The final image of Strange Fruit #1 is a strapping black man standing stoically with a Confederate flag draped around his waist, while another, less conventionally sexualized black man says “Aww yeah. Them white folks REALLY ain’t gonna like that.” The larger man with the Read More …
Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media circles obsessively pontificating about it every Monday night must be a truly confounding experience. Let our very own Dominic Griffin, lifelong wrestling enthusiast, Read More …
Studios like to market action films as “nonstop thrill rides” or “high-octane adventures,” but Mad Max: Fury Road transcends such rote praise. It’s like being fired out of the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun and piercing rusty debris along the way to a messy Read More …
Another day, another “out of nowhere” album release. This time, it’s Cherry Bomb, the fourth LP from Odd Future band leader Tyler, The Creator, but its thirteen tracks offer a lot more surprise than the proximity of the release date to the initial album announcement. Tyler’s Read More …
So, I didn’t learn from my last binge experience and dove right into a new one. I’ve been up since 2 a.m. and, with the exception of two bathroom breaks and one quick run across the street for dumplings, have watched all thirteen episodes of Marvel’s Daredevil Read More …
With Fastmania sweeping the nation, it’s hard not to presume some of the hype is backhanded, the latest in a long line of things people on the Internet pretend to give a shit about to feel like a part of the conversation. As someone who spent most Read More …
It’s a strange world we live in, where the seventh (FUCKING SEVENTH?!) installment of an action franchise that used to be a gearhead punchline is on track to do superhero movie numbers this opening weekend, but the peculiarity inherent in the Fast & Furious universe’s Read More …
For the third year in a row, I binged all thirteen episodes of the new House of Cards season. To be entirely honest, it’s not my sense of fandom that motivates me to do this. It began as a desperate desire not to be left behind Read More …
Diversity and representation have long been a serious issue in the film industry, and 12 Years A Slave winning some Oscars hasn’t exactly changed that. Outside of that prestigious anomaly, people rarely imagine black film to be much more than gangster movies, cookout comedies, and Tyler Perry. Our very own Dominic Read More …
Mercifully, the cultural phenomenon known as “awards season” is almost over. The Oscars air this Sunday, so once all the bland jokes are told and the envelopes are opened we’ll know definitively which movies from last year were actually good and which ones were fucking Read More …