Category: movies

The First of All Parallel Worlds

Two Nerds have spent the last few episodes discussing time travel, repeating day, or otherwise timey-wimey narratives. Adjacent to that (and often overlapping) are stories that explore parallel worlds. In this outing, we discussthe movies Sliding Doors and Another Earth,…

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Knowing

Two Nerds were lovingly trolled by our listener, and ended up watching Knowing, a predestination wig-out starring Nicolas Cage, which was described by Richard as “Kirk Cameron’s screenplay and directorial adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard writing Childhood’s End.” It made…

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Godzilla vs Kong

In a very special episode, Two Nerds discuss the most recent (and possibly the last) MonsterVerse movie: Godzilla vs Kong. We decided to make a theme of it, so we also watched a movie called Colossal, which is about a…

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Boss Level: Groundhog Days

After we thoughtfully examined three films with repeating day scenarios — Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things — in Groundhog Days, we found a fourth repeating day movie: Boss Level. This one is significantly shootier…

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It’s Not a Time Cave: Time Trap

Two Nerds round up all the movies they watched on a lost Sunday, which include three timey-wimey narratives — Time Trap, Source Code, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time — and a slight detour to the Snyder Cut. This…

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Time Lapse Crimes

In a bonus episode, two nerds somewhat tipsily discuss Timecrimes and Time Lapse, two movies which mess around with the concept of predestination.For some godforsaken reason, the extremely silly film Final Countdown, in which the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz travels…

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The Only One Awake: Groundhog Days

Continuing on with our exploration of narratives that use time as a device, we discuss three movies which take place in time loops, where the characters wake up and relive the same 24 hours over and over: Groundhog Day, Map…

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Hot Tub Time Machine

Continuing with our time travel narratives, we discuss Hot Tub Time Machine, with a side of Back to the Future and Groundhog Day.We also discuss The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin, The Butterfly Effect, Primer, The Final…

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A Perfect Day: Time Travel Stories

Two Nerds Sitting on a Couch wrapped up our inquiry into teen dystopias last week with The City of Ember, which is kinda funny because the book is aimed younger than teen, and it’s not really a dystopia. After a…

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The Last Teen Dystopia: The City of Ember

For our final outing into teen dystopias, two nerds sitting on a couch watch The City of Ember.The City of Ember ended up being significantly different from the other young adult dystopias we watched, while still relying on some of…

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