Change, one of the few things in life that are constant and consistent. Change is a guarantee in life, depending on the circumstances it can be a change for the better or the worst. As we move closer to a new year making changes is always brought up. People want to make changes for the better in their personal life.
Along with change being consistent, it is also one of the hardest things...
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Critics vs. Word of Mouth
This past weekend Netflix released their most ambitious original film yet “Bright". A 90 million dollar film starring Will Smith and directed by David Ayer who wrote films like Training Day, the 1st Fast and Furious film, S.W.A.T. and Dark Blue. He also directed Street Kings, End of Watch, and Suicide Squad. The film was also written by Max Landis who wrote Chronicle. A pretty impressive...
Saturday, November 11, 2017
What Make's Musicians Washed?
Eminem recently released a new single, “Walking on Water” featuring Beyoncé. So far reception has been spilt down the middle, some people love the song, others feel meh about it. Now combine this recent single with his freestyle on the BET hip hop awards, the consensus seems to be Eminem has lost a stepped, he’s washed, he’s fallen off. That poses a question, Do artist really fall off...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Baltimore Quality of Life Debate
Last week Baltimore City council approved a property tax break to entice first responders, to move into the city. Later City council president Jack Young made disparaging remarks about City police officers who choose to live elsewhere.
Jack Young implied these officers who live elsewhere were “raping the city”. I never knew it was such a big issue, seeing...
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Ticketmaster woe's
Plain and Simple Ticketmaster is a crock of shit!!! Friday I attempted to buy Bruno Mars tickets for his upcoming show at the National Harbor MGM casino. Myself and three other people I know, all logged on before 10:00 am to secure a spot. 10:00 am the tickets released and……Nothing!! No seats available, which is even worse because there wasn’t a presale. Wait 15 minutes...
Friday, September 15, 2017
Civil Rights Allies
Earlier this baseball season there was an ugly situation between Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones and Boston Red Sox fans, racial taunts and comments were hurled towards Adam for no reason other than being black. After he made it public about the taunts he received, several other black players came out about similar treatment they’ve received playing in Boston.
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Monday, September 4, 2017
Legends who let us down
Colin Kapernick has become a rather controversial fella within the last year, after initially sitting then kneeling for the National Anthem as a means of protest against social justice. He has been considered a hero or villain depending on who you talk to, been blackballed from the NFL, and everyone has an opinion on him even though he’s kept his head down and keep his activism alive.
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Saturday, August 26, 2017
Mayweather's Legacy
Tonight is the highly anticipated match between Floyd Mayweather and Connor Mcgregor. Mayweather is considered one of the greatest if not the greatest boxer of all-time, while Connor has his own rounds of success in the UFC world. Both are brash, arrogant, love nobody like they love themselves guys. Some even consider both assholes, which they both can be.
One thing for sure is they are...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
DCEU Movie Plans
In my last blog I covered Marvel’s “MCU” and the growing concern that eventually the shared universe would become to cumbersome. Since the MCU has became wildly successful, Hollywood does what Hollywood does best and looked to create their own film universe. Universal is trying with iconic horror characters in their “Monsterverse” (Mummy, Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein). Paramount...
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Marvel's MCU
Netflix released Marvel’s “The Defenders” this past weekend, an 8 part miniseries that bought together Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist to save New York City. This series is the culmination of Marvels phase 1 of their TV shows in the MCU. This begs a question is it time for Marvel to have more stand alone TV series and movies? Or have sub universes that don't have to be binded...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
How WWE can freshen their product
This weekend WWE will present their second biggest event Summerslam, only behind Wrestlemania in terms of promotion, extravagance and the culmination of storylines. It’s also seen as the next reset of storylines to lead into next years Wrestlemania. There’s even rumors that there could be another superstar shakeup sometime after Summerslam.
This is good news as often times WWE...
Monday, August 14, 2017
Top 5 Hip Hop Movies
This past weekend we celebrated 44 years since the birth of hip hop. A culture that wasn't given a chance when it was invented, is now a worldwide phenomenon that dominates the music landscape. While we all love hip hop I wanted to touch on a overlooked part of hip hop...Movies.
