Review-O-Sphere

After making a splash with his sketch comedy series, Key & Peele , Jordan Peele made an even bigger splash by foraying into the horror genre with Get Out . Now comes his newest film, Nope , which combines his typical horror and comedy with a much larger scale and more of a sci-fi twist. Surprisingly for an original IP, it’s getting a lot of press and is one of the most talked-about movies of the summer. So how does it hold up? Synopsis : The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. (Author’s note: I rip these synopses from imdb. With that in mind, this is an atrocious synopsis to try to get you hooked on the movie. This can’t seriously be the film’s logline, can it?!) THE GOOD The Leads Have Great Chemistry I don’t think anyone is really expecting the acting to be bad in this movie, and it goes without saying that it’s pretty good, but this is still worth mentioning. The relationship between Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer...

Streets of Philadelphia~Bruce Springsteen So I’ve been traveling a lot in the past year. Mostly because the world went to Hell, several people I know have died, my career’s in the crapper and I don’t want to die from COVID Omega realizing that I’ve spent my entire adult life in New York City. By suggestions from a couple friends and family, I’m trying out my hand at doing a travel blog. Forgive me if this is not my forte as trying to travel for Instagrammable moments and bragging about my life will turn me into the kind of vapid influencer that I hate in this world. But I promise to do my best with my acidic sense of humor to go with it. So, let’s get started. Back in late April/early May of 2021, I was in the dumps. Having been sentenced to work in customer service for the bulk of the pandemic, I finally quit a job I hated after finding a better-paying job… still in customer service. After spending enough hours dealing with the imbecilic troglodytes that we like to call customers...

 To see part 1, click here . King Kong Suite~Max Steiner - King Kong           As you can clearly tell by now, I do not think that Cavalcade was the best picture of the year-and-a-half that it came out. And, yes, I said year-and-a-half. With this ceremony, the Academy decided to reset the calendar to do away with these half-year and half-year eligibility periods. Because, let’s face it, it sounds much more impressive to call a movie the best of a given year rather than some arbitrary 12-month time period. Thus, to ensure that this would happen, the eligibility period for the 6 th Academy Awards lasted from July of 1932 to the end of 1933, creating the single longest eligibility period in Academy history. Walt Disney would be the first person to win an Academy Award for two years in a row (winning the Oscar for Best Short again with The Three Little Pigs ) and one of the most hilarious gaffes in Academy history would occur when Frank Lloyd won the Osc...