My June-July Viewing Notes is finally here! Feat. capsules on The Furious, River’s Edge, Satantango, Scary Movie, Stop! That! Train!, Disclosure Day, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (more incoming), Adolescence of Utena, Evil Dead Burn, Tony, The Odyssey, and Hadestown.i

Nicole's Viewing Notes: June-July

Featuring capsules on The Furious, River's Edge, Satantango, Scary Movie, Disclosure Day, Stop! That! Train!, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (kind of), Adolescence of Utena, Evil Dead Burn, Tony...

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I consider it a deep moral failing that it took us four years to do an episode on an Anno movie, please forgive me.

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · 3d ago

Over on the Patreon this week, we’re finally talking tokusatsu AND Hideaki Anno! About goddamn time! SHIN KAMEN RIDER

Just double checked and Cole’s claim about Blue Beetle’s popularity merited at least four hours of heated discussion in the group chat almost a year ago.

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · 7d ago

We’re joined by filmmaker Chris Bell to talk about Blue Beetle, easily the best euthanasia-period DCEU movie and one I am told is about a guy who is more popular than Iron Man if you’re going by children’s merchandise. LINK BELOW ⬇️🇲🇽🪲

I need Best Actor nominee Robert Pattinson so bad please please please pretty please!!!

Pop Base@popbase.tv · last wk.

Robert Pattinson stars as pedophile hunter Chris Hansen in ‘PRIMETIME’. A new trailer releases tomorrow.

@kuntsuragi.bsky.social welcomes Nicolas Winding Refn's #HerPrivateHell in all its somnambulistic glory. This baffling, vibe‑driven film trades narrative for fetish—and asks whether you still care what the critics think. artsfuse.org/332409/film-...

Film Review: "Her Private Hell" - A Rorschach Test in Neon and Leather - The Arts Fuse

Nicolas Winding Refn’s baffling, vibe‑driven film trades narrative for fetish—and asks whether you still care what the critics think.

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Anyone fuck with The Baby?

Skill issue if you got filtered. My defense is up over on @theartsfuse.bsky.social artsfuse.org/332409/film-...

Film Review: "Her Private Hell" - A Rorschach Test in Neon and Leather - The Arts Fuse

Nicolas Winding Refn’s baffling, vibe‑driven film trades narrative for fetish—and asks whether you still care what the critics think.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto@kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Review to come, but so many people got filtered by Her Private Hell because they made the mistake of interpreting it as a literal narrative and not as an aesthetized, psychosexual dreamscape of a character’s rampant daddy issues. You’re not getting Drive-era Refn back. Here’s The Leather Man!

Review to come, but so many people got filtered by Her Private Hell because they made the mistake of interpreting it as a literal narrative and not as an aesthetized, psychosexual dreamscape of a character’s rampant daddy issues. You’re not getting Drive-era Refn back. Here’s The Leather Man!

Perfectly fine but a tad overrated I must say. “Animation is cinema” crowd is not sending their best.

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · 3w ago

Coming Thursday, it’s time to talk about a canon event (Phil Lord driving 100+ animators to quit for a movie whose second half was supposed to come out several years ago). SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

Whether you like the film or not, The Odyssey is a resounding success for Performative Male Reading. The only way that we’re undoing the literacy crisis is when every Adult male is carrying at least 2 soon to be a major motion picture novels around in their degendered canvas tote purse

Not a Nolan completionist or huge fan by any means, and I will be rewatching Oppenheimer on a few weeks for the pod, but my first impressions of The Odyssey are that it’s my favorite effort from him. Exceeded my expectations by really surprising me. boxd.it/fhpiIX

A ★★★★½ review of The Odyssey (2026)

This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

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Lindsay Graham: [dead and taking backshots from demons in hell] Me: [alive and petting rabbits]

Diesel has a long history of carny hucksterism on social media, which you can learn all about by listening to our just-completed Fast and Furious retrospective series: www.patreon.com/collection/2...

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Film Stories@filmstories.bsky.social · last mo.

A clip shared by Vin Diesel heavily implied that Fast Forever had gone into production; instead, he was recording an advert for the World Cup. filmstories.co.uk/news/fast-fo...

