The other day I received a letter via Pony Express…….

When I finished Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City I felt a profound sense of sadness I hadn’t felt in a longish time. There was something so vibrant, so idyllic in the 50s desert wasteland that crushed the inside of my brain into a tin can and made me wish I was much older but also much younger.

It could’ve been so much worse, and I would know. I watch this stuff for a living.

Magnificent Warriors is a 1987 Chinese film that is among the greatest movies I’ve ever seen. It’s like top 50-75, don’t freak out.

Few artists, for reasons both good and bad, have captured the national consciousness of America and perhaps the entire world like Travis Scott. He is a genius, a devil and a hack, a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing eating money out of a McDonald’s bag.

Sometimes life lets you down easy, other times it punches you in the face. After a while, you’ve been punched so much and so often the world looks like a boxing match and that boxing match becomes a chess game.

Night Moves is a 70s private detective movie (which is kind of a 70s genre) and it’s actually quite good and it’s really quite fun but I tell you what pal- it’s no picnic. The 70s were fun, sure, we all accepted that myth.

There are few things I love in life and one of them is Godzilla. It is hard to imagine a world in which I do not enjoy the antics of the King of Monsters and his hyper destructive cohorts.

From the smoke filled rooms and back alley windows, 50 years ago, you could probably hear Otis Rush playing. Some records are cut a little deeper. Otis Rush’s The Classic Cobra Recordings: 1956-58 is one of those.

Hungry Shark caters to the psychos of society, the people who dream of emerging from the depths and murking some tourists in the most psychologically and financially destructive ways possible. Underneath the fun and chaotic aquatic slaughter is surely the story of a beach town brought to its knees by the shark inflicted violence.

There are many for whom New Orleans, Louisiana is still a magical place, full of crawfish etouffee, jazz music and muggings.

So Young Thug’s in jail. Big whoop. But he blessed us on Friday with a new project titled Business Is Business and my initial reaction is that business is in fact business.

Sometimes a film, or a TV show, or an album comes out and it changes everything. There’s never been anything like it before and every art piece afterwards lives in its presence.