Cinematic Universe

Joe and James take a look at the latest trailers and announcements for The Batman, Wonder Woman 84, The Suicide Squad, Justice League, Black Adam, Gotham Knights and more besides in this news special. We'd like to thank listeners again for their support and compassion during this difficult time - for now, the podcast will continue. Cinematic Universe is supported by the generosity of our backers o...

RIP Seb Patrick (1982-2020). It is our sad duty to inform Cinematic Universe listeners that our friend and co-host Seb Patrick passed away unexpectedly this weekend. In this episode, Joe and James talk a little about how they knew Seb and what he meant to us. Not a hoax, not an imaginary story, although we really wish it were. Following this episode the podcast will be taking a temporary hiatus. I...

Seb and James return to YouTube for a live rattle through some news bits - including that new Not Gotham Central TV show, various bits of scheduling kerfuffle, our first looks at Helstrom and The Boys S2, and the casting of Atom Smasher in the Black Adam movie! As ever, if you'd rather see what we looked like when we were streaming this, you can watch the video version here: https://www.youtube.co...

Joe returns alongside Caroline and Seb to cover the first (and still so far only) live-action movie based on an Archie Comics property: Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan’s 2001 satire on the music industry and consumerism, Josie and the Pussycats ! We look at just how incredibly specific a piece of turn-of-the-century nostalgia this is, and try to figure out why it struggled so badly at the box offi...

There wasn't a huge amount of news for our latest LIVE streamed episode - except for the possibility of Michael Keaton returning as Bruce Wayne - so we threw the floor open to our audience for an Ask Us Anything! At least, we did, once we sorted out the problem of Seb's mic being basically inaudible as soon as the stream went live... As ever, if you find the audio versions of these harder to liste...

In our latest LIVE minisode, Seb and James discuss #CreateTheSnyderCut, trailers for Bill & Ted Face the Music (it counts, shut up) and The Old Guard , and some comings and goings in the world of TV show casting. Plus we answer some live listener questions, including some lengthy (and pessimistic?) chat about the future of monthly comics distribution! This episode was recorded over a livestrea...

This is a real “when were you going to get to it?” one, isn’t it? We’re joined by writer/director/comedian Ellen Waddell to talk about the film that killed a franchise, and arguably even an entire genre (for a bit). But is it really the worst superhero movie ever made? Is there anything salvageable from it? Why do people choose to live in Gotham City, anyway? And is Alfred Pennyworth actually, in...

We're back with another live news minisode, but this time with a special guest! Michael Leader joins Seb and James to run through the recent news, including  New Mutants ' latest piece of comedic release date announcement tomfoolery, Netflix picking up  Sweet Tooth , and an awful lot of people appearing in a  Sandman audio adaptation. This episode was recorded over a livestream, whi...

“We won’t bother doing Bloodshot for its cinematic release,” we thought. “We’ll wait until its home release, that way we can put it off for a while.” Reality had other ideas, however, and we’ve really got no excuse not to cover it now that you can already see it for rental price. So we’ve brought in Sam Clements of 90 Minutes or Less Film Festival , who loves a trashy Vin Diesel action vehicle. Th...

Yes, we're doing the live minisode thing again, because nobody told us not to! Seb and James catch up on all the latest news including  Venom 2 's new title and release date, JJ Abrams taking on  Justice League Dark , BOOM! Studios linking up with Netflix, the trailers for Stargirl and some other bits and bobs, including answering LIVE listener/viewer questions! Once again, we caveat the...

We’ve threatened this for a while, but we’re finally taking our first steps (if you don’t count The Matrix or Sonic the Hedgehog ) into films that aren’t technically comic book or superhero movies, but which we feel are still in some way “genre-adjacent” as we’re calling it. And as we discuss, this film is so hugely influential on just about every major comic book blockbuster that’s arrived since,...

It’s our first ever live minisode ! Well, it’s not live any more, but it was live when we recorded it. Essentially, after the success and enjoyment of our Live Infinity War Watchalong on Friday night, we realised that this streaming lark could actually be a good way of doing news minisodes. Particularly when there’s quite immediate and pressing news (the MCU rescheduling) that we could try and get...

Over on our Patreon , James is currently going through every single episode of the classic X-Men: The Animated Series on a near-daily basis, talking each time about how the episodes stand up and how they relate to the original comics. This is a FREE PREVIEW of one of the episodes - specifically, the show's third episode, Enter Magneto . If you like what you hear, then feel free to back us on Patre...

