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The documentary Nerdcore Rising investigates the newest, wave of hip-hop, nerdcore, as it follows the godfather of the genre, MC Frontalot, on his first national tour. Beginning in South Carolina and culminating in nerd mecca - the Penny Arcade Gaming Convention in Seattle - masses of fans across the country come out to bask in the Front's geek glory as he strives to achieve mainstream success.
Breaking Upwards is about a young New York couple who intricately strategize their own break up.
"...being an Indian actress, lots of our roles are the same, a little bit. You're either playing the nerd or you're playing a doctor. And it's starting to vary more, but you kind of get stuck a little bit in ruts."
"We went through a period of time when if you were of Asian descent, you would play a terrorist or you would play the 7-Eleven guy or you would play that. And then really watch television now. You have Sendhil [Ramamurthy] who's on Heroes. Then you have Parminder Nagra on ER, who's smart and quirky and fun. And, you know, on The L Word, the lady who plays the Latino girl is Indian, too. And it's starting that it doesn't matter. It's just that our culture's part of who we are, so we can show people a little bit of that. But we're also just us, and I think that's the cool part. Basically Divya is interesting because she is a really strong woman, and I do not necessarily have to be Indian to play her.
He's so cute!The movie was definitely not what I thought it would be. I imagined a cute little love story between Wall-e and Eva, what I got was a bunch of human blobs falling off floating chairs and rolling around on their backs like turtles. Weird....but still awesome!
He's a human despising robotic male prostitute suspected of murder who becomes a companion to a young "mecha" boy (who wishes to be human) and his teddy. Slightly inappropriate...but great performance by Jude Law! This is just my opinion..but I feel he did better at playing a robot than Haley Joel Osment. Just saying.
A colossal robot from outer space? COOL! Voiced by Vin Diesel? Unexpected...but it's ok because that movie rocks!
He's the coolest of the autobots. If he's not brought back to life for the third Transformers movie I will boycott Michael Bay films forever!!! Which won't be hard because Transformers is the only Michael Bay film I've ever watched.
The movie version of the heartless tin man is alright. But his actual back story from the book is so much better...he was madly in love with this lady but then he was cursed by the Wicked Witch of the East and he clumsily chops off his limbs one by one and replaces each one with a tin part, until his whole body is made of tin...except he forgot to replace the heart so he can't love his lady anymore. Sad and gruesome, but it's great at the same time.
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With is about a man who has trouble with his job, trouble with women, and uses food to deal with it all.
Mr. Nobody is both the oldest man in the world and the last mortal of a new mankind where nobody dies anymore. But that doesn't seem to interest or bother him very much. The only questions that preoccupy him in the present is whether he lived the right life for himself, loved the woman whom he was supposed to love, and had the children whom he was meant to have... now his purpose is to find the right answer.
Me and You and Everyone We Know is about a lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggling to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
What are your thoughts on why we don't see more films with African American women leads?
It's certainly not for me to answer because I have nothing to do with why the world is as fucked up as it is. It has less to do with TV and movies and more to do with race and history and culture. It's obviously a reflection of the world we live in. Although I still can't believe we have a president who is mixed like me. It's one thing that we have a black president but for me it's even crazier because he's mixed. I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.
I can't believe I'm living in a time where I feel proud of my president where I feel like things are actually positive and people feel good about where our country can be.
I don't know the answer to your question and I don't know if there is one. I plan to keep doing what I'm doing because race is just not a part of the way I look at the world and the way I live my life. I think that was a minor, key thing in the way that Dave and Vendela wrote the script. Verona is mixed and Burt is white but nobody talks about it. That felt realistic to me in my day to day life. People expect race to be an issue and I was raised in a house where it was never as issue. My parents were interested in having us feel like we were normal whatever that is.
Sam has talked about one of the interesting themes of the movie being this interracial theme that's not at all discussed overtly.
Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white. I'm just excited that in a film like this, that mixed people, black people, whatever people are being given the space to be idiosyncratic, and have a breadth of emotions, and not be related back to how that is informed by your being black. It's really liberating to see a piece of material like this out in the world, and i just hope there's more of it. I've been craving that stuff my whole career, and there's not been enough of it. As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I"m about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film. I think that's changing with films like this.
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