Mandy Kaplan is an actress, voice-over artist, singer, writer, and ninja living in LA. Her voice can be heard in hundreds of commercials/video games/audiobooks, and her face can be seen starring in the feature film 30 Nights of Sex available on Tubi, which she co-wrote and produced. Her hilarious cabaret Miscast: Right Singer, Wrong Song has been running in LA for over twelve years and has raised thousands of dollars for Project Angel Food. And now… she is host of Make Me A Nerd, where she enlists her fabulous friends to introduce her to their fandoms, and co-host on Once and Future Parent where she chronicles the journey of parenting a high schooler toward launch. She was co-host of the podcast The Mandcave with her comedy partner Mandy Fabian. She can also be heard providing insights on movies and pop culture across The Next Reel Family of Film Podcasts.
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Spielberg, at 79, finally tells the next part of his aliens-are-real story — and the Film Board can’t agree on whether the old master still has it. Pete, Steve, Tommy, JJ, and Mandy go full-spoiler on “Disclosure Day”: Emily Blunt’s panic attack, the bar nobody understands, the train, and an ending that whispers one word.
Mandy has spent her entire life dodging The Godfather. Movie nerd Seth Vargas finally makes her an offer she can’t refuse.
Pete brought Kyle. Kyle brought a playlist. Mandy brought a fourth-grade dance routine she will never forget.
Cher was almost cast as Louis. Jonny Lee Jr. returns to walk Mandy through the Anne Rice vampire universe, where the blood drinking is sexier than the sex, the five-year-old is the smartest one in the room, and Tom Cruise — against all odds and her own initial objections — absolutely earns his place as Lestat.
Clark Hill has pinball machines in his blood, quarters in his pocket at all times, and a very reasonable explanation for why you are both encouraged and expected to physically shove a 300-pound machine while playing it.
Mandy has spent decades successfully avoiding The X-Files. Filmmaker Chelsea Stardust has six episodes, zero aliens, and one extremely persuasive Flukeman to fix that.
Krissy Lenz is back in the nerd chair, this time making the case for Serenity — the 2005 movie that exists only because Fox couldn’t kill Firefly hard enough. Mandy watches the space western, meets the Browncoats, and discovers that a fandom is hardcore when it can get a movie greenlit, commission a documentary about getting the movie greenlit, and also organize themed parties called Shindigs.
Mandy Kaplan has been handed a Hugo-winning, Nebula-winning, Mormon-authored military sci-fi classic about a six-year-old being psychologically tortured into committing accidental alien genocide, and reader, she has THOUGHTS.
Mandy Kaplan has thoughts about 42 Japanese ninth-graders being forced to murder each other on a deserted island, and honestly, who among us doesn’t?
Sailor Moon was made for five-year-old Japanese girls and somehow became a queer awakening for an entire generation. Jonny Lee Jr. is back to explain why, and Mandy has feelings about Tuxedo Mask that she cannot control.