The Caped Podcasters

Every week we wonder if Marvel can keep outdoing the previous episode, and they keep on delivering. In this week's WandaVision , we finally get confirmation on some things we had suspected ALL ALONG. But the reveal raises so many other questions. Tune in! *WandaVision © 2021 Marvel Entertainment LLC. WandaVision® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of Marvel...

Ollo! This week we're talking about the star-studded animated superhero (or is it supervillain?) film Megamind . On its surface, it's a wacky romp through a series of superhero movie tropes, but it actually raises some serious questions about the very core of the genre. *Megamind © 2010 DreamWorks Animation LLC. Megamind® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks o...

Things are ramping up in Westview. Join us as we celebrate Halloween with the Maximoff/Vision family in this week's 90s WandaVision holiday special! Come for the heavy-handed Mephisto hints. Stay for our Jimmy Woo FBI Witness Protection theories. *WandaVision © 2021 Marvel Entertainment LLC. WandaVision® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of Marvel Entertain...

We talk about a lot of comic book movies (It's kind of our thing) but we've never talked about a movie pulls off the comic book aesthetic quite like Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy . Starring Beatty , Pacino , and Madonna , this might be the most underrated movie in the entire genre. *Dick Tracy © 1990 Touchstone Pictures. Dick Tracy® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trad...

WandaVision is back this week with so many surprises. It's difficult to put into non-spoilery words just how much this week's episode blew our collective minds. So tune in to our very-spoilery episode to hear our thoughts. *WandaVision © 2021 Marvel Entertainment LLC. WandaVision® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of Marvel Entertainment LLC. This productio...

This week, the ghost of Roger Ebert makes his much-anticipated first pick of 2021. He's got us talking about Martin Campbell's 1998 swashbuckling vigilante adventure: The Mask of Zorro . So, you know, cut some Z 's into a wall or something and then listen in. *The Mask of Zorro © 1998 Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Co. Medien KG.Zorro® and its associated titles, logos, and characters...

Another week, another episode of WandaVision ! This week we got a peek at what's been happening outside West View and a little explanation about the strange events inside. But for as many questions as this episode answered, it posed so many more. *WandaVision © 2021 Marvel Entertainment LLC. WandaVision® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of Marvel Entertain...

We've officially returned from our January superhero hiatus and are getting back into the SWING of things. We are back in the MCU with the third incarnation of Spider-Man (now played by Tom Holland ) in the Jon Watts-directed Spider-Man: Homecoming . *Spider-Man: Homecoming © 2017 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and LSC Film Corporation. Spider-Man® and its associated titles, logos, and charact...

In a literal case of "same pod time, same pod streaming service" we're back to cover more WandaVision ! Episode 3 brought us so much. There was 70s hair. There was color. There were plot developments. So now there are theories! Listen now for our take on where this might be headed. *WandaVision © 2021 Marvel Entertainment LLC. WandaVision® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are regis...

It's still Edgar Wright month here in the Fortress of Poditude and we've finished the Cornetto Trilogy, so the next logical step is to talk about the post-modern musical that is Baby Driver . This movie has everything: an incredible soundtrack, insane action sequences, and a Jon Hamm masterclass in range. *Baby Driver © 2017 TriStar Pictures, Inc. and MRC II Distribution Company L.P Baby Driver ®...

It's finally here! Feige and company return for Phase 4 of the MCU with the Disney+ exclusive series WandaVision . So we here in the Fortress of Poditude are officially talking about a TV show for the very first time. Listen in as we briefly recap the first two episodes and give our initial impression on that sweet sweet new content. *WandaVision © 2021 Marvel Entertainment LLC. WandaVision® and i...

We’ve had a rule in the Fortress of Poditude since episode 7: when a character orders a drink, we drink with them. See how that works out for us this week with the epic bar crawl that is Edgar Wright ’s The World’s End , the final movie of the Cornetto Trilogy. *The World's End © 2013 Universal Studios. The World's End ® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of...

We're continuing on our Edgar Wright month-long journey with the second installment of the Cornetto Trilogy: Hot Fuzz . Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are back, joined by a perfectly slimy Timothy Dalton for this hysterical homage to buddy cop action flicks. Listen now. It's for the greater good. (The greater good) *Hot Fuzz © 2007 Universal Studios. Hot Fuzz® and its associated titles, logos, and char...

