Geeks Without God

A new Marvel movie is in theaters and, as is our custom, we watched it. Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is our topic for this week and we talk about what we liked and didn’t like and where it falls in the growing pantheon of MCU films and series.

This week, we watched a bunch of short films as part of the online Midwest Sci-Fi short film festival. We review most of the films in the festival for their April weekend. It was a lot of fun and we encourage folks to check out their next online festival, which will be in June. Link!

This week, we watched “An Interview with God” starring David Straithairn. Straithairn has also appeared in the Bourne Ultimatum, which is a good movie. Unlike this Christian apologist film in which a journalist sits down with someone who claims to be god and interviews him. That’s all the movie is about. At least the title is accurate.

Welcome to our latest boner episode! This week, we have some conversations about organizing because Nick is into that, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine because it’s a really great Star Trek series, and Needle Felting! Don’t know what Needle Felting is? That’s fair, Tim didn’t either. Fortunately, Molly fills everyone on her latest crafty hobby.

This week, we are joined by our resident Bridgerton expert, Pat Wick! She reviews season 2 with us and as an expert on the books, tells us all the differences between the story of Anthony and Kate from the books and the story in the Netflix series! Bosoms will heave!

With the recent release of “Death on the Nile,” we got to thinking about murder mysteries. We all enjoy a good murder mystery and we talk ab bit about why we find them appealing, what first got us interested, and some books, movies and TV shows that are some of our favorites. Please be warned, we spoil the solution to some Encyclopedia Brown stories!

This week, we have our friend Amanda Greenhart who is a treasurer with her union (AFSCME) on to talk with us about organizing and unions. The Minneapolis Teachers recently resolved their strike and we wanted to take a broader look at what unions do, why they are important, and what is being done to blunt the effectiveness of unions. Amanda provides a really great overview of why unions are good thing and also is the first guest to answer our newest five questions!

This week, we are talking about Easter. It’s one of those religious holidays we all experience but after 500 episodes, we’ve never talked about. We talk about our memories of how we celebrated Easter when we were young and Tim talks a bit about what he did with his kids. Can we still eat chocolate bunnies even though we don’t believe Jesus rose from the dead?

This week, we are taking a look at the newest DC film – “The Batman!” in a continuing trend, Batman seems to be the only hero DC can make a decent movie about and they make some really good and interesting choices in the latest reboot of the character. We talk over what we really liked and even a few little nitpicky things we didn’t like in our spoiler filled discussion of the movie.

This week, we aren’t afraid of no ghosts (because they don’t exist)! We are going to talk about the Ghostbusters franchise, inspired by the the recently released “Ghostbusters Afterlife,” which we all did not really like. We use it as a springboard, though, to look at a movie that had a strong impact on all three of us, it’s crappy sequel, and the underrated 2016 reboot. Afterlife is, at least in our opinion, a pretty major disappointment. But bustin’ still makes us feel good.