Science at the Movies

Empire Records (1995) It's episode 3 out of 5 of our Teenage Dirtbag miniseries! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Interstellar (2014) We finally did it! And it's a big one! There was no way to do this movie, and Kip Thorne, justice without going all in. Are you all in with us? Hold onto your brains as we go deep dive on black holes, wormholes, other dimensions, time dilation and quantum gravity. "Why did they go down to Millers planet?" Follow us on TikTok to catch live recordings of the episodes: TikTok: @sc...

Episode 2/5 of our Teenage Dirtbag miniseries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's out 50th episode! And for this special occasion, we picked.....Biodome. Whoops. Cue Abi and Freda shitting on maybe the worst movie ever made. That's all. . This ain't no Battleship (with Rhianna), it's just bad. . Here's some seriously great reading on the true story of Biosphere: . 'The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments' - New York Time s 'About Biosphere Foun...

Episode 1 of 5 from our 'Teenage Dirtbag' miniseries. We just wanted a reason to talk about Clueless. You're just a virgin, who can't drive!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And we're back! Kicking of this cycle we have our next MCU instalment and we get to nerd out about AI, we also get a bit freaked about mind control technology and there may or may not be a tense moment about singularities!! But remember, Freda admitted that she didn't hate it that much! We'll call that a win. "Now my mindstone hurts... TikTok: @scienceatthemovies Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Ema...

Unedited version of our 12 Monkeys episode Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we take a look at the 1972 classic, Silent Running, where a very serious Bruce Dern plays an annoying vegan who commits eco-terrorism but can't live with the guilt of his actions. Tell us we're wrong? With a teeny budget of ONE MILLION DOLLARS, this movie has it all: Joan Baez crooning as Bruce Dern eats a melon, bilateral amputees playing loveable drones (never done before or since) an...

Abi tortures Freda: Part 10 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ok ok, we love a disaster movie, we relish it even! We've been waiting for this one for quite some time...was it worth the wait? Breaking down how insanely wrong the science is would take a lifetime that we do not have! But if you want to jump on in we're talking hollow moon, megastructures, dyson spheres, white dwarfs, falling moons and the origin of life itself! There's some cool shots of the En...

Lots of unedited, explicit content as Freda begins to turn the tables on Abi. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we cover Gattaca, and then some.... . Gattaca eventually got the attention it deserved, but now Abi and Freda give it the treatment that only two female scientists can. Um....are all the women in the Gattaca forced to undergo IVF? Also, is leg extension surgery real? Will humans visit Titan? Freda takes Abi on a journey along the genetic selection devices of the Ashkenazi community, we...

It's time for episode 3 of our Mission Catch Up miniseries and we're going full Marvel! We're talking ridiculous oversized secret government labs, uploading consciousness and superhero face masks! Interesting article about uploading consciousness: Mind-uploading: The Guardian Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Strangelove (1964) Oh this is a beauty! Join us as we gush over this perfect piece of movie making and glorious satire. We're talking operation paperclip, operation chrome dome, nuclear codes, fluoridation conspiracies and of course Doomsday machines! "Women try to take my essence" Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Email: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com For your perusal: Almost Everything in Dr Stran...

It's time for episode 2 of our Mission Catch Up miniseries and we're going full Marvel! We're talking gravitational anomolies, soul forges (aka quantum field generators) and women in science..again! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been too long without our favourite comedy/adventure 90's hero, and this time he's joined by Alicia Silverstone. Meanwhile, Sissy Spacek is hamming it up in the basement with Christopher Walken, reading Dale Carnegie and Reader's Digest and developing an alcohol dependency. But Abi and Freda find a way to take this all very seriously. Cuban Missile Crisis? Terrifying! Fallout Shelters? Freaky...

It's time for episode 1 of our Mission Catch Up miniseries and we're going full Marvel! We're talking disappearing super powers, crime scene reconstruction, super soldier serum part two and name badge equations! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next up on our Marvel journey is The Avengers (2012) We've made it to our first combo movie and Freda has almost showed some emotion to our heroes. She at least concedes that the battle for New York is epic! We're talking flatland, higher dimensional objects, space portals, gamma radiation and quantum tunneling! It's science speak tastic. "They all look like the Green Goblin!" Instagram: @sciencea...

On this guest episode Abi talks with Eduardo Rodriguez, a final year phd student at Princeton working in plasma physics. This episode we get into the premise of Danny Boyle's 2007 foray into space, we talk about the realities of a dying star and the potential for 're-igniting' the sun using a nuclear bomb. Having received his degree in physics from Oxford back in 2017, Eduardo moved to the US to t...

It's an Uncut special! This week we're on a break from our regular episodes so please enjoy this unedited version of our Sunshine episode. One of our earliest episodes when we were baby podcasters trying to find our way in space! What could cause our sun to die? At what point did Brian Cox say 'I'm outta here', how much do we loooove Cillian Murphy as a physicist. We nerded hard on this one! It ma...

If ever in the past two years you were sent screenshots of dubious studies about vaccine safety and were unsure how to describe its dubiousness, this episode is for you. What is correlation, and is it the same as causation?? What is a randomized double-blind control trial and why is it important? What is causality? What is not an experiment? Lest we forget, this episode is centred around the Mads...

It's episode 5 of our documentary miniseries. We're diving into the world of doping scandals and plot twists! "What is going on?!?!" *Note: This episode was recorded prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next up on our Marvel journey is the God of thunder! Thor (2011) It's time to enter the Asgardian realm and try to help Freda understand, just why did Kenneth do this movie?!?! Two brothers have a scrap and we finally get to talk about wormholes! We get into Jane as a woman in science, Myeuh-myeuh as an energy weapon and just what is an Einstein-Rosen bridge. It's time for some space magic. "We'd...

Here we go again - episode 4/5 of this miniseries is here and this time we are tacking....Aliens.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A treat for Freda in this weeks episode on the Charlie Kaufman/Michel Gondry frolic in the mind of Jim Carey: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Surprisingly, there is a lot of great science in this episode, on what memories mean to us, and how they are formed and persist throughout our lives. Yeah, so it's a serious episode. Not sorry! . If they did it, how would they do it? . Some extra read...