Redshirt Cinema Club

Film number four in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Thor, and we've come a long way from Tony Stark's cave in Afghanistan.

All the way to Asgard, in fact, as the bounds of the MCU expand even at this early stage to embrace other worlds, mythical beings, and stuff happening somewhere in the gap between endless space and affordable CG.

THERE IS A LOT GOING ON. The MCU gets its first supervillain, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddlestone launch mega careers, a blue box turns up, and Marvel seems to prove once and for all that you can keep making films that are only OK so long as there's another film that might be better just around the corner...

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Here's the schedule for our MCU season...

Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26

BONUS (Resident Evil) - 16/9/26

The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26

Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26

BONUS - 30/9/26

Thor (2011) - 5/10/26

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26

BONUS - 14/10/26

The Avengers - 19/10/26

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Three episodes into our MCU series and we’ve already got our first sequel - 2010’s Iron Man 2 - which Marvel couldn’t resist making after the success of the original. Robert Downey Jr returns as Tony Stark, facing off against both Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash and the age-old conundrum of what do you do with a superhero after their origin story? You talk about them on a podcast, that’s what. Let’s go!

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Here's the schedule for our MCU season...

Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26

BONUS - 16/9/26

The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26

Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26

BONUS - 30/9/26

Thor (2011) - 5/10/26

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26

BONUS - 14/10/26

The Avengers - 19/10/26 

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Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a podcast about fandom and watching movies with friends. We’re doing it! We’re getting through Phase One of the MCU, and today that means our opinion lens is focused on 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, a complicated entry in that it came out mere months after Iron Man, features a star in Edward Norton who never returns to the franchise, and is a sort of sequel but not really to 2003’s Hulk directed by Ang Lee. What do we make of it? Let’s find out!

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You can also follow us at x.com/redshirtcinema and get in touch at [email protected].

Here's the schedule for our MCU season...

Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26

BONUS - 16/9/26

The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26

Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26

BONUS - 30/9/26

Thor (2011) - 5/10/26

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26

BONUS - 14/10/26

The Avengers - 19/10/26 

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The truth is, we are watching Iron Man...

Listeners, it's time for a reboot. For Edward Norton to become Mark Ruffalo. For Andrew Garfield to become Tom Holland. For us to have a vision, a quest for the podcast once again.

It's time for Redshirt versus the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In what we're enigmatically calling Phase Three of the podcast, we’ll be rewatching the biggest movie phenomenon of all time from its inception to the Avengers’ first Assembling. Get ready for tons of cultural context, egregious Stan-Splaining, lots of realising we’re older than we used to be, and a weekly check-in on just how full our Marvel fandom Infinity Gauntlets are getting. Let’s get started with, Iron Man.

Join the Redshirt Cinema Club! Support us at patreon.com/redshirtcinemaclub to receive two bonus episodes every month as well as our newsletter, The Civilian Observer.

You can also follow us at x.com/redshirtcinema and get in touch at [email protected].

Here's the schedule for our MCU season...

Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26

BONUS - 16/9/26

The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26

Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26

BONUS - 30/9/26

Thor (2011) - 5/10/26

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26

BONUS - 14/10/26

The Avengers - 19/10/26 

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Welcome Redshirt team, to the final pre-MCU comic book episode before we dive into the world of The Avengers, singularly and collectively.

This week, it's Dave's pick, and he has chosen Constantine - although it proves to be more of a case of Constantin-terruptions as Nath and Rob lead us astray (or should that be ashtray?).

Don't hold your breath for this one (though weirdly, we do. Really). 

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Here's the schedule for our superhero season, leading to the first phase of the MCU...

Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26

BONUS - 16/9/26

The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26

Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26

BONUS - 30/9/26

Thor (2011) - 5/10/26

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26

BONUS - 14/10/26

The Avengers - 19/10/26 

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Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a weekly podcast Bat-transmitting from the Batcave.

That’s right, a few short episodes after our trip to Christopher Nolan’s Gotham City, we’re back with the Dark Knight thanks to Rob’s choice for pre-MCU superhero viewing. Which is… Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, featuring a rogue’s gallery of Catwoman, The Penguin, and some guy making a reverse power station? How dare they?

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You can also follow us at x.com/redshirtcinema and get in touch at [email protected].

Here's the schedule for our superhero season, leading to the first phase of the MCU...

Superman (1978) - 24/8/26

Batman Returns (1992) - 31/8/26

BONUS - Pre-MCU Superhero Captains choice - 2/9/26

Constantine (2005) - 7/9/26

Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26

BONUS - 16/9/26

The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26

Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26

BONUS - 30/9/26

Thor (2011) - 5/10/26

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26

BONUS - 14/10/26

The Avengers - 19/10/26 

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Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a podcast about fandom and watching movies with friends. We’re about to tackle the big one - the MCU.

The biggest movies, the most fervent fandoms, opinions so divisive they could probably splint a continent in half and sink the entire West coast of America. Which, coincidentally, is Lex Luthor’s plan in Superman: The Movie - the film we’re watching today to kick off our three-part mini series of pre-MCU superhero flicks before we take on the main event.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a podcast.

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The end of our Nolan series approaches, as you can tell by the fact we've reached a film that doesn't care about beginnings, or endings, or - more than one of us might argue - what happens in the middle, either.

This week we're watching/have watched/will have been about to be watching Tenet, which is like a time-based counterpart to the globe-spanning, dream-plumbing action of Inception. Not content with simply folding Paris back upon itself, Tenet goes one further and folds all of reality, with a war of annihilation moving back along the timeline from the future and about to engulf the present.

What does this mean? On the one hand, we sincerely have no idea. On the other, it means bullets that fire backwards, fight scenes between opponents moving in contrary directions through time, car chases where both cars pursue each other at the same time(s), and a final assault that's finished before it begins.

Obviously, Bill and Ted would have had this wrapped up in 90 minutes. But what else do we make of Tenet? Join us to find out!

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