Marvel Movie Minute

Before a single bullet flies, Pete and Kyle do the thing every MCU completist eventually does: catalog the entire Greendale-to-Marvel pipeline (the Russos hire Community alumni the way other people accumulate airline...

HYDRA's solution to a malfunctioning super-assassin turns out to be the exact advice your IT department gives you: have you tried turning it off and on again? Bucky gets the phantom-of-the-opera headgear, a brain-wipe...

Minutes 86–90 open on Steve Rogers doing the thing Steve Rogers does best: shouldering the blame for a man who fell two hundred feet off a moving train, as though he simply should have reached a little further. Natasha...

Minutes 81 through 85 are, by Pete's official measurement, the single shieldiest stretch in the entire Captain America catalogue — the rare sequence where the shield gets used as an actual shield rather than a vibranium...

This week the movie stops to explain itself, and honestly? It’s the best villain-monologue real estate Hydra ever bought. Dangling off a rooftop, Jasper Sitwell coughs up the whole plan: an algorithm that reads your...

The minute starts with the closest thing this franchise allows to a tender moment: two of its deadliest people sitting in a stairwell, almost being honest with each other. It is beautifully staged, genuinely vulnerable...

Welcome to the part of the movie where exposition stops being polite and starts being a montage. This week, Pete and Kyle pick up mid-Zola — that floating square head still trapped in his beige basement screensaver — as...

This week, Steve and Natasha take a working vacation to a defunct New Jersey SHIELD base, which — and you'll be shocked to hear this — turns out to have a giant secret elevator behind a bookcase. They descend into a...

<p>Two of America's most wanted fugitives walk into an Apple Store, plug a stolen flash drive into a display MacBook, and run a SHIELD trace program from the showroom floor while a microdosed Genius Bar employee named...

<p>Minutes 51 through 55 are where The Winter Soldier stops pretending to be a superhero film and fully commits to being a paranoid 70s thriller wearing a star-spangled hoodie. Pete, Matthew, and Rob walk through the...

<p>Alexander Pierce is having a terrible Tuesday. He's just murdered his best government contact, his secret world-domination plan is humming along nicely, and now he has to stand in his own office and have a...

<p>Minutes 41 through 45 open on the aftermath of Fury's death, and it turns out "aftermath" means very different things depending on who you are. Maria Hill instructs Steve to hand over the body — which, yes, she is...

<p>In this episode, Matthew, Pete, Kyle, and Rob dig into minutes 36 through 40 of Captain America: The Winter Soldier — a stretch of film that begins with Nick Fury executing the world's least effective covert...

<p>At some point you have to admire the ambition. Nick Fury, director of SHIELD and one of the most powerful intelligence operatives on the planet, decides his best option in the middle of a heavily armed ambush is to...

<p>The MCU is not, as a rule, interested in parking lots. Minutes 26–30 of Captain America: The Winter Soldier are. In one, a veteran named Garcia describes what it felt like to swerve away from a bag she thought was an...