Every year I
do this. I decide to start a monthly review post. It’s sort of like my new
year’s resolution, ‘cause I start off with January and forget the rest of the
year. So let’s see how long I can keep this up this time.
SONGS OF THE
MONTH: UPTOWN FUNK ft. Bruno Mars by Mark Ronson.
If you
haven’t heard Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk featuring Bruno Mars yet then we need
to funk you up (yeah, that was lame, but what can you do?!)! What’s greater
than this song? Why watching Mars and his Hooligans band mates performing it
live like they did on The Ellen Show. We all thought once upon a time that
Chris Brown was the heir to M.J’s throne. We were wrong, it’s Bruno Mars!
Another song
to check out is Jeremih’s Planes featuring J. Cole. Jeremih had a blast last
year with his D.J Mustard produced Don’t Tell Em, which sampled old school classic
Rhythm Is A Dancer by 90s dance group Snap. Well Jeremih’s back with the more
laid-back Planes and it’s a hit in the making.
Also
everybody’s favourite Barbadian beauty Rihanna dropped FourFive Seconds, a
drum-less, percussion-less, Paul McCartney singing-less single featuring Kanye
West and Sir McCartney on instrumentation.
MOVIE OF THE
MONTH: JOHN WICK
If you
haven’t seen John Wick, you’re missing out on Keanu Reeves’ best movie since
The Matrix. Story? Wick is a retired hitman forced out of retirement when his
car is stolen and his dog is shot. That’s it! That’s all you need to know as
far as the plot is concerned. Perhaps the most perplexing thing about this
movie is how the producers managed to get so many talented actors to appear for
so little screen time, not as cameos, but as actual parts of the plot. Niggas
are in this movie for five minutes and it makes sense.
SERIES OF
THE MONTH: MARCO POLO
Thank God
for Netflix. If you’re wondering what to watch in the form of the serial, well
then feast your eyes on Netflix’s next big extravaganza. The house that brought
you House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, takes you to Ancient China for
this great period piece featuring the real life explorer Marco Polo, he whose
fame has translated into a water game named after him. Taking real life
accounts of Polo and obviously fictionalizing them, Polo is the new period
piece to watch. Comparisons to Game of Throne are inevitable, but trust me
those comparisons will stop somewhere by episode 7 when you see one of the best
Kung-fu fights in a while. And unlike GoT, Polo ditches CGI for actual set
pieces and actual extras. So when you see an army in some of the earlier episodes,
you are seeing an actual army of actors. The only problem with Marco Polo
really is the pace; it starts off slow and sort of maintains that pace
throughout the series, with each episode seemingly getting better (and more
revealing) than the previous. For a much better review of Marco Polo (warts and all), check out: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/dec/12/marco-polo-despite-naked-king-fu-the-script-doesnt-have-the-chops. Yes, I know it's hard to believe, but there are people who write better reviews than me! What are you gonna do?!
