January 2025
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Aquarium Playlist, 1/28/25
EPISODE #626: WORDSThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Monkees — “Words”UV-TV — “Only Kind Words” Lee Hazlewood — “Words Mean Nothing” Jimmy Cliff — “Action Speaks Louder Than Words” Buddy Holly — “Words of Love”The Ladybug Transistor — “Words Hang in the Air” Ella Fitzgerald — “Too Marvelous for Words” Radiohead — “These Are My […]
Movie Review: Wolf Man
4 stars out of 5 The day started out with me planning to see the movie September 5 in Montclair. But for the second week in a row I didn’t get an early-enough jump, so hunkered down in Vito’s Pizza of Bloomfield (last week it was the Tick Tock Diner in Clifton) to figure out […]
Movie Review: The Room Next Door
4 stars out of 5 Ticket clerk: “You’re in Theater 1.” Me: “Yes, but what’s in… the room next door?” After that bit of hilarity, I was ready to purchase my popcorn and settle in for Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature with the boffo leads Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. On the surface, this is […]
Aquarium Playlist, 1/21/25
EPISODE #625: DAVID LYNCH TRIBUTEAngelo Badalamenti — “Twin Peaks Main Theme” [edit; ALTERNATE THEME]Roy Orbison — “In Dreams”Angelo Badalamenti — “Laura Palmer’s Theme” Julee Cruise — “Into the Night” Chris Isaak — “Wicked Game” James Marshall feat. Lara Flynn Boyle & Sheryl Lee — “Just You”Angelo Badalamenti — “Audrey’s Dance” Rebekah Del Rio — “Llorando” […]
Aquarium Playlist, 1/14/25
EPISODE #624: FIRE IIIinspired by the January 2025 southern California wildfiresThe Olivia Tremor Control — “California Demise 3” [ALTERNATE THEME]M. Ward — “Fuel for Fire”Beach Boys — “Santa Ana Winds” The Dracu-Las — “Fire” The Resonars — “Forest Fire” Television — “The Fire”22° Halo — “Big Fire” XTC — “Great Fire” Mount Eerie — “Huge […]
My Highly Subjective List of the Best Films of 2024
Movies, what’s new at the movies? It seems like my larger local theaters are devoting more screens to Indian and Asian films; that’s good, meet the needs of your demographic. Something called Terrifier 3 was also playing; I never saw a single commercial for it yet it was playing. Not playing: Juror #2 from 94-year-old […]
Aquarium Playlist, 1/7/25
EPISODE #623: JIMMY CARTER TRIBUTEGene Marshall — “Jimmy Carter Says Yes” [ALTERNATE THEME]Fairport Convention — “The Plainsman”Henry Williams & Eddie Anthony — “Georgia Crawl” Tindersticks — “Peanuts” Liverpool Express — “Smile (My Smiler’s Smile)” The Baseball Project — “1976”Tore Renberg — “Jimmy Carter for President” Wylde Rattz — “Rosalyn” The Rubs — “Amy” Vince Vance […]
Movie Review: A Complete Unknown
4 stars out of 5 I saw this movie on Christmas Day but was then waylaid by the Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows (where at least I did see two Dylan covers performed, “Something There Is About You” and “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down”) So my review has been delayed, sorry. If you wanted […]
Pandemic Cinema, Year 5
A chronological list of non-current or non-theatrical movies (feature length and short films) that I watched at home during the continuing COVID-19 crisis in 2024. The great majority of them were new to me. Max Dugan Returns (1983)The Invisible Man (1933)Señor Droopy (1949)Beware, My Lovely (1952)The Vanishing (1988)Deciding Vote (2023)Insomnia (1997)Dominick and Eugene (1988)The Boston Strangler (1968)L’Assassin Habite […]
Jack Silbert, curator