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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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 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 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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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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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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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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