Category: Culture of Pop
This is Hardwood and Hollywood's section for all things having to do with pop culture - movies, TV, music, interviews with celebrities, both traditional and modern, and comic books. Keep your eyes on our words as we keep our fingers on the pulse of pop culture!
Movies
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Is A Euphoric Experience
Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse (Marvel Studios) Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Comic book movie origin stories typically follow the same formula. Although some of them work rather well, they don’t bring anything entirely new to the...
Television
Bob’s Burgers Season 9 Review: 9.13: Bed, Bob and Beyond
CR: FOX This week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers season 9 was an anthology episode. Those episodes tend to be weak and this one was especially disappointing. The set up was that Bob Belcher and Linda...
Television
Riverdale Season 3 Review: 3.12: Bizarrodale
Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/The CW This week on Riverdale season 3, the gay characters came to the forefront. The episode put some focus on Kevin Keller and Moose Mason with a messy plot. Kevin confided in...
Television
The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.13: Goldfaced
This week on The Flash season 5, Barry Allen went undercover as a criminal. Meanwhile, Sherloque Wells found love. Ralph Dibny and Barry posed as criminals in order to get stolen tech that could help...
Television
Gotham Season 5 Review: 5.5: Pena Dura
The breakout pairing of Gotham was back in a big way this week. This episode proved once again that Oswald Cobblepot and Ed Nygma are truly special together. Word got out that Ed was responsible...
Television
Riverdale Season 3 Review: 3.11: The Red Dahlia
Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW This week Riverdale season 3 was a noir. The only justification for this was a Jughead Jones voiceover sloppily saying that Riverdale had become a noir. The episode went all-in on...
Culture of Pop
'The Favourite' Is A Diabolical Dramedy
The Favourite (Fox Searchlight Pictures) The Favourite Power dynamics is a complex necessity in life, as everyone is consciously or unconsciously fighting for the attention of some higher-up or for more control. In Yorgos Lanthimos’...
Television
The Flash Season 5: 5.12: Memorabilia
This week on The Flash , Barry Allen and Iris West-Allen ended up wandering through Nora West-Allen’s memories. That idea had a lot of potential, but the execution was a little bland. The episode opened...
Television
Supergirl Season 4 Review: 4.11: Blood Memory
This week’s episode of Supergirl season 4 focused on Nia Nal. Nia is incredibly lovable so it’s always nice when she’s featured. On a basic level, this episode was stronger than most of this season....
Movies
'Green Book' Is A Safe Film With A Dynamic Duo
Green Book (Universal Pictures) Green Book An annual guide entitled The Green Book was published from 1936 to 1966 to serve as a reference for African-Americans on road trips during the era of Jim Crow...