Buckle up fam.

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · last mo.

Our long journey through the Fast and Furious series is now complete! Exclusively on Patreon, part 3 of our series retrospective is now live, covering films 7, 8, 9. And on the main feed, we return to 2023 with our discussion of the disappointing penultimate entry: Fast X. 👇👇Links Below👇👇

Embargo’s up on Evil Dead Burn, which has a much bigger problem than overly gray and underlit cinematography. boxd.it/f89jPn

A ★½ review of Evil Dead Burn (2026)

You know Sébastien Vaniček, I never considered what an Evil Dead movie about domestic violence would look like. Thank you for introducing this subject matter to a horror franchise as well known for it...

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Vroom vroom.

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · last mo.

Part two of our Fast and Furious retrospective is now live! In which we cover films 4, 5, and 6, the soft rebooting of the series under the directorship of Justin Lin, it's ascendancy to mega-franchise status, and the highs and lows along the way. www.patreon.com/marvelousdea...

Immediately reached for the hard drugs when whatever the fuck this was ended to cope.

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · last mo.

This week on Marvelous!, the people’s franchise finally succumbs to the Marvel Method, and no amount of NOS-fueled car hijinks can save it. Forget about it cuh, this shit blows. FAST X

I said grab the headboard cuh

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · last mo.

For the entire run of the podcast so far, we've (regrettably) ignored one of the largest film franchises of our time. Now we're rectifying that oversight by hitting the Nitro and speed-running the entire 'Fast and Furious' franchise. Part 1 is now live on Patreon! www.patreon.com/marvelousdea...

Parts 2 and 3 on movies 4-9 coming soon!

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · last mo.

For the entire run of the podcast so far, we've (regrettably) ignored one of the largest film franchises of our time. Now we're rectifying that oversight by hitting the Nitro and speed-running the entire 'Fast and Furious' franchise. Part 1 is now live on Patreon! www.patreon.com/marvelousdea...

Rewatched Hackers last night for the first time in like 15 years and was happy to find that I misremembered Dade’s courtship of Kate being a misogynistic Gen X male fantasy when it’s actually computer-assisted foreplay between two really hot people.

I’m gonna miss my gross gay dads. 😢

The Arts Fuse@theartsfuse.bsky.social · last mo.

For @kuntsuragi.bsky.social, #JackassBestAndLast” is a ragged farewell that mixes new stunts with archival scraps as #johnnyknoxville and his merry band of masochists age out of self-destruction. artsfuse.org/330979/film-...

I liked this one well enough if only because I am at a strange place in my life where people being needless cruel to CGI animals makes me very sad. Also getting fired was probably the best thing to happen to James Gunn in hindsight.

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · 2mo ago

We did it. We found every family. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Link below ⬇️🎧🦝🚀

After a very long delay, my May edition of Viewing Notes is up on Substack, with capsules on Normal, Buffet Infinity, Backrooms, The Sheep Detectives, some complaints about Saccharine, and a long-winded rundown on Obsession and why I'm sick of Discourse. nicoleveneto.substack.com/p/nicoles-vi...

Nicole's Viewing Notes: May

What I watched (and podcasted about) this month

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I liked The Bride! more than Disclosure Day.

Formally coming out on this episode as one of those women driven psychosexually insane by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol.

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · 2mo ago

Now live on the Patreon, Ben and Jordano of @remembershufffle.bsky.social join us for a very Canadian conversation about Matt Johnson's Blackberry. We had a lot of fun on this one, and you're going to learn a lot about Canada. Links Below 👇

There’s nobody comparable to David Lynch, even if many new filmmakers are beautifully carrying on his legacy. That hole in my heart will never be filled. But I do exist while Jane Schoenbrun makes movies and that means a whole lot.

Further testament to the genius of Jane Shoenbrun: there’s an incredibly gory, hilarious, and beautifully executed oner in Camp Miasma set to a song nobody would have thought to use in a million fucking years.

This week on the Marvelous! Patreon, Matt Johnson saves me :)

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema@marvelousdeath.com · 2mo ago

Specifically this. [Original post by Stu]

OOC cameo appearances featured in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma