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
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: Lewis Black, Ricky Gervais
Image courtesy of the "Lewis Black insists The Rant is Due" video posted on YouTube. 14. Lewis Black Not since Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark has there been a more perfect casting than Lewis...
Comic Books
The Top 5 Most Anticipated Films of 2016
'Suicide Squad' is one of 2016's upcoming movies that should be on your must-watch list. How could you not want to see Margot Robbie with a baseball bat? The top anticipated films of 2016 will...
Culture of Pop
'Extraction' is Flawed but Commanding
Extraction is a 2015 action-thriller starring Bruce Willis, Kellan Lutz, Gina Carano, D.B. Sweeney, and Dan Bilzerian. Although the movie takes place in Newark, New Jersey, the film was shot in Mobile, Alabama. The plot...
Culture of Pop
Review: 'Supergirl' S1 E9
After having spent the past four days at Disney World, I was excited to return to the real world and my regularly scheduled programming. Around the same time that I was watching fireworks set to...
Culture of Pop
Why 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Needed to Beat 'Avatar'
If you've been anywhere near the internet in the last twenty days, you'll know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been shattering just about every box-office record that exists, as was to be expected....
Culture of Pop
The Enigmatic Resume of Edward Norton
Edward Norton is one of the best actors in Hollywood, yet, somehow, his enigmatic resume has made the first part of this sentence something uncommonly stated. Because Norton hasn't been a regular in movies over...
Culture of Pop
'Pain & Gain' is Michael Bay's Best Movie - Surprising Yet True
Michael Bay is a polarizing figure to fans. Certain sects worship the man for his emphasis on massive explosions and commitment to creating movies with astronomical budgets. Others believe he lacks creativity and does nothing...
Culture of Pop
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: Maria Bamford, Mitch Hedberg
Image courtesy of the "Maria Bamford - Opening a Pot Clinic" video posted on YouTube. 16. Maria Bamford Maria Bamford is … weird. She is so strange, in fact, that one of the voices she...
Comic Books
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 22 - The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight Rises - the third film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy - has more flaws and is less historically significant than Batman Begins, so why is it higher on this list? In a...
Culture of Pop
3 Ways 'Oz' Influenced Television Dramas
Oz debuted its six-season run on HBO in 1997 - the first one-hour episode drama series the network ever had. While 2016 now makes some of the previously thought to be intricate details of Oz...
