Cinematic Universe

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...

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...

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 fridgi...

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...

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...

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 we...

Last month, Joe did something pretty amazing: he watched every single MCU movie (prior to Infinity War ) over a single weekend, without any breaks inbetween. And as well as raising a ton of cash for Parkinson's UK, he spent the weekend livetweeting and recording short mini pod segments for Soundcloud after each film. So if you didn't catch any of that while it was going on, we've stitched every on...

It's our Infinity War episode. If we have to say any more than that, you've probably got the wrong podcast. Be warned, though: this podcast is SPOILER FILLED from the outset. There's no news discussion, and there's no spoiler-free reaction section. We are straight in there from the word go, because... well, how could you NOT be? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recorded prior to Joe's epic weekend charity MCU marathon, this week's minisode sees him and James taking a run at the latest news - from the final Deadpool 2 trailer to the latest on Gotham City Sirens / Suicide Squad 2 / Birds of Prey . Plus! Who will be the first to suggest Johnny Storm for last week's "How would you put Ryan Reynolds in the MCU" pitch segment? And, stay tuned right until the e...

In brightest day In blackest night Bad movies can't escape our sight And though Joe worships Reynolds' light We can't deny: Green Lantern's shite! Yes, we've managed to find the Ryan Reynolds movie that even Joe can't love, and a DC Comics movie that Seb even thinks might be worse than Man of Steel . But is Green Lantern an interesting failure, or just a complete and total failure? Well, we've man...

A few weeks ago, the latest trailer for Infinity War dropped - and Joe got so excited, he couldn't wait until our next episode, so stayed up far too late (and far too long) talking to pod-chum Rhys Williamson about it. We initially put it out as a Patreon exclusive, but now that we're only a week-and-a-bit out from the film's release, we thought we'd let the rest of you hear it as well, if you're...

There wasn't a lot of news in the last week, but have we let that stop us? We have not. Join us for a shorter-than-usual (but still longer-than-they-used-to-be) minisode, as Joe, Seb and James waffle on about Flashpoint (no longer), Zack Snyder's own social network, the first photo of Kiernan Shipka's Sabrina , possible villains for Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 , Astro City and The Continuing Absence...

In 1996, Jack Sholder and Eric Blakeney made a Generation X pilot for Fox. In 2018, James Hunt decided that we should cover it on the podcast. It's hard to know who you should be more annoyed at, really. Either way, join us for a light-hearted and friendly discussion that takes in Matt Frewer's impression of Jim Carrey's impression of Matt Frewer, the most baffling piece of product placement in mo...

Joe, Seb and James look at the Deadpool 2 trailer, and get suddenly quite excited when they realise who Rob Delaney is probably playing. And a seemingly innocuous bit of Daredevil S3 casting news gets us speculating about a possible adaptation of one of his best ever comics stories. There's also some chat about the Justice League: Mortal picture leaks, and we get around to going a bit deeper on ho...

What happens when people who are nerds about comic book movies AND nerds about the London Underground get to talk about a comic book movie that has dodgy London Underground geography in it? Well... you get this podcast, basically. But honestly, we do find things to talk about in Thor: The Dark World other than Thornington Crescent. We've also got an unusual news roundup, in that we knew the Infini...

You wouldn't think that the simple fact of Hawkeye not being on those Infinity War magazine covers could lead to a fifty-seven minute discussion, could you? I bet you definitely wouldn't think there'd be a song in there, either. Well, Joe and James have got news for you. Actually, that's not true, they haven't got "news", that's sort of the problem. Anyway... enjoy this episode! Hosted on Acast. S...

Younger listeners may not remember this, but there was a time when if you made a superhero comedy, you were greeted with outrage rather than great reviews and massive box office numbers. But is the problem with Superman III merely that it's a comedy, or more that it's not a very good one? What's more, can Seb find a way to argue that actually it might be the best of the Reeve films? Find out on an...

James has been driven off the podcast by a baying, pitchfork-wielding mob after daring to criticise [SPOILER REMOVED] on our Black Panther episode. He'll be back next week (maybe), but in the meantime Joe and Seb have regrouped to take a run at the latest comic book movie and TV news - including the continuing phenomenal box office take of that film, Joss Whedon departing Batgirl (lol), a whole lo...

At the time of publishing this episode, Black Panther has already taken over $200m at the box office. And we estimate that around 56% of that take has purely been down to Amon Warmann going to see it repeatedly. He joins Joe and James to discuss the film that's already looking like it might be the comic book movie event of a year that also includes Infinity War. As per usual with a new release, th...

With an extra week's wait before you get our Black Panther episode, we thought we'd get together for a quick news episode in the meantime. Spoilers: it ended up not being that quick. We look at trailers for Deadpool 2 and Venom (we liked one and not the other, SEE IF YOU CAN GUESS WHICH), the Infinity War publicity's continuing absence of Hawkeye, the Marvel Studios 10 Years photo, the Jessica Jon...

The Ant-Man and The Wasp trailer, the Metropolis TV show announcement, the ethics of adapting Watchmen yet again, and some Daredevil season 3 tidbits come under the news microscope - and there's also time for a hefty dose of comics news chat, thanks to the announcement of DC's plans for Action Comics #1000 and Brian Michael Bendis assuming control of the Superman franchise. PLUS! Who should Gary O...

After our new-for-2018 format changes seemed to go down well, we've made another one by getting rid of Seb! No, not really, he's just on holiday - but that means that it's time for Film4's Michael Leader to once again join us to cover a Hellboy movie, with 2008's The Golden Army . There's also a run through the latest news - but don't forget, if you want to hear more news discussion and the entrie...

For the first time in the new and improved minisode format, Seb and James join Joe to talk through the latest comic book news. Discussion includes the changes to Fox's superhero schedule, Gambit's latest directorial woes, Flashpoint's new writers, the latest on Shazam, some tidbits from the MCU, and The Tick's Season 2 renewal. All that, plus 'The Pitch' finds settles into its new home on the mini...

A new year brings some format changes designed to keep the main episodes a bit tighter - so of course this has naturally led to our longest ever episode. But it's The Dark Knight - you didn't exactly want us to run short on it, did you? We also take a look at some recent news including the uncannily-predicted-by-us casting of Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina , some upstairs shuffling of chairs at DC, and...

We're back for part two of the 2017 Cinematic Universe Awards - with a brief interruption for a "Man of Steel incident" in Seb's house - in which we run through the remaining awards categories for the films and TV shows we discussed on the podcast in 2017. We also do our customary induction(s) into the Hall of Fame, and there's some selected highlights from this year's Pitch segments! 00:53 - The...