Marvel Movie Minute is the deep-dive the MCU deserves — one film, five minutes at a time. We're working through every Marvel Cinematic Universe release in order, and this season hosts Matthew Fox, Kyle Olson, Rob Kubasko, and Pete Wright are going beat by beat through Captain America: The Winter Soldier — unpacking the craft, the comic roots, and everything HYDRA thought they could hide. The show is made possible by members like you. For $5/month or $55/year, members get early access to every episode, ad-free listening, extended episodes, and exclusive perks. If you love what we do, membership is how you keep...
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44 min
CATWS Minutes 131-138• Celebrating the Institutions that Rot From Within
These are the last minutes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Pete skips the name game to ask a bigger question instead: where does this film sit in the canon, and what di…
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32 min
CATWS Minutes 126-130: I Want You To Be My Hawkeye
Fury burns the past and hands everybody a clean slate that Ultron will repossess within a year. Natasha kisses Steve goodbye, and the room cannot agree whether that closes a door o…
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32 min
CATWS Minutes 121-125: The Committee Cowardice Shell Game
Bucky hauls Steve out of the Potomac, looks at him, and walks off without trying to drain his lungs. Everybody else gets a montage exit: Sharon at the CIA, Hill in a Stark Industri…
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39 min
CATWS Minutes 116-120: … to the End of the Line
Robert Redford watches twenty years of work break its own back in the Potomac and says "what a waste," which sets the hosts arguing about whether Alexander Pierce is a true believe…
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39 min
CATWS Minutes 111-115: The Dyson Dome
Nine seasons in, the fight finally arrives: Cap and Bucky, under a helicarrier, no exits. Kyle's read is that only one of them is actually in this fight — the Winter Soldier is thr…
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34 min
CATWS Minutes 106-110: Keep Both Eyes Open
Nick Fury isn't dead, and he'd like his helicarriers back. This week we hit minutes 106–110 of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the movie shifts gears from cloak-and-dagger…
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40 min
CATWS Minutes 101-105: Condorman, Photostatic Veils, and the Death of SHIELD
Cap gets to punch things the old-fashioned way, Falcon proves the value of a truly good sidekick, and — in the span of five minutes on the deck of the Insight — the entire MCU quie…
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40 min
CATWS Minutes 96-100: Abed’s Other Big Cameo
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…
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39 min
Bucky’s Nuke and Pave: CATWS Minutes 91-95
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 phanto…
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37 min
CATWS Minutes 86-90: Back to Zero
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…
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44 min
CATWS Minutes 81-85: The Shieldiest Cap
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 a…
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42 min
CATWS Minutes 76-80: Bucky Takes the Wheel
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…
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36 min
CATWS Minutes 71-75: Hail, Hydra
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 be…
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39 min
CATWS Minutes 66-70: Dirty Steve & Filthy Natasha
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…
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28 min
CATWS Minutes 61-65: Surprise Party Rules
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 beh…
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31 min
CATWS Minutes 56-60 • The Marvel Disguise
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 mi…
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44 min
CATWS Minutes 51-55 • The Topanga Apple Store Caltrop Caper
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,…
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41 min
CATWS Minutes 46-50 • Does Anyone Want to Get Out?
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…
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27 min
CATWS Minutes 41-45 • Big Bubbles, No Troubles
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 o…
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40 min
CATWS Minutes 36-40 • The Wife Gambit
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 wor…