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A Mutant from Planet Cripton, An Origin
In 1974, a baby arrived in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana from the planet Cripton. She looked like the offspring of two Chinese immigrants, Ma and Pa Wong, but something was different.
The Earth’s gravitational force made it difficult for this baby to raise her head. She couldn’t crawl and went straight from sitting to walking. Perplexed, Ma and Pa Wong took their baby to the doctor and found out: she is a mutant from Cripton!
This is her origin story.
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‘The Boys’ Get Brutal and Bloody for One Final Season
Oi, lads! The final season of The Boys has officially superhero landed this week. While we were able to bring you our conversation with the savage and sadistic members of The Seven earlier this week, today we are proud to bring you the other side of the coin, with our conversations with Butcher and The Boys themselves, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Karen Fukuhara, Erin Moriarty, Laz Alonso, and (as a bonus) Jensen Ackles!
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The Seven Get Savage for ‘The Boys’ Season 5
What do you get when you take a narcissistic figurehead for your country with a fragile ego, give him power he shouldn’t have, give him an army of followers to round up his critics, and allow him to cut loose doing whatever he wants with that power? Well in addition to America in 2026, you get the world of The Boys.
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A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Level Up!’
Gabriel Rivas Gomez‘s Level Up!, now having its world premiere at the Latino Theater Company, is a cute and ambitious multimedia-heavy play that is unfortunately bogged down by too many storylines.
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We Need to Talk About Gilead… with ‘The Testaments’ Star Birva Pandya
The world of The Handmaid’s Tale has always been unsettling, but The Testaments reframes that discomfort in a way that feels even more intimate.
What happens when control isn’t something imposed on you, but something you’re raised to accept?
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A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
Nocturne Theatre’s Jesus Christ Superstar has not only reinvigorated this classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with their astounding production work and talent but through conscious & well thought-out casting decisions, has given it urgent relevancy in the world we live today.
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‘Maul — Shadow Lord’ is a Strong Yet Perplexing ‘Star Wars’ Animated Series
It’s common knowledge that the Star Wars fandom is an extremely divisive one. However, if there’s one aspect of the nearly 50-year-old franchise that most are on the same page about is that the animated series succeed at doing what several of the live-action series don’t always nail: impeccable storytelling, effortless world building, and the bravery to go deep on spiritual and morality-related subject matter.
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Anna Cathcart and Sang Heon Lee Talk the ‘XO Kitty’ Ending and More
Anna Cathcart and Sang Heon Lee chat with The Nerds of Color’s Jacki Jing to talk about the ending of the third season of XO Kitty, what they think Kitty and Minho would watch — KPop Demon Hunters or Singles’ Inferno, and their love for the fans of the show. Cathcart says Kitty would watch BOTH intensely, and Minho would secretly love it.
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‘Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat’ Star LaNisa Renee Frederick Talks Representation
LaNisa Renee Frederick stars in the new season of Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat on Prime Video. We had the chance to speak with her about how this role came to life and what audiences can take away from her journey and experiences as an artist.
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‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ is Non-Stop Cinematic Confetti
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out this week, already poised to keep making bank by turning more game nostalgia into a pumped-up franchise for Nintendo and Universal Pictures. Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) reprise their roles as the Mushroom Kingdom’s go-to plumbers to fix and fight well… anything you’ve seen in the games you grew up playing.
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Author Traci Saulsberry on Finding Meaning in ‘This is How You Love Her’
Traci Saulsberry sits with The Nerds of Color to discuss overcoming hardship and finding meaning throughout her life’s experiences in This is How You Love Her: A Journey to Radical Self Love.
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How Supergirl Inspired this Brown Immigrant Child
Growing up in the US as an Iraqi Kurdish/West Asian Muslim kid in the ‘90s here in the US, pre-heroes like Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel), Zari Tarazi of DC’s Legend of Tomorrow, Khalid Nassour (Dr. Fate), and Green Lantern Simon Baz coming up in the 2000s and 2010s, you rarely, if ever, saw heroes on screen you could identify with.
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Official ‘Masters of the Universe’ Trailer is a Revelation
After the teaser trailer set the intenet ablaze back in January, Amazon MGM Studios has finally dropped an official trailer for the upcoming live action Masters of the Universe to give viewers a better sense of the movie’s story and better look at its characters.
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Directors Januel Mercado and Joel Crawford on the Filipino Roots of ‘Forgotten Island’
What a week it has been for Filipino representation! Last Wednesday, we got our first glimpse of Dreamworks Animation’s Forgotten Island. On Friday, we unveiled our intimate interview with superstars H.E.R and Liza Soberano. And today, we’re continuing the streak with our conversation with the directors of Forgotten Island and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Januel Mercado and Joel Crawford!
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The Middle Geeks Episode 78: Interview with ‘Palestine 36’ Director Annemarie Jacir
We interview acclaimed Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir on her latest film, Palestine 36, which debuts in US theaters this weekend.
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‘Scooby-Doo’ to Clash with the Universal Monsters for Universal Fan Fest Nights
This brand-new backlot experience lets guests step off of the Studio Tour tram and into the thrilling world of a Scooby-Doo mystery.
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Feeling the Filipino Pride with H.E.R and Liza Soberano from ‘Forgotten Island’
This week, Dreamworks Animation and Universal dropped a historic trailer for Filipino film fans everywhere. They revealed the first official look at their latest feature, Forgotten Island; Hollywood’s first Filipino-centric animated feature.
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‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ is a Rousing Call for Humanity to Take Action
Artificial Intelligence, or “AI,” is an intentionally misrepresented term. A vast collection of machine learning algorithms using vast quantities of human-made data for predictive analytics, it is ultimately more simple than we’re led to believe. Mainly this is the design of the capitalist tech CEOs who insist that towering and complicated AI simply must be part of our daily lives when in most ways we have no practical use for it and we can get by.
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‘Bluey’ Has Arrived at Disneyland: What Fans Need to Know
The Disneyland Resort has officially welcomed Bluey to its theme park universe. The debut of Bluey’s Best Day Ever drew in massive crowds of fans who flocked to Walt Disney’s original theme park during the spring break opening weekend of the experience. As vacation season gets in full swing, expect lines from rope drop at park open, a constantly packed pit of kids on the immersive dance floor, and full houses for performances on peak days.
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How Dreamworks’ ‘Forgotten Island’ Fosters Filipino Culture and Folklore
I am a proud Filipino American nerd. As such, I grew up here in the US searching for, but never quite finding, mainstream Hollywood movies that propelled the voice of the Filipino community strongly.
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A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Kim’s Convenience’
Though Kim’s Convenience, now having its run at Center Theatre Group, is enjoyable in its many funny and touching moments, Ins Choi‘s 2011 play is very much outdated in its necessity to showcase Korean identity and culture that is completely catered to white people.
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‘Bait’ Stars Riz Ahmed and Guz Khan on Finding Humor in Existential Crises
In Prime Video’s Bait, Riz Ahmed plays Shah Latif, a struggling actor who finds himself at the center of media attention for potentially being the next James Bond.
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New Live-Action ‘Moana’ Trailer and Featurette Spotlight Cultural Artistry
It was only a matter of time before Walt Disney Animation Studios set its sights on adapting its more recent classics into live-action. Now, a new trailer for Moana offers another glimpse at how the studio is reinterpreting one of its biggest hits, while a new featurette celebrates the live-action reimagining’s artistry.
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‘The Gates’ is a Tense Study of Race, Power, and Belonging
A gated community is supposed to represent safety. Order. Protection from the chaos of the outside world. But The Gates quickly reveals that promise to be something else entirely.
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