Recently, an overshadowed movie has made its way to streaming services, giving you another chance to witness its unhinged insanity for yourself. There’s only one way I can describe Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) outside of calling it a masterpiece that garnered a mere $14 million during its theatrical release: Horrible people make each other cry so that other horrible people will die. 

I have never played or been a fan of the hit 2015 indie game Undertale, created by Toby Fox, never following the lore nor known anything past the generic Sans-related lore that comes with the title. My ignorance has been highlighted lately through my social media feed, where I have continuously seen and ignored two side-by-side 2-D panels of a character looking into a mirror with a simple sentence placed below it; yet, my phone's continuous reprisal of the topic showed me it needed to be acknowledged. 

Several weeks ago, the 96 Academy Awards showcased another night of awards, most deserved, some not—I’m looking at you, Best Animated Short Film. For many, the so-called “biggest night in Hollywood” always has one or two glaring flaws, the most prominent of which is always the host. 

When watching Antonia Bird’s 1999 horror-comedy Western cannibal film Ravenous for the first time, I was initially tempted to think, ‘They don’t make ‘em like this anymore,’ but that would be doing the movie a disservice. Ravenous is truly a one of a kind, an unforgettable horror story of America eating itself alive at the edge of the frontier.

Jacob Matthew “Jakey” Christensen is a multifaceted media presence. Starting initially as a notable Youtuber on his channel “NakeyJakey,” which has garnered around two million subscribers and 200 million views, Christensen has also pursued music more casually under the simplified pseudonym of Jakey.

Welcome back once more, dear readers, for the final installment of my retrospective on the films of George Lucas and how he is more of an auteur than most give him credit for. In previous installments, I discussed Lucas’ consistent themes in his work as well as his life and views on politics and the world made it into films. In this pivotal climatic chapter, I will explore Lucas’ most consistent thematic concept and throughline in his films: the desire to escape.

For the unaware, Jack Antonoff is a hot name in the music industry. He is most well-known for being the producer of American pop “princess” Taylor Swift and a litany of other notable musicians like Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Florence and the Machine, The Chicks, Clairo, St. Vincent, and many, many more. The cherry on top of it is that in 2022, after three consecutive years of being nominated, he also won the Producer of the Year award for non-classical music at the Grammys.

In our culture, I often come across a strange belief that animation is something just for children and should not be taken seriously, but this closed-minded thinking is proven so wrong by the master of animation: The great Hayao Miyazaki. 

To non-metal listeners, heavy metal seems to just be loud, violent and dark with a litany of unintelligible lyrics that even some metalheads don’t understand. A lot of people don’t realize that there are so many messages in all types of music, and this genre is no different. Still, many find themselves caught in the distress of “not understanding what they’re saying,” which only drives people away from genres where they have a very different way of expressing themselves, like metal.

In July 2009, the Syfy network premiered a new show, Warehouse 13. It ran for the next five years, and despite being one of Syfy’s most-watched shows of the time, it’s often unheard of or swept under the rug in terms of pop culture. Let me bless you with a retrospective of this glorious television spectacle. 

The release of Netflix’s newest adaptation, Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024), has permeated the internet with mixed reviews. While some fans are pleased with its grimmer tone and faithfulness to the original soundtrack, others are disappointed when they compare it to the quality of the original cartoon. As for myself, after hearing the news that the original creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-08) exited the live adaptation project due to creative differences, I knew to start the first episode with low expectations. 

Flor—stylized as “flor”—is a pop band hailing from Oregon that has been making sugary, yet soulful, pop tunes since 2014. The band consists of three members: Zach Grace (lead vocals, keyboard), Dylan Bauld (bass), and Kyle Hill (drums). To most people, flor sounds like any other pop band, and in a way, they would be right. Unlike the pop that we can hear on the radio, however, something about this band feels different—combining that pop sensibility with storytelling, a sense of nostalgia, and powerful points of musicality that combine into a fantastical release that you can’t help but hold on to. 

In the first portion of this retrospective on the films of George Lucas, I wrote about how, in terms of the auteurs (filmmakers who put a lot of their personalities, philosophies, and personal interests into their work to the extent that they are considered the primary author of the film), Lucas is not considered in as high regard as his Hollywood peers like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, or Steven Spielberg. In this entry of my retrospective on Lucas and his films, I will write about how much of Lucas’ essence is put into his films, such as influences from his divorce making it into the story for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and political views littered throughout the Star Wars franchise.

Hello all of you wonderful people, and welcome back to the Arts & Entertainment section of The Lamron! Today, we have something very special: A review of some music the wonderful and spectacular Rachel Turner (who happens to be my girlfriend) picked out for us—whose birthday happens to be on the date this releases, Mar. 1!  This is the perfect opportunity for you and me both to get affiliated with some new music that I know will be amazing! Without further ado—let’s get into it!

When many moviegoers think of the greatest Sci-Fi/Fantasy sequels out there, many think of the likes of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), or Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1981), but I believe that we have a new candidate in the conversation now with Dune: Part Two (2024).

The pair that make up the band Grandbrothers could not be more different from each other. The group consists of the duo Erol Sarp, a trained jazz pianist, and Lukas Vogel, who constructs and plays synthesizers. Educated electronic synths and classically calculated acoustic piano playing create a unique and contrasting sound, combining the realistic warm piano with the cold yet varied synths. This more electronic sound not only allows them to stand out against their contemporaries, but also allows them to flesh out their sound.