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Jordan Peele's 'Nope' (2022) Movie Review by Rhett Rhodes *some spoilers* via iMDB     As someone who is a fan of movies and stuff, I really suck at knowing what is supposed to be coming out soon and I guess I managed to let the existence of ' Nope ' fly right by me. But, it's never too late. I was driving back home from the bank last week when I looked at the local theater in my town and saw that this movie was going to be playing. After looking it up and seeing it was Jordan Peele 's newest film, I really couldn't believe I didn't even know about it! Thank god I decided to Google it or I would've missed it until a DVD or Blu-Ray release months later.     Just like with Get Out , (note: as of this post I still have not seen Peele's second film ' Us ') I had no idea what to expect out of this film. Of course I had seen the trailers and studied the poster for minutes on end, I just knew that the film was going to possibly be about an a...

What Happened To Odd Future?                by Rhett Rhodes via Julian Berman on Tumblr       Odd Future, also known by their acronym OFWGKTA, were no doubt some of the most interesting, talented, and entertaining collective of artists to spring into the music scene well over a decade ago. They were doing things and making moves that no one else had quite seen before. At the time in 2010-2011, it was hard not to sound like every rapper out there but somehow Odd Future were able to heavily distinguish themselves and their respective sounds from literally every rapper in the industry. But much like 88rising, things were quick to change and everything was soon different.     In 2012 and 2013, it sort of seemed like there was no possible way that Odd Future could ever break up or ever stop recording with one another, so of course it was a bit puzzling to a lot of us fans when time kept going and we saw less and less of th...

What Happened To 88rising?  by Rhett Rhodes          At one point in time, from the years of 2016-2018, the 88rising brand was rising and seemed promising to only keep growing and become something bigger than any of us could have ever imagined it could have been. It proved itself as a key prominent outlet for insanely talented and creative Asian artists; musicians,  and we're all for it. But, as of recent years, 2019-2022, the brand; videos; and even the musicians are at somewhat of a slower point in their careers. There are a lot of reasons why that has occurred, and I decided to make a blog post detailing it all. I'm going to see Jordan Peele's new movie 'Nope' in the movie theater in two hours, so I thought I'd kill some time with this. In this blog post, I'll be mostly focusing on 88rising's most prominent and/or key artists that made the brand and label what it was in the beginning of its hype. via One Music PH RICH BRIAN      When ...

  via magarilla     Things change as time goes on? What? No shit, man! But sometimes... just sometimes, I think about many director's successful careers and even the ones that aren't always 'successful' in a financial stance but yet have a strong and incredibly impressive devoted fanbase. Such directors as Quentin Tarantino, Stephen Spielberg, Orson Welles, and even Jordan Peele is on his way to an extremely prominent directing and writing career with his new and predicted to be a huge success movie titled 'Nope'. And then sometimes my mind wonders along and remembers life from the last twelve years on Kevin Smith's film career and just how actually pretty awful and (not in a good way) kind of sad his 'creative ideas' have been.     Speaking of the last twelve years, let's just start off with his 2010 film 'Cop Out' that starred Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, and what seems to be Seann William Scott's last large scale and actually funny ...

      Just recently, I had seen in my YouTube recommended sidebar a video titled 'Uncancellable: South Park', or something to that effect and it immediately sparked some humble (or not so humble) opinions in my very fragile stupid brain. Not only was I thinking that 'uncancellable' is not a real word and sounds stupid when said out loud, I was thinking about the statistics of who in the world even remotely gives two rat shits that South Park is STILL around. So before you twist my words, I'll clarify that I am a South Park fan and give two rat shits that it even existed because it made my childhood pretty fun and shaped my early sense of humor. But for the last eight years or so, I haven't much cared for any new episodes or specials or anything like that.  via NME     Yes, that means a few years before South Park's Trump-Garrison parody through out the 2016 Presidential election that brain of mine had already stopped seeing South Park as a comedy gold rush ...

