Under Skylight Theatre Company’s new artistic director Cameron Watson, Kelly Younger’s world-premiere play Rorschach is a cute, whimsical story about ink blots, hidden desires across time, and the mystery behind Hermann Rorschach himself — even if its most compelling love story isn’t the one in the spotlight.
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The NOCs of the Roundtable are joined by special guest Meg to spoiler dive into and review the last four episodes of Avatar: Seven: Havens, Book 1 Survival.
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The Nerds of Newport give their spoiler recap review of the first season of Season 4, starting off with a bang with repercussions for the various characters of the Gilded Age.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Arie and Chuko Esiri’s Clarissa takes Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, moves it to Lagos, and somehow makes the emotional repression feel even more restrictive. With the screenplay written by Chuko Esiri, the film stars Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, Toheeb Jimoh, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ayo Edebiri, and Fortune Nwafor.
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi has always been interested in what happens when two people sit down, really talk, and accidentally change each other’s lives. All of a Sudden takes that instinct and stretches it across France, Japan, illness, caregiving, theater, bureaucracy, and grief, landing on a simple, devastating question: what does it actually mean to be alive?
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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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Lauren, Mike, Michael, and Swara review the latest film out now from DreamWorks, Forgotten Island, directed and written by Januel Mercado and Joel Crawford and starring H.E.R. and Liza Soberano
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We spent a full playthrough of Insomniac’s Wolverine, and like the Spider-Man games before it, the takeaway is simple: they nailed the X-Men — a gore-heavy brawler anchored by a genuinely haunted love story about grief, loss, and finding a reason to keep coming back to life.
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After six films and one reboot, Sony Pictures gave the iconic video game franchise another chance, this time by handing the reins to Zach Cregger and letting him approach Resident Evil less as a direct adaptation and more as a survival-horror experience.
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The long-awaited opening of Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift has finally arrived at Universal Studios Hollywood. From early morning rides, to a reception and a chain-cutting ceremony, the day was filled with all things Fast and Furious.
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We spent the summer catching up on horror classics we’d somehow never seen — from The Lost Boys and Queen of the Damned to The Craft and Lisa Frankenstein — and came away with a lot of thoughts on all four.
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At D23 Expo, we sat in on the panel for Don Hahn’s Huz: Drawn to Life, a Disney+ documentary following longtime animator Ron Husband — a look at perseverance, mentorship, and the Black artists who helped shape Disney Animation.
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Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado, Forgotten Island may draw inspiration from The Hangover, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and even Turning Red, but it never feels content to simply imitate them.
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Despite a mighty and delightful ensemble cast, the Play On Shakespeare’s modern verse translation of William Shakespeare’s Pericles at Boston Court Pasadena is a bit of a head-scratcher.
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Halloween Time returns to Disneyland Resort with new Mickey and Friends costumes, a fresh lineup of spooky snacks, and a taste test of the best seasonal bites at Disney California Adventure Park.
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