MAMO!

This Memorial Day, we fondly remember the days when Memorial Day was a good time to open a blockbuster. With X-Men: Apocalypse and Alice Through the Looking Glass in the toilet, we castrate Fox's management of the X-franchise before diving into the wider question of fan entitlement, platonic relationships, and Cap being in love with Bucky (cuz he IS, ok?).

Do you hear the slurping, mewling sounds of the internet fanboys roiling in disgust (once again) because women exist? It was hard not to get hit by the spray this week as the Cinema Massacre web site (!) achieved the seemingly impossible, and turned GHOSTBUSTERS into the most politicized film release of the year. We tackle the outrage, and then dovetail to this week's other gender war, #toofemale.

Anyone else excited for Black Panther? We sure are. What about Marvel Phase 4? Yup! What about... the digital manipulation of people irrespective of age, race, or gender? ...OK, that one gives us pause. Listen in for more!

Team Cap? Team Iron Man? Team Marvel!! The Matts sit down for an entirely polite conversation about how great Captain America: Civil War is, and why it's making all the money. You know, like we do.

Mamo returns with Mamo 445! Let's talk about The Jungle Book and Lemonade! But first, let's talk about the mysterious fate of Mamo 444.

The rapturous arrival of the ROGUE ONE trailer gives us an opportunity to circle back on BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE, and tie together all our thoughts on what audiences actually want from these stories, and why we respond to aspirational heroes. Listen in!

The Mamo Summer Box Office Contest is here! Matt & Matt handicap the big releases of the summer of 2016 and invite YOU to do the same. Captain America! Alice! Suicide Squad! Ghostbusters! Independence Day! The Big Fuckin' Giant! Who will win??

Two Matts enter, one Matt leaves! Then another Matt leaves, by a different door. It's the title fight you've all been waiting for: does Batman v. Superman deserve a Dawn of Justice or what even is Justice in this context anyway yadda yadda yadda maybe the movie's not that bad.

Spike Lee's new (to Canada, anyway) film Chi-Raq is absolutely splendid, and we gush about it for a good long while before trying to pick apart the racial politics of the hit animated film, Zootopia (which, hey, kudos for having racial politics, Z!). Plus: Matt B. sick of superheroes? Is this the Bizarro World??

The last thing the world needs is another couple of straight white guys telling you what they think of the all-female Ghostbusters trailer, but we're gonna tell you anyway - with a meta twist, because we're going to talk about what we think of the opinions of the other straight white guys. Plus: American Hitler! Who ya gonna call?