Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

As the gang ventures into uncharted territory in industrial scale genre filmmaking, Nicole taps in her beau Evan to help talk about one of Blumhouse's biggest hits, M3GAN, the PG-13 killer AI doll movie/meme generator. It's a  manufactured, half-baked horror-comedy about the dangers of letting children have too much screentime, so transparently desperate to launch its titular character into the pantheon of queer horror icons that it had to start beef with notable queer horror elder Chucky and do a stupid TikTok dance to make hundreds of millions of dollars from undiscerning audiences. The only difference between Kevin Feige and Jason Bloom is that one is better at money management. 

"Film Review: 'M3GAN' — Child’s Slay" by Nicole

"The story behind M3GAN's iconic TikTok dance sequence" by James Grebey

"Get Out producer booed off stage at Israeli film festival for criticising Trump" by Sam Wolfson

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Witness a failure so epic, it accidentally made the show good. It all goes wrong here. 

"I’m a VFX Artist, and I’m Tired of Getting ‘Pixel-F–ked’ by Marvel" as told to Chris Lee, Vulture

"‘Honestly, I Equate It to Human Greed’" by Chris Lee, Vulture

"Jonathan Majors’ ‘Extreme Abuse’ Allegedly Goes Back Nearly a Decade" by Cheyenne Roundtree & Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone

"Jonathan Majors Had a History of Abuse in Relationships, Women Say" by Melena Ryzik, New York Times

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The first of our two (long story) Patron Raffle winners passes judgement on Marvelous! and forces us to watch the direct-to-streaming two part OVA Justice League x RWBY. Ty from TGOFV bravely joins us, to salvage the episode, ask the big questions, and talk about comic books.

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Cole and beloved friend of the show Seqarts discuss the first season of "Smallville", The WB's successful attempt to replace Buffy with a Superman prequel show about hunky teen Clark Kent and his best friends: Lex Luthor and the chick from NXIVM. 

Discussions of future seasons will appear exclusively on the Patreon.

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.

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Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley, and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.

Gus from the very funny podcast Most Controversial joins Stu and Cole to discuss the strange Jordan Peele produced sports horror film "Him", a surreal saga about professional football and the relationship between the greatest quarterback of all time and his up-and-coming protege and rival. Our discussions include the many themes the film gestures at, it's ability or inability to corral them into a coherent thesis, where it is and isn't trying to be funny, and the ways in which it fundamentally misunderstands football and the particular psychopathology of our era's greatest athletes. 

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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)

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Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

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Subscribing to our Patreon, where you can enjoy exclusive subscriber only episodes.

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Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley, and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.