Skip to main content

May 2022

 Welcome back to Thrak Attack! What’s your adventure? This month, I know it’s a little late, has been filled with lots of travel adventures but also a few games, music, and TV shows thrown in there too! It’s bee sort of a light month with the end of the school year but we’ll stretch it to get a top 10 adventures of May 2022!


10. “Explosions” by Three Days Grace is a generic rock album. Nothing stood out about this album to me but nothing was so bad I had to turn it off. It’s just there and it sounds like rock music. That’s why it’s the last adventure on this list. 

9. “Misery Made Me” by Silverstein is the follow up to their amazing 2020 album which made the Top 10 of the year! Although this album does have some substance with songs like “Our Song” and “Misery” and it does have some thought out themes, it just falls short of a great album. 

8. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness was not a great movie and by that standard it was a terrible marvel movie. After just seeing the superior multiverse movie a month earlier I was supremely disappointed in the amount of madness in the movie. Sam Raimi did not fit with the vibe of Doctor Strange and aside from the Scarlett Witch being fantastic and a few other great cameos.,. This movie was pretty lame. 


7. Chip n’ Dale Rescue Rangers was more of a madness than the previous movies with countless references to other media (including outlet stores) along with a bonkers cast, and a setting that made me more uncomfortable than any other film. 

6. Pittsburgh is such a cool city to drive into but unfortunately once you’re there once, there’s not much to do. My wife has never been there so driving through the tunnel straight into the city was a sight to see for her but we quickly had to get moving the next morning. Fortunately, we had time to stop at Bruegers bagels!

5. Candy is a Hulu murder mystery series based on a true story. I am not usually a fan of this one but Jessica Biel does such a great job as the title character and the way the show is framed does a great job of keeping the pieces apart until the very end. 


4. Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is an Apple Arcade and/or Switch game and although I think it would be fine on the switch, I am glad I played on my phone. It’s one of the few games that actually works better on a touch screen. The gameplay is a simple endless runner using your momentum to swing through the trees but there is a story. As you swing and slide through the rainforest the background slowly shows signs of human life. I don’t want to give the plot of the game away but you should diffidently check it out and make sure to play all the way through!


3. Under the Banner of Heaven is another murder mystery this time on FX. Again I’m not usually a murder mysteries but this time it was Andrew Garfield who pulled me in! Again, not my style but I recognize that it is a solid show which brings it up to the Top 3 spot!


2. “Dance Fever” by Florence + the Machine is not her best album but even her worst album is kick ass! The only reason why I say it is her worst album is because it is not an album for me. This album is written for women and I am not a woman. I love some of the songs such as “Choreomania”, “Dream Girl Evil”, and “Morning Elvis” but they are not written for me. It is for sure a great album though and one that you should check out!


1. Obi Wan Kenobi on Disney+ is probably the most anticipated series of the year and the 2 episode premier does not disappoint. With a few bad acting bits, the plot of this show is exactly what people were asking for and promises to deliver on one of the biggest finales in any Star Wars shows to date!


All the Best, Ross

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

S2 Ep. 1- Top 10's of the Decade

Welcome back to Thrak Attack! What's your adventure? This week's adventure takes us on a journey to the past! 2010 and onward! What were my favorite albums, songs, video games, and movies from the past decade? What better way to kick off the new year, decade, and season than taking a look back! So here we go, season 2! Top 10 of the OT's! TOP 10 ALBUMS 10. "Awaken, My Love!" by Childish Gambino is one the quintessential albums of the decade. The cultural and musical influences he uses and creates with this album are astonishing! 9. "Wasting Light" by Foo Fighters is one of many they released this decade but is the album I believe is their best of them all. Even with "Concrete and Gold's" production value and "Sonic Highways" concept, this one is just the best. 8. "Sugar" by G. Love and Special Sauce is the return to form for the underrated group. Jimi Jazz returns on bass to create one of the legendary trio...
Post a Comment
Read more

Munich- Edge of War

  Welcome back to Thrak Attack! What's your adventure? Todays adventure takes us to 1938 Europe on the brink of World War II. Two friends who graduated Oxford together have gone their separate ways. One is from Germany and lives in London to gain information. The other is the secretary for the Prime Minister in London. Sounds like a fast paced action film right? If you said yes you would be wrong. In such a tense time in history, this movie does a great job at creating suspense but doesn't fully deliver on the payoff of all that suspense. With a 131 minute run time with the first half of the movie spoken in whispers, it creates the suspense but the loud parts of the film aren't the resolutions. There are a few blow ups between the characters which do act as huge plot points, like one of the flashbacks at the pub in Germany, but that develops characters and not the story. I know this film is based on a novel called "Munich" by Robert Harris and I bet the pacing of ...
Post a Comment
Read more

S2 Ep. 4- April Showers Bring More Adventures

Welcome back to Thrak Attack! What's your adventure? This month's adventures take us to a bunch of places including AWOLNATION, Bumblebee, Midgar, and Camp Verde. It's been a pretty solid month with some pretty solid adventures! Let's see which one tops the list and which ones fall flat! 8. "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" by Fiona Apple This album is not at all what I expected it to be at all. I really liked Fiona Apple's older hits but I never actually dove into her discography past that. I didn't really know what I was jumping into and what I heard was not my favorite. The lyrics are cool, some of the piano work is really good but the songs are just strange and that's not really my vibe in music tastes. The songs that stick out on this one are "Shameika" and "Under the Table" but other than that it's just an odd album which isn't my thing. 7. "The New Abnormal" by The Strokes This is the strokes 6th studio al...
Post a Comment
Read more