Category: young adult
For this episode of Two Nerds, we’re joined by a “subject matter expert,” our kid, Traveller. Traveller was super into Five Nights at Freddy’s when he was a wee child, so he’s got the lore-dump for us. I gotta say,…
Two Nerds finish up their re-watch of the Twilight Saga movies with Breaking Dawn. The filmmakers split the fourth and final book in the series into two films, so we decided to put them back together in this podcat. Which…
Continuing on with our Twilight movie festival, we watched Eclipse. Of the four movies, we have the least to say about this outing, though I’m not sure why. Maybe because the series hasn’t really gone off the rails yet; maybe…
Two Nerds continue on to the second of the Twilight movies: New Moon. We get really excited when we glimpse a bunch of movie posters in a scene in a theater, but that turns out mostly to be a dead…
Two Nerds decided to watch the Twilight Saga again, because this whole series is fascinating and enjoyable on its own terms, while also being 100% bonkers. Twilight is actually the least bananas of any of the movies (or books the…
Two Nerds decided to do a deep dive into the Scream movies, as the fifth installment was just released, 25 years after the first. The first three Scream movies, all directed by Wes Craven, constitute a trilogy, while the fourth…
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…
Continuing our streak of young adult dystopias, two nerds sit on a couch and discuss the movie version of Lois Lowry’s The Giver.
Two nerds sitting on a couch discuss the third and ultimately final Divergent movie, Allegiant.The Divergent series, both the books and movies, is contemporary with a whole bunch of other teen dystopias, most notably The Hunger Games. They’re set in…
Two nerds sitting on a couch discuss the second Divergent movie, Insurgent. The Divergent series, both the books and movies, is contemporary with a whole bunch of other teen dystopias, most notably The Hunger Games. They’re set in a post-apocalyptic…