Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and with special guests Graham Day and Deirdre Molumby, 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, Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Sixteen months into his career as Brooklyn’s one-and-only Spider-Man, teenager Miles Morales is reunited with his old friend from another universe, Gwen Stacy. However, Gwen brings word of a team of multiversal spider-people headed by the mysterious Miguel O’Hara. Miles quickly discovers that things are not as he expects, and that membership of this team may come at too high a price.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 19th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 8th June 2023.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- Kayleigh Donaldson at The Daily Beast argues for Chris Pine as “the best Chris”, April 2023.
- Planet Money at NPR considers “the Spider-Man problem” facing Sony and Marvel, January 2022.
- Michael A. Hiltzik at The Lost Angeles Times reports on how Sony ended up with the cinematic rights to the character of Spider-Man, March 1999.
- Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline dives into the argument between Sony and Disney over the cinematic future of the Spider-Man franchise, August 2019.
- Scott Campbell at Collider announces the end of “the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters”, August 2021.
- Jim Vejvoda at IGN reports on the development of Kraven, April 2023.
- Jackson McHenry at Vulture considers the “exclusively gay moment” in Beauty and the Beast, March 2017.
- Emily Heller at Polygon considers the limitations of Disney’s approach to representation on screen, March 2020.
- Anthony D’Alessandro at Deadline reports on the box office success of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, June 2023.
- David Crow at Den of Geek reports on the popularity of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with audiences, June 2023.
- Rahul Malhotra at Collider reports on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse becoming the highest-rated movie on Letterboxd, June 2023.
- Ben Wasserman at Comic Book Resources reports on the length of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, May 2023.
- Phil Lord and Chris Miller talk to Screen Daily about pushing the boundaries of animation in The Mitchells vs. The Machines, January 2022.
- Nabeel Gaber at Comic Book Resources looks at how J. Michael Straczynski reinvented the mythology of Spider-Man with the Spider-Totem, January 2021.
- Zack Sharf and Ramin Setoodeh at Variety report on the standing ovation that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny received at Canne, May 2023.
- Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson talk to Animation Magazine about directing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, May 2023.
- Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson talk to Variety about directing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, June 2023.
- Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson talk to Collider about directing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, June 2023.
- Hailee Steinfeld talks to The Hollywood Reporter about whether she has begun recording her dialogue for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, June 2023.
- David Chen at Decoding Everything considers “the summer of half movies”, with Fast X, Across the Spider-Verse and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, June 2023.
- Emily St. James at Vox considers the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a very expensive television show, May 2016.
- Patrick Willems at YouTube discusses the drab colour corrected Marvel Cinematic Universe, November 2016.
- Gita Jackson at Vice considers the homogeny of so much modern mainstream pop culture, August 2022.
- The production team working on Into the Spider-Verse discuss their comic book influences, March 2019.
- Tracy Brown at The Los Angeles Times considers the portrayal of Gwen Stacy in the Spider-Verse movies, June 2023.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers why Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has had a huge impact on animation, but not a huge impact on comic book movies, June 2023.
- Victor LaValle at The New York Times writers about the importance of Miles Morales as a comic book character, February 2019.
- Sam Sanders adn Kenya Young at NPR consider “the talk” as a fact of life for a lot of minority parents, June 2020.
- Mey Rude at Out magazine considers Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as a trans character, June 2023.
- Jacqueline Alemany at The Washington Post considers the rallying cry of “defund the police”, June 2020.
- Melissa Gomez at The Los Angeles Times considers the young protestors supporting the “defund the police” movement, April 2021.
- Tonya Mosley at Serena McMahon at WBUR consider the increased militarisation of police forces in the United States, September 2021.
- Sarah Isgur at Politico considers how hard it is to amend the American constitution, January 2022.
- Adam Gabbatt, Mark Townsend and Lisa O’Carroll at The Guardian consider the growth and spread of the “Occupy” protests, October 2011.
- Tina Nguyen at Politico considers the Seattle Autonomous Zone, declared by young protestors, June 2020.
- Owen Jones at The Guardian considers how many millennials have come to question capitalism, September 2021.
- Marie Solis at Vice considers Gen Z embracing socialism, May 2020.
- Charles Pullam-Moore at The Verge writes about how Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse calls out a fandom that won’t accept Miles Morales, June 2023.
- Alex Alonso talks to NPR about the introduction of Miles Morales, August 2011.
- Phil Lord and Chris Miller talk to Entertainment Weekly about Oscar Isaac’s condition for playing Miguel O’Hara, December 2021.
- Darren Mooney talks at The Escapist about the militarisation of superheroes during the War on Terror, November 2022.
- Richard Newby at The Hollywood Reporter considers the depiction of superheroes as law enforcement officers and soldiers, June 2020.
- Glen Weldon at Slate considers the history of superheroes as queer metaphors, April 2016.
- Donna Britt at The Washington Post reports on parental outrage over the sex and violence in Batman Returns, June 1992.
- Tom Chapman at Geeks on how McDonalds’ discomfort with Batman Returns led to Batman Forever, 2017.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist on the moral panic and straightwashing of Batman Forever, July 2020.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog on the refreshing queerness of Batman and Robin, September 2020.
- Uma Thurman talks to The Huffington Post about the backlash against the “camp” quality of Batman and Robin, March 2014.
- Abraham Josephine Riesman at Vulture considers the cooption of the iconography of the Punisher by American law enforcement, June 2020.
- Marco Vito Oddo at Collider argues over the controversy of declaring “Batman is a fascist”, April 2023.
- Method Man talks to Forbes about his abiding love for Marvel comics, December 2020.
- Kieron Byatt at DJ Booth considers how superhero comics and hip-hop culture overlap, April 2019.
- Christopher T. Fan at The New Inquiry considers the contested relationship between nerdom and minorities, November 2014.
- Joaquim Dos Santos talks to Collider about the process of casting Daniel Kaluuya in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, June 2023.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw at The Daily Dot considers the animation of Spider-Punk in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, June 2023.
- Joe Roberts at /film considers how long it took to animate Spider-Punk in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, June 2023.
- James Greig at Dazed Digital considers the infantalisation of pop culture, March 2023.
- Savannah Salazar at Vulture considers Donald Glover’s cameo in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, June 2023.
- Phil Lord and Chris Miller talk to Rolling Stone about the logistics of making Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, June 2023.
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