Permanent Nerd Network

Hayao Miyazaki, creator of your favorite films, turns 80.

Broadway musicals are so much fun. The music sweeps us away, as do stunning visuals and vocals. Hamilton so far has been the best one in…

Rocketman seemed to better capture what being LGBTQ is like than Bohemian Rhapsody did, all power to Rami Malek for a spectacular. acting…

Final Fantasy VII is back, and better than ever.

It seems that most American shows have a shrinking episode. We have the Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchise to thank for that. Since then…

The world is falling apart around us. What we do, we do together.

Maia is an accomplished seamstress, but can never get respect for it. One of her brothers dies in war, and the second arrives home with a…

Having acne is such a curse and not necessarily a gift. I have many memories of trying painful creams and some antibiotics to reduce the…

Love is difficult.

World Building is one of my absolute favorite parts of writing a novel.

Some novels make you think about the what-ifs, and what you have going forward. Others help you decide that you are drifting and need a…

Living in conjunction with nature while appreciating and fighting for the good of humanity is a future we can work toward together.

Knives Out is decidedly the perfect Thanksgiving weekend film. A bottle-episode whodunit featuring a distraught, angry, upper-class family…

[TW: Suicide, Self-Harm, Abuse]

Right now things are scary. I’m not going to lie about that. But we can all do our part to reduce the risk of potential spread. That…

The best part of Blasphemous, without any fanfare, is its pixel art design.

I like Will Ferrell when he’s trying not to be a manchild. It is one of his shticks but I like him better when he’s either playing the…

We got a premiere of a reboot that seems to be an apology for all the terrible ones that preceded them. After a few teaser trailers that…

When you read fantasy, for me at least I want to dive into another world and forget this one. You also want to believe that you’re…

I’m a person that keeps soundtracks on my phone. They help me focus on writing and remind me of the stories that each musical note carries…

Steven Universe Future covers how sometimes the past can hold us back. You want to look forward, but baggage and the people you’ve hurt…

Fittingly, today is National Princess Day. It was created by the Swan Princess producers, who wanted to promote their film. Unfortunately…

2015 and 2016 were tough; I was in business school, my older brother had moved to Philadelphia to complete his ophthalmology fellowship…

The novel Fahrenheit 451 has two afterwords where Ray Bradbury revealed he wrote new scenes for the stage version of the play. He…