Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Tony Black, 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, Joe and Anthony Russo’s Avengers: Endgame.
At time of recording, it was ranked 6th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Notes:
- Recorded 29th April 2019.
- Avengers: Endgame at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Read Tony’s review of Endgame at The Cultural Conversation.
- Ben Affleck discusses his “humiliating” experiences on Daredevil with Digital Spy.
- Shauna Fox at The College Tribune on spending a decade with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Emily Asher-Perrin at Tor on growing up within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Joe Maceda at Medium on how the coinciding ends of the Avengers saga and Game of Thrones represent a seismic shift in the monoculture.
- Todd VanDerWerff at Vox on the culmination of the Avengers franchise and Game of Thrones as a season finale of geek culture.
- The Guardian reports on the Russo Brothers’ appeal “don’t spoil the endgame.”
- Michael Nordine at IndieWire reports on the beating of a man overheard discussing the plot of Endgame.
- Natalie Musumeci at The New York Post on reports of a man who beat his co-worker for revealing an Endgame spoiler.
- Nicole Drum at comicbook.com on the use of the Hulk as a misdirect in the Infinity War trailer.
- Ana Dumaraog at Screenrant on the use of fake scenes in Endgame marketing to distract fans.
- Don Cheadle talks to Entertainment Weekly about how Endgame kept its secrets even from its cast.
- Brie Larson talks to IndieWire about shooting her Endgame scenes before Captain Marvel.
- Michael Kennedy at Screenrant on how Robert Downey Junior was the only cast member to read the entire Endgame script.
- Darren discusses spoiler culture.
- Todd VanDerWerff at Vox wonders how spoiler culture has changed the way that we talk about and process entertainment.
- Donald Clarke at The Irish Times discusses the melodrama around Endgame spoilers.
- Nicole Silverberg watches Infinity War on Twitter without any context.
- Matt Zoller Seitz at RogerEbert.com on “the content endgame.”
- Joanna Robinson at Vanity Fair on whether the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the biggest television show in the world.
- Maya Phillips at The New Yorker on the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a bold cinematic experiment.
- Greg Evans at The Independent on the controversy around the first gay character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Huw Fullerton at The Radio Times on the Doctor Who reference within Endgame.
- Anthony Breznican at Entertainment Weekly on the use of Natalie Portman in Endgame.
- David James at We Got This Covered on reshoots to add more Black Panther to Endgame.
- Hunter Harris navigates the byzantine end credits of Endgame at Vulture.
- Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely talk to The New York Times about writing Endgame.
- Angie Han at Mashable on the challenges of incorporating Captain Marvel into Endgame.
- Read Darren’s review of Endgame.
- Read Darren’s discussion of The Avengers as a romantic depiction of the superhero power fantasy.
- Read Darren’s discussion of the reproductive horror and cynical nihilism of Age of Ultron and Infinity War.
- Read Darren’s discussion of the bleak power fantasies of Infinity War and Endgame.
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the m0vie blog 
Yeah….disappointed mostly. Lots of interesting points and counter points but no discussion around the action beats. *Sigh!
Sorry! To be fair, the discussion went on long enough, and we were all in work the following morning.