Rap Snacks Review: Master P’s Creamy Chicken Gumbo is Uncanny Valley Food
When I initially opened my cup of Rap Snacks Icon Ramen Noodles, Creamy Chicken Gumbo (flavored), I noticed little discernible difference from your average Maruchan Instant Lunch. I filled the cup up (use hot water) to the line that read '“There’s No Limit To Success" and let Master P cook.
In 2023, Retro Bowl is America’s Greatest Mobile Game
Retro Bowl is the best mobile football game since football was invented. It’s not perfect but it’s very fun and deliberately addicting for football fans like me.
I Don’t Like Mech Games but I Loved Armored Core 6
As someone who never liked mech games, I was very tentative heading into Armored Core. I loved the other From Soft games but what I loved about those games (the detailed open-ish worlds and the dark fantasy setting) was definitely not going to be present in this one. The game dropped and I downloaded it and sortied into my first mission, not knowing what to expect.
What Did I Just Watch?: Italian Film “Something New”
Young men of 19 dream about women, but often in the abstract, a singular of plurals. Rarely does a love triangle, or God blessings be, two at the same time, occur. But Luca, in Something New has it all figured out.
“Life Risking Romance” Is Peak Korean Comedy
The other day I received a letter via Pony Express…….
Watched “Asteroid City” and Now I’m (More) Depressed
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.
Keeping It Brief: Four and 1/2 Paragraphs About “Shark Bait”
It could’ve been so much worse, and I would know. I watch this stuff for a living.
Magnificent Warriors Is More Fun Than You
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.
Travis Scott’s "Utopia” is Arena-Rock for the Modern Age
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.
28 Years Later, Heat Still Pulls No Punches
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.
1975's Night Moves Is A Lot of Fun But It’s No Picnic
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.
New Godzilla Channel on Pluto Is Based
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.
Otis Rush Is Lightning In A Full Bottle
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 Is A Game For The Killer In All of Us
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.
Big Easy Is A Hidden Gem of 80s Crime Cinema
There are many for whom New Orleans, Louisiana is still a magical place, full of crawfish etouffee, jazz music and muggings.
Young Thug’s “Business Is Business” Proves He Can Still Be A GOAT From Prison
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.
The Maltese Falcon Is A Lot More Bizarre Than You Think
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.