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Geek Girl Soup

Welcome to season 14 and nearly 700 episodes! The Geek Girls (and occasional guy!) chat about movies, TV, awards shows, the Soupies (our very own awards), and DEI in the entertainment industry. We love Apple TV+, The Leftovers, Invasion, and The Fall of the House of Usher. One of us won’t watch biopics. One of us watches horror flicks for comfort. And one of us gets teased for not liking comedy. We’re all into sci-fi, the apocalypse, documentaries, time travel, all-things-Keanu Reeves, “prestige

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13.28: 3 Wild & Crazy Girls Get to Know STEVE! (martin)

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2024/04/11

The Smothers Brothers, Johnny Carson, Saturday Night Live, “The Jerk,” “All of Me,” “Only Murders in the Building.” Steve Martin has had a wild and crazy career.This week, te Geek Girls watched the stellar “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces” on Apple TV+. We laughed and laughed while learning things about Steve Martin we never knew before.The first piece (labeled “then”) is all about Steve’s start in entertainment through the beginning his acting career. The second piece (labeled “now”)

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54:37

13.27: Hidden Gems: On the Origin of Perfect Days in...

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2024/04/04

This week is our second installment of our “hidden gems” theme, in which we bring you movies or shows that need to be seen by more people.In this episode, we discuss Ava Duvernay’s “Origin” and Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” with spoilers. Then we discuss Tae-hwa Eom’s “Concrete Utopia” without spoilers since Susan and Cort hadn’t seen it yet.Listen in to hear what we like about each film, why they are hidden gems, and what kind of impact the films had on us.-Original music by Garrett ThompsonFollow us

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13.26: Vampire Jesus & Peeps: It’s Midnight Mass for...

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2024/03/28

Join the Geek Girls as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan's haunting limited series Midnight Mass for an Easter re-watch! Susan, Cort, and special guest Amelia (who describes herself as a "recovering Catholic") analyze the religious horror themes, stellar performances, and gorgeous cinematography of this modern gothic tale.We discuss the chilling yet thought-provoking parallels to vampire lore, question convenient plot points, reminisce about traumatic experiences from Catholic upbringing, and debate

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13.25: Let’s Go to Court!

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2024/03/20

To celebrate all the courtroom drama facing a certain orange-tinged man this year, Geek Girl Soup decided to go to court—in film and TV, of course. Even though his trials are delayed, we don’t have to wait.Between the three of us, we watched quite the variety of material. Here’s a preview:The VerdictA Few Good MenThe Accused (spoilers)Jagged Edge (spoilers)Primal FearLaw and OrderThe Good WifeAnd more…!We don’t spoil anything except “The Accused” and “Jagged Edge.” And those are toward the end of

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56:37

13.24: Glitz, Glamour, and Gold

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2024/03/12

We made it! The last awards show of the season, the biggie, the Show: The 96th Oscar® Awards!We’ve got the inside scoop on why everyone seemed to be wearing a broach, how one best picture nominee may be total plagiarism, and who told a certain host not to share what on air.We also discuss our moments of delight, moments of confusion, and certainly one moment of shock.Next week: Let’s go to court! Check the end of the episode for some suggestions on what to watch in the way of courtroom dramas (even

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13.23: Spaceman

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2024/03/06

This week, the Geek Girls go to space with Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan in Netflix’s “Spaceman”!We share spoilers throughout—though we don’t go through the film chronologically. So, if you haven’t seen the movie, you likely won’t know what we’re referring to!To pique your interest:A Czech cosmonaut/astronaut, alone in space for a year, tries to balance his mission and thoughts of his wife back on Earth. He gets assistance along the way….Go check it out!-Original music by Garrett ThompsonFollow us

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13.22: The 2024 Spirit Awards

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2024/02/29

Welcome to a re-cap of the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards! We here are Geek Girl Soup are members of Film Independent, so we get screeners and vote every year. Always so much fun!Happening more and more each year, we are seeing some Spirit Award nominees also nominated for an Oscar (and other awards). This year we’ve got overlap with “American Fiction,” “Past Lives,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” and “The Zone of Interest.”What makes the Spirit Awards so different from the usual suspects in the film and

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13.21: The 2024 Soupie Awards!

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2024/02/21

Y’all have been waiting for it. We finally present you the most prestigious awards of them all, our very own Soupie Awards!We return with Kelly’s Binge-Watching Award, Susan’s Best Documentary Award, and Cort’s “That Really Stuck with Me” Award. And we’ve got the old standards favorite show and favorite film.But these are no Oscars. Oh, no.Come find out the Best Apocalyptic Advice From a Film/Show, the Most Overrated/Disappointing Film/Show, the One That Got the Shaft, the F***worthiest Moment in

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13.20: Hidden Gems: Polite Society

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2024/02/15

In some episode last year, we discussed the need for movie-goers to watch “hidden gems,” those small-but-lovely movies that you find on YouTube or deep in a random streamer or maybe for rent only.When you finally come across one of these beauties, you’re like, “Wow, this is amazing!”We’re doing a little series of hidden gems over the course of 2024, starting with “Polite Society.”This gem premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Focus Features in April 2023. So, it’s not so

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13.19: We Are the World… But Where in the World Are We?

