Nerdy and Nice: A Pop Culture Podcast

Narnia and Baywatch Trailer ReviewsFirst look at The Mummy Book of the Dead!Is The Batman II cursed?Seth Rogen: Curry Barker’s new movie is better than Obsession!The top 10 Halloween costumes of 2026Plus what we’ve been watching this past week and more fun! Mondays are for the nerds! Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Tom Cruise’s Oscar chances after rough Digger reviewsArnold is back, as Santa?!BOOM? Nic Cage looks ridiculous as John MaddenThe OBSESSION cinematic universeThe Rock’s movie career gets hit with the People’s ElbowREVIEWS: Ready or Not 2 and South AmericaThat and more fun, including Lacey’s relationship with non-Star Wars Adam Driver movies. Mondays are for the nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

How will Meryl Streep sound as Aslan? We speculate on that as the casting news brought Greta Gerwig’s Narnia back to the front of movie news. Plus. Hunger Games aims for a return to glory with Sunrise on the Reaping. Is the franchise back to feeling like an event? That and more including what each of us have been watching, like South America. Mondays are for the nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Can Tom Cruise catch lightning in a stock car with Days of Thunder 2? We dig into that plus Nic Cage’s return in National Treasure 3, and Sons of Anarchy are coming back! Sort of. We also discuss the trailers for HBO’s Harry Potter series, The Love Hypothesis, and Brothers. We close things out with what we’ve been watching including John’s reviews for Toy Story 5, Jackass Best and Last, and Ted Lasso Season 4 (so far). Mondays are for the nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

We play a new game this week. We each pick our favorite movie (no Star Wars) from the 80s through the 2020s and the other two have to guess. We also discuss the trailers for Thomas Crown Affair, Jumanji Open World, and It’s Always Sunny. And Disney sounds like they are going to make a new Home Alone with Macaulay Culkin, which sounds like a money-maker but also a massive mistake. Mondays are for the nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Tom Cruise is going all in for his elusive Oscar with The Digger. We discuss the trailer for that, I Play Rocky (what’s with the voice?), and Andy Serkis’ production teaser for The Hunt of Gollum. We also discuss the dominance of Christopher Nolan as The Odyssey crushes in its opening week. And The Batman II gets delayed once again to 2028 and everyone seems so eager to blame J.J. Abrams for it. But at least Matt Reeves released a 30 second camera test of Robert Pattison in the suit in the rain…right? Guys? We close things out by talking about what we’re watching. John reviews Obsession, Lacey says Disney phoned it in with Moana 2, and James unleashes his unconditional love for the movie Pop Star, proving tricycles defeat bicycles every time. Mondays are for the nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Sequels for Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Lindsay Lohan’s Parent Trap are reportedly in the works, we discuss that and more including trailers for Netflix’s Wonka reality competition, the Hershey biopic, and Lacey Chabert’s latest Hallmark/Disney Christmas movie. Mondays are for the nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

John and James hold down the nerd fort this week and we’re talking trailers, Marvel being worried about finale failures, and we guess the plot of Jim Carrey’s Grinch 2. Also, whoever replaces Hugh Jackman as the new Wolverine will be in an almost impossible situation. And since Lacey isn’t here, we guess which trailers she would have liked and disliked! How’d we do Lacey? That and more fun including what we’re watching AND not watching. Mondays are for the nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

The final Supergirl trailer has arrived, let’s take a look at this thing! Speaking of looks, we get our first real look at Lex Luthor in his Warsuit for next year’s epic Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow! And on the other side of the aisle, Tom Holland has the Spider-Man Brand New Day Producers do things the Christopher Nolan way! Peter Parker lays down the law as box office and popcorn isn’t enough for Spidey! Plus we have an interesting main discussion! Has the streaming model impacted the communal aspect of event television? Are new TV shows less memorable because we don’t talk about them with people? That and more including what we’ve been watching! Mondays are for the nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

James Baney joins us on a nerdy Thursday! Top Gun 3 is officially official, but Joseph Kosinski is not returning to direct. So who is? We have our guesses. Plus we review the trailers for Focker In Law, Super Troopers 3, Street Fighter, and Practical Magic 2, which debuts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. That and more including Marvel and DC news, and has Ryan Reynolds charm worn off? Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Welcome nerds! We discuss the trailers for Supergirl, The Devil Wears Prada 2, and Masters of the Universe! We also dig into some news stories including the Artemis II journey around the moon, a massive Lord of the Rings recast confirmation, and Charlie Day nailing the best possible casting for Wario in the next Mario movie! We also chat about what we’ve been watching like the excellent SCRUBS revival, the NCAA tournament heartbreak for UConn, and huge praise for a now classic show, Bob’s Burgers! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Spider-Man is the superhero KING. As long as Marvel has Peter Parker, they will never be far from box office glory, as the Brand New Day trailer broke every record in the book! We discuss that and more including AI Val Kilmer, Lacey’s thoughts on Buffy getting axed, and John’s review of SCREAM 7, which was even worse than he expected!Mondays are for the Nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy our pop culture podcast! Tell a friend!

Scream VII is making money but has it become the new Fast and Furious? Money makers that keep getting worse? Maybe it’s time to hang up on the Scream franchise, and John is a die-hard fan of the original. We also discuss the trailers for Toy Story 5, The Backrooms, and Lacey’s take on the new Pride & Prejudice. Plus we debut a new segment, The Best of the Best! This time we’re each giving our top 3 opening scenes in movie history! Mondays are for the Nerds! Thanks for having fun with us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!