We want to kick off 2021 the WRIGHT way (trust me, this is not the last you'll be hearing this terrible pun). And we're doing it by taking our annual Superhero Hiatus and celebrating the works of Edgar Wright all month long. We're kicking it all off with the first movie of the Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead . *Shaun of the Dead © 2004 Focus Pictures/Universal Studios. Shaun of the Dead® and i...

As if to reward us for making it through 2020, listener Michael Carlstrom reminded us that Flash Gordon is currently celebrating its 40th Anniversary. So we managed to squeak in this colorful and campy 80s sci-fi romp through space (with a Queen soundtrack!) right before the end of this nightmare year. And it's exactly what we needed. *Flash Gordon © 1980 Universal Studios. Flash Gordon® and its a...

Put that cookie down! ...and join us for a Caped Podcasters Christmas Special ! 'Tis the season for Arnold Schwarzenegger & Sinbad . We're talking about the 1996 last-minute shopping adventure that is: Jingle All The Way . Turboman is a superhero, so it totally counts. *Jingle All the Way © 1996 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Jingle All the Way® and its associated titles, logos, and c...

We're "celebrating" 100 episodes since we discussed Kick-Ass by begrudgingly covering the sequel that nobody asked for, directed by a guy nobody's heard of. It's Kick-Ass 2 and it's even... Kick-Ass ier? We did this to ourselves. Merry ChrisMintz. *Kick-Ass 2 © 2013 Universal Studios. Kick-Ass® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of Image Comics, Inc. This pr...

No, it's not déjà vu. We covered Shazam! back before its theatrical release in a very non-spoilery episode (Ep. #21). Now that the world has had time to see it, we're doing it the proper way: in our first ever re-visit of a movie we've already talked about. *Shazam! © 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Shazam!® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of DC Comi...

The G-Men weren't the only guys to escape from Hell. This week in the Fortress of Poditude, we're talking about Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy ! The good one with Ron Perlman , not that David Harbour nonsense from last year... ...we'll get there. *Hellboy © 2004 Revolution Studios/Sony Pictures. Hellboy® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of Dark Horse Comics....

If you're a fan of films where crooked FBI agents escape Hell and try to do good deeds to not go back, boy are you in luck this week. Throw in a pink robot, a hand puppet, and Gary Busey , and you have Christopher Coppola's G-Men From Hell . It's... a movie. *G-Men from Hell © 2000 Sawmill Entertainment. G-Men from Hell® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of...

This week, we brought back an old friend to help us out. Nick (of "Episode 22 - Howard the Duck " fame) finally returns to the Fortress of Poditude for Richie Rich , the 1994 movie that finally made people say "Okay, I think that's enough Macaulay Culkin for a while." *Richie Rich © 1994 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Richie Rich® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered tr...

I am Groot! I am Groot. I am Groot. I am Groot. I am Groot. I am Groot... James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 . I am Groot. I am Groot? I am Groot!! *Guardians of the Galaxy © 2017 Marvel Entertainment LLC. Guardians of the Galaxy® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of Marvel Entertainment LLC. This production is not sponsored, endorsed by or affilia...

We're not ready to let go of Halloween just yet. It's hard to let go of anything when one of your hands is a chainsaw . So we enlisted the help of The Ginger Skull to talk about Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness starring Bruce Campbell . What more could you possibly want? *Army of Darkness © 1993 Orion Pictures Corporation. Army of Darkness® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are register...

The Caped Podcasters have been dead the whole time! What a twist! Spooky season is upon us and we're getting in the spirit with a little M. Night Shyamalan jawn (that's Philly for "literally any noun"). We're talking about Split , starring James McAvoy , James McAvoy , and James McAvoy . *Split © 2017 Universal Studios. Split® and its associated titles, logos, and characters are registered tradema...

Shhh! This week in the Fortress of Poditude, we're talking about spies! The kind of super secret spies that put the name of their organization right on the front window of their hideout. You know, like the ones in Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Secret Service . *Kingsman: The Secret Service © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Kingsman® and its associated titles, logos, and characters ar...