Hard N.O.C. Life

With Disney's live action remake of Aladdin about to hit theaters worldwide, Keith is joined by Swara Salih and Mae Abdulbaki to discuss the film's issues with representation and announce  The Middle Geeks their new podcast on the Hard NOC Media network ! All this and more on Hard NOC Life ! Watch it on your screen, hit "play," and check this. Subscribe to all of the podcasts in the Hard NOC Media...

This week on Hard NOC Life , Dominic Mah returns as guest co-host to join Keith for additional spoilery Endgame thoughts. This time with more  Spider-Man: Far From Home ! The release of the new Far From Home trailer prompted Keith and Dominic to discuss their favorite incarnations of live action Spider-Man (spoiler: it isn't Tobey) and explore the possibilities of a multiverse for the MCU. They al...

After it demolished box office records around the globe, we finally talk about Avengers: Endgame ! Though the film has been out for more than a week, you should be aware that the discussion will be filled with spoilers throughout. This week, Keith is once again joined by Dominic Mah to discuss the decade-long journey through the Marvel Cinematic Universe and whether Endgame is a fitting tribute to...

One year ago this weekend, WICOMICON rose from the ashes of Universal FanCon and saved the day for hundreds of vendors, guests, and attendees who were making their way to Baltimore. On this episode of Hard NOC Life , Keith reunites Uraeus , one of the organizers of the event, to reminisce about what went in to pulling off a convention with one-week's notice. All this and more on Hard NOC Life ! Wa...

On a new episode of Hard NOC Life , our intrepid Star Wars correspondent Constance Gibbs reports back on her snowy adventure in Chicago for Star Wars Celebration. Constance tells Keith about her first Celebration experience and being surrounded by Star Wars fans that actually weren't terrible . She also talks about being in the room for the Episode IX panel , including a breakdown of the Rise of S...

There are two superhero movies dominating the box office right now, and they both happen to have the same name -- well, historically at least. Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel starring Brie Larson and Warner Bros.' Shazam! starring Zachary Levi both center around a superhero named Captain Marvel, though neither use that name in their respective movies. On a recent episode of the DC TV Classics podca...

In this bonus episode of Hard NOC Life, Keith talks to the creator of #OscarsSoWhite,  April Reign , on the eve of the Academy Awards as she prepares to attend her first ever Oscars ceremony! All this and more on Hard NOC Life ! Watch it on your screen, hit "play," and check this. Subscribe to all of the podcasts in the Hard NOC Media family on Apple Podcasts , Google Play , NPR One , and now on S...

It a Hard NOC crossover as Desi Geek Girls' co-host (and YA author ) Preeti Chhibber joins in on Hard NOC Life to talk about South Asian representation and more! Keith and Preeti start by praising the new TBS sitcom Miracle Workers  starring Daniel Radcliffe and Geraldine Viswanathan, who's also a standout in the crop of films featuring Indian American actresses and directors at Sundance. Then, th...

Hard NOC Life this week to break down the news of the 2019 Oscar nominations! Keith and Valerie kick it off by discussing Black Panther' s groundbreaking Best Picture nomination --  Superhero Oscar obsession and Keith's quirky --  Roma' s chances for winning the top prize, the controversies surrounding Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody in the race, and snubbing of Barry Jenkins and If Beale Street...

Hard NOC Life is all new for 2019! Shawn returns to talk about his thoughts on Aquaman  and Into the Spider-Verse , before he and Keith reveal what's Nerd Poppin for 2019, including movies like The Kid Who Would be King , Glass , Hellboy , Captain Marvel , Shazam , Avengers: Endgame and television series like Stranger Things , Deadly Class , and the offerings on the DC Universe streaming service ....

For the last Hard NOC Life of 2018, Keith is joined by actor, writer, filmmaker, and professional nerd Jon Lee Brody to recap the year in superheroes in film and television. Jon shares about his experiences at the Hollywood premiere of Aquaman and what it was like getting his start in the industry on the set of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight . They also rank the best superhero films of the ye...

Recorded live at The Hatch in Downtown Oakland, Hard NOC Life is back! Joining Keith are Robyn from TARBIS and YOMYOMF's Dominic . Since the show has been on hiatus, the panel takes time to remember Stan Lee and share their favorite cameos from the last two decades of comic book movies (2:30), with a brief detour into an epiphany Robyn had about Joss Whedon (6:00). They also break down the pros an...

Hard NOC Life will be going on a brief hiatus. But before it does, Keith and Shawn have to break down the election, its relation to Nerd Pop, and a special announcement about the podcast. After one of the most consequential mid-term elections in modern history, Keith and Shawn put on their politics nerd hats to discuss the results (1:00). Then, Shawn contemplates the role of fandom in our new poli...

