Sex Education is back, and it hit the ground running! This season brings our favourite Brits a lot of joy and a lot of heartbreak, and reminds them that their healing is in their own hands. Kicking things off, we learn that since his initial experience with “hand to gland combat,” Otis has developed a…
Continue reading ➞ Sex Education: A Season Of Choices & Consequences
Let’s get down to it. The Oscar noms are always a bit of a mess. In 2016, in response to the #OscarsSoWhite movement started by April Reign, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced its intention to revamp its voting body to better reflect public identity and opinion. It planned to invite 683…
Continue reading ➞ Oscar Voters are Completely Out of Touch with Reality and It Shows
Almost in the exact same hour on Jan 9, two big pieces of Disney news broke: the project departures of Doctor Strange 2 director Scott Derrickson and creator-showrunner Terri Minsky from the Disney Plus revival of Lizzie McGuire. Both exits were said to be based on creative conflict, with both Marvel and Derrickson citing “creative…
Continue reading ➞ Disney’s Problem with Creatives and Creativity
Having already received a fair amount of backlash from Muslim viewers following the release of its trailer, Messiah , on Netflix (aired January 1, 2010) is an interesting watch. The show stars Mehdi Dehbi as the titular Al-Masih and Michelle Monaghan as the CIA agent tasked with deciphering if Dehbi really is who he claims…
Continue reading ➞ Con Man or Christ: Netflix’s Messiah Review (No Spoilers)
NerdyPoC’s Best of the 2010s series comes to a close! Thank you for joining us on this walk down the decade's memory lane. This is our fourth and final installment of our Best of the 2010s series: everything else, a compilation of books, anime, comics, music, and pop culture. If you missed the rest of…
On December 14th, former American Gods actor Orlando Jones announced that on September 10th, he had been let go from the popular adaptation of Neil Geiman's book series. Despite his character Mr. Nancy aka Kwaku Anansi being popular among both readers and fans of the show, he would not be back for the show's third…
Many have been sceptical about the Netflix adaptation of The Witcher and rightly so. It’s not an adaptation of the insanely popular games but of the novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski but I fear fans of the books may be left in the dark as it doesn’t quite manage to capture the essence of…
NerdyPoC’s Best of the 2010s series is back for a look at our favourite video games! This decade brought us the PlayStation 4, X-Box One, the Nintendo Switch and the er – Ouyer. With such fantastic consoles, came fantastic games and a plethora of choices that we narrowed down to our top ten favourite video…
The stakes for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are about as high as they can get for any movie. It's the ninth and apparently final installment in the widely beloved Skywalker saga, part of a globally popular franchise spanning 40 years, eleven movies and TV shows, books, video games—the full works. Such a film…
Continue reading ➞ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’: A Rushed Journey to Little Reward
If you’ve been keeping up with pop culture during the last 20 years, you're probably aware that it's a universally known fact that the Star Wars prequels are bad. Whenever I would mention being a Star Wars fan, the statement would almost always be met with a variation of "but surely not the prequels, those…
Continue reading ➞ The Star Wars Prequels are Good, Actually
