Landon Wright is a writer and ESL teacher currently residing in the deep red Tennessee. He writes fiction as well as essays about pop culture and its relation to society and politics.
Mainstream entertainment is becoming more diverse. Gaming lags behind film and television, but we are starting to see concentrated efforts from developers and publishers to create more female, people...
Saturday Night Live has seen a renaissance of sorts in the insanity of the Trump era. While the idea of it being irrelevant is overplayed (the series still manages solid ratings and produces many big...
This is not normal. That’s what many continue to chant under their breath in the Trump era as the institutional norms of America crumble around us. One only needs to look to the much talked about...
Bill Maher is one of those entertainment figures who seems able to sidestep any controversy. His random drop of the n-word last year interviewing Nebraskan Senator Ben Sasse, for instance, would have...
Watching ESPN’s documentary on Vince McMahon’s infamous failed football league, This Was the XFL, struck me in a lot of ways. In part because it’s an excellent and slickly-produced film, but...
As I watched videos of Resident Evil 2 with a female friend before release we saw one of the two protagonists be chased, grabbed and clubbed by a huge indestructible masculine creature in a trench...
As the awards pour in for Game of the Year 2018 it’s split between Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 and Sony’s God of War. The latter, however, was the most surprising of the two with an...
The reveal trailer for the fifth installment of Electronic Arts and DICE’s acclaimed Battlefield series was…odd. It was the first time the shooter series returned to World War II since its...
While coming back to favorite TV shows is always something to look forward to in any new year, there’s something special about discovering fresh series that you end up loving. Much like opening...
Hulk Hogan just returned to thunderous applause after three years in exile. In 2015, Hogan was erased from the company’s canon. Not only scrubbed from the website and banned from being talked...
