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!
Culture of Pop
The Five Best TV Duos of the Last 10 Years
The best duos on television are both entertaining and memorable. While single characters can be powerful individually, duos present the deeper ability to communicate, interact, and exchange ideas. They bicker. They debate. They laugh. If...
Culture of Pop
5 Awful Truths We Learned This Halloween On ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show'
On American Horror Story , nothing good ever happens on Halloween. For one day each year, the dead walk among the living, while most of the living remains oblivious to the supernatural forces in play....
Culture of Pop
'Constantine' Episode 2: The Darkness Beneath
In its second episode, Constantine continues to show signs of potential while still feeling too much like we've seen all this before. Of course, part of this is because the source material from the 80s'...
Culture of Pop
'The McCarthys' Review: Pilot
The McCarthys is a new sitcom about a gay man living in Boston with his close-knit family. Because it's the only network show of the new season with a homosexual protagonist, it's hard for me...
Culture of Pop
'John Wick' Signifies a Comeback for Keanu Reeves
In the positively reviewed revenge movie John Wick , Keanu Reeves has officially returned as a movie star. Throughout a puzzling career that's seen starring roles in polar opposite franchises, Bill & Ted and The...
Culture of Pop
'Birdman' Soars Above the Rest
How badly do we want to be wanted? Deep down inside we all yearn to have a purpose on this planet beyond popularity, but how often is legacy confused for popularity? Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest...
Culture of Pop
'Constantine' Review: 'Non Est Asylum'
Note: I haven't read any Hellblazer stories. I plan to for context as I follow the show, but for now I'm going in cold. Constantine 's premiere was a bit underwhelming. It opens with a...
Comic Books
Revisiting Michael Keaton as Batman
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight films are the best Batman flicks that have ever been put on celluloid. However, there’s a reason Michael Keaton still puts up a fight as being the best Batman in...
Culture of Pop
Early Look at Adult Swim's Must-See 'Mike Tyson Mysteries'
The first two episodes of Mike Tyson Mysteries are everything you expect them to be, and everything you do not expect them to be. Dumb and clever. Blunt and subdued. It's the sort of comedy...
Culture of Pop
Omar Little of 'The Wire': TV's Most Fascinating Character Ever
The Wire was a multifaceted drama that encompassed a range of topics. Two of the most popular subject matters were the American drug trade and systematic corruption. Standing in the middle of all that was...
