The Salty Nerd Podcast

Farscape Season 1 Episode 22 review from the Salty Nerd Podcast has them talking about Family Ties and the MASSIVE cliffhanger season 1 of this delightful sci-fi show ended on.  However, many of the Salty Nerds are not liking Farscape, because it's too weird or too muppety!  Jim Henson still has a lot of influence on this TV series, and some people don't think that's a good thing!  ...

Hey Everyone!  SEE is back for its third and final season, and the Salty Nerds are here to break down SEE Season 3 Episode 1 - Heavy Hangs The Head. It's been almost a whole year since Jason Momoa left his family behind and walked off into the woods, and a lot has happened since then.  David Hewlett has made some bombs. The war with the Bears Fans has ended.  Kofun witnessed the bir...

Tremors movie review from the Salty Nerds has them debating on whether or not this movie is an underrated classic, or simply a fun monster movie that's gained cult status over the years.   In Tremors (1990), Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, and Michael Gross (whose character Burt Gummer goes on to be the main character of the franchise) fight a bunch of underground graboids that have a hunger for huma...

Hey all you Game of Thrones fans, the Salty Nerds do another expert analysis and breakdown of the GOT prequel series, House of the Dragon on HBO Max! Episode 2 is called "The Rogue Prince" and it seems Prince Daemon is up to some shenanigans while his brother, King Viserys Targaryen, is contemplating marrying a 12 year old.  (Yikes!)  Princess Rhaenyra is trying to assert her power but t...

Carrie 1976 movie review from the Salty Nerds have them discussing Brian de Palma's horror movie masterpiece that successfully adapted Stephen King's first novel into a feminist allegory for smashing the patriarchy.   Sissy Spacek stars as the titular Carrie White.  She's bad at volleyball, doesn't know what a period is, and can movie stuff with her mind.  Nancy Allen is busy hating...

Firestarter movie review from the Salty Nerds has them marveling at just how much Netflix's Stranger Things ripped this movie off.   We all know that the Duffer Brothers were heavily inspired by the work of Stephen King when they were making Stranger Things, but they essentially ripped off the Firestarter 1984 movie starring Drew Barrymore as a child gifted with powerful psychic abilities tha...

Silver Bullet (1985) movie review from the Salty Nerds has them laughing at how terrible the werewolf is in this Stephen King werewolf movie!   Most people probably don't know that Stephen King has a werewolf movie out there, let alone one starring Gary Busey, but it's true!  Corey Haim plays a wheelchair-bound toddler who tries to warn his small Maine town about a rampaging werewolf, al...

The Salty Nerds take a look at Farscape season 1 episode 20, The Hidden Memory, and are totally freaked out by what the muppet did to Chiana in this episode.   When last we left Ben Browder's John Crichton, he was being mercilessly tortured by new bad guy Scorpius.  But now that Aeryn is feeling better, Claudia Black is all about rescuing her favorite Earthing!  Aided by Gilina, the...

Hey everyone - Game Of Thrones is back!  Well, sort of.  House of the Dragon is a prequel to good ol' Game of Thrones, focusing on House Targaryen at the height of their power and the civil war within their house that almost destroyed them and lead to the extinction of the Dragons. Episode 1 feels like vintage Game of Thrones and knows it has a lot to make up for after the abysmal and di...

To celebrate the upcoming release of the last season of SEE, the Salty Nerds break down the latest FULL trailer for the final season of Apple TV's SEE, starring Jason Momoa.  And Stargate Atlantis actor David Hewlett (who is also in SEE) joins us from his super-secret pillow fort in Canada to break things down.   Are you looking forward to SEE season 3 on Apple TV?  Are you a fan of...

The Salty Nerds are joined by actor David Hewlett to react to the latest trailer for Netflix's horror anthology Cabinet of Curiosities - a show produced by Guillermo del Toro where eight directors bring their nightmarish visions to the screen as they take ownership of each episode to scare the living bajeejus out of you.   Though we're not strictly a horror podcast, we do love a good horror m...

The Jason X Movie Review from the Salty Nerds has them marveling at the sheer camp of the tenth entry into the Friday The 13th franchise.  So if you want to smoke some weed and have premarital sex, this is the movie for you!  Sort of.   Jason Voorhees has escaped from the Crystal Lake Research Facility and gets cryogenically frozen, only to be awoken 500 years later.  After kil...