It's a special post-Halloween edition of Hard NOC Life ! Keith and Shawn share their kids' trick-or-treating experiences and discuss what is and what isn't a racist Halloween costume (1:00). Then, Shawn shares his complicated thoughts on the new Greg Berlanti-produced Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series on Netflix (11:30). Later, they go over some of the major shake ups in blockbuster movie sche...

This week on Hard NOC Life : Marvel cancels more Netflix shows and opinionated writers; 1990 Flash is Reborn on The CW, and Doctor Who has a very special Civil Rights episode. Keith and Shawn start with Marvel's controversial firing of  Star Wars writer Chuck Wendig (1:00) and the uncomfortable intersection between fandom and trolling (5:30). Then, they try to understand why Netflix and Marvel can...

Iron Fist  is cancelled ,  Titans  is launched ,  and Superman returns to The CW! All this and more on a new episode of Hard NOC Life . Keith and Shawn start by going into why Netflix cancelled  Iron Fist . First, Keith explains why he has complicated feelings about it (1:00), and Shawn describes how they should just turn it into Daughters of the Dragon (3:00). In happier superhero TV news, they g...

Shawn returns to Hard NOC Life to go over the latest and greatest developments in Nerd World. Keith and Shawn kick off with a discussion about some of the news coming out of New York Comic-Con, including Attack the Block alum Jodie Whittaker's turn in  Doctor Who (2:00), the trailers for Daredevil Season 3 -- with a slight tangent into Ben Affleck and Batman v Superman (4:30) -- and Star Trek: Dis...

Since October is officially Filipino American Heritage Month and Inktober, who better to guest host Hard NOC Life than artist Glenn Urieta ?!! Glenn joins Keith to discuss their New York Comic-Con FOMO (1:00) and working together on a  Hamilton  lyric-inspired story for Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez's Ricanstruction anthology (2:00). They then go into the news of the week, including the announcement o...

Extra Hard NOC Life this week! Foxy Jazzabelle goes one-on-one with the director of the new hit comedy starring Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart, Malcolm D. Lee! All this and more on Hard NOC Life ! Watch it on your screen, hit "play," and check this. Subscribe to all of podcasts in the Hard NOC Media family on Apple Podcasts , Google Play , and TuneIn Premium ! Support us on Patreon ! As always, ou...

This week on Hard NOC Life , Shawn and Keith are joined by We're Not All Ninjas co-host Melissa Slaughter to run down all the trailers that just dropped this week (there are so many, we didn't get to talk about Creed II or X-Men: Dark Phoenix )! Shawn, Keith, and Melissa start the show sharing their favorite trailers before deep-diving into each of them (2:00). They start off discussing last week'...

In this bonus edition of Hard NOC Life , Keith speaks to two Friends of the NOC about their respective Kickstarter projects. Up first, comic book creator Greg Pak returns to discuss the launch of his Kickstarter for The Princess Who Saved Her Friends (1:00). Later, actress and filmmaker Lynn Chen returns to Hard NOC Life to talk about crowdfunding her directorial debut I Will Make You Mine (30:00)...

This week on Hard NOC Life , Keith is joined by his DC TV Classics co-host Britney Monae to fill in for Shawn as they break down the week in Nerd Pop. They kick it off with a discussion about Henry Cavill's apparent departure from the role of Superman (1:00), then transition into the personal hell Olivia Munn has had to suffer through while promoting her new film The Predator (6:45). The pod brief...

This week on Hard NOC Life , Shawn and Keith discuss the news from the waning days of summer, including Childish Gambino's latest, the new Jack Ryan series on Amazon, and the reveal of Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel . Shawn kicks it off with a discussion of Eminem's latest album (1:00) and Childish Gambino's brand new " Feels Like Summer " video (3:00) with a brief digression int...

On a new Hard NOC Life , Shawn and Keith are joined by Detective Comics writer Bryan Edward Hill to discuss all things Batman! Shawn and Keith kick off the show by running down the latest Batman casting rumors, including the (now defunct) news that Alec Baldwin is playing a Trump-like take on Thomas Wayne in Todd Phillips' Joker movie and Oscar Isaac's potential role in Matt Reeves' The Batman (1:...

Hard NOC Life with Shawn Keith return from a brief hiatus to share what's Nerd Poppin' this week. This week, Keith reveals what it was like watching  Crazy Rich Asians on opening night with a theater full of non-Asians (1:00) and why Michelle Yeoh deserves an Oscar nomination to make up for being snubbed for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2001 (3:00).  Shawn and Keith then take a deep dive in s...