Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

We enter the home stretch of the pre-Gunn DCU with Shazam: Fury of the Gods, a confused and inert mess of glop, nonsense and awful dialogue anchored by the unbearable anti-charisma of future Jesuslop washup Zachary Levi. Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu are wasted. Rachel Zegler needs a new agent; Diedrich Bader gets killed and nobody seems to notice; and the barely-explored villain scheme is stolen, inexplicably, from The Simpsons Movie. Needless to say, none of the teasers for future 'Shazam' installments will be paying off. Ever.

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BREAKING NEWS: Nicole Queens out!!!!!

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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

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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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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