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
Marvel's Inhumans Series Premiere Review: 1.1: Behold... The Inhumans; Those Who Would Divide Us
The two-hour Marvel's Inhumans series premiere was a bafflingly bad episode of television. So far this show seems like a failure on every level. I know sci-fi shows have a long history of looking terrible....
Television
This Is Us Review - "A Father's Advice"
Image Courtesy of NBC Despite what you may have heard, This Is Us isn't perfect. Through its debut season, This Is Us had been able to gain a great deal of (well-deserved) mainstream notice and...
Podcasts
Meanwhile in the Multiverse: Colin Kaepernick, Boycotting the NFL, & 'The Defenders'
Mucho gusto. はじめまして. Those are the only other two ways I know how to say , "Nice to meet you." You're here in search of an engaging, fun podcast that you have to immediately review...
Television
Gotham Season 4 Premiere Review: 4.1: A Dark Knight: Pax Penguina
Gotham season 4 premiered last night with a scattered but satisfying episode. In the new status quo, Oswald Cobblepot is running the criminal underground. He's literally handing out licenses for crime, complete with a little...
Movies
'Mother!' is Relentlessly Insane
Mother! (Protozoa Pictures) In the world of cinema, there are many cookie-cutter films; but Mother! definitely isn’t one of them. From the mind that brought us Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan , comes...
Culture of Pop
Random Thoughts During Hurricane Irma
Image Courtesy of Earth.com Here's a piece of advice, advice that I can offer because of my newfound firsthand experience with the subject at hand (I'm going to italicize the advice because I feel as...
Movies
'It' Manages to be Unsettling and Fun
It (Warner Bros) What we do with our fears determines how we grow. Stephen King’s It is a tale of a monster-like being that feeds on children’s fears, and Andy Muschietti takes on the task...
Interviews
Interview with Actress Yaiza Figueroa of 'Anti Matter'
Yaiza Figueroa in Anti Matter Keir Burrows' first feature film, Anti Matter , tells the story of an Oxford PhD student named Ana who has been conducting experiments with a wormhole. When she decides to...
Podcasts
The Hustle And Overflow Podcast: The Future of Football, Streaming, VR and More
On this special "Future" Episode of The Hustle And Overflow Podcast, Sonny Giuliano and Weston Hunter ponder the question, "Will the NFL make it to Super Bowl 100?" Topics include the seriousness of CTE, how...
Comic Books
The Super Popularity of the Superhero
Go back to early human history and you'll find stories of legendary heroes. People who were larger than life and took on obstacles and enemies even more over-the-top than they were. Hercules, Siegfried, Moses, Anansi,...
