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Black Adam, or To Egg Fu, Thanks for Everything

He was chosen by the Wizard Shazam as a baby boy, messed up his head and even changed the hierarchy of power. More like Brap Adam as the gang dive into The Rock's attempted takeover of Warner Bros. 

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Games on Film #7: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Asalaamu alaikum everyone (and especially the wonderful people of New York City). With Black Adam on the docket next week, we revive our Games on Film subseries by checking out another failed big-budget tale of Middle Eastern heroics(?) that absolutely nobody cared about. And for good re...

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UPDATE: Due to a lawsuit ruling, Apple can no longer take out 30% of Patreon earnings from those who have subscribed and pay through iOS. But Patreon still withholds payments m...

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Halloween Special: The Evil Within, or Poop Pilled (feat. Thomsen)

Happy Halloween everybody! Here's our scariest offering yet: a failson vanity project by a Getty scion who did so much meth it ultimately killed him

Friend of the show and man who was not torn apart by dogs on October 26th 2025 as foretold by Afroman, Thomsen (2025-10-31 00:37:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Patron Raffle #13: Sinners, or Strange Allium

Patreon Raffle Winner FAS Survivor takes us on down to the bayou or some shit to watch Ryan Coogler out Ryan Coogler Ryan Coogler.

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Top Gun: Maverick, or Take My Gay Away

This week on the pod your three favorite shithead haters find another thing to tell you sucks. Only this time, it's a movie everyone loves: Top Gun: Maverick, the sterile, Lockh...

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Jurassic World: Dominion Commentary Track

Listen in real-time as Stu and Nicole jest, jeer, moan and rant about this giant bloated dumb waste of money. Consider it a boo-and-hiss along!

If you'd like to watch along with your [LEGALLY ACQUIRED COPY OF THE FILM] then just open it up your media player of choice and add this file as an...

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Jurassic World: Dominion, or "Now This Just Happened"

Friend and critic Jake Tropila, bravely joins us to talk about the third Jurassic World movie, which is the sixth Jurassic Park movie, in which the fist film's septuagenarian cast is reunited to putter vacantly around a lab looking...

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Hot Wheels: World Race, or "Getting Off Track" (feat. AnimeSerbia)

On this breezy tangent heavy episode, friend of the show AnimeSerbia (from Kemonofriendzone) joins forces with Cole to drag Stu along for an adventure into Zoomer autism: A CGI Made for TV Hot Wheels cartoon. Along this winding, loop-the-looping journey we discuss the fate of pioneering animation...

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, or "Death at a (Wakandan) Funeral"

Pulp month comes to a close and we get back to business as the gang discusses Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever. Disney and Ryan Coogler's brief Eulogy for Chadwick Boseman and the over-two-hour postscript in which they desperately cast around for replacements for all the guys that retired before ...

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Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, or Whores of Babylon

To commemorate both the 15th anniversary of its original airing and Studio Trigger's new revival season, your OG Marvelous! hosts Nicole (millennial hag) and Stu (millennial unc) talk about another Hiroyuki Imaishi banger, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. One of several Imaishi projec...

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Dick Tracy, or the Color of Pomegranates

In our final Pulp Month outing before we return for duty back at the IP slop mines, we watched the Warren Beatty vanity/autistic-passion project Dick Tracy, yet another attempt by Disney to play catch up to Warner Bros. and Batman. A nearly $50 million black tank-top movie shot ...

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The Rocketeer, or Chekhov's Gum

Pulp Month continues here on Marvelous as we discuss a film that isn't an adaptation of an old character, but an adaptation of a comic that rode the same wave of serials revivalism as Star Wars and Indiana Jones: The Rocketeer. Join us as we discuss director Joe Johnsto...

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The Shadow, or Who Knows What Zesty Thoughts Lurk in the Hearts of Men?

He can cloud men's minds with braps of mediocrity. We continue our foray into Pulp Month with our first actual pulp character, The Shadow, starring Alec "walkemdown" Baldwin as the titular character. 

A special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, Walt Le...

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The Phantom, or The Ghost Who Pods

Witness the start of a new Marvelous Tradition: Pulp Month. All throughout the lovely month of August, your Tumultuous Threesome will overdose on; trench-coats, Tommy guns, flat-caps, Orientalism, organized crime, and thinly veiled excuses to tie women up. Starting off our lineup is the forgotten...

