The world of skateboarding, like most spaces typically dominated by male energy, has never been overly accommodating to young women. Even for female prodigies in the field, there are always men waiting somewhere nearby to condescendingly undermine their abilities. It…
Album Review: Tyler, the Creator – “Flower Boy”
Compared to most hip hop artists out there today, Tyler, the Creator has kind of fallen to irrelevancy with regards to his musical style. Although critics have enjoyed his past projects, Tyler has not given us anything that memorable over…
TV Review: The Get Down 1×5-6 “You Have Wings, Learn to Fly” & “Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice”
In the last two episodes of The Get Down‘s first season, “You Have Wings, Learn to Fly” and “Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice,” the Fantastic Four + 1 prepare for an epic battle in music with a DJ group…
TV Review:The Get Down 1×02 “Seek Those Who Fan Your Flames”
In the second episode of Netflix’s new period piece drama The Get Down, Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore) has found his “wordsmith” in the form of Ezekiel “Zeke” Figuero (Justice Smith.) Dreaming of a life in the Bronx’s underground music scene, Fantastic…
TV Review: The Get Down 1×01 “Where There is Ruin, There is Hope for Treasure”
From visionary director Baz Luhrmann, responsible for Romeo+Juliet and the 2013 adaptation of The Great Gatsby, comes a new Netflix original series that aims to explore the emerging hip hop scene in 1970’s Bronx, New York. Ezekiel “Books” Figuero (Justice Smith) is…
Jon’s Movie Review: After Earth
The film starts like your typical post-apocalyptic science fiction piece by telling you how badly we as humans messed up, and how aliens suddenly attacked us. Then we are introduced to a son, Kitai (Jaden Smith), who is living in…