@trapoet hacked the interview process for Government Propagandists.
Catch our next show on 7th May at Akara Cafe Pavillon @pavillondining
#ᴄᴏᴍᴇᴅʏᴄʟᴜʙ #abujacomedy #justforquacks
@trapoet Abdul’s first Stand Up set was off to a flyer 😂😂😂
Catch us live next Thursday 23/04 from 7pm at Akara Cafe Pavillon @pavillondining .
#comedy #abujacomedy #justforquacks
If you weren’t around in the 90s (lol) or probably just never knew, Keanu Reeves is a musician and not just in the oh-I-play-instruments-on-my-off-days kind of way (because aren’t we all to some degree?), no, he’s in a full-fledge band that was relatively big in the 90s called Dogstar. They even went on tour and would get mobbed by screaming girls, solely because of Keanu more than their music. All of this was even before The Matrix happened. If you’re wondering why you probably never heard of them, well one reason is Keanu had another career, I think he was an actor or something, (who knows?), so he wasn’t always around for tours and recordings.
Well, ladies and gentleman, as all things 90s are coming back, guess who’s back with a brand new song?! Yes, it’s Dogstar and this actually is their first song that really caught my attention. It sounds very Queens of the Stone Age like. It’s not their first reunion this decade though, as they released an album in 2023, but this one feels right.
With T.I, Juvenile, Gnarls Barkley and 50 Cent all making comebacks this year, Dogstar might just fit in right. I’d rather this than another Matrix movie, really.
Finally got round to watching this and here are two things you need to know:
1. I figured out who the un-aliver was in episode 4 and then I got to the end of the show and I was like, "oh, I was wrong", but then the show was like, "oh no, you weren't, you were right all along." 🤣
2. I enjoyed being right, it was a good show.
Rating: 4/5.
If you've seen one or two of writer-director Joe Carnahan's movies you know he tends to focus on men dealing with their place in the world and their morality, i.e men doing wrong to do right and/or thinking their wrongs are right and so on. The Rip might be the best showcase of that since 2002's Narc (that one too dealt with morally ambiguous cops) and this time the budget is big and stars Ben Affleck & Matt Damon.
The Rip is one long suspense sequence after the other. Every scene presents more questions than the previous one answers. Basically a group of cops led by Matt Damon have to count illegal money in a house they've been tipped belongs to an unknown criminal. Only problem is there's already someone in the house who may or may not be its actual proprietor and then there are the criminals who "own" the money that we don't really see or even know who they are, except that they only want the money where they kept it and largely untouched... and they only communicate by the landline in the house. Someone's going to d!e if the cops don't leave and the cops don't trust themselves with the money.
That tension alone drives the plot for most of the film up untill when the cops have to decide how much they'd like to stay alive. Netflix movies are usually hit-and-miss with varying results from okay to ugh, but this one is surprisingly good.
Rating: 7/10.
To Kill A Monkey is the new thriller by Kemi Adetiba, which by now most of you have likely seen since it's been out for over a month now. So let's get to it. First, let's start with the good & obvious: Kemi Adetiba finish work for this limited series. The acting, the directing, all on point with a few loose nuts here and there, mostly with the writing. Adetiba has slowly become the godmother of godfather series. Her seeming obssesion with crime and how it affects our society has made for great storytelling starting with King of Boys, a 3 hour movie that although long, justified its runtime with having something to say.
Here, Adetiba gets 8 hours to say it. She wrote all the episodes and it takes till episode 6 for the characters to start to feel like stereotypes and caricatures of themselves. This is a testament to her writing and the great performances of her actors that at least we made it more than halfway before the cracks started to show. One character that suffers from the story though is the villainous Teacher. We don't get much of a backstory on him and his intentions are nothing more than to drive the story, as such he's portrayed very much one-note by Chidi Mokeme almost cartoonishly at points. Characters like Oboz and Efe are so well-rounded that Teacher felt like an adversary they would've dealt with one-time and not for the whole show.
There's a subplot that appears in episode 6, the episode where things seem to be repeating themselves that had me wondering where it was going, but Adetiba manages to wrap everything up almost neatly in the end even with one or two things left unanswered. Also, whatever the budget of TKAM, it clearly shows it was well-spent.
Rating: 8/10.
Also, if you want to discuss spoilers in the comments, go ahead. 😂
Christopher Nolan might be the greatest auteur of the 21st century in Hollywood, that director who can get any movie made based on his name alone. Sure, there are others who are as much his equal, but most of them made their name and fame before the 2000s and the others who came in the same time as Nolan may not be able to demand the same attention or respect. Well, after Sinners, Ryan Coogler will definitely become that director whose name can command any check and condition (he already requested the rights to Sinners after 25 years and got that). And speaking of Nolan (who gets a shoutout in the movie's credits), the british director advised Coogler to direct his latest offering on film (actual film reels) and not digital. The film is certainly shot for a wide-screen viewing and it shows.
Now onto the story of Sinners. It's not a complicated one, not really, there are vampires and there are people returning to the place they once left for whatever reason. The sauce lies in the movie's build-up and the eventual payoff. The introduction to the characters and the setting in which they live and their individual histories could've been the whole movie and it would've been fantastic. It could've been a story of two brothers coming home and facing their past traumas and I would've been sat for two hours.
Two things I noticed most people talk about in Sinners: 1. The villains, at least the ones in the trailer, don't even show up till about halfway through the movie and because the build-up is so interesting you honestly might not notice. 2. There's a scene EVERYONE has been talking about. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it. No one has to tell you.
Another thing is the movie's villain has a very interesting motive that if he wasn't who he was he'd probably be right. There are of course symbolism in Coogler's movies (there's a line the villain says towards the end, though speaking to one person, he might as well have been speaking to all black creatives. I knew exactly what that line meant beyond the movie's context) and I'm sure you'll find many videos on that once you've seen the movie.
There's a mid-credit scene btw.
Sinners is a 9/10. 🔥
