Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

Fantastic Four, or Josh Trank and the Wig of Despair

Coincidentally commemorating the 9 year anniversary of what’s been dubbed one of the worst superhero movies ever made, we watched Josh Trank’s 2015 mega-flop Fantastic Four a.k.a. Fant4stic this week. Doomed from the start by the competing forces of a hot young director and a studio trying to compete with the media conglomerate that will buy them two years later, the resulting attempt to reboot the Fantastic Four into darker, Cronenbergian territory was not so fantastic. It’s stinks actually, but who’s really to blame? Josh Trank? Fox? Kate Mara’s wig? With the MCU’s own iteration of Marvel’s first family on the horizon, the time has finally come for us to figure out exactly what went wrong. 
Featuring the debut of our new fourth mic: Kevin Nguyen. He can only say "Hi, I'm Kevin" in a silly voice.
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Green Lantern, or Emerald Shitty

Just in time for Deadpool and Wolverine, we're turning back the clock to 2011 to revisit Ryan "Reddit" Reynolds of Mint Mobile's greatest superhero shame, Green Lantern. Is it really as bad as everyone's made it out to be in the last 13 years? Yes, actually. But it also represents a fascinating transition point where Warner Brothers is trying to catch up to the MCU with their own attempt at Iron Man. The result is a movie that's simultaneously dated for the time it was released and also innovative in helping to make VFX crunches the standard for blockbuster productions. Plus, we plan a very special visit to a Hollywood cemetery to pay our respects.
Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Porridge Fist, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Owen2, bernventers, Lohik, jprestonpoole, and PineappleRevy.
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TEASER: Release the Timberlake Cut

Somehow in our discussion of Southland Tales we discovered that Stu's a semi-fan of the Justin Timberlake star vehicle In Time.
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Wonder Woman 1984, or Triumph of the Wish (feat. Liz)

We end our brief and bitter sojourn into the COVID-riddled landscape of 2020 releases not with a whimper, but with a hateful, unapologetically awful bang. The follow up to the DCEU's critically and commercially successful Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins' sequel Wonder Woman 1984 was reviled and mocked when it was released in theaters and on HBO Max. And if you can believe it, the movie has only gotten worse in the wake of ongoing genocidal events in Gaza. Returning guest Liz (@liz_irl) joins us to help eviscerate this truly abhorrent specimen of liberal Girl Boss #StillWithHer feminism brought to you by Equal Pay crusader Patty Jenkins, whose career will hopefully never recover from this piece of shit.
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The New Mutants, or X-Men, Interrupted

Remember that one poster you saw at the theater back in 2017 for that X-Men spin-off that you kept waiting to come out and never did, only to one day find it was playing at a movieplex near you in the middle of COVID? It's The New Mutants, the final installment in Fox's X-Men franchise victimized by both the Disney buyout and being the product of the guy who directed The Fault in Our Stars trying to make a horror movie for Freeform teenagers (among a bunch of other things). And in a shocking turn of events, Cole actually liked this one and thinks it's one of (if not the) best X-Men movies ever. Nicole and Stu thus spend significant time reacting to this unforeseen break in the ranks.
Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Owen2, bernventers, Lohik, jprestonpoole, and PineappleRevy.
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TEASER: Nicole Flexes Her Gender Studies Masters (feat. Jane Evelyn)

I know tons of you probably hate Assassination Nation and anything else Sam Levinson touches but what if I told you there's some insight to be mined from this movie?
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Sonic the Hedgehog, or Chaos Uncontrolled (feat. Andy yet again)

It's finally time to talk about Paramount's live action-animated hybrid Sonic the Hedgehog starring Jean-Ralphio as Sonic, every kid's favorite movie star James Marsden talking to another CGI animal, and Jim Carrey as Robotnik on Ozempic. Our favorite boy/Sonic-enthusiast Andy (@Ex_AnarchoAnon) from TGOFV  returns once again to discuss the results. Everything basically turns to chaos. Stu literally begged us to end the episode. Don't worry, we talk about Ugly Sonic before that though.
Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Owen2, bernventers, Lohik, jprestonpoole, and PineappleRevy.
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TEASER: How to Lose Your Patrons in 60 Seconds

Somehow in the middle of our discussion on Belladonna of Sadness we entered a tangent about Bear in the Big Blue House. 
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