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Hello everybody! MANIKAN back with another installment of FRAME OF MIND. This month I wanted to share with everyone a current success in the art world as well as a personal favorite…Buff Monster. Buff Monster made a name for himself … Continue reading
YESSSSS! We’re hype to drop our brand new Street Bass T-shirt for Summer 2013! Thanks to our homie Todd at Nice Looking Designs, we’ve got a sick design based off a Philly street map and of course our signature tanks … Continue reading
BLOK BOYZ: B.A.S.S. / BRANDING A SERIOUS SITUATION – COMING SOON!
Blok Boyz have joined voices with producer and Seclusiasis co-owner, Dev79, to forge a hybrid of Philly’s infamously gully street rap with thick-as-syrup beats and bone-chipping bass on “B.A.S.S. / Branding A Serious Situation” Continue reading
I’ve been eating a lot of grilled cheese because they’re a pretty simple snack… I decided to switch it up after finding some ingredients leftover from a meal earlier this week. I decided to throw some leftover pizza sauce, cheese, … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Gleaming the Queue
Gleaming the Queue: END OF WATCH
I’m not quite sure why I picked David Ayer’s End of Watch for this month’s Gleaming the Queue. Unlike many, I thought the Ayer’s scripted Training Day was rather pedantic, in spite of Denzel’s Oscar-wining performance, and I could not … Continue reading
GLEAMING THE QUEUE: “HEMLOCK GROVE”
I am going to try something new this month. After a year of reviewing Netflix suggested films for my Gleaming the Queue column, I’ve decided to write on one of Netflix’s Original Series. And, as it is the most recent … Continue reading
GLEAMING THE QUEUE: BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS
John Dullaghan’s Bukowski: Born Into This is a documentary about the oft lewd, drunk, and majestic poet and novelist, Charles Bukowski, who died in 1994. The documentary beautifully weaves many interviews, footage of poetry readings, and testimony of Bukowski’s friends, … Continue reading
GLEAMING THE QUEUE: HAYWIRE
Haywire seems like Stephen Soderbergh’s cold and kinetic experiment in high-impact, low-concept genre filmmaking. In this instance, the action genre. Starting with a brawl in a rural roadside diner, the film, written by Lem Dobbs, proceeds through a series of … Continue reading
Gleaming the Queue: Bernie
At the opening of Richard Linklater’s East Texas black comedy, Bernie, the small-town mortician – played with unusual restraint by Jack Black – conducts a master class in how to prepare a body for a first rate open-casket funeral. Bernie … Continue reading
Gleaming the Queue: The Two Jakes (1990)
Roman Polanski’s Chinatown is one of my all time favorite films. But, despite my appreciation for the 1974 Oscar winning film, I had never seen its 1990 sequel, The Two Jakes, directed by Chinatown star, Jack Nicholson. And never seeing this sequel was intentional … Continue reading
GLEAMING THE QUEUE: PRESSPAUSEPLAY
“A Film About Hope, Fear, and Digital Culture” Of all of the films that I have reviewed for this column, PressPausePlay might be the only one that demands viewing. I say this because the majority of those who read my … Continue reading
GLEAMING THE QUEUE – “SNOW ON THA BLUFF”
From the start of Snow on tha Bluff, which runs without any introductory credits, this jolt of a film drops into a you-are-there crime scene: Three college students — one manning a video camera — drive into the “Bluff”, a … Continue reading
GLEAMING the QUEUE: Hang Up on “THE CALLER”
In an era when Hollywood is seemingly devoid of originality, nothing is more maddening than watching a film that squanders an otherwise novel idea. Which is why The Caller is the most frustrating film that Netflix recommended to me. The … Continue reading
GLEAMING THE QUEUE with .rar Kelly: AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE
GLEAMING THE QUEUE with .rar KELLY And Everything Is Going Fine (2011, Dir. Steven Soderbergh) In a particularly manic passage from one of Spalding Gray’s extended autobiographical monologues, the actor and writer relates the story of how, after his mother’s … Continue reading