    (No spoilers)     I had no idea what this movie was going to be about, or what it was going to be like but I decided to stream it a few months back and I was not disappointed. I say all of that because normally before viewing a movie, I read a bit about it beforehand or have been told a lot about it beforehand so I usually go into a movie knowing kind of what I'm getting into. This was one of those days where I felt like just clicking on random movies and watching them without knowing what they were at all just for the hell of it.     Starting off, I have to go on to say that I admired the cinematography right off the bat. Doing a bit of iMDB research, the cinematography was done extremely impressively (handheld) by Nicholas Hays, someone who there is not much information about but he has worked on just three other film projects besides Manic including Bob Odenkirk's 2003 off-beat comedy 'Melvin Goes To Dinner'. I mention handheld of course because the ...

Now that you’ve seen them do the universe, it’s time for them to do a new series. Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head is coming to #ParamountPlus on August 4th. #beavisandbutthead pic.twitter.com/jWxeVXRobG — Paramount+ (@paramountplus) July 14, 2022     Unlike some other fans, I actually thought 'Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universe' was a pretty good and well written come back for the loveable idiots we know. I also thought the newer animation style was cool and kept it looking more modern. Plus I bet it was easier to animate it more modernly rather than referring to hand drawn stuff like the original 90's show. I know there was a new season that aired on MTV in 2014, but the animation style on that season seemed like it was trying it's hardest to be like the older animation style. And I would have to say there is nothing wrong with that.     It feels like a new era for sure, and hopefully this isn't a single season treatment for the new series and we get at least...

  via Gifer     I think any Harmony Korine die-hard fan can understand to an extent that of course Harmony Korine had a lot of supervision on what music was to go where and when in this film. I've been scratching my head since 8th grade trying to understand why Harmony decided to use Almeda Riddle's 'I Love My Little Rooster' field recording for the opening credits, but it was in fact somehow a great fit over the footage of Bunny Boy on the overpass and adds to the surrealistic vibe of this movie.     Now, I don't know about anyone else out there but the first time I ever watched this movie I was fourteen, and I disliked it and I really thought the soundtrack was rather horrific. But something kept drawing me back to it, so I really just kept watching it over again and slowly starting to like it. It would be a few years after it became my favorite movie that I took a liking to a lot of the songs in the movie. In my household growing up, that extreme metal growl...

  via ilovemorons on pinterest     A certain time in the movie world has most certainly gone on to be forgotten. Sort of. The late 80's and all through the 90's, continuing into the 2000's going out and renting a movie was something almost everyone did. Back when the VHS was the most common type of media to rent and every home had multiple VHS players there's been virality in several movies and videos. That's right, the internet was not always the engine pumping viral content, sometimes it was around the corner at Blockbuster. One of my favorite things to go do as a kid in the early 2000's was go rent DVD's and VHS's and get candy and experience something hopefully awesome that I've never seen before. Not long after I would start my DVD collecting obsession. But, enough banter, moving on.     Jackass: The Movie was an incredible success when it was released in theaters in October of 2002, and was even more successful on home video in 2003. And I'...

  via Wormrot's official Twitter      Every single time I would listen to my 'Dirge' CD I purchased off Amazon a few years back or listen to any of Wormrot's music on Spotify (especially their third full length album Voices), I would literally wonder when they were ever going to start putting out music again. I instantly had hope that this year might in fact be an okay year for me when I got the notification that Wormrot had a new single out. 'Behind Closed Doors' was the name of that single and it fucking shredded. My actual first thoughts were to just go tell Taya, the person I live with and I guess mostly spend my life with, even though she is 1000% not into this kind of music. That's just how much I was excited.     Wormrot is a grindcore band from Singapore that have been creating and producing some of the heaviest, fastest, and (quite literally) some of the best extreme metal since the year 2007. For more reasons than none, the band is also known for ...