We're kicking off our fifth year with a jam-packed episode, and the film that might just have marked the creation of the first ever cinematic universe: Jeanott Szwarc's 1984 version of Supergirl ! Plus, we catch up on some of the latest news, including a dive into the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer, and Seb getting to have a big old rant about Stargirl 's choice of Starman. All of this, and you get to learn the fate of the Pitch segment! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...
Jan 21, 2019•2 hr 22 min
Sure, we're a week into 2019, but there's still time to keep looking back at 2018, right? Well, there'd better be, as here we are one week later with PART TWO of our epic end-of-year awards special. So listen on to find out our all-important remaining picks, including Best Film, new Hall of Fame entrants, AND news on how you, yes YOU, can have your say on one of the major awards! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 07, 2019•1 hr 47 min
It's been a heck of a year for great new comic book movies, which might explain why we balanced it out by covering so many old bad ones, too. Join us for our annual awards bash as we hand out gongs for our favourites (and less-than-favourites) of everything we've covered in the last year. And don't forget, this is only part one - we'll be along with the second half to round everything else up in a few days' time! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 31, 2018•1 hr 31 min
In all the plot twists of 2018, an animated Miles Morales movie sneaking in at the death to arguably be not only the superhero film of the year, but also possibly the best Spider-Man film ever, is something to behold. But even bigger than that is that James liked it. Join us as we take a deep dive into this immensely enjoyable insta-masterpiece - with a spoiler-free section at the beginning for those of you who somehow haven't seen it yet (but seriously... see it). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Dec 17, 2018•2 hr 16 min
So yeah, the Avengers trailer (and title) dropped, and naturally we were able to spend a good half an hour talking about it. But, we had already just before that recorded our long-awaited catchup on all the news that's happened over the last couple of weeks before that - and because we're mean, we're making you sit through that before we get on to all the Endgame talk. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 08, 2018•1 hr 27 min
It's another one of those "comic book movies that most people didn't know were comic book movies" that the 1990s were so fond of! But how does The Rocketeer hold up nowadays when both the film itself and its source material were already so deliberately throwback? Does it contain the seeds of greatness that would lead to Captain America: The First Avenger ? Joe and Seb are joined by a man who has had the film's poster as his Twitter avatar for years and years, so Matthew Turner definitely won't b...
Nov 30, 2018•1 hr 57 min
So yeah, sorry about this: we managed to drop the ball on editing and releasing this episode through a combination of bad scheduling, work pressures, illness, and fitting in an additional Stan Lee tribute episode. But having recorded it a couple of weeks ago we did still want to make sure you actually got to hear our takes on some of these outstanding news items. Truth be told, we can't actually remember what most of them were, so we might have to listen along with you to find out! Normal servic...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 5 min
Joe, Seb and James gather to discuss the passing of Stan Lee, and his impact and legacy on Marvel's comics, movies and the superhero genre in general. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 13, 2018•51 min
It's hard to imagine, but when we launched Cinematic Universe, this film was less than a year old. We've talked about it an awful lot since, but thanks to our slavish devotion to doing each film series in their correct sequence, we're only now getting to actually covering it in its own right. Is it the greatest modern superhero movie? Bucky superfan Limara Salt joins Joe and Seb to delve into that question and an awful lot more besides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...
Oct 28, 2018•2 hr 37 min
There's been an awful lot of news since the last time we had a chance to talk about anyway, and we've been a bit slack in keeping up with it. So here's the first part of our attempt to catch up: a minisode in which Joe and James talk about some of the outstanding news items, before Joe and Seb talk about a bunch more of it on our next main episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 24, 2018•45 min
Joe and James are joined by special guest Amon Warmann to discuss the Sony Spider-Man symbiote spinoff that someone, somewhere, seemingly solicited:: Venom ! Does it manage to be a worthy addition to the Spidey canon (not to mention the Tom Hardy canon), or does it live up to its own tagline of "The World Has Enough Super-Heroes"? Find out! As per usual for a new release episode, there's no news section beforehand - just some non-spoilery opinions followed by a launch straight into the spoiler s...
