The Nerds of Color have received an exclusive clip of tonight’s St. Denis Medical episode, ‘Listen to Your Ladybugs.’ The clip features Val (Kaliko Kauahi) tending to a dementia patient who suffered a fall and repeating the phrase, “You don’t have to be good.”
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In the first few minutes of Picture This, the main protagonist, Pia (Simone Ashley), tells her conservative mother (Sindhu Vee) that she wants to focus on her career as a photographer who owns her studio rather than get married. “I’m building a life for myself on my own,” says Pia. “I don’t need a man to do that.”
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In every Hollywood story, screenwriters and directors are often told to “write what you know.” So that’s what Extremely Unique Dynamic co-directors Harrison Xu and Ivan Leung did.
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At first glance, Disney Pixar’s Win or Lose looks very similar to the popular award-winning films Inside Out and Inside Out 2, centering on the emotions of tweens and teens and their stories as their softball championship game approaches. Yet, it doesn’t just focus on the children on the team but also their parents and the adults around them as they deal with real-life problems like love, heartbreak, dating, parenthood, and still trying to figure things out. Spoilers follow.
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Stories based on or inspired by true events — that center Asians — are often ignored or given whitewashed treatment, as in the 2008 film 21. It takes an independent studio and team to tell these kinds of stories fully, like Justin Lin’s 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow and now – Sing J. Lee’s The Accidental Getaway Driver.
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It’s about time we get a South Asian mobster family series! I’ve seen too many Italian mafia shows, so it’s exciting to finally see a Pakistani American family at the center of the story, using a deli as a front.
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In the early days of the internet, online gamers didn’t have the best social reputation. There were plenty of these negative stereotypes of gamers and geeks/nerds back in the day. Geek and gaming culture weren’t seen as popular back then as they are now.
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It’s hard to deny South Korean media’s impact on Western audiences. Over the past several years, Korean culture, also known as K-culture, has grown in popularity.
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There has been much discussion within the Star Trek Universe about the morality and ethics of the Starfleet clandestine operatives of Section 31.
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Actor Rich Ting has several career goals — two of which include being on a Dick Wolf-produced series and staying in Los Angeles County, where he was born and raised — to film. With Prime Video’s On Call, Ting gets to do precisely that.
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Hulu just released the first-look images from the new original scripted Deli Boys, which premieres Thursday, March 6 on Hulu.
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Wicked director Jon M. Chu has long been fascinated with the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Growing up in San Francisco as a child of immigrants, Chu saw the Yellow Brick Road as the path toward the dream, leading to the Wizard, who could fulfill these wishes.
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Disneyland welcomed Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Attraction on November 15 in the newly renamed Bayou Country (formerly Critter Country). Based on the 2009 animated film The Princess and the Frog, the ride tells the story of Princess Tiana and her upbringing (and entrepreneurship) in New Orleans in the 1920s.
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The Star Wars universe has always been seen in extremes — from the desolate sand towns to the gritty, grimy streets and the extravagant and luxurious worlds. There is rarely a middle ground. What is most intriguing about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is how suburban and ordinary a Star Wars world could be.
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There are many superlatives that best describe Michelle Yeoh: Legendary. Iconic. Stunning. Talented. Brilliant. And, now… Triple Threat.
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Since 1966, Ultraman has been a popular character from Japan. Over 100 television series, movies, specials, and video games have been made based on the Ultra series.
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Unsurprisingly, Asian Americans make up one-fifth of all U.S. physicians, medical academics, students, and trainees. They also make up 8.9% of registered nurses, half of whom are of Filipino descent. Yet, television series about the medical world tend to forget that Asians exist in medicine.
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Details were provided by NOC Reporter Sophia Soto, who is covering NYCC. 2024. Spoilers ahead.
Sony Pictures has released more images of Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Marvel’s Kraven The Hunter. At this year’s NYCC, Director JC Chandor took to the stage to reveal the images and the first seven minutes of the film.
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Ahead of its New York Comic Con panel, Sony has released the title and poster of the anticipated Karate Kid film, starring the franchise’s living legends: Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso and Jackie Chan as Mr. Han. The title of the new movie is Karate Kid: Legends.
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Vijal Patel has worked in the family sitcom genre for many years. Having produced popular family shows like The Middle, Blackish, and The Kids Are Alright, Patel was offered to tell his own story based on his Indian family’s experiences in Pittsburgh. Yet, The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh isn’t your typical family sitcom.
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Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* just released a teaser trailer and poster featuring depressed baddies Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) alongside the MCU’s least anticipated band of misfits — Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and Bob (Lewis Pullman).
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From the mind (and, sort of, life) of Vijal Patel, the executive producer behind Black-ish, The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh follows the Pradeep family — father Mahesh (Naveen Andrews), mother Sudha (Sindhu Vee) and their three kids: Bhanu (Sahana Srinivasan), Kamal (Arjun Sriram), and Vinod (Ashwin Sakthivel) — and their life after moving to America from India.
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Wicked: Part One is almost here! As one of the year’s most anticipated films, Universal released a new trailer, giving audiences a glimpse into the lives of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) and their magical friendship, which eventually turned into what we know from L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz.
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