The MCU has spent the last few years looking for its next big idea, and Thunderbolts* goes looking among the leftovers. Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, John Walker and Taskmaster — a team of B-listers, washouts and people Marvel forgot it had — are thrown together in a film that turns out to be about depression, loneliness and showing up for one another. We talk Florence Pugh, the Void, and that asterisk.

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The Kulturecast is a film and culture podcast from Weirding Way Media, hosted by Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, alongside a rotating table of guest co-hosts. Each week digs into where film and culture meet — and how each one bends the other. Now home to sub-feeds including Required Viewing: A 360° Film Study with Dr. David D. Perlmutter.

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