2023
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Movie Review: The Quiet Girl
4.5 stars out of 5First and foremost, this is not A Quiet Place III. Though it is a pretty quiet movie. The Quiet Girl, from Ireland, was one of the 2023 Oscar nominees for Best International Feature Film. It didn’t win, but it is terrific. I’m not sure when the movie is set — late […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/28/23
EPISODE #531: CONNECTIONSThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Rolling Stones — “Connection” Jack White — “Connected by Love”Teenage Fanclub — “Connected to Life”The Aquanettas — ”Connecting Line” Yourcodenameis: Milo — “I Am Connecting Flight” [Peel session]The Memories Attack — “Connected”Superchunk — “Connection”The Nuclears — “Siamese Connection”Radio Birdman — “Connected” Grandaddy — “Disconnecty” Of Montreal — […]
Movie Review: Creed III
3.5 stars out of 5Are all the movies trying to make me feel old? Adonis Creed is Rocky’s young protégé, and now he’s retired too? Sheesh! We’ve now reached the Rocky III period in the life of Creed, where after his latest title defense, the wealthy, famous, happy-at-home champ hangs up his boxing gloves. But […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/21/23
EPISODE #530: SPRING 2023 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Sun Ra & his Arkestra — “Springtime in Chicago” Luluc — “Winter Is Passing”Wizard Brain — “Seasonal Changes”Civic Mimic — ”Four Seasons of Spring” Lou Rawls — “Spring Again” Olivia Tremor Control — “Spring Succeeds”The Lucksmiths — “Rushes of Pure Spring”Beach Boys — “Spring Vacation”Angel Olsen […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/14/23
EPISODE #529: ST. PATRICK’S DAY 2023 (LUCK) Eels — “Beginner’s Luck” [ALTERNATE THEME]Joe Simon — “Pool of Bad Luck” Neko Case — “Bad Luck”The Undertones — “Hard Luck”Nicole Atkins — ”Brokedown Luck” The Lookers — “My Luck Has Changed” A Tribe Called Quest — “Luck of Lucien”k.d. lang — “Luck in My Eyes”Dntel — “Dumb […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/7/23
EPISODE #528: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2023 Siouxsie & the Banshees — “Cities in Dust” [ALTERNATE THEME]Big Joanie — “In My Arms” The Cat’s Miaow — “The Phoebe I Know”Tammy Wynette — “Apartment #9”The Rondelles — ”Mission: Irresistible” The Aquanettas — “Love With a Proper Stranger” Voice of the Beehive — “I Say Nothing”Sam Phillips — […]
Movie Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp—Quantumania
2 stars out of 5It was a drizzly winter day on the Jersey shore and I had hours to kill. “Oh, I’ll see a movie,” I thought. Alas, Asbury Park’s art theater isn’t open mid-week in the off-season. I had no choice but to go to the mall multiplex. This, of course, was no problem […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/28/23
EPISODE #527: HATE EPISODE II In response to an idiotic so-called “Day of Hate” by white-supremacist neo-Nazi fuckfaces that never actually materialized. Spoiler alert: Love always wins. The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Clash — “Hateful” Reese McHenry — “I Hate Waiting”Eric’s Trip — “Hate Song”Ramona — ”Hater’s Ball Parade” They Might Be Giants — […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/21/23
EPISODE #526: BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023 Nina Simone — “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” [ALTERNATE THEME]Jerry Butler — “Only the Strong Survive” The Fairfield Four — “Who Stole My Old Shoes?”The Dramatics — “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get”A Tribe Called Quest — ”1–2 Crush on You” Big Maybelle — “Ain’t To Be Played With” […]
Movie Review: Infinity Pool
4 stars out of 5I can imagine Mike White handing this in as a stand-alone episode of White Lotus and getting immediately fired and banned by HBO. In Infinity Pool, writer/director Brandon Cronenberg gives us his own version of an existentially bored couple at a tropic resort, but because of that last name, you can […]
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