Sports, Media, Pop Culture
Sports, Media, Pop Culture
By Andrew Pelechaty In a pop-culture environment where TV shows are acclimatising to modern viewers’ attention spans, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia finishing its 18th season is a fantastic achievement. It’s now one of the longest-running live-action sitcoms. The show has always sat outside the radar of mainstream popularity (it was almost impossible to find […]
Warning: This article contains suicide and self-harm, which may be distressing to some readers. In 2017, I was struggling. I was pining for someone I had fallen in love with during the new year, and I had decided to defer university for six months while fighting to see my daughter. I didn’t know what I […]
Being the pop culture connoisseur that I am, I prefer those types of conspiracy theories rather than the ones that claim the moon landing was fake or that the Earth is flat. Some of my favourite pop culture conspiracy theories include Tupac Shakur faking his own death, Stevie Wonder can see, and Avril Lavigne was […]
By Andrew Pelechaty While The Simpsons is the most beloved animated show of the last 40 years, there’s a section of ‘fans’ who love bragging about the show’s decline. “I’ve never watched after season 11.” “The show died in the late 90s.” “The Simpsons is unwatchable now!” Contrary to these critics’ beliefs, the show is […]
By Andrew Pelechaty Approaching its 20th anniversary, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is still one of the most surreal, disturbing, and inventive comedies on Adult Swim. If you turned it on randomly (and had never heard of it before), you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a zero-budget public access show. Embracing the […]
By Andrew Pelechaty WARNING: This review contains spoilers from Daredevil Born Again Season 2. While it could be argued that Disney was a big part of the MCU backlash post-Endgame (with lots of interconnected Disney+ series and movies that turned watching the MCU into homework), Daredevil’s introduction has been one of the high points. Born […]
by Andrew Pelechaty A versatile performer of rock, soul/R&B, and acoustic music for over 50 years, Jimmy Barnes has embraced the retro vibe with his 40th anniversary For the Working Class Man tour, which finished on Friday night (April 10) at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena. As the Barnes family band walked out, the audience watched […]
By Andrew Pelechaty SUPER MARIO GALAXY The new Super Mario movie (The Super Mario Galaxy Movie) continues the rise of video game movies: with the MCU experiencing a post-Infinity War/Endgame backlash, DC starting from scratch, and general superhero fatigue, video game movies have become the latest popcorn blockbusters. While Galaxy’s plot isn’t ground-breaking (though, like […]
Fans of Summer House are up in arms over recent revelations that Amanda Batula and West Wilson are together, proof that people often swear they’ll never date a friend’s ex, but do it anyway. If you’re not across the drama of Summer House, strap yourself in, becuase there’s a bit to process. One of the […]
