GGS 11.22 One & Done 4: Freaks & Geeks
This week at Geek Girl Soup, it’s another one-and-done: “Freaks and Geeks,” featuring then-unknowns Linda Cardellini, Jason Segel, Seth Rogan, Martin Starr, and James Franco.
GGS 11.21 2022 Oscar Recap
Some sort of awards show happened this weekend, and Geek Girl Soup is here to recap it for you! We discuss… wait for it… the awards! And, yes, we share a few thoughts on a few other of the evening’s happenings.
GGS 11.20 Play Along
This week at Geek Girl Soup, the play’s the thing. We’re discussing movies that are based on musicals or plays: “West Side Story,” “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” and “The Humans.”
GGS 11.19 7 Deadly Sins: Greed
This week at Geek Girl Soup, we’re deep into our first deadly sin: Greed. Now, we know that not all of Wall Street is full of dirty rotten scoundrels. But it certainly is a theme in the film world. So, we’re discussing “Wall Street,” “Boiler Room,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and “Gaming Wall Street.”
Bonus: Spirit Awards Recap
It was a wonderful night for the Film Independent Spirit Awards, and the Geek Girls were there for it—virtually, at least. As voting members of Film Independent, we were excited to see if our choices won.
GGS 11.18 One & Done 3: Wonderfalls
This week on Geek Girl Soup, it was the first recording day of the month, so that means “One and Done.” This time we’re discussing “Wonderfalls,” the awesomely sweet, and also dark, Bryan Fuller comedy about a slacker Millennial who works in a souvenir shop at Niagara Falls.
GGS 11.17 The 2022 Soupies
… And the winner is… Yes, it’s the Soupies! It’s not just awards season; it’s the season for the most prestigious awards of them all—Geek Girl Soup’s very own Soupie Awards!
GGS 11.16 The Singularity
This week at Geek Girl Soup, we’re discussing “the singularity”—that is, when robots become sentient. Instead of “The Terminator” films, we watched “Free Guy,” “AlphaGo,” “Bigbug,” and “Origin of the Species.”
GGS 11.15: 7 Deadly Sins Intro
This week at Geek Girl Soup, we’re starting a new theme: The Seven Deadly Sins. For seven months, we’ll be covering a different sin: Greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth, and pride. We start out with an intro to all seven by watching “Se7en” and “The Seven Deadly Sins.”
Bonus: “We Need to Talk About Cosby”: W. Kamau Bell’s Look at Art vs the Artist
In this bonus episode of Geek Girl Soup, we’re discussing what we learned from W. Kamau Bell’s 4-part documentary, “We Need to Talk About Cosby” (Showtime).
GGS 11.14 One and Done: Awake
This week at Geek Girl Soup, it’s another “One and Done.” For this episode, we explore the two lives of Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) in “Awake.”
GGS 11.13 Sundance Film Festival, Part 2
This week at Geek Girl Soup, we’re discussing week 2 at the Sundance Film Festival, plus a few Spirit Award nominees and some other random things we watched. A few highlights: “F⌃¢K ‘€MR!GHT B@¢K,” “Emergency,” “892,” “The Lost Daughter,” and “Abbott Elementary.”
GGS 11.12 Sundance Film Festival, Part 1
This week at Geek Girl Soup, we’re discussing what we’ve watched so far at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Due to Covid-19 (don’t you just hate that phrase?!), the festival ended up going all online this year.
GGS 11.11 Top 5s of 2021
This week at Geek Girl Soup, we’re sharing our lists of Top 5 movies and shows from 2021 and the top 5 things we’re looking forward to watching 2022.
GGS 11.10 The Rashomon Effect
This week at Geek Girl Soup we’re discussing the Rashomon Effect—that is, when a story is told from different perspectives by different people with different details.
GGS 11.09 One & Done: My So-Called Life
Welcome to our “One & Done” series! On the first week of every month this year, we will get the gang together to discuss a series that was prematurely canceled in or after the first season. We kick off this so-called series with all 19 episodes of 1994’s “My So-Called Life” (Hulu).
GGS 11.08 The Matrix Resurrections
It’s Matrix Week! This week at Geek Girl Soup, we go down several Matrix-Universe rabbit holes with special guest Camille (aka, Kelly’s daughter). We jump right in with a very spoiler-y discussion about the latest post-trilogy film: “The Matrix Resurrections.”
GGS 11.07 Traditional Geeky F’ing Christmas
This week on Geek Girl Soup, we watch a selection of three traditional Christmas movies, a Christmas horror flick, and three new entries to our holiday repertoire: “Die Hard,” “Die Hard 2,” “Elf,” “Dead End,” “8-Bit Christmas,” “Hot Mess Holiday,” and “A Naija Christmas.”
GGS 11.06 International Christmas Extravaganza
God Jul! Joyeux Noël! Glædelig Jul! Jabulela Ukhisimusi! This week on Geek Girl Girl, we celebrated Christmas Around the World! We watched an “old” favorite “Hjem til Jul”/“Home for Christmas” and three new favorites: “Christmas Flow,” “Elves,” and “How to Ruin Christmas”—all on Netflix.
GGS 11.05 La Casa de Tangents
The final episodes of Netflix’s “La Casa de Papel”/“Money Heist” are finally here! Since it came out just two days before we recorded, we had plenty of time to watch lots of other things, too.