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Nerdspresso Phase II Episode 1: Back in Beige
Sign Up For the Southpoint Access Newsletter! Join Jeff Stanford, the nerd behind Nerdspresso, and South Durham’s neighborhood news guy, Wes Platt, for the latest iteration of this celebration of all things nerdy. It’s Nerdspresso, Phase II! In the first episode, we talk about the origins of this podcast, Jeff’s fandom fanaticism, and the toxic…
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[Nerdspresso] I Have Seen the Future – It’s Very Beige
Sign Up For the Southpoint Access Newsletter! Star Trek premiered on TV in 1966 and disappeared from the airwaves just three years later. It found a second life in reruns and as we all know, the rest is history. Star Trek became an iconic franchise, giving birth to a dedicated fanbase and a multimedia legacy…
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[Nerdspresso] Drinking Raindrops While Talking to Gorillas on My Congo Vacation
Michael Crichton was THE Man in the mid-90’s. After grinding it out for decades as a science fiction writer and b-movie director, Mike hit it big with the one-two punch of Jurassic Park on the big screen and ER on TV. Those blockbusters made him the writer du jour and his books flew off the shelves as Hollywood rushed…
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[Nerdspresso] Movies to Soothe Your Turkey Day Food Coma
This Thanksgiving, we will all get to a time following the big family meal when we stare across the desecrated battlefield that was our Thanksgiving dinner and wonder what’s next. The turkey’s been picked over, you’re stuffed with stuffing, the empty bowl of mashed potatoes is mocking you and we’re not even going to talk…
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[Nerdspresso] Bone Tomahawk Still Hits Hard
While cruising Netflix recently, a movie popped up that I haven’t watched in a while so I queued it up for a rewatch. I did so with some trepidation. Not because it isn’t good, but because it’s so intense. Bone Tomahawk has a sterling cast and a compelling story, but it pulls you into some…
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[Nerdspresso] Remembering Teri Garr
We lost a national treasure recently when Teri Garr passed away at the age of 79. My first real memory of her was from a Star Trek rerun I watched as a kid in the mid-70’s. She played a secretary for some time-traveling alien super spy that encounters Kirk and Spock when the Enterprise goes…
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[Nerdspresso] Forgetting Mrs. Tingle
Cruising the streaming channels for what to watch is like combing the beach with a metal detector. Sometimes you find a gold coin, but often you just unearth a discarded tin can. While perusing Paramount+ recently, I stumbled across a title that I hadn’t thought about since the late nineties. A flick that I had…
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[Nerdspresso] Fill Your Halloween Movie Treat Bucket
Halloween just wasn’t my jam growing up. I was a squeamish and fussy kid so I didn’t enjoy being scared or dressing up for trick or treating. Keep in mind that I was a child in the ‘70s so our costumes were those plastic outfits. They felt like a cross between cling wrap and a…
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[Nerdspresso] Terror in the Tar Heel State
Before I wax poetic about filmmaking in the great state of North Carolina, let me share a little bit about my own experiences in the movie business. I graduated from a small liberal arts college with a creative writing degree in 1991 and returned home to make my fortune in the worlds of film and…
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[Nerdspresso] Anemic Salem’s Lot Adaptation Lacks Teeth
It’s Halloween time and there’s a new version of Salem’s Lot, the classic Stephen King vampire story, playing on MAX right now if you’re in the mood. The streamer is rolling out a ton of scary flicks for this time of year so you can kick off the season big time. If you are a…
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[Nerdspresso] Kenny Rogers and a “Six Pack” of Orphans
Let’s take a moment and look back on the cultural impact of Kenny Rogers. Before he was famous for fast-food rotisserie chicken and a bad eye lift, Kenny was a pretty big deal in country music. He had a string of hits with evocative “story songs” like “The Gambler,” “Ruby,” and “The Coward of the…
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[Nerdspresso] Taking Another Swig of Beetlejuice
Legacy sequels are all the rage these days. Indiana Jones played with his dial of destiny and Tom Cruise went all maverick. Everything old is new again as Hollywood raids Gen X’s memory banks for the next IP to plunder for fat sequel cash. Not that I’m complaining. Having grown up with these characters, it’s…
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