NOC Week in Review #16: 10/17-23/2026
This week: Midnight Mass with Sana Saeed, the cast of Crystal Lake, Wildwood, Avatar: Seven Havens, Jimmi Simpson on Dark Matter, and a profile on documentarian Michael Joseph McDonald.
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Travis Knight, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, and Jacob Tremblay on Bringing ‘Wildwood’ to Life
Travis Knight, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, and Jacob Tremblay on bringing LAIKA’s 16-years-in-the-making Wildwood to the big screen.
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NOC Recaps ‘Dark Matter’ S2, E9: Got to Give
Episode nine thrusts us back into the main narrative, as Jason and Jason2’s long-awaited confrontation, MacNamara’s interrogations, and a doomed utopian world all build toward the season’s finale — pairing fittingly with Pearl Jam’s “Got to Give.”
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The Stars of ‘Crystal Lake’ Talk Prequels, the Horror Genre, and More
While covering New York Comic Con 2026, The Nerds of Color participated in roundtable conversations with the cast of Crystal Lake, including Linda Cardellini, Will Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins, Gwendolyn Sundstrom, and Callum Vinson. All episodes are now streaming on Peacock.
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Jimmi Simpson Talks Multiversal Chemistry in ‘Dark Matter’ Season 2
Jimmi Simpson, who plays Ryan Holder in Dark Matter Season 2, discusses playing multiple versions of the same man and his on-screen chemistry with Alice Braga. Plus we’re still fanboying over his own Late Show alter ego.
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The Middle Geeks Episode 82: The Harrowing Relevance of ‘Midnight Mass’ with Sana Saeed
Joining us to speak on all the various themes of Flanagan’s piece is acclaimed journalist and media commentator Sana Saeed, who discusses the use of religious fervor, the outstanding Muslim representation in Rahul Kohli’s sheriff character, what Midnight Mass says about our world today, and much more.
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NOCs of the Roundtable Review ‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ Episodes 4-6
Lauren, Swara, and special guest Maryam review and discuss the episodes 4-6 of Avatar: Seven Havens, breaking them down in full spoilers.
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Michael Joseph McDonald on Holding a Camera Responsibly in ‘6,000 Waiting’
Michael Joseph McDonald did not come to filmmaking because he grew up obsessed with movies. In fact, he barely watched them. What eventually pulled him behind a camera was something much less romantic: watching someone be denied the ability to move freely through the world.
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NOC Week in Review #15: 10/10-16/2026
This week on the NOC: reviews for Ray Gunn, Avatar: Seven Havens, VisionQuest, dispatches from Hexed, Street Fighter, Whalefall, and Tenzing. Plus another Dark Matter recap.
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Genden Phuntsok and Tom Hiddleston Discuss the Brotherhood of ‘Tenzing’
Genden Phuntsok and Tom Hiddleston star in Tenzing, which is now playing in select theaters and streaming on Apple TV. We discussed what stood out to them about how Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary became a team and learning from each other.
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Project CETI’s Biology Lead Shane Gero on ‘Whalefall’ and Whale Research
Whale biologist and Dominica Sperm Whale Project founder Shane Gero joins us to break down whether Whalefall’s premise could really happen, and what his research reveals about sperm whales.
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NOC Recaps ‘Dark Matter’ S2, E8: Something Special
Episode eight’s bottle-episode detour finally gives Margo Martindale’s Laurel an origin story — and somehow turns into one about being a parent, which pairs fittingly with Pearl Jam’s “Something Special.”
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‘VisionQuest’ is a Digital Fugitive Thriller in Search of Identity
VisionQuest reunites Paul Bettany and James Spader as Vision and Ultron in a genre-bending, cyberpunk fugitive thriller that brings Vision’s existential journey full circle.
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‘Whalefall’ Team Dives into Relationships, Perseverance, and Emotion
Whalefall is a gripping and emotional examination of grief, relationships, and moving forward through hardship. We had a chance to speak with actors Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin, director Brian Duffield, and author/co-writer Daniel Kraus about bringing this heart-wrenching story to the big screen.
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‘Street Fighter’ Cast Lightning Kicks Its Way to Theaters
We sit down with Street Fighter stars Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, and Callina Liang to talk training, their characters, and bringing the beloved fighting game to the big screen.
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‘Hexed’ Filmmakers on Visual Storytelling, Cutting Great Jokes, and Blink-182 Puns
We talk to the directors, writers, and producers behind Disney’s Hexed about shaping Billie and Alice’s mother-daughter story, the visual language of Hexe, and the Blink-182-inspired scene names they almost didn’t admit to.
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‘Hexed’ Early Preview: Inside Disney Animation’s New World of Witches and Family Secrets
The Nerds of Color joined a group of journalists at Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California, for an early look at Hexed, where directors Fawn Veerasunthorn and Jason Hand, co-director Josie Trinidad, producers Roy Conli and Yvett Merino, and writers Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller pulled back the curtain to reveal a few of the tricks behind the magic of the film’s story, characters, and creative process.
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NOCs of the Roundtable Review the First Three Episodes of ‘Avatar: Seven Havens’
Lauren, Swara, and special guest Neebz of the Salaam Nerds Podcast give a full on SPOILER review for the first three episodes of Avatar: Seven Havens, diving into everything great about the series so far, the mysteries it’s setting up, its broadening of Asian cultural incorporation, and much more.
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NOC Review: ‘Ray Gunn’ is a Brad Bird Blast
Ray Gunn is Brad Bird’s first film since 2018’s Incredibles 2. So does it soar to the same heights as his classics? Let’s just say in a movie that features flying cars and jet packs, you better believe it!
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NOC Week in Review #14: 10/3-9/2026
This week at the NOC: Lauren reflects on The Crow and accountability, Edward reviews China’s answer to the Iraq War film, Mike goes deep on Flanagan’s Carrie with the creative team and cast, we catch up with Amanda Brugel to talk Dark Matter and Pearl Jam, and Josephine previews CatCon.
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The Cast of ‘Carrie’ on the Bloody Truth About Bullying
The Nerds of Color sat down with the ensemble cast of Mike Flanagan’s Carrie — Amber Midthunder, Matthew Lillard, Alison Thornton, Josie Totah, Joel Oulette, and Arthur Conti — to talk about bullying, kindness, and why Stephen King’s story is still as relevant as ever.
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CatCon 2026 is Coming To Pasadena Right Meow on October 10-11
If you’re a cat lover in the Los Angeles area, you’re going to love CatCon as it is the world’s largest event dedicated solely to the intersection of cats and pop culture!
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NOC Recaps ‘Dark Matter’ S2, E7: Running
The latest episode of Apple TV’s Dark Matter starts to pick up some of the dangling plot threads from earlier
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