June 2023
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Movie Review: Asteroid City
4 stars out of 5Wes Anderson is one of my all-time fave filmmakers so if he wants to continue experimenting with the form — puppets, anthology, and now, a story within a story — it’s certainly OK with me. Whether these “exercises” create a bit of distance between film and viewer and thereby prevent the […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/20/23
EPISODE #543: SUMMER 2023 Caroline No — “2023” [ALTERNATE THEME]Superchunk — “This Summer” The Tymes — “The Magic of Our Summer Love”High Back Chairs — “Summer”Plains — ”Summer Sun” Cathedral Ceilings — “Every Summer’s Eve” Wizard Brain — “Down the Shore”The Resonars — “Running to Summer”Jonny Couch — “Survival in the Summer”Phantom Handshakes — “Cricket […]
Movie Review: Sanctuary
3 stars out of 5 Last time I wrote about a French thriller, and because I’m a goofball, I nearly made a joke about French ticklers — but ultimately thought the better of it. Sanctuary, however, could use a tickler or two to spice things up. I have been a fan of Margaret Qualley since […]
Movie Review: The Night of the 12th
4 stars out of 5When I’ve been in a steady art-movie groove, I have had a reliable pleasure: French thrillers. They’re generally a notch above Hollywood thrillers, or at least the cool accents and unfamiliar settings make them seem that way. But the pandemic has been particularly hard on art-house theaters, with their audiences apparently […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/13/23
EPISODE #542: CASEY KASEM TRIBUTE 2023 “The New Scooby-Doo Movies” [ALTERNATE THEME]Terence Trent D’Arby — “Wishing Well” [Billboard No. 1, 5/7/88]Michael Jackson — “Dirty Diana” [No. 1, 7/2/88]Cheap Trick — “The Flame” [No. 1, 7/9/88 – 7/16/88]Beach Boys — “Kokomo” [No. 1, 11/5/88]The Bangles — “Eternal Flame” [No. 1, 4/1/89]Fine Young Cannibals — “She Drives Me […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/6/23
EPISODE #541: DRAG SHOW The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Tommy James & the Shondells — “Draggin’ the Line” The Magnetic Fields — “Andrew in Drag”Princess Reason — “Drag + Blur”Sid King & the Five Strings — ”Sag, Drag, and Fall” Space Daze — “Drag” Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift — “Love Is a Drag”The Cars […]
Movie Review: You Hurt My Feelings
3.5 stars out of 5I’m feeling a bit self-conscious. This whole movie is about hurt feelings; what if writer/director Nicole Holofcener (“Who I’ve had drinks with,” said in my best Jon Lovitz voice) googles this review and finds out I didn’t think it was perfect, and then feels all sad? Alas, like Lee Nails, I […]
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