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RRR, or The British Really Were That Evil

We return to our 'International Blockbusters' series with a conversation about S.S. Rajamouli's breakout Telugu-language historical action romance. As complete outsiders to the world's largest and most diverse film culture, we try our level best to situate the film in a historical and cultural co...

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Patron Raffle #12: Ang Lee's Hulk

Thank you to Patron Raffle winner Isaac the Husker for selecting this long-overdue episode topic! A film that is much maligned in cultural memory, but is it really that bad? Join us for a thorough examination of this forgotten relic from the Before Time, and discuss everything from cinematography...

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Thor: Love and Thunder, or Terminal Kiwi

Oh my god shut the fuck up!!!!!! I'm going to turn these goddamn screaming meme goats into curry I swear to god.

It's another demoralizing Marvel movie. You guys like these episodes huh? You like listening to us inflict great pain on ourselves? Well this one's a two hour Old Spice commercia...

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Mighty Marvelous Mailbag - July 2025

Stu and Cole take your most pressing questions and accept your most lavish compliments in this edition of the Marvelous Mailbag. Thank you all for listening and supporting the show!

They added a "Paid Access Starts Here" divider to the Patreon UI, so if you can read this, thank you for givi...

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Girl Mode #4: Josie and the Pussycats (feat. Annapurna Sriram)

On this jerkin' episode of the Girl Mode subseries, Nicole is joined by the iconic multi-hyphenate visionary behind Fucktoys, Annapurna S...

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Nope, or American Spectacle

We're eating good again on the pod this week with Jordan Peele's spectacular, horrifying, and impeccably made third film, Nope, a modern masterpiece in its own right and (in)arguably one of the best blockbusters of the last twenty years. It's about bad miracles, filmmaking spectacle, the...

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Mamoru Oshii's "The Red Spectacles" (1987)

You might've heard of "Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade". Did you know it's part of a multi-decade, multimedia alternate history series? Here for your edification we present a discussion on the first entry in Mamoru Oshii's (Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell) "Kerberos Saga", a surprisingly surreal live-acti...

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The Batman (2022) Commentary Track (feat. Walt of The Black Casebook)

We're getting Robin, We're getting the Giant Penny, We're getting the Candlelit Oath, and you're getting an extra special commentary for Walt and I's favorite Batman Movie (I think). A commentary so good, Reeves had to finish writing The Batman Part 2 to stop us. Hope you enjoy.

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, or Gaping Orifices

Finally, some fucking mid.

Even late-period Sam Raimi (more the guy who made Oz the Great and Powerful than Evil Dead or Spider-Man 2) manages to pick the bar up from the depths of hell to make something we can at least trip and stumble on. We literally remember n...

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Raimi Spider-Man Double Feature

Ahead of whatever the hell is going on with late-period Sam Raimi in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, we took a look back on the definitive Marvel movie(s) about a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man who loves a girl named Mary Jane. Duty versus desire. The irresolvable tension ...

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The Batman, or The Big One

It's finally here. 

A special bat-thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Porridge Fist, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, Jim, jprestonpoole, Sam, Lohik, bernventers, Owen2, and Ronnie Gardock...

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Batman '66, or How I Learned to Dispose of a Giant Bomb (feat. Walt Lewellyn)

Our friend Walt, from the excellent Black Casebook podcast, returns to discuss Batman's first feature length outing: View Post

Bloodshot, or Jim Shooters (feat. Graham)

Today we tackle yet another incipient cinematic universe that never made it past one movie because half the character rights went to another studio before release and then had its opening weekend just as every theater in America was closing due to COVID. It's Bloodshot starring Vin Diese...

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Patreon Raffle #11: Collateral (2004)

Patron 'Glenn Shook' was kind enough to select a great movie for this quarter's patron raffle, Michael Mann's thriller "Collateral". In this episode we're talking about Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, cool action, Los Angeles at night, damaged men, Mann's preoccupations as a filmmaker, the merits of digi...

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Space Jam: A New Legacy, or Goo Filled Lebron

Hell holds no surprises for us.

A special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Porridge Fist, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, Jim, jprestonpoole, Sam, Lohik, bernventers, Owen2, and Ronnie...

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