Poptic Nerve

While the big news about the next gen console, PlayStation 5 or "PS5" for short has nearly every gamer excited for its upcoming launch, let's take a look back as in 25 years ago, when Sony's first move into the console arena . The year was 1995, Microsoft unleashes Windows 95, eBay everyone's favorite online auction retailer debuts, Mortal Kombat is the first good videogame adaptation movie, Sega Saturn North American launch was a surprise to many unsuspecting gamers and even retailers!! Oh, and OJ Simpson was found, Not Guilty! Now, sometime after the 1995 E3, Electronic Entertainment Expo, where Sega announced their new Saturn Platform at $399 msrp, in comes Sony who undercuts Sega with a $299 price point! And the crowd goes wild!! Four months later the Sony PlayStation touted as the real 3D console with its polygon pushing power with specs more impressive than Sega's console. Ironically, what started off as a proposed CD add on for Nintendo's Super Fami

I recently got a tip to watch the documentary, My Teacher Octopus. I found it on Netflix. This documentary might have been the best documentary ever filmed had the white-privileged emo motherfucker, who filmed it, not been such a piece of shit. This documentary managed to touch me deeply and anger me immensely at the same time. Granted, that is not a bad thing, because whether it’s a movie, TV show or docu, if it makes you feel all kinds of emotions it’s a good thing. However, how that emo-motherfucker managed to fuck up his documentary is beyond me. I am not going to spoil it, but I urge you to watch it to see if you will get as angered as I was. Just look at that emo motherfucker! My Teacher octopus is about a guy who finds no happiness in his work, so he quits working. He starts diving in the Kelpsee and discovers a female Octopus. He builds a relationship with her and decides to return every day to film his encounters with her and the life she leads. The Octopus totally steals the

Sir Ridley Scott is at it again, asking them big questions. And the result is just what you’d expect after his beautifully shot but mind-numbingly shallow Alien prequels PROMETHEUS and COVENANT. In the new HBO Max Sci-Fi program RAISED BY WOLVES Scott jumps from investigating the origins of mankind by way of Erich von Däniken straight to the end of mankind as we know it: Earth has been destroyed in a war between atheists and religious people (yes, you’ve read that correctly). Fleeing from the destruction onboard a small starship are two androids, programmed by the atheist faction to bring their cargo - frozen human sperm - to distant planet Keppler 22-b, where they are meant to birth a bunch of kids and raise them the atheist way. Because, you see, according to the atheist fraction you just have to eradicate religion to build a forever peaceful utopia. But another group of survivors are hot on the androids‘ trail – and they’re of the especially android-phobic religious kind. Yes, this

Currently,  Hollywood is on this fast track of cranking out more socially conscious, films and television series since the unparalleled success of 2017's Get Out and compelling Superhero shows like HBO's Watchmen and Horror narratives, Lovecraft Country- bearing the unapologetic metaphors/content of inhumane American racism with African-Americans as the primary victims. The topic of racism is more prevalent than ever when you factor the extrajudicial killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many, many more. The protests under the name and coda of the Black Lives Matter movement has gain unprecedented momentum during a time where the President of the United States has often stoked the flames of racism via dog whistling and empty rhetoric. All this while many are dying from Covid 19, Black peoples are disproportionately affected due to not having the luxuries working from home. So now, that most of us are under lockdown six months in, newer theatrical releases, are distribut

In this podcast episode, Stalks, Asi and Jan discuss topics such as;   Oh, Lawd : The most  bizarre scenes from the shocking docudrama, Lords of Chaos and how much of it is real. Yea, Boys! : Our thoughts on Amazon's The Boys season 2. Stigmatized: Are Minorities and Women marginalized for liking Horror or Science Fiction? Let the punishment fit the crime: Does an eye for an eye justify? Plus we give our recommendations for must see TV shows! Also, where in the world is Bop?!?

There is something that must be said about 1990. Sure, its known for being the last decade of the 20th century but also, new beginning for cinema. Like for example this hybrid "Coming of Age" Crime Drama which to me, is the best Gangster film ever! I can recall how and why I preferred it over The Godfather during a debate at the now defunct Supernaughts site. "Anything I wanted was a phone call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city. Didn't matter. It didn't mean anything. When I was broke, I'd go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over". Directed by Martin Scorsese and released on September 19, 1990, Goodfellas was an adapted screenplay based on Nicholas Pellegi's book "Wiseguy", that chronicles the real life exploits of Henry Hill, a Mob associate who  turned to

What a piece of shit year 2020 has been so far. As if this corona hoax was not bad enough, or never mind the fact that all our governments did not betray us enough already, now the two most positive female role models in mainstream pop culture died in the same year. Honor Blackman died this year and now a few days ago Diana Rigg died. How ironic that the 2 most iconic women on television died in the same year. 2 women to whom any woman should look up instead of looking up to trash like the Kardashians, Brie Larson, Scarlett Johansson, Cardi B, Miley Cyrus, Katie Perry, Madonna and Lady Gaga. And then women complain they cannot find a guy. No shit, if you look up to the trash I mentioned, but are also lazy as fuck.  Now let us take a closer look at the two women, who oozed femininity and girl power before the Spice Girls besmirched the term girl power and all the other women that took that term in vain like the Kardashians and shit. Honor Blackman (RIP 2020, natural causes) Cathy Gale a

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY couldn’t be more relevant as we’re nearing the end of this terrible year 2020: It’s a social conscious genre show that tackles influences by infamously racist literary horror icon H.P. Lovecraft and tells a tale of black heros during the days of the Jim Crow 1950s – just months after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and way too many others sparked the biggest BLM protests yet, even way beyond U.S. borders! So, as a critical Lovecraft fan I was naturally curious to see how the show would deal with these issues. What would it make of its Lovecraft influence, and what points would it attempt to make other than the obvious „there was and is racism“ statement?  Disclaimer: While being familiar with most of Lovecraft’s work, I haven’t read Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel which the show is actually based on and I barely remember anything from the first trailer. I was good with going in blind and finding out what it’s all about. LOVECRAFT COUNTRY tells the story of Atticus