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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Amanda Brugel, who plays Blair in Dark Matter Season 2, on hiding in the retro world, the pull of identity across universes, and her pitch for Season 3.
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Mike Flanagan, Summer H. Howell, and Samantha Sloyan on reinventing Stephen King’s most beloved horror story for Prime Video’s new adaptation.
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What immediately sets Once Upon A Time in the Middle East apart from a plethora of war dramas that deal with Southwest Asian conflicts is that not only is this from the Chinese perspective but that the villains are not the “jihadist terrorists” the western media had us fearing for decades. Instead, the villains are the U.S. military itself and with it, the ever-present claws of U.S. imperialism.
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It’s seeing these conversations play out, feeling the warranted anger towards every perpetrator involved in this case, that I find myself thinking about a fictional male character who is a major advocate for girls and women: Eric Draven from the 1994 film, The Crow.
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This week at the NOC: Dominic goes claws-out with Insomniac’s Wolverine game, Forgotten Island keeps the conversation going with a spoiler roundtable and a composer interview, Elijah hits the red carpet for Star Trek’s 60th-anniversary documentary, and the Dark Matter/Pearl Jam recaps continue.
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We pair “Present Tense” and “Waiting for Stevie” with Dark Matter’s latest hour, as Daniela searches for herself at a cabin, Jason starts chasing a life he never had, and Blair and Leighton dig up something big underground.
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We hit the red carpet at the premiere of The Sixty-Year Mission to talk with William Shatner, Terry Farrell, Nana Visitor, John de Lancie, and more about six decades of Star Trek’s legacy — and why the franchise still matters.
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