Category: Culture of Pop
This is Hardwood and Hollywood's section for all things having to do with pop culture - movies, TV, music, interviews with celebrities, both traditional and modern, and comic books. Keep your eyes on our words as we keep our fingers on the pulse of pop culture!
Television
Bob’s Burgers Season 9 Review: 9.11: Lorenzo’s Oil? No, Linda’s
CR: Fox. Bob’s Burgers season 9 returned this week. The midseason premiere dealt with the fertile territory of multi-level marketing schemes. Linda Belcher excitedly introduced her new beautiful young friend Angie. Angie invited her to...
Movies
'Vice' Is A Darkly Humorous Quasi-Biopic With Style
Vice (Annapurna) Vice Politics is a jumbled, complicated mess of power and one monotone, mysterious man sunk his teeth into a fat, juicy vein of the beast. Adam McKay tells the story of the most...
Culture of Pop
Gotham Season 5 Review: 5.1: Year Zero
The Gotham season 5 premiere felt more like a series of establishing scenes than a real episode. It didn’t have much story, but it set the stage for the final season. The premiere showed what...
Movies
The 10 Best Movies Of 2018
Just like that, 2018 is in the books. It wasn’t a particularly strong year for cinema, but there were definitely some standout movies. Regardless of the title, this isn’t the ultimate list of the best...
Movies
'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Is All About Control
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Life is like Pac-Man . That’s how Charlie Brooker explains what living in our world is like through one of the characters in his ambitious Netflix original film, Black...
Movies
'Aquaman' Is Middling Fun That Drowns In Superhero Cliches
Aquaman (Warner Bros) Aquaman isn’t exactly a popular superhero in comparison to the big blue boy scout and the brooding psycho bat, but this film manages to make something out of the silly character from...
Movies
'Bumblebee' Is The Best Transformers Movie Yet
Bumblebee (Paramount Pictures) Bumblebee The famous robots in disguise are iconic in the toy industry, but Michael Bay’s flicks never injected spirit into the material. In Bumblebee , director Travis Knight takes it back to...
Movies
'The Mule' Is Flawed But Clint Still Shines
The Mule (Warner Bros) The Mule We all have regrets and we all want to make amends or make up for them before we take our final bow, as the balancing act of life is...
Television
Riverdale Season 3 Review: 3.8: Outbreak
This week was the mid-season finale of Riverdale season 3. The episode actually managed a couple of real emotional moments, thanks to the first appearance of Jughead’s mom. Gina Gershon played Gladys Jones. As they...
Movies
'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' Is A Sampler Platter Of Masterful Cinema
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The wild west was more weird than wild and the Coen brothers capture the oddities and cruelty of the time period in their latest...