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2024/02/08

This week we are discussing two wildly different films: “The Greatest Night in Pop” (Netflix) and “Aniara” (max).“The Greatest Night in Pop” is a documentary that just premiered at Sundance, immediately got distribution, and landed on Netflix. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the USA for Africa charity song “We Are the World.”This movie is wonderful and is particularly fabulous if you were a tween or older in 1985 when the song and music video came out!The second movie is “Aniara,” a

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13.18: Episode 600: Appreciating Independent Films

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2024/02/01

It’s that time of the year again. With the Film Independent Spirit Awards quickly approaching Susan, Cort , and Erik have some recommendations for you to check out. Which actor tops your list for “Best Lead Performance”? Will American Fiction take top honors for “Best Feature” or will another 2023 film take the prize?Erik encourages everyone to check out The Zone of Interest as soon as it becomes available. He also shares his own personal thoughts on AppleTV+ show, Monarch and The Color

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13.17: A Man, a Tiger, and the Biscuits of Love and Joy

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2024/01/24

A man has a code. And his code is foiled by, I don’t know, is it love and joy or Bisquik? Or is it the combination of all three? Does it have to be Bisquik? What if you use another brand of biscuits? (Bite your tongue!)All three of us Geek Girls agree that season 5 of “Fargo” is up there as a favorite. If you haven’t watched it, please do note that you do not need to watch any prior seasons to acquire love and joy from this season. This is an anthology series. Each season stands alone. And, slight

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13.16: Awards Season Extravaganza

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2024/01/19

The 2024 film and TV awards season is impressive already. We’ve already crowned one EGOT winner. One awards show tied itself for the number of actors of color to win an acting award in one year. One TV show set a record for the number of losses it scored over all its years on the air. One Black woman has become only the second Black actress to win lead actress in a comedy series at a particular awards show.Listen in to find out who the EGOT winner is, how many years it had been since since this many

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13.15: The Secret Realm of Godzilla and Monarch

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2024/01/17

This was an exhilarating first season of “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” on AppleTV. This show locates us somewhere among all the recent Godzilla/Kong movies. No need to (re)watch everything right now. But we’re planning on doing so before season 2!We’ve got Godzilla and other titans, Lee Shaw played by two Russell men (Kurt and son Wyatt!), the wonderful Kiersey Clemons (do check out “Sweetheart”), and “Bradley Jackson’s” brother in “The Morning Show”!This episode is all spoilerific, of course. And I

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13.14: Society of the Snow

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2024/01/11

It’s really difficult to be surprised when you’re watching a biopic or historical drama. People tend to feel free to share “spoilers” since the thinking goes, “You can’t spoil something that already happened in real life.” True, but….We’ve discovered that not quite everyone realized that “Society of the Snow” is based on a true story. And even fewer people—young people—have even heard of the story on which the film is based.We do “spoil” the film/story in this podcast episode. But the writer of

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13.13: Leave the Year Behind

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2023/12/31

Happy New Year!It’s not a typical New Year here at Geek Girl Soup. We’re ushering out 2023 with an apocalyptic film, Well, maybe that’s right on the nose for us! Today we’re chatting about Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind.”This film was executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama and directed by Sam Esmail (“Mr Robot”). It stars Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Myha’la, and Ethan Hawke.We won’t say much here. Though spoilers abound in this episode! We’ll just say that Julia and Ethan are a

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13.12: Habari Gani? It’s Kwanzaa!

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2023/12/28

Habari Gani?Ujima! That’s today’s Kwanzaa principle: collective work and responsibility.This week we’re talking about Kwanzaa: its origin, history, the seven principles, and how it’s celebrated today.Cort also shares how she put together a mini-Kwanzaa celebration at work as part of a combined holiday party.Next week: We’re celebrating the end of the year with Netflix’s (and the Obamas’) end-of-the-world film “Leave the World Behind.”-Original music by Garrett ThompsonFollow us onInstagram

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13.11: Merry Christmas Movies!

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2023/12/20

Can you believe it’s the 20th anniversary of “Elf” and the 35th anniversary of “Die Hard”?? This week, we’re talking about those Christmas movies (the official homework), plus not just a few others. You know, viewer’s choice!We all know and 100% agree that “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie. Duh. But we learned this year that it is also a Hanukkah movie! You can read an article on that here.Two short gems that we watched this year are a couple of super-short pre-“South Park” bits made by Trey Parker

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13.10: Christmas Rom Com Shows

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2023/12/13

God jul! Buon Natalie! Whether you’re going home for Christmas or you hate Christmas, we’ve got you covered. Or Netflix certainly does. In our first official Christmas episode of the season, we’re talking “Hjem til Jul” (“Home for Christmas”) and “Odio il Natale” (“I Hate Christmas”).It’s an annual event that we rewatch “Hjem til Jul,” this fabulous Norwegian rom com by Per-Olav Sørensen. He also created “A Storm for Christmas,” featuring some of the same actors from “Hjem til Jul.” “Hjem til Jul”

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13.09: Live from LA: Carcast!

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2023/12/08

Geek Girl Susan was in Los Angeles last week and finally got two of the Geek Guys together. So, this week, we present you with a Very Special carcast from LA!Susan and Chris visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the La Brea Tar Pits. They joined Erik to help out with the 2024 Rose Parade float. Then they recorded this little episode for you from a bit of a noisy restaurant then from the car.We apologize for not delivering on our promised programming for this week, our Hanukkah episode

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