Day Shift review from the Salty Nerds has them marveling over the fact that there's a Netflix Original movie that they actually like for once.   Day Shift, starring Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg, is the type of movie that would spawn if Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blade, and John Wick were all in a wild orgy and had a baby together.  Jamie Foxx is a vampire hunter who needs some quick cash, so...

Leprechaun 4 In Space movie review from the Salty Nerds have them debating as to whether this movie starring Warwick Davis as a fun sized homicidal maniac rampaging through a space ship and wielding lightsabers and bursting through people's peens is secretly brilliant comedy, or one of the worst films ever made.   What started as a joke to spoof the Apollo 13 movie became an actual movie call...

Farscape Season 1 Episode 19 review from the Salty Nerds has them taking a loot at the big two-parter that introduces the audience to the big main villain of the series, Scorpius!   Ben Browder tries to save Claudia Black by infiltrating a Peacekeeper base with Chiana in tow.  John Crichton meets up with his sidepiece Gilina as she helps them infiltrate the stronghold to find a tissue gr...

If you're a fan of horror movies and horror podcasts, then you know that at some point in the life of a horror movie franchise, they GO TO OUTER SPACE once they run out of ideas.  Well, in this episode of the Salty Nerd Podcast, the Nerds talk about that very thing with CRITTERS 4. Starring Angela Bassett, Brad Dourif, Don Keith Opper, and Terrence Mann, this installment of the Critters franc...

Check out the movie that started the Buffy craze - Buffy The Vampire Slayer!  The original vision of everyone's favorite cheerleader-turned-vampire-hunter from Joss Whedon, starring Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, and Rutger Hauer.  This movie was originally more of a serious horror movie, but thanks to studio interference it became more of a comedy, much to...

Farscape Season 1 Episode 7 review from the Salty Nerds has them watching PK Tech Girl - the episode where Crichton gets some side-action from a cute Peacekeeper and makes Aeryn jealous, all the while trying to survive frog-suit space pirates who breathe fire!   This Farscape review and retrospective has the crew of Moya stumbling upon a derelict Peacekeeper warship in the uncharted territori...

Did you know that Jim Carrey's first starring role was as a high school virgin who is slowly being turned into a Vampire by evil (but sexy) Lauren Hutton?  It's True!  The Salty Nerds take a look at the horror movie comedy film mash-up Once Bitten.  Originally written as a starring vehicle for Elvira, this is a film about a vampire Countess who needs to drink the blood of a virgin e...

Prey movie review from the Salty Nerds has them talking about this prequel to the Predator movies from writer/director Dan Trachtenberg.   The Prey Movie has taken a lot of criticism in the build up to its release on HULU for being "woke" and replacing the beefy Arnold Schwarzenegger with the petit Amber Midthunder as the main character who faces off with the Feral Predator.  Is it reall...

What do you get when you try to cross classic horror movies with screwball comedy with a cast of all-stars from the 1980s?  If you said Transylvania 6-5000, you'd be right! This is a movie about two tabloid journalists who go to Transylvania to investigate stories of Frankenstein's monster running loose, and once there the intrepid duo cross paths with vampires, wolfmen, mad scientists, and M...

Hey Nerds!  In this episode we put on facepaint and scream for FREEDOM as they geek out over Mel Gibson and his Oscar-winning movie about the Scottish folk-hero William Wallace.  Yes, this is our Braveheart movie review podcast! Though the film plays a tad fast-and-loose with actual history, this 1995 movie has some epic battle scenes and stirring speeches that have wormed their way into...

Apocalypto movie review from the Salty Nerds has them becoming history buffs in order to understand this "foreign film" by Mel Gibson. Apocalypto is the story of Jaguar Paw and his quest to save his family after a brutal Mayan warband invades his village and captures him and his friends to be taken back to their city to be sold off as slaves and given up for human sacrifice.  Jaguar Paw escap...

Prepare yourself for some space muppet action as the Salty Nerds start reviewing FARSCAPE, the classic sci-fi series from New Zealand that introduced the world to Ben Browder and Claudia Black!  Working with Jim Henson Studios, FARSCAPE takes us to the other end of the galaxy as a IASA Astronaut enters into a wormhole and comes out in the middle of a jailbreak.  Forced to team up with a...

Hacksaw Ridge movie review from the Salty Nerds has them marveling at Andrew Garfield and his touching performance as a World War II medic who refuses to carry a gun while saving everyone he can on the battlefield. Inspired by the true story of Desmond Doss, a contentious objector who enlisted to save lives rather than take them, Mel Gibson directs this movie to perfection.  In addition to An...