Nirav Gandhi 
Despite my great disappointment in Season 1 of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s beloved animated show, the first episode of Season 2 was so shockingly different under the new showrunners Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani that it has made me hopeful that this version has a reason to exist. Episode … Read more
As a mega fan of Nickelodeon’s Avatar: the Last Airbender, it is probably of no surprise that I was disappointed with the first season of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s show. I was there on day one as an 11-year-old, and since the show finished in 2008 my love for the universe has only grown. … Read more
All my life, I’ve had a hard time trying to connect to my own heritage. I was born and raised in the United States, which was universally common among other Indians my age growing up in South Carolina. But the thing that set me apart is that my mother, fully Indian by race, was also … Read more
If you were on the Internet in the late 2000s/early 2010s, you’ve likely run into Freddie Wong before. Past his own wildly popular YouTube channel back in the day, Wong is the architect of Rocket Jump’s acclaimed short films, the TV Shows Video Game High School and Anime Crimes Division, the comedy writing podcast Story … Read more
I had the amazingly good fortune as an 11 year old boy to be seated in front of the television in our basement on February 21, 2005, for the long-awaited premiere of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Over the past few months, the ads for the new fantasy series had played on Nickelodeon, over and over, … Read more
I must confess first and foremost that Percy Jackson and the Olympians was one of my favorite book series growing up. Throughout middle and high school, I was completely sucked into Rick Riordan’s urban fantasy stories where a world of mythology hides just beneath the surface, and great heroes emerge from otherwise inconspicuous 8th grade … Read more
The absolutely dire state of the DC Extended Universe is no secret to movie buffs, the general public, and even the head honchos at Warner Brothers. James Gunn and Peter Safran were tapped earlier this year to basically tear down the existing franchise flop and head up the new DC Universe, and let’s just say … Read more
Oppenheimer is not about the atomic bomb. Christopher Nolan’s newest blockbuster is, very simply, about a man. A man so confused, broken, irrational, and undependable that by his own admission he could not have managed a hamburger stand. A Jewish man in the time of the Holocaust, who the United States government incorrectly suspected to … Read more
I’ve got a complicated relationship with Tom Cruise. Yes, he is the main financier of a horrific cult and the personal best friend of David Miscavige, one of the most dangerous and deranged men in America. But he is, undeniably, a Movie Star. Capital M, capital S. Tom Cruise is one of the best Blockbuster … Read more
I wanted to be a scientist when I was little. I really, really did. When I was in high school, I wanted even more to be a scientist. To maybe find something no one else had found, even if it was as menial as a trivial adjustment to how much energy our long-distance grids can … Read more
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