2015
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New Year’s Resolutions 2016
1. Get one step closer to the Almighty. 2. Get one degree closer to Kevin Bacon. 3. Remove plastic before eating processed cheese slices. 4K resolution. 5. Cut down on my cocaine use when I go to whorehouses with Lamar Odom. 6. Convince Europeans that 9/11 didn’t happen in November. 7. Demand that networks stop […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 12/29/15
EPISODE #213: LIVE HIGHLIGHTS 2015 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Motörhead — “Ace of Spades” [R.I.P. Lemmy] The Flamin’ Groovies — “You Tore Me Down” Spain — “You and I” Nicole Atkins — “You Were the Devil” The Mekons — “The Olde Trip to Jerusalem” Louise Distras — “Shades of Hate” Colleen Green — […]
Movie Review: The Hateful Eight (Special Roadshow Engagement)
3.5 stars out of 5 If you’re going to shoot in Ultra Panavision 70 — the first movie in nearly 50 years to do so — maybe, just maybe, don’t set the great majority of the 3 hour, 7 minute film in ONE ROOM? But hey, I’m not the filmmaker here. Quentin Tarantino is. And […]
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4 stars out of 5 I was 8 years old when the original Star Wars came out and like everybody else I knew, I was all in. Poster on my bedroom wall, action figures, comic books. I loved trying to draw R2-D2. My dad took me into San Francisco one day to meet Darth Vader, […]
Movie Review: Carol
3.5 stars out of 5 You ever read about something being the “best movie of the year” so you go and see it, and then you think, ‘well that was good but by no means the best movie of the year’? That’s me and Carol. I must admit to not being that up on the […]
Movie Review: Creed
3.5 stars out of 5 So, there’s this new installment in a long-running movie series, started in the ’70s, good vs. evil, iconic music. But people are especially psyched for this one because it consciously connects back to the “classic era.” Of course, I am referring to Creed, the latest chapter in the Rocky saga. […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 12/15/15
EPISODE #211: HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2015 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Darlene Love — “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” Joni Mitchell — “River” Electric Jungle — “Funky Funky Christmas” Frank Sinatra — “Christmas Dreaming” The Wedding Present — “Step Into Christmas” Irwin Chusid — “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” The Dingle Belles — “Christmas […]
Movie Review: Brooklyn
4 stars out of 5 Sometimes, in these United States, a swarthy boy will fall in love with a clean Irish girl. And every once in a while, she’ll love him back. Now, in terms of Irish women, the filmmakers here were really stacking the deck by casting Saoirse Ronan as the lead. A year […]
Movie Review: Spotlight
4 stars out of 5 You’ve got a fairly talkie movie here on a topic that is, for most of us, a given — that a lot of priests have taken advantage of little boys. Early on, I was even wondering if the subject might be better served by a documentary. But the cast and […]
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