Returning from a hiatus to announce another hiatus. I lost my job and I've been struggling pretty badly mental health wise. I talk about the X-Men '97 finale, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Challengers, Furiosa, other stuff obviously but the first half is pretty raw and personal, so the time stamps allow you to skip it for the "good" stuff.

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00:00 intro & trigger warning
03:49 i lost my job
41:58 what i watched & read
01:15:05 q&a
01:39:27 outro

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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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On the mid-season finale of the pod before a short hiatus, I give my Joker: Folie a Deux trailer reaction, talk about OJ Simpson's death, recount Wrestlemania XL and Cody Rhodes' big hero arc, stroll through memory lane via back issues of Wizard Magazine, and then talk about Brad Meltzer's Identity Crisis, The Legion of Super-Heroes (Meltzer & Johns' Lightning Saga, Mark Waid's Threeboot Legion, and Brian Michael Bendis' recent efforts), as well as unpacking the insanity of Mark Millar's work on the Ultimate line over the years.

Let's dig in!

00:00 intro
04:05 news
20:03 wrestlemania
42:18 comics
01:05:55 q&a
01:12:06 outro

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"Posy Cut" - Dusty Decks

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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.

You can find him online here...
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This week on the pod, I talk about Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter's country controversy, CM Punk's interview with Ariel Helwani, Daniel Clowes' graphic novel Monica, Julia Garner's Silver Surfer casting in the new Fantastic Four movie and probably a lot of other stuff, tbh. Oh! And your questions!!

Let's dig in!

00:00 intro
12:16 some comics talk
25:52 some rasslin talk
50:21 some beyoncé talk
01:06:49 q&a
01:27:47 outro

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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.

You can find him online here...
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
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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

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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.

You can find him online here...
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
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Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

This week on the pod is light on movies (my third watch of Dune: Part Two, revisiting Michael Keaton in The Founder, Aaron Taylor Johnson's alleged Bond casting, the use of AI in Late Night with the Devil), but heavy on all the comics I've been reading, including Mark Waid and Dan Mora's World's finest, basically every comic Tom King has written in the last three years and revisiting the entire Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips oeuvre, from Criminal to Reckless and beyond. Also, we talk about my thoughts on and reaction to Disney's X-Men '97, and my thoughts on the modern state of superhero comics.

Let's dig in!

00:00 intro
06:18 the news
23:01 what i watched (and read!)
01:22:01 q&a
01:34:17 outro

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Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
"Shiny Spinners" - Dusty Decks

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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.

You can find him online here...
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

This week on the podcast, I talk about the TikTok ban, the fall out from the Academy Awards, The Batman II getting delayed, the J. Lo double feature This is Me...Now & The Greatest Love Story Never Told, my third watch of Oppenheimer, Drive Away Dolls, and as always, your questions!

00:00 intro
14:48 the news
34:45 what i watched
01:10:18 q&a
01:15:20 outro

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

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Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
"Dustified" - Dusty Decks

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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.

You can find him online here...
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

This week on the podcast, I talk about Dune: Part Two, the Dune phenomenon, Dune discourse, Dune, Dune, Dune, and more Dune. But in non-Dune content, I also talk about Aquaman 2, The Beekeeper, Past Lives, the awful Tyler Perry movie Mea Culpa, reviewing Kung Fu Panda 4, Wonka, and as always, your questions!

00:00 intro
02:30 the news / tiktok discourse
29:01 what i watched
51:04 dune part two spoiler discussion
01:17:40 q&a
01:24:30 outro

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

Kung Fu Panda 4 review for Looper: https://www.looper.com/1533490/kung-fu-panda-4-movie-review/

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Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
"Jazz Bars" - Dusty Decks

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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.

You can find him online here...
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

It's Dune 2 week, but we're talking Big Blue on the pod instead! James Gunn dropped the Legacy from his new Superman movie, so we talk about the chest emblem reveal and what the future of the DCU might become, as well as me reviewing True Detective: Night Country, talking about the Rebecca Ferguson workplace harassment whodunit, the trailer for Kevin Costner's 12 hour western Horizon: An American Saga, Metal Gear Solid and your questions!

00:00 intro
10:47 the news
36:44 what i watched
55:45 q&a
01:18:37 outro

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Keep up with my print and web reviews:
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Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
"Muddy Milk Crates" - Dusty Decks

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Keep up on my current watches: https://letterboxd.com/capnmagik/films/diary/

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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.

You can find him online here...
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom