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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, to mark the release of Captain Marvel, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy.

Stealing a mysterious orb from a dead world, Peter Quill become embroiled in a high-stakes plot with galactic repercussions. As time runs out and the threat rises, Quill finds himself forced to assemble a ragtag band of misfits because the galaxy isn’t going to save itself. Among that team, Quill finds the deadliest woman in the galaxy, a literal-minded killing machine, a bounty-hunting raccoon and his “personal house plant slash muscle.” Separately, they are a bunch of failures. Together, they are the Guardians of the Galaxy.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 248th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Notes:

• Recorded 10th February 2019.
• Note: Darren accidentally misidentifies Chris Pratt as a Catholic; he meant to say Christian. Pratt is a member of the Hillsong Church. The episode was also recorded before Ellen Page’s statements about Hillsong.
• Note: At one point Andrew challenges Darren to name the Infinity Stone that is contained within the orb in Guardians of the Galaxy. Darren cannot answer. It is the power stone.
• Guardians of the Galaxy at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Ben Kaye at Consequence of Sound marks the passing of Oreo the Raccoon, February 2019.
• Beatrice Verhoeven at The Wrap on the life and times of Oreo the Raccoon, February 2019.
• Nicole Perlman talks to Script Magazine about developing Guardians of the Galaxy as a project, August 2014.
• Andrew Wheeler at Comics Alliance offers an introduction to the Guardians of the Galaxy, March 2013.
• James Gunn talks to Fast Company about his unlikely path to blockbuster director status, August 2014.
• Simon Brew at Den of Geek on the new trajectory that takes indie directors from the margins to the mainstream, June 2014.
• Josh Rosenblatt at The Austin Chronicle discusses Poultrygeist, December 2007.
• Edgar Wright talks to IndieWire about leaving Ant Man, June 2017.
• Emma Dibdin at Digital Spy on whether Marvel Studios has a director problem, August 2015.
• Ava DuVernay talks to Screenrant about turning down the opportunity to direct Black Panther, July 2015.
• Graeme McMillan at The Hollywood Reporter on the question of how important directors are to marvel movies, November 2016.
• Ellen Killoran at International Business Times on the controversy around the WGA arbitration between Nicole Perlman and James Gunn, August 2014.
• John Mulaney’s Kid Gorgeous, May 2018.
• Seb Patrick at The Guardian on the targetting of James Gunn by alt-right trolls, August 2018.
• Borys Kit and Aaron Couch at The Hollywood Reporter on Disney’s decision to fire James Gunn following the publicisation of his old tweets, July 2018.
• Jake Nevins at The Guardian on the open letter from the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy defending James Gunn, July 2018.
• Dave Bautista talks to Comic Book Resources about his defense of James Gunn, February 2019.
• Mathew Silver at Vulture reports on a recent discussion around so-called “Cancel Culture”, March 2019.
• Seth Abramovitch at The Hollywood Reporter on James Gunn’s earliest apologies for his remarks, November 2012.
• David French at National Review on the differences between James Gunn and Roseanne Barr, July 2018.
• Megh Wright at Vulture tries to find Kevin Hart’s much-cited apologies, January 2019.
• Madeleine Aggeler at The Cut on the question of whether Louis C.K.’s apology was enough, November 2017.
• Erin Durkin at The Guardian on Louis C.K.’s post-apology reactionary stand-up, December 2018.
• Callum Borchers at The Washington Post on the possibility of a “liberal double standard” with Harvey Weinstein, October 2017.
• Rose McGowan accuses Meryl Streep of being complicit in protecting Harvey Weinstein in IndieWire, October 2018.
• Natalie Portman admits to Vanity Fair that she regrets signing the letter defending Roman Polanski, February 2018.
• Adam Gabbatt in The Guardian on the controversies enveloping Democrats in Virginia, February 2019.
• Matt Seaton at The New York Review of Books on the anti-semitism in the British Labour party, August 2018.
• Yohana Desta at Vanity Fair on Woody Allen’s lawsuit against Amazon, February 2019.
• David Cox at The Guardian on the branding of “Marvel’s Avengers Assemble” in the United Kingdom, April 2012.
• Darren on the uniquely modern dynamic of Mulder and Scully.
• William Frey at the Brookings Institution on the reality that the United States will soon become a “minority white” nation, March 2018.
• Mike Symonds at Birth. Movies. Death on the skillful comedy of Guardians of the Galaxy, August 2014.
• Rob Harvilla at The Ringer on the unified theory of Bradley Cooper, October 2018.
• Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon, November 2014.
• Eliza Berman at Time reports on Vin Diesel saying “I Am Groot” in fifteen different languages, November 2014.
• Kyle Buchanan at Vulture on why Hollywood so often buries dark-skinned actors beneath colourful make-up, April 2016.
• Zoe Saldana talks about her difficulty getting non-space-based roles with The Independent, April 2017.
• Dave Bautista talks to Wired about how he broke out from wrestling to acting, July 2014.
• Aly Weisman at Business Insider on Chris Pratt’s incredible physical transformation for Guardians of the Galaxy, August 2014.
• Hugh Armitage at Digital Spy on Marvel’s villain problem, October 2017.
• Stephen Kearse at The Ringer argues in defense of Marvel’s use of the infinity stones as a macguffin, May 2018.
• Raisa Bruner at Time on Mark Wahlberg’s insane schedule, September 2018.
• Todd VanDerWerff at Vox on superhero cinema as a constant attempt to rewrite 9/11, September 2016.
• Erik Sofge at Popular Mechanics asks what space ships should actually look like, September 2012.
• David Cross talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, April 2018.
• Joanna Robinson at Vanity Fair on nostalgia in Guardians of the Galaxy, August 2014.
• Adam Smith at Bleeding Cool on what Guardians of the Galaxy says about nostalgia, August 2014.
• Darren on trauma and metaphor in Guardians of the Galaxy, March 2019.
• Darren on the ubiquity of “family” as a theme in contemporary pop culture, March 2019.
• Darren’s review of Captain Marvel, March 2019.
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