by Nathan Ligon | Dec 16, 2020 | Music, Music Reviews
Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia (Music) If you had mentioned Dua Lipa’s name and played her most popular radio hit for me a few years back, I would have shrugged my shoulders. Her first album certainly showed her to be a promising pop star, but you could write that about...
by Nathan Ligon | Dec 16, 2020 | Movie Reviews, Movies, TV
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Film) This was easily one of the biggest surprises of the year for me. I did not even know that this movie was on the horizon, but after I saw it I remembered just how good a satirist Sacha Baron Cohen really is. The way he manages...
by Nathan Ligon | Dec 16, 2020 | Music
Black Pumas Deluxe (Music) The initial release of this album somehow eluded me at the end of 2019, but the rerelease is even better. Featuring an extra 11 tracks (to go with their stellar 10 song LP), this album is unmissable for any fan of the psychedelic funk and...
by Nathan Ligon | Dec 16, 2020 | Featured, TV, TV Reviews
The Plot Against America (TV, HBO) Oddly enough, this story takes places nearly a century ago, and is more relevant today than half the modern day stories you are likely to see this year. Set in a fictional version of of the late 1930’s, this show imagines a world...
by Nathan Ligon | Dec 16, 2020 | TV, TV Reviews
Lovecraft Country (HBO Max, Television) H.P. Lovecraft is one of the most well known science fiction writers of the 20th century. He was also notoriously racist and his novels were littered with racist notions. Yet, history has shown us that many blacks were avid...