With THE MARVELS grossing the lowest in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's history of opening weekends, what should we think? Should we be worried about future MCU movies? Was this movie an outlier? Let's discuss!

The Marvels & is the MCU in trouble?

Founded in 2013, three critics hailing from Dallas-Fort Worth attempt to make sense of the current state of cinema without taking this whole thing too seriously. They’re just movies, y’all. Hosts Kent Garrison, Richard Bardon and Brian Gill - on Twitter @MadAboutMovies - check scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

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It was one of the most-anticipated movies of 2023. Then it was one of the most-anticipated movies of 2024. So did Luca Guadagnino's CHALLENGERS live up to the hype? Is Zendaya peaking? Let Richard and Kent help you decide.


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Challengers (2024)

What will end up being the biggest movie of 2024? We're drafting the releases one by one in our annual movie draft, with a punishment on the line and a lot of question marks surrounding these movies. It's anybody's game!


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Movie Draft 2024

This entire year, we're doing a special podcast series on the career of Quentin Tarantino. It WAS going to be in anticipation of his 10th and final (?) film, THE MOVIE CRITIC, but now that he's not doing it anymore, we need to react accordingly. But the show must go on, so let's get to our next in the series, 1997's JACKIE BROWN.


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Quentin Tarantino Retrospective: The Movie Critic canceled & Jackie Brown

Is A24's CIVIL WAR top quality Garland, or mid Garland? Let's dig into everything from Kirsten Dunst to the themes to photo quality as we try and figure out how to feel about Alex Garland's CIVIL WAR.
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Civil War (2024)

Dev Patel is doing it all when it comes to MONKEY MAN. How does it compare to the movies that inspired it, and how many more Monkey movies can we talk about on MAM?


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The Marvels & is the MCU in trouble?

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