Author: Max Bratter
Biggest NBA Player Disappointments
Some guys are falling short this season! Kawhi Leonard Kawhi Leonard: the 2x Finals MVP, one of the NBA’s best defenders of all time and one of the…
Biggest NBA Player Surprises So Far
Some of the best individual storylines this season. Jerami Grant/Damian Lillard The Portland Trail Blazers are already 9 wins away from matching their victory total last season with…
Top 22 Albums of 2022
The best of the best this year! 22. 2 Alivë (Geëk Pack) — Yeat Yeah, substance may be an afterthought when it comes to Yeat’s musical efforts, but…
Social media continues to distort body image
Social media influencers can deliberately, or inadvertently, warp physical perception. Body image has become a brand in itself within the dawn of social media’s influencer era. It is…
Can you truly separate art from the artist?
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, was my favorite artist of all time. Graduation (2007) was the first full-length album that I listened to in its entirety when…
Grant Wahl’s death means more than the World Cup for America
Renowned American sports journalist Grant Wahl was live-Tweeting his analysis of the 2022 Qatar World Cup Argentina vs. Netherlands quarterfinals match until he spontaneously collapsed and passed away…
What Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure represents on a corporate level
On November 22nd, Premier League club Manchester United terminated Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract. Cristiano Ronaldo is not the type of athlete, or employee, that most businesses would choose to…
Be thankful for athletic activism
Highlighting some of the most significant social stances taken by professional athletes. There is never a time and place to stand up for what one believes is morally…
What is Elon Musk doing with Twitter?
Twitter may be on the brink of destruction. Elon Musk’s impact on politics, the economy, climate, social media and general society goes without saying, but that’s exactly where…
Album Review – Joji: Smithereens
SOFT 6/10 There are many eras of Joji that his fans might know him from. There’s the start of his career that consisted solely of emotional crooning to…
Album Review – Drake & 21 Savage: Her Loss
STRONG 6/10 Drake and 21 Savage are at two very different points of their career at the release of their collaborative Her Loss (2022). Drake is arguably exiting…
Barbarian (2022) Film Review and Summary
SOFT 8/10 Apparently the rhetoric disseminated by masses of parents and guardians of “stranger danger” is not compelling enough for someone like Tess (Georgina Campbell) to refrain from…
Album Review – Westside Gunn: 10
SOFT 7/10 Westside Gunn has been one of the more prolific, but consistent proficient, rappers of the early 2020s. The self-proclaimed “FLYGOD” launched the Buffalo-based Griselda record label…
Tár (2022) Film Review and Summary
SOLID 8/10 Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is not always present. The titular character will probably strike a chord with modern cinema’s obsession with megalomaniacs; demonstrated by the revitalization…
Tokyo Drifter (1966) Film Review and Summary
STRONG 6/10 The concept of mise en scéne within film is a polarizing one. In essence, the classification relates to anything that a film is composed of; the…