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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and with special guest Graham Day, 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, David Leitch’s Deadpool 2.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 183rd best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Notes:

• Recorded 23rd May 2018.
• Deadpool 2 at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Read Graham’s reviews at Scannain.
• Hear Graham on Speaking Geek.
• Read Graham’s guide to Irish Gaming at Gameir.
• Follow Graham on Twitter.
• Adam Chitwood at Collider talks to David Leitch about how the big celebrity cameos came about.
• Matt Chitwood at Collider talks to David Leitch about how the big superhero cameos came about.
• Charles Pulliam-Moore at io9 criticises the idea of the X-Men as a metaphor for race.
• Jacob Oller at SyFy Wire on GLAAD’s approval of the LGBTQ elements of Deadpool 2.
• Dan Schindel at Vox on the surprisingly progressive politics of Deadpool 2.
• Emily Asher-Perrin at Tor on the queer subtext of Deadpool’s character in Deadpool 2.
• Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talk to Vulture about Deadpool 2‘s handling of its female characters.
• Gail Simone discusses the history and origin of the term “fridging” with ComicsAlliance.
• Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talk about the “canonicity” of the film’s closing credits sequence with Comic Book Resources.
• Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick discuss the aborted end credits gag involving baby Hitler with Yahoo.com.
• David Leitch discusses Deadpool 2‘s extended X-Force joke with /Film.
• Terry Crews talks to Business Insider about filming fake scenes for the trailer in order to preserve the X-Force gag.
• Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talk to Uproxx about possibly having Chris Evans’ Human Torch audition for X-Force.
• Rob Liefeld talks to Inverse about the “can’t draw feet” joke at his expense.
• Spike Lee directs a Levi’s commercial starring Rob Liefeld.
• Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick discuss Ryan Reynolds’ performance as Juggernaut with Polygon.
• Tyler Bates discusses the Deadpool 2 soundtrack, including the lyrics to You Can’t Stop This Motherf$%ker, with Billboard.
• Dave Buesing at Comic Book Resources on the absurdity of Cable’s family tree.
• Steve Foxe at Paste Magazine discusses the legacy of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men.
• Shea Hennum, Oliver Sava, Caitlin Rosberg and Tegan O’Neil discuss Milligan and Mike Allred’s X-Force at The A.V. Club.
• Read Darren’s review of Deadpool 2.
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