It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living

we may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps, here with...

Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Pocke, Scott Tobias.

Here on The Next Picture Show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context.

So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic

film and consider how it relates to a current release. This week, we're going full-on superhero

by looking first at a movie that serves as the Big Bang for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then

at that universe's latest offering. So fire up the electromagnets that keep you alive and let's take

to the skies.

Tasha, tell us about this week's selections.

This week we're pairing the 2008 film Iron Man with the recently released Captain America Civil War.

The connection is pretty obvious. Both come from Marvel Studios. Both revolve around classic Marvel superheroes. Both even feature Iron Man, aka billionaire industrialist playboy

Tony Stark, as played by Robert Downey Jr. One tells an origin story that doubles as the

first adventure of its titular hero, a morally dubious weapons manufacturer who becomes an armor

plated to do-gooder after he's kidnapped and has to face some hard truths about the business that

made his family fortune. The other picks up loose plot threads from the two Captain America films that preceded it and the two Avengers films. And for that matter, all three Iron Man films. Oh yeah, and also Ant Man. And it sets up new solo films from Spider-Man and Black Panther coming soon to a theater or you while leaving unanswered questions for the next MCU offerings to pick up.

They're both very much products of the same movie factory, but the latter is a much more

features-packed upgrade, operating in ways that seemed unimaginable a mere eight years ago when

Iron Man was released. It's a bit like the difference between a first-generation iPod and the

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