This week on the pod, we're talking about Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, The Rock making Cody Rhodes bleed ahead of Wrestlemania XL, the new episode of X-Men '97, and digging more into the big comic book catch up, jumping from DC (Phillip Kennedy Johnson's run on Action Comics and Paul Dini and Alan Burnett's Batman: The Adventures Continue) back over to Marvel (finishing Jonathan Hickman's part of the Krakoa X-Men work, Kieron Gillen and Al Ewing's work on Immortal X-Men and X-Men Red, respectively.)

Let's dig in!

00:00 intro
20:02 what i watched
43:19 what i read
01:12:48 q&a
01:17:56 outro

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Review: https://www.looper.com/1550107/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire-movie-review/
Godzilla vs Kong Review: Godzilla vs Kong (Movie Review)

One X-Cellent Scene: X-Men #7 ("The Crucible"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z10EdJL1XV8

TRIPLE BEAM STREAMS REUNION EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W3EhnnjX70

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The Armchair Auteur is an ongoing video project from film critic Dom Griffin. Every week, there will be new reviews, retrospectives, rants and video essays about film and film-adjacent pop culture.

Dom Griffin is a freelance film critic, pop cultural polymath and an obsessive lover of storytelling. His work has been published on Looper, SyFy.com, Birth.Movies.Death, DCist, The Baltimore Beat, Spectrum Culture, and VultureHound UK. He's a former member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critic.

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