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The Scream Trilogy

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on February 22, 2022 0 Comments

Posted in horror, podcasts, young adult Tagged fin de siècle, Gen X, Kevin Williamson, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, slasher films, The Matrix, Wes Craven

detail of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" With rough, impressionistic brush strokes, a figure stands on a bridge, hands on his face, screaming. The sunset behind the figure is livid red and orange.

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…

The Matrix Resurrections

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on January 28, 2022 0 Comments

Posted in futures, movies, podcasts, the world is a simulation, video game movies Tagged blurring the binary, Carrie-Anne Moss, fin de siècle, Gen X, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Resurrections, The Matrix Revolutions, The Wachowskis, trans allegory, Wayward Children

two hands held out in a black background, one holds a red pill and the other a blue pill

As Gen Xers, Two Nerds have some pretty Strong Feelings about the Matrix movies, so it was with some trepidation we watched The Matrix Resurrections. A late-period fourth movie appended to a long-completed trilogy almost never goes well (e.g. Indiana…