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
Iron Mike: Can Jamie Foxx Successfully Portray Mike Tyson?
Mike Tyson was at one point dubbed the Baddest Man on the Planet, and he was crowned with that nickname by knocking out his foes with ferocious punches in bunches. Outside of the boxing ring,...
Culture of Pop
Movie Reviews: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'
Movie Info Director: Michael Bay Genres: Action , Comedy Rating: PG-13 Release Date: 8 August 2014 Screenwriter: Andre Nemec , Evan Daugherty , Josh Appelbaum Starring: Alan Ritchson , Jeremy Howard , Johnny Knoxville ,...
Culture of Pop
'The Knick' Premiere Recap and Review: 'Method and Madness' and Cocaine
In many ways, Cinemax’s The Knick is late to our television sets. By that I don’t mean its 1900 medical practices—those spraying, gushing, medical practices—are too forgone to be subject fodder for prestige television drama;...
Culture of Pop
'Rectify' Recap: 'The Great Destroyer'
As is the case with many Rectify episodes, this one merely kicked the plot can a few feet, maybe one and a half sidewalk squares down the block. As is the case with all Rectify...
Culture of Pop
Watch It: 'Park Bench' with Steve Buscemi on...AOL?!
Ah, remember the halcyon days of the internet? The sound of your computer’s dial-up modem connecting you via AOL to all of those fun chat rooms and Live Journal pages? Good times. These days, no...
Culture of Pop
Counting Crows Return with New Album, Video for 'Palisades Park'
The Counting Crows are back. With their new album, Somewhere Under Neverland , due out in September, and currently on tour with Toad the Wet Sprocket (what's up, 1994!?), the Crows are primed for a...
Culture of Pop
Foo Fighters Entice Us with 8 Seconds of New Album
ALL RISE! Happy August 8! You know, 8/8. So, the following 8 seconds (you get it?) happened on the Foo Fighters ' official Youtube page this morning... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOJr_HT-5kA No doubt this is a little taste...
Culture of Pop
Watch It: 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' Trailer Is Here
Gather up your grandparents! There's going to be a sequel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , and we've got the trailer here. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , the not-so-originally titled follow-up to...
Culture of Pop
Larry David to Debut on Broadway in 'Fish in the Dark'
If you're at all familiar with Larry David, you know that, since his days as the head writer/co-creator of Seinfeld , the man likes to work at his own pace. Apparently, lately that work has...
Culture of Pop
Eddie Redmayne Becomes Stephen Hawking in 'The Theory of Everything' Trailer
Next stop on the biopic express: Stephen Hawking. "The Theory of Everything" is set to be released on November 7. The film was directed by Academy Award-winning documentarian James Marsh ("Man on Wire") and stars...
