Month: September 2021

Generation Ships in Film

A red circle sits slightly off center on a black background. White lines radiate from the red circle. A small, narrow spaceship intersects the white lines in the lower left, which distends them a little.

Two Nerds sat down to watched the recent film Voyagers with some excitement, because there are a vanishingly small number of actual generation ships in film. There are oodles of long haul ships, like the Nostromo, where its crew and…

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Groundhog Days: Two Distant Strangers

A Black man in a yellow hoodie is in profile, and faces a white man with a cop hat. The words "Two Distant Strangers" is written in yellow between them

Two Nerds finally watched Two Distant Strangers, an Oscar-winning short film which takes the Groundhog Day premise of a single, repeating day, and applies it to a situation where a white cop shoots a Black man over and over again….

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Hackers: Hack the Gibson!

1993 was a good year for movies about the nascent Internet, apparently, because both The Net and Hackers were released that year. Two Nerds sat down and watched both. Both are very 90s time capsules, but Hackers is significantly more…

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Pontypool

A man in front of radio equipment turns towards the reader with a peice of paper held up for the reader. The paper reads "Don't Talk."

We’ve been on hiatus for a bit, but we’re back with one of my favorite movies by one of my favorite writers: Pontypool. Tony Burgess adapted the screenplay from his novel, which is titled called Pontypool Changes Everything. Pontypool is…

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