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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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 reason because Prince of Persia was physically engineered to completely slide off your brain ...
2025-11-07 02:19:30 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: 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 made through iOS and ApplePay from us for 75 days, which is still a problem. Please check if...
2025-11-02 16:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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 (@mood_probiotic), joins us to talk about 2017's The Evil ...
2025-10-31 00:37:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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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PCRF (Palestinian Children's Relief F...
2025-10-23 23:26:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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, Lockheed Martin sponsored legacy sequel to Tony Scott's (RIP) 1986 Air Force recruitment blockbuster ...
2025-10-17 00:28:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 audio track! It will begin at the same time the film does.
2025-10-10 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 at big grasshoppers. Meanwhile, in Malta, Chris Pratt does the "talk to the hand" at every dinosaur...
2025-10-03 01:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 studio Mainframe (ReBoot), childhood toy memories, licensed product advertainment, a deep dive on t...
2025-09-26 01:09:22 +0000 UTC View PostPulp 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 Covid. An origin film for not only a new Black Panther, but a new Iron Man Jr. and completely revamp...
2025-09-20 01:24:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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 projects to boast the title "The Anime That Saved Anime," Panty and Stocking is the last great ef...
2025-09-11 23:17:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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 by the DP of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage where Al Pacino in heavy prosthetics eats ou...
2025-09-05 01:19:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Johnston, comics artist Dan Dave Stevens, their overlapping career histories with Raiders of the Lost A...
2025-08-29 01:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tr...
2025-08-22 20:37:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Billy Zane star vehicle, The Phantom. Who is the Phantom? Is the movie any good? How racis...
2025-08-15 01:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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 context, interpret it's nationalist politics, and discuss what makes India's maximalist 'Masala' blend...
2025-08-08 03:21:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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 to Oedipus and the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion character creator.
REMINDER: Raffles are drawn qu...
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 commercial that inexplicably costs $200 million and pisses away whatever good will Taika Waititi ever had. Wh...
2025-07-25 02:52:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
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2025-07-21 02:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post
On this jerkin' episode of the Girl Mode subseries, Nicole is joined by the iconic multi-hyphenate visionary behind Fucktoys, Annapurna Sriram, to discuss the once maligned and deeply misunderstood Y2K pop satire Josie and the Pu...
2025-07-18 01:38:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 legacy and erasure of the black cowboy, aliens, UFOs, Travis the Chimp, how much Jordan Peele loves...
2025-07-11 02:33:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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-action psychodrama slapstick comedy neo-noir. None of us being experts in Japanese culture or political ...
2025-07-04 00:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2025-06-27 19:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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 nothing about the first Doctor Strange, so this is a marked improvement even if it's marred ...
2025-06-27 01:23:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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 between wants and needs with the demands of great powers and responsibilities. Superheroic crises of...
2025-06-20 00:53:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Gardocki.
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Our friend Walt, from the excellent Black Casebook podcast, returns to discuss Batman's first feature length outing: Batman: The Movie - a modestly budgeted tie-in for the first season of the Adam West-starring...
2025-06-06 02:58:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Diesel (who's terrible in it by the way), the first and last entry in the Valiant Cinematic Universe and ...
2025-05-30 02:03:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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 digital filmmaking, toxic yaoi and more!
2025-05-23 01:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Gardocki.
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