Furiosa might be one of the best theatre experience films I’ve seen in the last decade, pure fun with social commentary that doesn’t hit you over the head with it during the film. You leave thinking about all the themes Miller snuck in there after the adrenaline simmers down.

“We don’t understand the people who refuse to go see it any more than we understand the people who deride our own narrative masterpiece as “self-indulgent, and with not enough focus on what Odie’s up to this week.” But, tragically, these people do exist, and their money still spends—or, pointedly, doesn’t—at the box…

It’s not that he isn’t talented or clever: he’s both. But even in rap, where wordplay counts for a whole lot, it’s usually the singer, not the song. Eminem can write and do verbal gymnastics like few others, but so what? I find his delivery too nasal and too sharp by half: the dude can’t seem to be anything but…

it’s hard to discuss tradition when talking about rap and electronica; much of what you’re describing can be attributed to rap being a relatively nascent art form.

The question is what a certain genre values. You can play country, blues, and various kinds of folk music until you’re ninety years old, but those genres revere tradition, have a relatively stable set of standards, and admire musicians who’ve honed their craft. Other genres (techno, rap, much of rock and roll) believe…

Chuck D was 60 when the last Public Enemy album came out in 2020 and it was a banger which included “State of the Union (STFU)“ that didn’t mince words about a certain felon we all love. Also included a nearly 80 year old George Clinton on multiple tracks.

Speaking frankly, I struggle to name an artist who has remained relevant and prolific into old age; Zevon was a cult figure and was in his mid-50s when he passed, and Bowie’s career was in the wilderness from the mid-80s to when he soft-retired in the mid-00s (don’t get me wrong; Blackstar is a monolith). Offhand I…

The Spawn OST is soooo good, such great mash-ups. So glad you mentioned Judgment Night.

I remember liking Judgement Night but I suppose I have not seen it in like 30 years

Seal and U2 both bringing it

Starred for it being one of their best and certainly a song I would consider telling someone to listen to if I had to introduce the band with one song. That said, their catalogue does veer into something that sounds more like traditional pop fairly often - Friday I’m In Love, In Between Days, etc. And a fair number of…

There was also that repugnant Puff Daddy song that sampled Led Zeppelin on there, as well as the amazing “No Shelter” from RATM. And an incredibly shitty remix of Green Day’s “Brain Stew” that does nothing but add Godzilla screeching over the guitar riff.

The Crow, Judgment Night, and Spawn are "90s alt soundtrack" all-star. And The Crow is the only one of the movies attached to those soundtracks that's worth watching.

Mad Max 6: Max vs Lord Tesla and the children of Musk

It’s emergent story-telling, the arcs and themes develop naturally from the individual moments.

I find people often get hung up in the same way about shows or movies where the protagonist breaks the fourth wall and talks directly to the audience. People ask what’s happening there. Is this a the character reminiscing about the past? Is it a series of diary entries being read aloud? To me, it doesn’t matter. I’m…

One thing to the “Last of the V8's” is that there were a few fuel crisises in the 70's, and V8's being discontinued was pretty plausible (indeed, the Australian Ford Falcon would go 6-cylinder only for a few years in the mid-80's).

half the fun of playing outdoors with the other kids is dissecting the logical problems of whatever you’re playing.

I kind of look at it the same way I look at the Evil Dead movies with Ash. Story comes first, and if it doesn’t fit with the continuity of previous stories, fuck it. That being said, I think a lot of the timeline could be taken with a grain of salt. The collapse of society could be as the first film happened, or years…

It’s an episodic series in which each episode connects to or separates itself from the rest by virtue of whatever’s best for the story being told at the moment. This is an extremely common form of storytelling throughout history and it baffles me that people somehow have so much trouble with it in this one instance…