Marvel Movie Minute

Minute Fourteen: From Natasha’s Question to the Middle of an Interrogation Joining us today is Phillip Mottaz, author of the Psychic Barber Mystery series. In the fourteenth minute of The Avengers ... We continue our conversation about Georgi Luchkov’s interrogation of Natasha Romanoff... or is it the other way around? This is a great tool the director employs well – shifting gender expectations i...

Minute Thirteen: From a Backhand to Simply Another Pretty Face Joining us today is Phillip Mottaz, author of the Psychic Barber Mystery series. In the thirteenth minute of The Avengers ... It’s time to talk about Natasha! We dig in on her role in the MCU and how we feel she’s been used up to this point, as well as beyond. We touch on the director and the fact that we come into this scene with her...

Minute Twelve: From Fury Firing Furiously to an Old Russian Warehouse Joining us today is Phillip Mottaz, author of the Psychic Barber Mystery series. In the twelfth minute of The Avengers ... We chat about Nick Fury and his marksmanship... or seeming lack thereof. We also chat about Maria’s amazing survival and wonder why Fury’s asking her about troops when wasn’t that Coulson’s job? Shouldn’t he...

Minute Eleven: From Bubble Bursting to Fury Rising Joining us on the show, we have Declan Craggs from Scream Movie Minute. In the eleventh minute of The Avengers ... The editing here seems a bit more clear as we follow three distinct escapes – Fury in a helicopter, Coulson with a SHIELD transport, and Hill chasing Loki, Selvig & Barton through the tunnel. But as the base collapses and Hill’s b...

Minute Ten: From Car Wreck to Base Collapse Joining us, it’s Justin Jaeger from TruStory FM’s entertainment network. In the tenth minute of The Avengers ... Loki’s thrilled with his mischief, even though he blew up the car of one of the guys he’s controlling. He still has his above-the-line actors so that must mean he’s doing well. But how does Maria Hill get ahead of them? What sort of side tunne...

Minute Nine: From Loading Dock to Tunnel Destruction Joining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the ninth minute of The Avengers ... The blocking bothers us a bit here. It feels rushed and doesn’t set up characters well in the space. Maria Hill’s entrance to the loading dock from a side door is almost completely...

Minute Eight: From A Chat About Ants & Boots to Team Loki Leaving the Runway Joining us on the show, it’s TruStory FM’s favorite son Tommy Metz III! In the eighth minute of The Avengers ... This minute is all about the conversation between Loki and Nick Fury. It plays really well, and the two of them have some great lines. Some of them play quite funny, though, if you start thinking about poss...

Minute Seven: From Puppet Clint to Brother of Thor Joining us today, it’s Kathy Campbell, RelayFM’s community manager. In the seventh minute of The Avengers ... Why does Loki say Clint is the one with the heart? Is he able to read more into his soul because he’s wielding the soul stone? The exchange between Loki and Nick is quite a bit of fun. We only get a part of it today, but we like what they’...

Minute Six: From Agents Approaching to Loki Surveying His Destruction Joining us today, it’s Kathy Campbell, RelayFM’s community manager! In the sixth minute of The Avengers ... Loki gets truly a top notch villain entry. Did the filmmakers know how Terminator it felt? They had to, right? We enjoy the way Nick Fury comments about the spear, but in today’s world, would he say ‘sir’? Actually, should...

Minute Five: From Doorway Logic to Loki’s Arrival In the fifth minute of The Avengers ... The Tesseract really starts acting up here. But why? Does the door metaphor make sense? And wouldn’t it make more sense for a mind-controlled Erik to be the one opening it? How does it work with the sceptre? And why does a tool designed to harness energy have a landing platform? Regardless, we love the blue g...

Minute Four: From The Tesseract Misbehaving to A Chat With the Hawk In the fourth minute of The Avengers ... Erik treats the Tesseract like it’s alive. Is that weird? But why isn’t he still under Loki’s mind control like we saw at the end of Thor? Or is he? And why is that scientist sticking some weird ear probe into the Tesseract? That doesn’t seem smart. And hey – it’s Hawkeye! Tune in! Join the...

