587. Movie Review: Dark City, Strange Days, The Thirteenth Floor, Looker, Alphaville

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Tom Gerencer join us to discuss the science fiction noir movies Dark City, Strange Days, The Thirteenth Floor, Looker, and Alphaville. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy is made possible thanks to support from listeners like you.
0:05.9	So if you enjoy the show and want it to continue, please support us on Patreon over at patreon.com
0:11.8	slash geeks or via PayPal over at geeksguideshow.com slash crowdfunding.
0:17.5	And I want to give a special thank you to Matt Merton and Jonathan Jaloney, who both
0:21.7	just signed up this week to support us on Patreon. So big thanks again to everyone who's
0:26.2	contributed. We really appreciate it. All right7 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.
0:58.2	Today on the show will be discussing the movie's Dark City, Strange Days, The 13th Floor, Looker, and Alphaville, all of which combine elements of science fiction and film noir.
1:08.7	And this will include spoilers for all of those movies, so just be
1:12.1	aware of that. And I'm joined by three guests. So first up, we've got Andrea Kale, making her 40th
1:18.6	appearance on the show. She's a graduate of the Odyssey Writers Workshop, and her short fiction
1:23.6	appears in the Writers of the Future Anthology, Fantasy Magazine, and Lightspeed.
1:28.2	She's been a television writer, producer, and script supervisor for shows such as Late Night
1:32.7	with Conan O'Brien, The Chew, and WWE's Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown,
1:38.5	and she's currently a writer for Pixelberry Studios. So, Andrea, welcome to the show.
1:43.4	Good to be back, Dave.
1:45.8	The next up we've got Matthew Cressel, making his 37th appearance on the show. He's the author of
1:51.6	the novels, King of Shards, and Queen of Static. In his short story collection,
1:55.7	Histories Within Us is out now from Census 5 Press. Together with Ellen Datole, he hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction
2:02.1	Reading Series in New York City. So I'm out. Welcome to the show. Thanks, Dave. Good to be back.
2:08.8	And also joining us today is Tom Gorencer, making his 34th appearance on the show. He's the author
2:14.7	of the business book Think Like Google. The short story collection intergalactic refrigerator repairmen seldom carry cash and the popular science book How It's Made, which he wrote for the Discovery Channel.
2:26.5	His middle grade novel The Magic Ski Mountain is out now.
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