Oct 09, 2018•2 hr 2 min
In a truly fantastic piece of timing, we recorded this episode before the Dark Phoenix trailer landed. But then it's taken us so long to release it that we've actually had time to record an extra insert discussing it - which means that for the first time ever, the news section and the main section are basically about the same film. That, along with our surprising reaction to those Joker images, would explain why the news section is nearly an hour long, before we finally get onto X-Men: The Last ...
Sep 30, 2018•2 hr 24 min
Well, there's been quite a lot to talk about lately, hasn't there? So much so that in the weeks between our V For Vendetta and X-Men: The Last Stand episodes, we've ended up gathering to record not one, but TWO minisodes. And our schedules being what they are, we didn't actually manage to edit and release the first one before that Captain Marvel trailer came out and we had to record the second. So welcome back the trusty old "Megasode" format, as first Joe and Seb get together to talk about all ...
Sep 24, 2018•1 hr 26 min
We've teased it for years, and it's finally here. We're finally talking about V For Vendetta - the Alan Moore adaptation that Seb viscerally hates and James inexplicably doesn't. At least... that's what they thought back in 2005, when its vision of a fascist-ruled dystopian future was just a wild pipe dream. How does it look in the altogether cheerier 2018? Are they going to disappoint everyone who's been waiting for this episode by being more moderate, or have they become only more fanatical in...
Sep 10, 2018•1 hr 56 min
It's safe to say that even by the low standards of "comic book movies from 1997", Spawn is not a particularly well-regarded film. But you know us, we always like to look for the good in things, from Howard the Duck to The Punisher . Were we able to similarly find something to enjoy about the adaptation of Todd McFarlane's early-90s-defining Image series? The answer... won't shock you, actually, because seriously, this is just a terrible, terrible movie. But hopefully you'll enjoy hearing us talk...
Sep 01, 2018•1 hr 59 min
For the three or four of you who are actually big fans of the Pitch segment, we've finally managed to get around to catching up on all the business that's been left outstanding over the past couple of months. So listen on to hear Seb and James' responses to the various challenges laid down in our Incredibles 2 , Spider-Man 3 and Ant-Man and the Wasp episodes. And, although we didn't have a huge amount of news left to cover, we've pitchified those little tidbits we have decided to look at as well...
Aug 20, 2018•43 min
It came out so long ago in the US - and, come to that, in the UK - that we almost can't even really call this a "new release" pod. But! Nevertheless, we have all now finally seen Ant-Man and the Wasp , and what's more... there's some pretty strong disagreement over its merits. So tune in for an almighty ding-dong, as well as a catchup on some of the latest comic book movie news, including James and Seb laughing heartily at Sony's latest piece of barrel scraping. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Aug 15, 2018•2 hr 20 min
Well, here it is: the last time we'll cover a Spider-Man movie that already existed before we did the podcast, and our fond farewell to Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, JK Simmons, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco and, uh, John Paxton. Largely derided on its release for being the (then) duffest Spidey film by some way, has time (and Marc Webb) proven kinder to its reputation? Meanwhile, since there's thankfully not been much news since our big SDCC blowout, we mostly spend the news section indulging in some...
Aug 01, 2018•2 hr 14 min
It's the most! Wonderful time! Of the yeeeeear! Yes, as you surely can't be unaware, it was the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend, which has meant the usual NEWSPLOSION of stuff for us to cover in our annual bonus roundup episode. It's not a short one, unsurprisingly, but we cover the trailers for Shazam! , Aquaman , Titans and Glass among a bunch of other chatter - and yes, we do address the James Gunn shaped elephant that barged its way into the room just as the convention was getting underway....
Jul 27, 2018•2 hr 25 min
While we're still not at all bitter about it coming out in the UK so much after the US had already memed the heck out of Violet blowing water out of her nose, we've finally got Incredibles 2 , so we can finally cover it. Joe and Seb are joined by writer Gary Bainbridge to discuss the film, because James is a robot who doesn't like fun. Can Brad Bird and Pixar's belated sequel possibly live up to the legacy of its near-peerless original? Well... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Jul 18, 2018•1 hr 54 min
With James sidelined due to unexpected dental trauma, Joe and Seb are again joined by our supersub Rhys Williamson to take a run at not-all-that-much movie and TV news, a bit of analysis of our expectations of the DC Universe service, and then a discussion around the recent Batman #50. And although football may or may not be coming home, yes, we're still annoyed about America getting Ant-Man and the Wasp so far ahead of us. You'd better not spoiler it, you lot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
Jul 10, 2018•1 hr 15 min
In the wake of our Men In Black podcast , there were literally some listeners who got in touch and said they'd like to hear Joe and Caroline talk about the other major Will Smith blockbuster of the era in a bit more detail. So, that's exactly what they've done! No, it's not a comic book movie (although there was a Marvel comic of it!) and no, it's not on our regular schedule (but how could we not release it on 4th July itself?) but hopefully you'll enjoy this bonus natter anyway! Hosted on Acast...