It totally makes sense that we’d invite a guy known for doing a Sonic the Hedgehog-related podcast on for the episode after Sonic the Hedgehog ; just as it also makes sense that we’d do an episode about a movie that features a terrifying post-apocalyptic scenario in the early 2020s when… well, yes, exactly. Anyway, we welcome the brilliant Chris McFeely from the equally brilliant Sonic the Comic t...

It's our Coronavirus Special! And we're only... kind of kidding, as we talk about New Mutants being pushed back yet again, as well as our thoughts on the final Black Widow trailer (if indeed we do get to see that film soon). We also take listener questions on topics such as the early The Batman pictures, our favourite comics about pandemics, and comfort comic book movie rewatches. Cinematic Univer...

Our name is Cinematic Universe. We had an accident, and woke up watching a Sonic the Hedgehog movie starring Jim Carrey. Are we mad, in a coma, or back in time? Join us as we try to figure out what the hell’s going on in this crazy world, not least the idea that a movie based on a beloved ‘90s videogame might actually not be completely terrible ? Cinematic Universe is supported by the generosity o...

It’s our first new release of 2020! And it’s not a bad one to kick off the year with, as Cathy Yan’s energetic, entertaining Margot Robbie-and-chums vehicle takes its place as easily one of the best entries in the DCEU so far. Seb, James and Caroline discuss just why it’s so much damned fun, and why we’re disappointed that not enough people have been to see it yet. As per usual, no news discussion...

Seb and James spin 30 seconds of Super Bowl trailer into 30 minutes of discussion, as we look at the first glimpses of the Disney+ shows Loki , The Falcon and the Winter Soldier , and WandaVision . We also examine the strange circumstances surrounding HBO’s upcoming DMZ pilot, and CBS transplanting Damian Wayne into an extra Kent sibling over in Superman and Lois . Cinematic Universe is supported...

Our time with Christopher Reeve finally comes to an end, as we tackle the awe-inspiring majesty that is 1987’s biggest blockbuster: Superman IV: The Quest For Peace . It’s in no way a competent film, we can all agree on that – but is there a way to approach it that means we might still get some enjoyment out of it? Is it in fact, pretty much the ultimate Howard T Duck Award winner? Join Seb, James...

Seb and James come roaring into 2020 with trailer chat on Birds of Prey and Morbius , as well as the ramifications of Scott Derrickson’s departure from Dr Strange 2 . And we managed to forget to even talk about the New Mutants trailer, which means that hey, we can continue pretending it doesn’t exist! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was a bit of a longer edit than we anticipated, so apologies for the delay – but finally, we can box off the last decade by bringing you the second part of our 2019 awards special! Listen on to find out what Seb, James, Joe and Caroline thought were worthy of attention in such categories as Worst Film, Best Actor/Actress, Best Hero, and the all-important Best Film category. Plus! We have five s...

So, 2019. The year of Endgame , Joker and, er, Dark Phoenix . But also the year we covered a range of films including Snowpiercer , Supergirl , Addams Family , The Matrix , The Dark Knight Rises and Blade II . The question is, which of these films were worthy of awards in our annual handing-out? Seb and James are joined by Joe and Caroline in this very special two-part episode to thrash it all out...

It's a busy old time for trailers, so Seb and James are here with their thoughts on the first two of the big female-fronted releases of 2020: Black Widow and Wonder Woman 1984 . Be warned: the Maxwell Lord bit goes on for about five whole minutes.  Cinematic Universe is supported by the generosity of our backers on Patreon, who also get to hear episodes ad-free along with occasional bonus con...

Amon Warmann has got a bone to pick with us, and that bone is the fact that we weren’t exactly very enthusiastic about his beloved Blade when we talked about it all the way back in 2015. So we’ve invited him on to tell us where we went wrong back then, as well as looking in-depth at Guillermo del Toro’s somewhat flashier (and gorier) follow-up. In the news, meanwhile, we try not to run too headlon...

It turns out that basically ever since we started having Caroline on as a guest, she’s wanted to talk about an X-Men film, and particularly a Wolverine film. If only she’d said something sooner, we might have got around to this one sooner, because it turns out that James Mangold’s first Jackman-starrer that you all forgot about is actually, possibly – whisper it – his best? Over in the news, meanw...