In our latest, we do a full spoilers, in-depth breakdown of Marvel Studios’ latest film, Thunderbolts*, or what has now been retitled The New Avengers, the 36th MCU film, the final film of phase 5, and the introduction of a brand new team of super (anti)heroes.We finish off the episode discussing the latest movie trailer releases including Highest 2 Lowest, Wednesday Season 2, The Smashing Machine, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Fear Street: Prom Queen.

Chapters

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Episode Overview

00:01:03 Thunderbolts* Review

00:01:07 SPOILER WARNING

00:01:38 The Retitling of the Movie to The New Avengers

00:03:09 The Plot

00:03:28 Budget & Box Office

00:05:45 The Reviews - IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Cinemascore, Threads

00:07:12 The Direction - Jake Schreier (Robot and Frank, Beef, Paper Towns)

00:08:44 Beef Tangent

00:09:48 The Writing - Eric Pearson (Thor: Ragnarok, Black Widow, Agent Carter, The Marvel One-Shots, Godzilla vs Kong, Transformers One) and JoAnna Calo (The Bear, Bojack Horseman, Hacks, Beef), Lee Sung Jin

00:12:00 The Cast & Characters

00:12:01 Florence Pugh (Fighting with My Family, Midsommar, Black Widow, Hawkeye) - Yelena Belova / White Widow

00:15:12 Sebastian Stan - Bucky Barnes

00:17:24 Is Keeping Up with the MCU Becoming too Much Work?

00:20:27 Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

00:21:41 Lewis Pullman - Bob, Sentry, The Void (Steven Yeun was originally cast) & Other SUPER-Powered Heroes

00:26:24 David Harbour - Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian

00:27:48 Wyatt Russell - John Walker / US Agent

00:32:33 Hannah John Kamen - Ava Starr / Ghost

00:34:11 Olga Kurylenko - Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster

00:38:53 Geraldine Viswanathan - Mel & possible Songbird Easter Egg

00:40:43 The Bear & Ayo Edebiri Tangent

00:42:54 Wendell Pierce - Congressman Gary

00:44:19 Should they have thrown de Fontaine in prison?

00:45:08 Final Thoughts

00:55:42 Mid and End Credits Scenes

00:58:49 Who’s on Sam Wilson’s Avengers Team?

01:01:34 What’s Next for the MCU? (Ironheart, Eyes of Wakanda, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Wonder Man, Marvel Zombies, Avengers: Doomsday, Avengers: Secret Wars)

01:03:10 News

01:03:16 Weekly Sinners Box Office Round Up

01:04:11 Captain America: Brave New World passes $200 million Worldwide

01:05:11 Dan Talk Sentry’s Voidblast

01:06:16 Jeremy Renner stated that he turned down season 2 of Hawkeye because they only wanted to give him half his S1 salary

01:06:52 John Malkovich: “Pay that man his money.”

01:07:03 Delroy Lindo: “Stop eating my sesame cake!”

01:07:56 Spike Jones’ Highest 2 Lowest trailer with Denzel Washington

01:09:07 Wednesday S2 Trailer

01:09:36 The Smashing Machine

01:10:56 I Know What You Did Last Summer

01:13:51 Fear Street: Prom Queen Trailer

01:14:47 Physical Media Showcase - One Cut of the Dead 4K Steelbook

01:15:47 Outro