Jul 04, 2018•1 hr 18 min
Joe and Seb are joined by special guest and renowned Tweetnoter Andrew Ellard to look back at a movie that plenty of people loved at the time, but which maybe hasn't dated all that well. Or has it? We also chat about Sony's double-whammy of a Jared Leto Morbius movie and a "Could It Actually Be Quite Good?" Silk movie; and what we think about Doctor Strange 2 now that that's been confirmed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 01, 2018•2 hr 35 min
Special guest David Hartrick returns to talk about another 1990s DC classic arc - this time, it's the Batman saga Knightfall (also incorporating Knightquest and Knightsend )! Bane, Azbats, Zsasz, controversial opinions about the merits of Jim Aparo - it's all here. This episode was originally published on our Patreon Exclusive/Early Access feed back in October 2017. We're making it available on the public feed now due to a gap in our production schedule! If you'd like to hear more episodes like ...
Jun 28, 2018•1 hr 42 min
Joe and James are joined by The AV Club's Caroline Siede to discuss the one comic book movie of 1997 that was an unqualified success. Probably because people didn't know it was a comic book movie. It's Barry Sonnenfeld's witty, Will-Smith-stratosphere-launching, Men in Black ! The gang also dive deep into the Wonder Woman 1984 news, with TAKES on whether or not the apparent return of Steve Trevor is a good thing. And it's a DC-heavy news segment generally, with some chat about Aquaman , Green La...
Jun 21, 2018•2 hr 16 min
Joe and Seb are joined by Rhys Williamson to take a run at some of the most recent news - including that gorgeous Into the Spider-Verse trailer, the prospect of a new Jared Leto Joker movie, the new Ant-Man and the Wasp character posters, and an avalanche of Avengers 4 clickbait. And continuing the theme from last week, there's a musical element to the Pitch! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 13, 2018•51 min
A pod's gotta do what a pod's gotta do Joe, Seb and James have a treat here for you The only doom that's looming is us singing you to death So we'll give you a second to catch your breath No, don't worry. We're not singing. At all. We promise. But we have gone pretty darned deep on Joss Whedon's 2008 online musical miniseries Dr Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog , with yet another discussion about fridging as well as an exploration of toxic masculinity that seems even more worryingly apt than it did te...
Jun 06, 2018•2 hr 28 min
What is James referring to in the title of this minisode? Well, you'll have to listen a good way in to find out, because flipping heck, this one pushes the definition of the term "minisode" to its limits. We had a lot to talk about, from Mysterio to Shazam to Doom Patrol to Batwoman to Watchmen to The Eternals. Have you figured out which one made us so angry yet? Clue: it's not Mysterio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 29, 2018•1 hr 24 min
The first Deadpool movie was a surprise in just about every sense - from the fact that it was actually pretty good, to the fact that it went on to be phenomenally successful. So does the sequel stand any chance whatsoever of also springing any surprises? Spoilers: actually, yeah. Join Joe, Seb and James for our run through the latest chapter in a series that takes the piss out of comic book movies so much yet might actually be the most comic booky movie series ever to exist. As usual with a new ...
May 20, 2018•2 hr 18 min
Releasing a little later than expected due to some unforeseen life things getting in the way, here's Joe and James with a minisode chat that mostly acts as a follow-up to our Infinity War episode after both had a chance to see the film a second time. Because, what, our three hour main episode on the film wasn't enough? Well, no, actually, it wasn't. But we do get to covering some other stuff as well, including the latest trailers for Venom and Ant-Man and the Wasp . It should go without saying, ...
May 12, 2018•1 hr 18 min
