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Film Reviews · Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole Netscape

Marvelous! or The Death of Cinema

by Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole Netscape

A critical and comedic look at the bleak landscape of the modern IP-driven Hollywood franchise blockbuster. Hosted by Tyrell "Discourse Stu" James, Nicole Veneto, and Cole Netscape. Audio production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoey Woolley and Johanna Hermeer. Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/7vRmbRJDgs Support us on Patreon for biweekly bonus episodes and more: https://www.patreon.com/marvelousdeath

Latest episodes

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[TEASER] The Fate of Bush

A brief snipped from our discussion of the cult-classic sci-fi adventure sex comedy.  To hear the rest, and all our other exclusive episodes, just click here and support

Nov 6
7 min

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Dawn of the Dead, or Dead Mall Blues

WHEN THERE'S NO MORE ROOM IN HELL, THE DEAD WILL WALK THE EARTH It's our first ever listener-selected Halloween Special! And you where all kind enough to gift us a class

Oct 30
1 h 51 min

[Teaser] "They don't make them like they used to..."

A snippet from Stu and Nicole's wide-ranging conversation about Bram Stoker's Dracula, the horny, weird, baroque and lavishly over the top 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film

Oct 23
6 min

Five Nights at Freddy's, or Where A Kid Can Be A Corpse

In 2014 a weird Christian guy made a videogame about spending the night with scary haunted animatronics. What followed was a cultural sensation, with a boatload of sequel

Oct 15
1 h 51 min

[TEASER] Coming out of my well and I've been doing just fine

A sample from our discussion of Gore Verbinski's The Ring, the American remake of the 1998 Japanese film 'Ring', the first of a wave of such remakes and the only one that

Oct 9
8 min

Godzilla Minus One, or Less Than Zero

Atomic Horror month concludes on Marvelous! with the most recent and so-far most lucrative Godzilla movie of all time: Godzilla Minus One. Champion fourth mic Seqarts joi

Oct 2
2 h 11 min

[TEASER] Godzilla has been my best friend since I was a little girl

A sample from our newly released Patreon episode on Ishiro Honda's original 1954 film "Godzilla". Listen to the full episode and more by supporting us on Patreon!

Sep 25
5 min

[TEASER] Live Nicole Reaction

For our movie and MCU news catch-up bonus episode, Cole reads out the leaked Avengers: Doomsday plot synopsis to Nicole and Stu. Nicole reacts very, very badly.   Suppo

Sep 21
3 min

Oppenheimer, or Merry Christmas Mr. Nolan

This week on Marvelous!, the second and inarguably superior half of the monocultural fugue state that was Barbenheimer summer: a three hour biopic-cum-courtroom drama tha

Sep 18
2 h 34 min

[TEASER] Israeli Entertainment (feat. Liz)

Fun fact: not only was the 1987 He-Man movie Masters of the Universe largely responsible for bankrupting the already flailing Israeli cultural institution that was Cannon

Sep 11
5 min

Barbie, or Life in Plastic

"It’s about a fucking doll!" - Amy Taubin This week, the Marvelous! crew sets their sights on the hot pink pop cultural phenomenon that is Barbie, a billion-plus dollar

Sep 4
2 h 38 min

The Flash, or The Flush

The flailing DCEU runs at light-speed into a brick wall with this misbegotten penultimate pre-reboot entry. Ugly and unfunny, even the film's sole interesting element - E

Aug 20
1 h 59 min

Blue Beetle, or The Carapax View (feat. Chris Bell)

As the DC Extended Universe nears its inevitable reboot, filmmaker Chris Bell (Failed State, Attention Shoppers, The Winds That Scatter) joins the pod to dissect one of i

Aug 6
2 h 07 min

[TEASER] Smallville Season 2 with Cole and Seqarts

A sample from our latest patrons-exclusive TVChat, wherein Cole and our long time friend and recurring guest Seqarts continue their retrospective on the 2000s superhero-m

Jul 30
5 min

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, or The Third Greatest Animated Film Ever Made

... according to Letterboxd, anyway, but your pals at Marvelous! aren't quite so sanguine. From Phil Lord's tyrannical rule of production to the tedium of infinite Spider

Jul 24
2 h 58 min

Fast X, or The Wheels Come Off

After concluding our long patreon-exclusive retrospective on the series, we arrive at last back in 2023 with Fast X, the bloated, messy, chaotic beginning of the end for

Jul 9
1 h 49 min

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3, or Troll's Remorse

Cole's back and they've learned the secret of the orient: not being that mad anymore.  An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squish

Jun 26
2 h 31 min

[TEASER] Oh... Canada. (feat. Remember Shuffle)

Fellow Canucks Remember Shuffle join Stu and a hopelessly outnumbered Nicole for a lively and in-depth discussion about Blackberry, and the seething neurotic resentment t

Jun 18
6 min

Air, or Soleless

Cole was too busy watching actual basketball, so Nicole and Stu are left to fend for themselves in alien territory as we enter the worlds of shoes and sports with the Aff

Jun 12
1 h 45 min

[TEASER] They Got Him

Before we (Nicole and Cole) fulfill their contractually obligated second Patreon Raffle pick on Trần Anh Hùng's under-appreciated neo-noir I Come With the Rain, we pay ou

Jun 8
4 min

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