Minute Three: From “How Bad Is It?” to Erik Selvig In the third minute of The Avengers ... It’s all about the walk-and-talk to get Nick Fury and Maria Hill down to the basement of this complex. Does the elevator call out instantly as a secret lair? Where did they film this? What’s the read on Maria’s antagonism with Fury here, and does it make sense? What’s all this talk about Phase 2, and are we...

Minute Two: From The End of The Other’s Monologue to Fury’s Arrival In the second minute of The Avengers ... We wrap up our chat about the odd intro, and get to finally transition to the desert, Alan Silvestri’s theme, and the frantic energy at the SHIELD compound. What the hell’s going on? Where did they film this? Why is Coulson going the Matrix route? And how long will it take for someone to ca...

Travis Bow from the Reel Comic Heroes podcast joins us to discuss the first minute of ‘The Avengers’: from Marvel to Chitauri. Minute One: From Marvel to Chitauri Joining us to kick off our new season is Travis Bow from Reel Comic Heroes and Marvel Events Timeline. In the first minute of The Avengers ... We talk about how odd of an intro this is for this big culminating movie. The Other? The Chita...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Five: From Marvel’s Logo to Paramount’s Logo Joining us, it’s Eric Deutsch from Escape From New York Minute and Flash Gordon Minute! In the one hundred twenty fifth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... It’s just twelve seconds of the Marvel and Paramount logo, but we’ve got plenty to discuss. We chat about Eric’s favorite Captain Amer...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Four: From Stronger Swings to May 2012 Joining us, it’s Eric Deutsch from Escape From New York Minute and Flash Gordon Minute! In the one hundred twenty fourth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... We’ve got the post-credit sequence to discuss today. First, it’s the cut-down scene of Steve abusing the punching bag in the boxing club wh...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Three: From More Songs to Steve’s Punches Joining us, it’s Eric Deutsch from Escape From New York Minute and Flash Gordon Minute! In the one hundred twenty third minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... We’re talking through the songs in the credits, and have a few thoughts about marches. We also wonder about Joe Johnston’s contributions...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Two: From The Third Floor to the Star Spangled Singers Joining us, it’s Eric Deutsch from Escape From New York Minute and Flash Gordon Minute! In the one hundred twenty second minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... We talk about cyberscanning. We talk about post-visualization. And, of course, we have to talk about the 3-D conversion pro...

Minute One Hundred Twenty One: From Double Negative’s Comp Sequence Supervisors to Visual Effects by Method Joining us, it’s Eric Deutsch from Escape From New York Minute and Flash Gordon Minute! In the one hundred twenty-first minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... It’s credits, credits, credits. Specifically, it’s visual effects, visual effects, visual effects...

Minute One Hundred Twenty: From a Quartet of Chargehand Painters to a Septet of Comp Sequence Supervisors Joining us, it’s Tommy Metz III, director of 30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage. In the one hundred twentieth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... So many names! We talk through some but also play a few games regarding MCU Phase One worldwide box offic...

Minute One-Hundred Nineteen: From Best Boy Electric Kevin Edland to Supervising Painter Lee Shelley Joining us, it’s Tommy Metz III, director of 30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage. In the one hundred nineteenth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... We talk through more of the credits and play more games! Tune in! Join the conversation with movie lovers from...

Minute One Hundred Eighteen: From Stark’s Engineer Kevin Millington to Chief Lighting Technician John Higgins Joining us, it’s Tommy Metz III, director of 30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage. In the one hundred eighteenth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... We dig into names and jobs, plus we have more credit games to play! Tune in! Join the conversation w...

Minute One Hundred Seventeen: From Keep Em Flying to Ben Uttley Joining us, it’s Tommy Metz III, director of 30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage. In the one hundred seventeenth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... We talk about more propaganda artwork and wrap up the top of the credits. We also talk about musicals, triggered by the return of Star Spangled M...

Minute One Hundred Sixteen: From Casting to a Whip Pan to an Airplane Joining us, it’s Tommy Metz III, director of 30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage. In the sixteenth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... The first thing we talk about is the fact that Tommy may have, in fact, only ever seen the first half of this movie, and that was just before we recorded...

Minute 115: From Writing to Casting Joining us, we have Justin Jaeger from The Film Board, Trailer Rewind and the TruStory FM Entertainment Podcast Network. In the one hundred fifteenth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... We talk about the various crew credited during the top of the credits – from Joe Johnston to the casting agents. We also talk about the fan...