Episodes
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Death Race 2000 [1975] & Death Race [2008] - Death Games
one popular genre in the dystopian world is the Death Games, which usually involves rich people pitting poor people to fight to the death for their entertainment. the Death Race movies are no different.
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Akira [1988] Cyberpunk
one of the original cyberpunk movies, Akira brings to us a world full of high tech and low life. punk street gangs and oppressive militaristic corrupt government.
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Total Recall [1990] cyberpunk, oppressive corporate regime, class divide
Did everything in this movie really happen or was it all just a dream? Well get your ass to the podcast to hear Ian, Sloan, Bert, and new guest Sam discuss Total Recall. The movie where corporations can monopolize on air while you can buy the memory of a vacation and hope not to have a schizoid...
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The Substance [2024] - Biopunk
French director Coralie Fargeat brings a gross look at social commentary about women's body standards, addiction, and self hatred mixed in a big bowl of body horror. Ian, Bree, and Jenna talk about the many different themes explored in The Substance aa well as the homage paid to great directors…
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Judge Dredd [1995] & Dredd [2012] - Totalitarian regime, class divide, societal decay
Ian is the law and he's joined by Ryan and Seth to discuss the ever so bad movie Judge Dredd from 1995 and it's much more popular reboot, Dredd from 2012.
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Blade Runner [1982] & Blade Runner 2049 [2019] - Cyberpunk, Biopunk, Corporate Dystopia, Environmental Collapse
Ian is joined by Bree, Daniel, and his lovely wife Amy to discuss the classic cyberpunk dystopian film, Blade Runner and its sequel Blade Runner 2049. Is it ethical to create a race of androids specifically for slave labor? Probably not.
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The many sub-categories of dystopian films - Round Table Discussion - Neon Nexus
In this second episode of the Neon Nexus podcast, Ian is joined by Sloan, Ryan, and Bert as they discuss the many different sub-categories of dystopian films and list the movies that fit within those sub-categories. You've got Totalitarian, post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk, biopunk, Utopian-dystopias,...
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1984 (1984) [Totalitarian Regime/Surveillance State] Neon Nexus
The first episode of the Neon Nexus podcast is here! This is the podcast where host Ian is joined by his friends to review dystopian films and discuss their relevance to society, as well as the warnings for our own future. In this first episode, Ian is joined by friends Sloan and Aaron to discuss...