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Television
Gotham Season 5 Review: 5.2: Trespassers
This week’s episode of Gotham season 5 felt like a horror movie. The creepy imagery, flickering lights and jump scares added a stylistic layer. At the same time, the episode still fit in with Gotham...
Handicapping Sports
The Jumbo Package NFL Podcast – Divisional Round Edition
On this episode of The Jumbo Package NFL Podcast, Sonny Giuliano and Paul Clark are joined on the line by Joe Zambito. The trio picks all four Divisional Round NFL Playoff games, and touch on...
NBA
“Bigger Than Basketball” De’Aaron Fox Hosts Charity Event For Breast Cancer Awareness
Image courtesy of TJ Macias/Hardwood&Hollywood. Amity is key, even in the biting chill of a restless and grey afternoon. Image courtesy of TJ Macias/Hardwood&Hollywood. Bombastic rain and the swift pulsating wind that seemed to shake...
Television
Bob’s Burgers Season 9 Review: 9.11: Lorenzo’s Oil? No, Linda’s
CR: Fox. Bob’s Burgers season 9 returned this week. The midseason premiere dealt with the fertile territory of multi-level marketing schemes. Linda Belcher excitedly introduced her new beautiful young friend Angie. Angie invited her to...
Culture of Hoops
2019 Hardwood and Hollywood Bracketology – 1/7/19 Update
Make sure you’re checking back right here on Hardwood and Hollywood for my updated Bracketology Projections right up until the 2019 NCAA Tournament Bracket is revealed. And for the second consecutive year, you can see...
Movies
'Vice' Is A Darkly Humorous Quasi-Biopic With Style
Vice (Annapurna) Vice Politics is a jumbled, complicated mess of power and one monotone, mysterious man sunk his teeth into a fat, juicy vein of the beast. Adam McKay tells the story of the most...
Culture of Pop
Gotham Season 5 Review: 5.1: Year Zero
The Gotham season 5 premiere felt more like a series of establishing scenes than a real episode. It didn’t have much story, but it set the stage for the final season. The premiere showed what...
Movies
The 10 Best Movies Of 2018
Just like that, 2018 is in the books. It wasn’t a particularly strong year for cinema, but there were definitely some standout movies. Regardless of the title, this isn’t the ultimate list of the best...
NFL
The Jumbo Package NFL Podcast – Wild Card Round Edition
Ahead of this weekend's four-game Wild Card Round slate, Paul Clark and Sonny Giuliano touch on their takeaways from the 2018 NFL Regular Season and analyze each of the four Wild Card match-ups. Topics include:...
Movies
'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Is All About Control
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Life is like Pac-Man . That’s how Charlie Brooker explains what living in our world is like through one of the characters in his ambitious Netflix original film, Black...
