This week we say goodbye to three giants of nerd pop culture — Sir Patrick Stewart, Walter Koenig, and Eric Bauza — before turning, carefully, to the rest of the week: trailers, interviews, reviews, red carpets, and recaps.
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America Ferrera, Xochitl Gomez, and Bill Hader sit down with The Nerds of Color for one of the most chaotic, hilarious interviews the site has ever done ahead of The Cat in the Hat’s November 6th release.
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After last week’s penultimate episode, we’ve reached the end of the road. Episode ten, “No Quiet Life,” is the Dark Matter Season 2 finale, and fittingly, it closes us out with the closing track on Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter album — “Setting Sun.”
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Nikita and Swara hit the red carpet premiere of The Gilded Age Season 4 in New York, talking colorism, classism, and hopes for the season with the cast and EP/writer Sonja Warfield.
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We dig into the final trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, which teases a conspiracy to overthrow Paul Atreides — with Chani potentially playing a role in his downfall.
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Emily Hampshire opens up about discovering E.D.I.T.H.’s painful backstory alongside her character, and what it meant to bring Edith Marks to life in Marvel Television’s VisionQuest.
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The Nerds of Newport are back with a full non-spoiler review of Season 4 of The Gilded Age, recapping where we left off and sharing our thoughts ahead of the November 1 premiere.
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Remembering Eric Bauza, the Filipino Canadian voice actor who brought beloved characters to life and helped shape the future of animation.
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Lauren, Victoria, and Swara discuss the immensely consequential seventh through ninth chapters of Book 1: Survival of Avatar: Seven Havens, diving into the new revelations about Korra and Asami, the spiritual mysteries that continue to deepen and elude us, the state of Ellora, the Faceless as a force to potentially root for, and much more. We also discuss what we think might happen in the final four chapters of Book 1: Survival this upcoming Friday!
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We spoke with Mckenna Grace, Ben Wang, Maya Hawke, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Lili Taylor about introducing a new generation to the world of Panem in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
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We sat down with costume designer Deb Cook, FX lead Ollie Jones, animation head Brad Schiff, cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, and Wildwood author Colin Meloy and illustrator Carson Ellis to talk about bringing LAIKA’s most ambitious film to life.
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There is something immediately unsettling about waking up injured in the back of a moving trailer with absolutely no idea how you got there. That is where Brock Bodell’s Hellcat drops Lena Orchard (Dakota Gorman), and thankfully, the movie does not waste much time letting her, or us, get comfortable.
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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 LAIKA’s 16-years-in-the-making Wildwood to the big screen.
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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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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, 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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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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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 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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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 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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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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