Brainwash is Toy Machine Skateboard Company’s latest attempt at world-domination. What started as a simple promo video exploded into a full-blown face melting, yet concise, skate video. All of Toy Machine’s newest Team Riders, Leo Romero, Collin Provost, Daniel Lutheran, and Jordan Taylor are making jaw-dropping Toy video debuts. Loyal Pawns of the Machine worry not, the entire rest of the team checks in with over a minute of footage each. Johnny Layton, Billy Marks, Diego Bucchieri, Josh Harmony, Austin Stephens, Ed Templeton and Matt Bennett will give you a programming injection that will achieve consumer submission to the Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company.
As a huge fan of Sean Baker’s Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket, I’ve wanted to watch Anora since before it even was released. But life got in the way, my watchlist grew, and honestly, the fact that it was marketed as a romantic comedy put me off. Even with all the critical praise and the five Academy Awards it won last year, I just kept postponing it indefinitely.
Diversity is incorporated in a way that only aids in a well-rounded conveying of stories through different lenses. The show’s success is a testament to what audiences are craving: authentic stories that broaden the mind and heart.
Him is visually stunning—all concrete cathedrals and bone-rattling impact shots that look like a nightmare highlight reel. Marlon Wayans is magnetic as this legendary quarterback who's basically selling salvation with a smile that never quite reaches his eyes. But the story keeps running in circles: more tests, more cryptic pep talks, more ritualistic drills. The sports-as-religion metaphor beats you over the head when subtlety would've been more effective. The middle drags, and that finale chooses spectacle over substance. It's undeniably stylish, but left me cold. Also worth noting: despite the Monkeypaw connection, this isn't actually a Jordan Peele film—he didn't write or direct.
Zombie apocalypses have been metaphors for late-stage predatory capitalism, but never a system disrupter that brings about freedom.
