And now for the REAL story of Watergate.This movie offers a bit of a lighter take on the scandal, as well as a guess at the identity of Woodward and Bernstein's infamous source, Deep Throat. Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams pay a pair of tee

Watergate Weekend, Part One: All the President's Men (1976)

Jun 16th, 2018 50m 45s

Tomorrow will be the 46th anniversary of one of the most important political events of the 20th century: The break-in and attempted bugging of the Democratic national headquarters in Washington, D.C., at the Watergate office complex.That break-

Gossip Girl (2007)

May 13th, 2018 54m 22s

Hey, Upper East Siders (and, you know, all listeners). I've got the biggest episode EVER.Ok, maybe not. But it is the second episode stemming from the Golden Globes bet we both lost. Today, it's time to torture Eric. And what better way than wi

Grand Theft Auto V Heist Videos (2014)

May 12th, 2018 41m 33s

Way back in January, Emily and I made a bet: Whoever could predict the winners of the Golden Globes more accurately would subject the other to a Geek vs. n00b pick that they would definitely hate. And I'm just gonna say it up front: If watching

Grand Theft Auto V Heist Videos (2014)

May 12th, 2018 41m 33s

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Apr 1st, 2018 1h 1m

Surprise again! Although if you listened to yesterday's bonus episode, then this will not be surprising:On this show, we talked about the new movie adaptation of "A Wrinkle in Time," directed by Ava DuVernay and starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfr

A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

Mar 31st, 2018 40m 50s

Surprise! We're back with a bonus episode.In honor of the movie coming out (more on that later), we're rereading A Wrinkle in Time. The book follows Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin on a trip through time a

The Sound of Music (1965)

Mar 25th, 2018 1h 6m

We're closing out the season with a pick that's somewhat surprising for a show with this premise: The Sound of Music. Yes, there is (or was until recently) someone who'd never seen this movie before.As you likely know, The Sound of Music is the

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Mar 24th, 2018 32m 32s

- OK, so It's a movie about vampires.- Oh I love it! And they're terrorizing Los Angeles?- No, they just hang out in Wellington, New Zealand.- You've lost me.- They argue about household chores and have to deal with how to get dressed for a nig

Twin Peaks (1990)

Mar 4th, 2018 1h 7m

Life in a sleepy small town is turned upside down when a teen girl - pretty, blonde, a good student, the prom queen - is found, brutally murdered. Before long, the secrets start tumbling out, and we learn she's not as innocent nor is the the to

The Court Jester (1955)

Feb 25th, 2018 38m 55s

"The Court Jester" has everything: Medieval palace drama! Implausible hypnotism! Acrobatic dwarves!... Oh, I'm being told that "The Court Jester" is not New York's hottest nightclub, but rather a 1955 musical comedy starring Danny Kaye. It's al

The Net (1995)

Feb 12th, 2018 47m 5s

This week, we're traveling back to the 90s, when the internet was relatively new and very slow and weird, for a dated thriller that feels oddly relevant today: The Net.In it, Sandra Bullock plays an isolated computer programmer and Jeremy North

Sports Night (1998)

Feb 4th, 2018 1h 10m

With the exception of that one episode about the Tour de France, we haven't done a lot of sports here on Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b. But a TV show about a SportsCenter-like show, written by "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin? Sign us up!But wait, t

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Jan 28th, 2018 1h 5m

And now, it's time for round two of Star Trek: a foray into The Next Generation.Set long after the original show, this popular series returns to the Trek universe for another set of adventures aboard a later iteration of the Enterprise. Its cre

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

Jan 21st, 2018 47m 27s

"Hurtling metal, meat and rubber through the concrete jungle at dangerous velocities." That's how, in 1998, Ken Li described New York's underground street racing scene.His article for Vibe Magazine, "Racer X," inspired the incredibly successful

Star Trek

Jan 15th, 2018 1h 9m

As we explained last week, this season we're shaking this up by bringing in guests to help fill in some gaps in our shared pop cultural knowledge.This week's is a big gap: Star Trek.Created by Gene Rodenberry and premiering in 1966, the seminal

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

Jan 7th, 2018 1h 16m

You've been waiting patiently for it for months, and now it's finally here: Season 6 of Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b.This season, we're shaking things up by bringing in friends and colleagues to school us on the pop culture that Emily and I have bo

The Thin Man (1934)

Dec 31st, 2017 43m 18s

And now for the second part of our after-Christmas discussion of movies that are not exactly about Christmas. Much of this one, fittingly, takes place in the time between Christmas and New Year's Eve.The movie is The Thin Man (1934), based on t

Gremlins (1984)

Dec 30th, 2017 45m 1s

After a slightly longer-than-expected break (several months instead of several weeks), we're back!Last year — when we watched The Nightmare Before Christmas and Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town — we pitted two Christmas movies against each other.

30 Rock (2006)

May 18th, 2017 44m 39s

It's no secret that we both love 30 Rock. A lot. Tina Fey's seven-season comedy for NBC is, in our opinion, one of the best ever, and we've both watched it countless times.But that's no fun for this podcast! So we've brought in a guest n00b to

This Is Us (2016)

May 18th, 2017 1h 6m

We're nearly at the end of the fifth season of Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b, but there's still a lot we haven't done (just you wait). This week, we talked about the super-zeitgeisty new TV show "This Is Us," and — unlike most weeks, when the n00b e

Into the Woods (1986)

Apr 9th, 2017 1h 11m

We all know what happens when Cinderella goes to the ball, and when Jack climbs the beanstalk, and when Little Red Riding Hood gets to Granny's house....but not in this version.Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Broadway musical Into the Woods

The Social Network (2010)

Apr 2nd, 2017 59m 14s

Technology doesn't materialize out of thin air; it's made by people. And those people aren't necessarily good people.This week's movie, "The Social Network," is a heavily dramatized telling of how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg disrupted Harv

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Mar 26th, 2017 1h

"Beauty and the Beast," the first animated movie ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, is now ... a live-action movie, too! But how does it stack up to the original?On this bonus episode of Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b, we did the s

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

Mar 26th, 2017 37m 35s

After exploring the line between public and private - and the notion of faking your death - with "Man on the Moon" last week, there was only one direction we could go in: "Velvet Goldmine."This one isn't actually a biopic, but it DOES star Jona