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Streaming Media The Future
Streaming media especially streaming tv is a platform that has really taken off within the last few years and is only growing. With people wanting to watch what they want when they want more and more streaming services have cropped up over the years. We all know about the platforms that changed the game Netflix and Hulu, and a couple years later Amazon Prime stepped creating the big three of...
August movies to check out
I’m a little late on this post but it’s August typically the time of year when folks realize the end of summer is near. It’s also the end of the summer movie season and typically the weakest as far as the volume and anticipation of the movies released in August.
This year is no different first up and the most anticipated film to be released this month is “Dark Tower”. Based on a series...
Monday, July 24, 2017
Renassiance of Black TV
Last night HBO premiered the highly anticipated new seasons of “Ballers” and “Insecure”, along with a new episode of the Starz hit “Power” Sunday is a must-see tv night. While watching all three shows which cover different genres, characters, and stories. I sat back and thought to myself are we experiencing a Renaissance of majority good to great black tv shows?
Think about...
Sunday, July 9, 2017
July Summer Movies
It’s July which means more exciting movies being released. July is usually
the heart of the summer movie season and this year stays true to that notion.
First up to bat was the long awaited official inclusion of Spider-Man into the MCU with “Spiderman Homecoming”. The MCU did not disappoint with this version of Spiderman, Tom Holland did a wonderful job as Peter Parker/Spiderman...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
My Random Thoughts on the WWE
If you know me you know I am a huge wrestling fan, I gained a interest in wrestling when I was 11 years old around the time seeds of the attitude era were being planted before it skyrocketed. I follow all wrestling in some capacity ring of honor, TNA, independents, highlights of New Japan. Of course WWE is the big dog and I wanted to give my random thoughts on some of their relevant current...
Saturday, June 17, 2017
My random thoughts on "All eyez on me"
Tupac’s biopic “All Eyez On Me” was released worldwide yesterday. It’s been getting mixed reviews with some folks outright slamming it. I’ve seen it and just wanted to provide not a traditional review but just my random thoughts as I watched the movie and afterwards as I processed certain parts of the film. First things first Demetrius Shipp Jr. did a great job as Tupac wayyy better...
Monday, June 12, 2017
The Orioles Pitching Problem
The Orioles where oh where do we begin?? They have been in a slump that is quickly erasing any chances or hopes they had of being contenders this season. Before the season started many baseball analyst predicted their starting pitching would be their achilles heel this season as it has been the past several seasons. After a hot start they looked to be proving the analyst wrong, well the analyst...
June Movies To Check Out
We’re heading into the second week of June and it's time for my June movies to check out. I’m a little late in getting this out but as they say better late than never.
So far this month “Captain Underpants” based on the children's book was released and I heard it was a very funny, engaging family movie with a good story. If you’re looking for a family film I would recommend...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Biopic overdose
This past Monday lifetime premiered their latest biopic “Searching For Neverland” based on Michael Jackson’s later years of his life told through his bodyguards eyes. It was a farrrrr cry above the mid 2000s Michael Jackson starring Flex Alexander, but it was a typical lifetime production.
In watching the movie I thought about something, are we about to reach a point of market saturation...
Thursday, May 25, 2017
The Get Down: Gone Too Soon
Netflix has canceled the ambitious Baz Luhrman production “The Get Down”. While it’s rare for Netflix to cancel shows that receive good feedback the cost of “The Get Down” was just too much. Reports say the series cost $120 million which is by no means chump change.
I’m not...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Movies to checkout in May
This past weekend Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was released, helping kick off the summer blockbuster season. My quick review of GOTG 2 was that I enjoyed the movie, good action scenes and good acting butI felt it got bloated at times and some of the jokes fell flat. The core message of the movie was a very good one and in my opinion helped save the movie. The...
Monday, May 1, 2017
Are we our own worst enemy?
David Banner recently interviewed with the breakfast club. In his interview he said that he doesn’t mind white people being racist because they are looking out for other white people. Black people on the other hand are not racist enough. This raises a good point and question.
For all the call’s of being “woke”, being my brothers keeper, and more for the culture. We still...
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Baseball in the Black Community
This past Saturday April 15th MLB conducted their annual “Jackie Robinson Day” celebrating Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947. In the ensuing decades the world was introduced to some of the best baseball players in history who just happened to be black. Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, Reggie Jackson, Frank Robinson,...
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