids nostalgia, and chief architect of the modern blockbuster as we know it . A spectral presence over this podcast, but first and foremost, he's our preeminent child-of-divorce auteur. We're joined by Aaron from Hit Factory to talk The Fabelmans, Spielberg's stunningly revealing work of autofiction mistaken for another navel-gazing piece of Oscar bait.
Listen and subscribe to Hit Factory on Patreon
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 Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
National Networks of Abortion Funds
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
If you enjoy the show please consider:
Subscribing to our Patreon, where you can enjoy exclusive subscriber only episodes.
Joining our Discord.
Checking out our Credits page where you can view a complete list of Patrons.
Leaving a rating and review on your podcast provider of choice.
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
Jan 29, 2026
[TEASER] The Greatest Trailer Music of All Time
Jan 29, 2026
Jan 29, 2026
7 min
Before delving into the fabled (and shockingly good) Pyun work print cut of Captain America (1990), we revisit Captain America: The First Avenger and give some much needed and deeply reverential space to that one First Avenger trailer with Tool in it.
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Jan 22, 2026
Babylon, or The Ick Factor (feat. Jane Altoids)
Jan 22, 2026
Jan 22, 2026
2hr 6 min
Jane Altoids (@staticbluebat) of Pacino Pod joins us to relitigate one of Film Twitter's favorite discourses: is Damien Chazelle's mega-critical and commercial flop Babylon an underrated masterpiece or a heaping pile of elephant shit? Did Babylon deserve to fall or did the guy famously who lost Best Picture to Moonlight make one of the great misunderstood films of the 21st century? Can a straight man (loosely, debatably) adapt Kenneth Anger's tome of gay lies, deceits, and fallacies Hollywood Babylon into what dumb people call a "love letter" to silent cinema? The verdict: Babylon bad, or at the very least a hot mess of ambition, miscasts leads, and tonal whiplash from a director lacking the camp touch and the ability to diagnose where Hollywood evil truly resides.
The Radical Stardom of Clara Bow: The First It Girl by Be Kind Rewind
Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon by You Must Remember This
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 Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
National Networks of Abortion Funds
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
If you enjoy the show please consider:
Subscribing to our Patreon, where you can enjoy exclusive subscriber only episodes.
Joining our Discord.
Checking out our Credits page where you can view a complete list of Patrons.
Leaving a rating and review on your podcast provider of choice.
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Zoe Woolley and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.









