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Given the stakes involved with any Star Wars movie, it's not surprising that conversation regarding Solo: A Star Wars Story seemed to skip right over the movie itself and immediately spark debates about its quality and box office numbers. The tumultuous production history and prolonged casting process for the next Han Solo certainly put audiences on the defense, but is Solo: A Star Wars Story a franchise-killing dud or a cult classic in the making?

Despite a strong, strong run by Avengers: Infinity War, it seemed inevitable that Deadpool 2 would jump to the top of the box office in its opening weekend. This was, after all, a sequel to one of the most surprising summer hits of the last few years. But success brings with it higher expectations, and nobody was really sure if Deadpool 2 could maintain the momentum of its predecessor, least of all our podcast stars.

There are big movies, there are big movies, and then there is Avengers: Infinity War, the culmination of nearly ten years of Marvel continuity and superhero stories. This week on After the Credits, Matthew Monagle and film-critic-slash-film-editor Amon Warmann discuss the biggest movie in a franchise of big movies. Did our favorites make it out alive? You'll have to listen to find out.

It takes a perfect confluence of events for Hollywood to release a Steven Spielberg movie that most people are only kinda excited to see, but that's exactly the case with Ready Player One. In this week's episode of the After the Credits podcast, Matthew Monagle and Cinapse co-founder Ed Travis break down Spielberg's latest special effects extravaganza. Does Spielberg still have that ever-magical it?

This week on After the Credits, Matthew and guest Karen Han talk culture criticism and the greatness of Ava DuVernay.

Think you've got what it takes to talk Alex Garland and hard sci-fi? Then step into the Shimmer with freelance film critic Kristen Lopez! This week on After the Credits, Matthew and Kristen talk about Alex Garland's oft-discussed Kubrickian nightmare, Annihilation. Does the movie live up to the books? Will audiences ever learn to fully appreciate Jennifer Jason Leigh? And why, exactly, is Gina Rodriguez's side-cut the solution to world peace?

It's the movie we've all been waiting for: this week on After the Credits, Matthew is joined by freelance journalist Monica Castillo to talk Black Panther, Marvel, and the importance of Hollywood representation. Does Black Panther live up to the heaps of praise being set upon it? Which of the new additions to the Marvel Universe is the best? And why is the answer to that previous question obviously Letitia Wright's Shuri? Because it is.

This week on After the Credits, Matthew is joined by Mashable author Angie Han to discuss Fifty Shades Freed, the third and final installment of the Fifty Shades trilogy. Will Anastasia and Christian get their happily ever after? Will jealousy and possessiveness tear the two of them apart? Hell, will they have even the most rudimentary pre-marriage conversations about children and last names? SPOILER ALERT: the answers are yes, no, and no, respectively.

This week on After the Credits, Matthew is joined by freelance film critic Alisha Grauso to discuss Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the third and final installment of the Maze Runner trilogy. And while we don't want to spoil everything that happens, let's just say that between the first and second parts of this week's episode, the Maze Runner fanbase added one new member.

This week on After the Credits, Matthew is joined by Female Film Critics host Diana Drumm to discuss Den of Thieves and all things Gerard Butler. We know the movie is pure cheese, but it is at least classy cheese, like a block of finely aged manchego, or garbage cheese, like those gross yellow balls covered in crackers you find at the grocery store? Guess you'll have to listen to find out.

Hello From Sundance: Cage, Crime, and Awkward Road Trips by Film School Rejects

This week on After the Credits, Matthew is joined by Vanity Fair critic Emma Stefansky to discuss Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the direction of the new Star Wars trilogy as a whole. Also, hear Matthew and Emma's bold predictions for the new movie; they both turned out to be wrong, but you have to admit, the logic behind them was sound! Don't forget to subscribe and review our show on Apple Podcasts!

This week on After the Credits, Matthew is joined by Film School Rejects critic William Dass to discuss The Shape of Water and Guillermo del Toro's body of work as a whole. Learn why our two critics love them some Michael Stuhlbarg and describe the film as not-unlike Pushing Daisies in the Upside Down. Follow host Matthew Monagle (@labsplice) and guest William Dass (@WBDass) on Twitter, and don’t forget to subscribe to One Perfect Pod wherever you get your podcasts (AND leave us a rating or...

This week on After the Credits, Matthew is joined by Film School Rejects critic Rob Hunter to discuss The Room and the ethos of watching bad movies.

This week on After the Credits, Matthew is joined by /Film critic Karen Han - officially one-half of Film Twitter's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice fan club - to discuss Justice League and the future of the DC Extended Universe.

This week on After the Credits, Matthew is joined by Paste critic Kyle Turner to discuss Murder on the Orient Express and all things Agatha Christie.

With Matthew on vacation, Neil Miller sits in the hosts chair and is joined by High and Outside's Theo Broxson to talk about Taika Waititi's electric superhero extravaganza, Thor: Ragnarok.

This week, Matthew welcomes Diana Drumm, critic and creator of the @FemaleCritics Twitter community, to talk about Gerard Butler in space! Also known as Geostorm, a film about a future in which someone does something very sci-fi about climate change. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter (@OnePerfectPod) and support our sponsor, VideoBlocks. Need easy to use stock video? Go to videoblocks.com/rejects to download all the stock video your heart desires.

Evan Dickson's Totem is the first feature length screenplay he's seen produced, and he's brought three pages of the screenplay with him for us to analyze on the show. The horror film about a widower bringing a new girlfriend to live with him and his 17- and 8-year-old daughters in a home with a vengeful spirit hits Cinemax on Halloween night. We chat with him about writing a fresh installment from a well-worn genre [0:00 - 25:35] and then do a surprisingly competent dramatic reading of three...