Free Throw - What's Past Is Prologue

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Submitted by Thomas on February 5, 2019 - 18:48

At the start of Free Throw’s third full-length album, What’s Past Is Prologue, it sounds like it could be a breakup record, which wouldn’t be entirely shocking for a band whose made some serious waves in a genre practically built upon the subject matter. It’s not until the third track, 'The Corner’s Dilemma,' that we start to get the bigger picture; that this is a record not about the hangups and minutiae of a failed relationship with a significant other, but more so one with yourself. It’s about self-reflection, even when rock bottom is what’s staring back at you.

Alpha

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Submitted by Thomas on February 3, 2019 - 16:57

Back in the nineties, director Albert Hughes made a name for himself with movies like Menace II Society and - to a lesser degree - Dead Presidents, both of which he made along with his brother. 2001’s From Hell, their take on the Jack the Ripper story based on Alan Moore’s graphic novel, was another solid movie. Don’t know what happened after that, but it took them nine years before they came back with The Book of Eli, a not so good apocalyptic movie starring Denzel Washington. Almost ten years later again, and Albert Hughes is back at it with ‘Alpha’, his solo directorial debut.