June 3, 2016
Like almost all of the best comedies Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping or, as it’s sure to be known, “The Lonely Island Movie,” has a kind of parable at its core. Calling it out as such might make this movie sound dull, but nothing could be further from the truth. Like an SNL Digital Short that…
May 13, 2016
Friends, you may not have realized it but this week we have born witness to a new national threat. A true 🌾ðŸðŸŒ¾. As a nation we must come together from time to time to fight tyranny. The tyranny of the rich. The tyranny of the powerful. The tyranny of the mob. The tyranny of the malted.…
April 29, 2016
Bentonville, AR (KSR) Early this morning, retail conglomerate Walmart jumped into the debate about bathroom choice for transgender employees and patrons, following last week’s announcement by rival Target, and the ensuing controversy. Not to be left behind, Walmart notified media outlets that they would soon add “Gender Check” machines in all retail stores. In a recorded statement…
April 22, 2016
Game of Thrones, the television phenomenon based on the slowly written books (#nopages), returns this weekend for its sixth season and lords know we’re all Jonesin’ for a Thronesin’. You will be watching come Sunday. It is known. But what the heck are you gonna do until then? Sit and stare blankly at the wall?…
April 8, 2016
Yesterday, as if you haven’t watched it 1000 times already, a trailer for the first non-Skywalker centric Star Wars movie–Rogue One: A Star Wars Story–was released. Directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) and starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, and Forest Whitaker, Rogue One deals with the team that stole the plans to the…
April 1, 2016
Movies are made to elicit some sort of emotion. Some movies make you cry. Some make you laugh. There are those that make you think about the world from a different perspective and those that make you angry. I’ve seen them all. Out of the thousands of movies I’ve seen, though, the upcoming movie Hardcore Henry…
March 25, 2016
Well y’all, after a couple abandoned loose threads, I got nothin’. So while you’re waiting for Matthew Mahone‘s review of Batman v. Superman to drop later this afternoon, get your morning started right and enjoy this brand new George Clinton video featuring Kendrick Lamar and Ice Cube. ✌ï¸
March 18, 2016
Not to be outdone by Batman v. Superman: Love is Forever Dawn of Justice and Captain America: Civil War, another, more detailed trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse was released today. Featuring explosions, cryptic monologues about the end of days, and the industry quotient of form fitting latex, it’s fine. The only difference, and the reason I’ll still see…
March 11, 2016
Cloverfield, the 2008 found-footage monster movie from JJ Abrams, was a pretty moderate success when it theaters. Imaginative writing, a fairly novel (at the time) concept, and some fun performances from young actors combined to make that movie a surprising treat. Entertaining though it was, I’m not sure that it clamored for a sequel. Regardless, it…
March 4, 2016
Last night, word came out that Kendrick Lamar might be releasing a new album. Lo and behold, a few hours later, ‘untitled unmastered.’ was released. Made up of songs recorded between mostly 2013 and 2014, most of the tracks sound like tracks leftover from Kendrick’s 2015 masterpiece, To Pimp a Butterfly. While the story of this album’s release is…