Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying 2 items of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag "mcu".
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Spider-Man
July 27th, 2026 | 2 hrs 47 mins
comic book, comic books, comics, danny elfman, geek, kirsten dunst, marvel, mcu, sam raimi, spider man, spider-man, spiderman, stan lee, superhero, superheroes, tobey maguire, willem dafoe
Thwip! Our summer of Sam Raimi continues as we revisit Spider-Man's first outing with Toby Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, and Willem DaFoe bringing the storied web-slinger to high-flying death-defying action. Borrowing lessons learned from Darkman, Sam Raimi's vision for Peter Parker took Marvel's premiere teen crime fighter out of development hell and into franchise heaven. We're joined by podcaster Matt Storm aka Stormageddon ("Fun" and Games, Reignite) to revisit when Spider-Man's appearance truly was a brand new day.
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2000s Movies: Part 2
September 2nd, 2024 | 2 hrs 47 mins
00s, 2000, 2000s, apatow, batman, cinema, comedies, comedy, coraline, dark knight, disney, film, films, judd apatow, marvel, mcu, movie, movies, neil gaiman, pixar, scorcese, seth rogen, the dark knight
The second half of the 00s found Hollywood taking fewer big swings, but the ones that connected found an audience hungry for something bigger and better. Our review-crew of Ami Lief, Ryan Merlo, and Tania Newton are back to discuss their nostalgic cinematic memories of 2005 to 2009.