Nerdmudgeon

Well *that* took a turn! Join Jeff and John as they unpack WandaVision episode 4, "We Interrupt This Program"!

The guys dive into the movie Jeff has seen more often than any other in history, "Raiders of the Lost Ark"! Is this even a nerd movie?! Whatever, it's GREAT, check out why we think this is a Game Changer!

The guys get into the unfolding mystery in episode 3 of Marvel's Disney+ show, WandaVision!

Take a wild, trippy, bondage-themed drive down memory lane with the guys as they talk about the game-changing movie (mostly by virtue of what it did NOT lead to) "Flash Gordon". He'll save every one of us!

A new era of Nerdmudgeon begins with our first ever after show! Join the guys as they talk about the first two episodes of the all-new MCU Disney+ show, WandaVision!

The guys take on a new arc, examining nerd movies that changed the game for them with the little-known cult classic, "The Empire Strikes Back"!

John and Jeff share some podcast programming updates for the coming months, and talk a bit about the recently announced MCU Phase 4 and MCU Disney Plus shows!

The Nerdmudgeons venture into the final frontier this week! Join us as we explore Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the original series episode that spawned it, Space Seed!

Continuing their examination of the theme of Aging Heroes, the Nerdmudgeons jump into the ring with Rocky and Creed in this week's episode. Join the fray!

Jeff is joined by his sisters, Denise and Diane, to review "Wonder Woman 84"!

The guys take on the theme of aging and time in the context of super-hero movies, looking at how the character of Logan/Wolverine changes between his appearance in "X2" and "Logan".

What? This guy *again?* The Pre-MCU Milestones arc concludes with the John, Jeff, and Dave talking about YET ANOTHER Batman movie, Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins!

The Pre-MCU Milestone review continues with the first big screen appearance of everyone's favorite wall-crawler! The guys discuss everything to love (and perhaps NOT to love) about 2002's Spider-Man!

After years of false starts and laying eggs (get it?), Marvel stepped into the new millennium with their first legit big-screen hit, X-Men! Join the guys as they break down Marvel's band of uncanny mutants!

The Pre-MCU Milestones arc continues as we ask the burning question: "Does this podcast need an enema?" Join the guys as they dive into 1989's Batman!

The Pre-MCU Milestones arc kicks off as the guys take a look at the first superhero movie of the modern era, Superman: The Movie!

Snap on your hat and get ready for the utter insanity of "LEGO Batman" as the guys finish up asking "Can an animated super-hero movie be as good – or better than! – their live-action counterpart?"!

Toonmudgeon tackles the question of whether animated super-hero movies can be as good – or better than! – their live-action counterparts with the head-turning choice of "Despicable Me".

Toonmudgeon continues to explore whether animated super-hero movies can be as good – or better than! – their live-action counterparts as the guys review "The Iron Giant". Is this even a super-hero movie?! Tune in and find out!

Toonmudgeon continues to explore whether animated super-hero movies can be as good – or better than! – their live-action counterparts as the guys review "The Incredibles".

Toonmudgeon kicks off with a deep dive into "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse" as the guys explore whether animated super-hero movies can be as good – or better than! – their live-action counterparts.

We did it! We reviewed all 23 MCU movie to date. Now, we offer our definitive final thoughts on the experience that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe!

Phase Three of the MCU comes to a close! Join the guys as they put a bow on the MCU to this point in Spider-Man: Far From Home!

The entire MCU as we know it comes down to this! Join the guys as they wrap their heads around Avengers: Endgame!

But wait! There's more! The guys had yet more to say about that last movie. The mics were still hot and captured the after-hours banter in this bonus episode for Avengers: Infinity War!

The beginning of the end gets underway as the guys wrestle with big purple dudes and their evil ways in Avengers: Infinity War!

Get ready for some quantum heist hi-jinks in this second quantum-rific installment of the MCU's smallest hero in Ant-Man and the Wasp!

Join the guys as they make a final (really, really final) visit to Asgard for a little family squabble that gets somewhat out of hand in Thor: Ragnarok!

It's the King of Wakanda's turn to take MCU center stage as the guys talk about all things Black Panther!

The Master of the Mystic Arts expands our minds and the outer boundaries of the MCU with his first solo movie! Join the guys as they dive into the world of Doctor Strange!

The newest iteration of your friendly neighborhood wallcrawler swings into his first MCU stand-alone film in Spider-Man: Homecoming!

Phase 3 of the MCU kicks off with another big Avengers movie! Er, no, wait, it just felt like an Avengers movie. Which is fine, because the guys all loved this third Captain America movie, right? Ah...right?

Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has come to a close, and the guys have additional thoughts! Join Jeff, Dave, and John as they hash out all that was left unsaid about the middle innings of the MCU!

Of all the new characters Marvel could introduce, they chose...Ant-Man? Yes they did, and the guys talk all about it in this gripping close to Phase 2 of the MCU!

If there was one movie the guys had to review in this MCU retrospective, it's this one. Which one of the guys loves it? Which one of the guys, well, doesn't quite so love it? Find out as they talk about Avengers: Age of Ultron!

Saddle up for more Guardians talk as the guys go straight into the second movie featuring Marvel's band of cosmic adventurers in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2!

What studio in their right mind would make a blockbuster space comedy action movie featuring characters nobody knows? Marvel, that's who. Join the guys as they talk about the Guardians of the Galaxy!

Cap's second movie finds him taking on Hydra and standing up for everything good and right! Is it the greatest MCU ever? Tune in and find out as the guys talk about Captain America: The Winter Soldier!

Return to the mystical realm of Asgard as the guys review the second outing for the God of Thunder in Thor: The Dark World!

The guys kick off Phase 2 of the MCU with Tony Stark's final solo movie (but not his final MCU appearance) with Iron Man 3!

The guys pause the chronological review of the MCU to look back at the first phase of this new movie-making experiment with some additional thoughts and brilliant insights. We laughed, we cried, it was better than Cats.

The movie these three middle-aged college buddies NEVER expected to see in their lifetime! Did it really happen? Was it was good as we remember? Find out as the guys talk about Marvel's The Avengers!

The guys take on everybody's favorite big green rage machine with their review of the "forgotten" MCU movie, The Incredible Hulk!

How will guy in a bright red cape, swinging a big ol' hammer, work in the MCU? Find out as the guys talk about our first visit to Asgard in Thor!

Didn't get enough Iron Man talk in the last episode? The guys talk more Tony Stark with the next movie in our MCU chronological order, Iron Man 2!

Our chronological review of the MCU brings us to the movie that started it all, the first Iron Man. Join the guys as they hash out whether or not this movie still stands up 12 years (!) after its original release.

Our second episode is the movie most out of place in regards to chronological order and release order. The guys take a trip back to the '90s (Hey! We remember the '90s!) to discuss the first female-led MCU movie, Captain Marvel.

In this inaugural episode of the Nerdmudgeon podcast, John, Jeff, and Dave begin their review of the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- in chronological order, not release order. First up in that chronological order, the guys talk about Captain America: The First Avenger.