Movie Review Nope

Nope 

Directed by Jordan Peele

Written by Jordan Peele 

Starring Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott

Release Dated July 22nd, 2022 

A shoe stands on its end, the toe pointing into the air. It’s an evocative image, shoes don’t do that. But a shoe does do that in the new Jordan Peele horror thriller Nope. Come to think of it, the sight of a shoe in such an unnatural position is the kind of image that might cause one to say ‘Nope’ while slowly backing away from whatever might be the cause of this image. It’s not just a shoe though, there’s a well placed drop of blood on that shoe as well that offers another disturbing aspect to this sight. Then the context for the shoe comes fully into frame and… 

I am not going to spoil this for you, I promise. I am going to do a little tap dancing to get through this so bear with me. I want you to see Nope because it is so unique and thrilling. So, trust me when I tell you that nothing I write in this review will reveal anything important regarding the surprises and shocks of Nope. And trust me again when I tell you that those shocks and surprises are worth every penny of your ticket price.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here. 

Horror of 2022

Let's rank the Horror Movies of 2022!

Rank	Item
1	Pearl
2	Nocturna Side A and Side B
3	We're All Going to the World's Fair
4	Godforsaken
5	Hatching
6	The Yellow Wallpaper
7	X
8	Men
9	Nope
10	Barbarian
11	Resurrection
12	Terrifier 2
13	Hellraiser
14	Orphan First Kill
15	Christmas Bloody Christmas
16	The Fireplace Adult Swim Yule Log Secret Movie
17	Studio 666
18	Kicking Blood
19	Fall
20	The Black Phone
21	All Jacked Up and Full of Worms
22	The Mean One
23	Violent Night
24	The Scary of 61st
25	Bodies Bodies Bodies
26	Children of Sin
27	Halloween Ends
28	The Invitation
29	Surrogate
30	Room 203
31	The Long Night
32	The Free Fall
33	The Legend of La Llorona
34	Rucker
35	The Curse of La Patasola
36	Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I Followed Actor Steven Yuen on Twitter and Nothing Happened

Some time in the pre-pandemic era of social media, my friend Tim decided he was going to follow actor Armie Hammer on Twitter. He liked the handsome young actor from The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name and he thought it might be fun to see what the actor revealed about himself on Social Media. It turned out to be a lot. Though what Hammer was doing to the women he encountered was done in DM's and not open to the public at that time, Tim still found himself in a weird rabbit hole as Armie Hammer, even before his being outed as a sexual predator, is pretty weird. 

That got me thinking, maybe if I found a celebrity I might find my own bizarre rabbit hole of weird behavior. Thus, I decided to follow the first random celebrity that the Twitter algorithms would recommend to me. The first name on the list was the former co-star of The Walking Dead and the recent co-star of the Oscar winning film, Minari. I am a big fan of Steven Yuen, aware of him despite not having watched a single moment of his television breakthrough in The Walking Dead. So, where did this rabbit hole take me? Read along to find out the terrifying but true details of Steven Yuen on Twitter. 

Steven Yuen Spends Very Little Time Tweeting

If you were to tell me that Steven Yuen's Twitter was unquestionably a Bot, I would believe you. Yeah, Steven Yuen, it turns out, doesn't do much on social media. Though he allegedly was an early adopter to Twitter, his bio indicates that Yuen joined the platform in 2008, Yuen did not send his first tweet until January of 2021. That first Tweet was a random and slightly insufferable Retweet of the Kurt Vonnegut Quote bot: "There's only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you've got to be kind." 

Often, individuals trying out social media for the first time will use a quote from a famous intellectual as a way of setting expectations for those who choose to follow them. People like Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Gandhi, are still represented on Twitter despite their lives pre-dating the launch of the site. Associating yourself with famous author A looks good on Social Media, doesn't require vetting by your publicist, and, hopefully, creates an association between you-the Re-Tweeter- and the highly respected and well thought of author portrayed in the ReTweet. I know this because, it's what I did as well. 

Click here for my full length article at Geeks.media