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 1×03 “Darkness is Your Candle”
In the latest episode of The Get Down, the “Fantastic Four + One” find themselves at a loss when Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore) parts ways with the group, in frustration. Not knowing any other way to replace their recently destroyed…
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…
TV News: ‘The Get Down’ gets its first trailer
Baz Luhrmann is a bit of a mixed bag, and there’s a tendency to be in either the “love him” or “hate him” camps. I tend to veer towards the “love” side of things because even when I don’t love his…
Attend a Boston Screening of ‘Dope’
Dope is one of my most anticipated films of the summer. Having sparked much excitement after it’s debut at this year’s Sundance, the film is full of unknown actors and hip-hop music, and it has been compared to Pulp Fiction. Count…
Official Dope Trailer Debuts
This is a fantastic trailer. It’s fun, it doesn’t give away the entire film, and it gives us just enough hints about the tone and narrative to get us interested. I can confidentially say that I will be seeing the film…