Marvel Movie Minute • Captain America: The Winter Soldier

CATWS Minutes 131-138• Celebrating the Institutions that Rot From Within

These are the last minutes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Pete skips the name game to ask a bigger question instead: where does this film sit in the canon, a

CATWS Minutes 126-130: I Want You To Be My Hawkeye

Fury burns the past and hands everybody a clean slate that Ultron will repossess within a year. Natasha kisses Steve goodbye, and the room cannot agree whether that close

CATWS Minutes 121-125: The Committee Cowardice Shell Game

Bucky hauls Steve out of the Potomac, looks at him, and walks off without trying to drain his lungs. Everybody else gets a montage exit: Sharon at the CIA, Hill in a Star

CATWS Minutes 116-120: … to the End of the Line

Robert Redford watches twenty years of work break its own back in the Potomac and says "what a waste," which sets the hosts arguing about whether Alexander Pierce is a tr

CATWS Minutes 111-115: The Dyson Dome

Nine seasons in, the fight finally arrives: Cap and Bucky, under a helicarrier, no exits. Kyle's read is that only one of them is actually in this fight — the Winter Sold

CATWS Minutes 106-110: Keep Both Eyes Open

Nick Fury isn't dead, and he'd like his helicarriers back. This week we hit minutes 106–110 of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the movie shifts gears from cloak-

CATWS Minutes 101-105: Condorman, Photostatic Veils, and the Death of SHIELD

Cap gets to punch things the old-fashioned way, Falcon proves the value of a truly good sidekick, and — in the span of five minutes on the deck of the Insight — the entir

CATWS Minutes 96-100: Abed’s Other Big Cameo

Before a single bullet flies, Pete and Kyle do the thing every MCU completist eventually does: catalog the entire Greendale-to-Marvel pipeline (the Russos hire Community

Bucky’s Nuke and Pave: CATWS Minutes 91-95

HYDRA's solution to a malfunctioning super-assassin turns out to be the exact advice your IT department gives you: have you tried turning it off and on again? Bucky gets

CATWS Minutes 86-90: Back to Zero

Minutes 86–90 open on Steve Rogers doing the thing Steve Rogers does best: shouldering the blame for a man who fell two hundred feet off a moving train, as though he simp

CATWS Minutes 81-85: The Shieldiest Cap

Minutes 81 through 85 are, by Pete's official measurement, the single shieldiest stretch in the entire Captain America catalogue — the rare sequence where the shield gets

CATWS Minutes 76-80: Bucky Takes the Wheel

This week the movie stops to explain itself, and honestly? It’s the best villain-monologue real estate Hydra ever bought. Dangling off a rooftop, Jasper Sitwell coughs up

CATWS Minutes 71-75: Hail, Hydra

The minute starts with the closest thing this franchise allows to a tender moment: two of its deadliest people sitting in a stairwell, almost being honest with each other

CATWS Minutes 66-70: Dirty Steve & Filthy Natasha

Welcome to the part of the movie where exposition stops being polite and starts being a montage. This week, Pete and Kyle pick up mid-Zola — that floating square head sti

CATWS Minutes 61-65: Surprise Party Rules

This week, Steve and Natasha take a working vacation to a defunct New Jersey SHIELD base, which — and you'll be shocked to hear this — turns out to have a giant secret el

CATWS Minutes 56-60 • The Marvel Disguise

Two of America's most wanted fugitives walk into an Apple Store, plug a stolen flash drive into a display MacBook, and run a SHIELD trace program from the showroom floor

CATWS Minutes 51-55 • The Topanga Apple Store Caltrop Caper

Minutes 51 through 55 are where The Winter Soldier stops pretending to be a superhero film and fully commits to being a paranoid 70s thriller wearing a star-spangled hood

CATWS Minutes 46-50 • Does Anyone Want to Get Out?

Alexander Pierce is having a terrible Tuesday. He's just murdered his best government contact, his secret world-domination plan is humming along nicely, and now he has to

CATWS Minutes 41-45 • Big Bubbles, No Troubles

Minutes 41 through 45 open on the aftermath of Fury's death, and it turns out "aftermath" means very different things depending on who you are. Maria Hill instructs Steve

CATWS Minutes 36-40 • The Wife Gambit

In this episode, Matthew, Pete, Kyle, and Rob dig into minutes 36 through 40 of Captain America: The Winter Soldier — a stretch of film that begins with Nick Fury executi