The Beginning of the End Better Call Saul season six, episode one begins with a flashforward of what is seemingly the end for Saul Goodman, with his extravagant house emptied of all its ludicrous treasures. The tour of the Goodman mansion is ridiculously brilliant and encapsulates how over the top and “in your face” Saul Goodman is. …
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2022 has started extremely strong for K-pop. It’s just been over three months and we’re already being treated to amazing tunes to kick off the first quarter of the year. While we can’t mention every song that’s come out this year, we will be making a shortlist of the tracks that got my attention in …
When late 90s boy band LFO sang, “I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch,” it was an immediately graspable shorthand for their youthful target audience. At the dawn of the millennium, social media was nascent, and youth culture was broadcast through pop music shown on MTV, glossy trade magazines like Seventeen, and what was …
Author Chesil’s debut novel “The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart” takes its title from a Japanese proverb, meaning that perception depends upon emotions. So too does history often become a matter of perception, its perspective notoriously being decided by its ‘victors’: the conquerors, rather than the conquered, the refugees, the …
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Based on the best-selling Bridgerton book series by Julia Quinn, the hit Netflix show of the same name causes a stir with each new season. While most of the series’ characters are fictional, one of them is based on a real person. The fan-favorite Queen Charlotte is based on an actual Queen who ruled England during …
In February 2022, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their 12th studio album, Unlimited Love. This is the first album they’ve released since the return of guitarist John Frusciante, after a surprising departure in 2009. I, a serious Chili Peppers fan, have never been happier. It’s no secret that singer Anthony Kiedis had often gone …
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Learning an instrument is one of life’s greatest joys. Not only are you learning a valuable skill, but also it’s very rewarding once you’ve learned the intricacies your choice of instrument has to offer. However, some people have a hard time learning due to multiple factors, while others, find it extremely monotonous to learn concepts …
Netflix has released some unsettling true crime documentaries over the years. But their latest offering, Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, is a thoroughly disturbing and chilling account of how a TV personality groomed a whole nation so he could carry out systematic abuse of children over many years. Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story Review …
Being swept away from the mundane real world to a fantastical, magical kingdom is a common trope in speculative fiction. In fact, it is a subgenre called ‘portal fantasy’. In Frank L. Baum’s Oz mythos, and the classic film derived from it, The Wizard of Oz, a tornado famously sweeps protagonist Dorothy Gale from her humble Kansas home …
The final episode of Peaky Blinders ended in a blaze of glory. There were bombs, backstabbings, and plenty of twists and turns. The production team weaved season 6 together beautifully, with director Steven Knight building the characters and the storyline leading into this gunslinging series finale. Shootouts galore and the return of a much-loved character …
