Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, This Just In is a subset of The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Taiki Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok.
Notes:
- Recorded 11th November 2017.
- Andrew and Darren run through their own answers to the questions from The 250 Anniversary Special 2017.
- Thor: Ragnarok at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Rose Moore at Screenrant on the reason for Thor’s new haircut in Thor: Ragnarok.
- Matt Wood at CinemaBlend on the change of location of the destruction of Thor’s hammer in Thor: Ragnarok.
- Alex Abad-Santos at Vox on Marvel’s villain problem.
- Emma Dibbin at Digital Spy on Marvel Studios’ directors problem.
- Kyle Buchanan at Vulture on the Oscars’ lack of love for Marvel Studios.
- David Sims at The Atlantic on whether making a Marvel Studios movie is good for directors.
- Taiki Waititi talks to Deadline about why he made Thor: Ragnarok.
- Taiki Waititi talks to The Verge about fostering an improvisational approach on Thor: Ragnarok.
- Jake Morrison talks to The Verge about tailoring the production design on Thor: Ragnarok to Waititi’s improvisational approach.
- Taiki Waititi talks to Vulture about how he made Thor: Ragnarok so funny.
- Taiki Waititi talks to The Washington Post about the creative freedom that he was afforded by Marvel Studios.
- Dan Kois profiles Taiki Waititi for The New York Times.
- Darren on the postcolonial politics of the Thor trilogy, culminating in Thor: Ragnarok.
- Taika Waititi talks to Screen Australia about saturating Thor: Ragnarok with aborigine imagery.
- James Whitbrook at io9 on Valkyrie’s invisible sexuality.
- Jeff Goldblum discusses filming Thor: Ragnarok with Entertainment Weekly.
- Jeff Goldblum compliments his Thor: Ragnarok co-stars to Vulture.
- Kevin Feige explains how Matt Damon’s cameo came together to Collider.
- Mark Ruffalo explains to Polygon why there cannot be a Hulk solo movie.
- Dan Hennah talks to Marvel about the design influence of Jack Kirby on Thor: Ragnarok.
- Derek Thompson at The Atlantic on the chilling prospect of a Disney-Fox merger.
- David Sims at The Atlantic on what the Disney-Fox merger says about modern film culture.
- Julia Alexander at Polygon on how the potential Disney-Fox merger has little to do with X-Men.
- Daniel Miller at The Los Angeles Times on Disney’s dealings in Anaheim.
- Matthew Dessem at Slate on Disney’s blacklisting of The Los Angeles Times.
- Jason Bailey at The Village Voice on the implications of Disney’s blackout of The Los Angeles Times.
- Darren’s review of Thor: Ragnorak.
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