May 2025
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Movie Review: Friendship
3.5 stars out of 5I don’t know who Andrew DeYoung is. Andrew Young, I know. Former mayor of Atlanta and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Still with us: 93 years old! Andrew DeYoung, I don’t know. (Singer of Styx?) But he wrote and directed Friendship, it’s his first feature after a lot of TV […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/27/25
EPISODE #643: AIRPLANES Laura Jane Grace & the the Devouring Mothers — “The Airplane Song” [ALTERNATE THEME]Lake — “Airplane”Air Miami — “Airplane Rider” Laura Cantrell — “Silver Wings” Rolling Stones — “Who’s Driving Your Plane?” The French — “Gabriel in the Airport”The Cat’s Miaow — “L.A. International Airport” R.E.M. — “Airportman” Elva — “Airport Town” […]
Movie Review: Thunderbolts
3.5 stars out of 5 Florence Pugh is the latest A-list actor to slum her way through a Marvel flick. I know what you’re saying: “But Jack, Pugh already slummed her way through Black Widow back in 2021.” I didn’t see that one, OK? Plus now she’s really putting herself out there as the star. […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/20/25
EPISODE #642: MOVING The Smithereens — “House We Used To Live In” [ALTERNATE THEME]Nick Lowe — “House for Sale”Springhouse — “Moving Van” Wimp Factor 14 — “Change of Address Kit” Basic Bitches — “We All Moved to the City, Now We Can’t Afford to Live” Butthole Surfers — “Moving to Florida”Charley Patton — “Going to […]
Movie Review: The Shrouds
4 stars out of 5In 2022, I gave a positive review to Crimes of the Future, written and directed by the then-79-year-old David Cronenberg. Showing that the apple doesn’t fall far from the fucked-up tree, I gave an equally positive review to 43-year-old son Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool. Ah, but the senior Croney wasn’t quite […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/13/25
EPISODE #641: REALLY? The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Fastbacks — “Really”New Pornographers — “Really Really Light” The Undertones — “Really Really” The Crows — “I Really Really Love You” Elvis Presley — “I Really Don’t Want to Know”Roseanne Cash — “What We Really Want” Rolling Stones — “Do You Think I Really Care?” The Byrds […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/6/25
EPISODE #640: UNDERDOGS and JILL SOBULE TRIBUTE Jill Sobule — “A Good Life” [ALTERNATE THEME]Jill Sobule — “Underdog Victorious”Spoon — “The Underdog” Sly & the Family Stone — “Underdog” Manic Street Preachers — “Underdogs” Zowy — “Underdog”Kasabian — “Underdog” Mudhoney — “Beneath the Valley of the Underdog” Chris Stamey & the ModRec Orchestra feat. Marshall […]
Movie Review: Warfare
4.5 stars out of 5 I really don’t go to see many war movies. Platoon, Casualties of War, Heartbreak Ridge, Three Kings, maybe a few others, I don’t remember, all that dust and guns. But when I noticed that my boy Alex Garland (Civil War, Annihilation, Ex Machina) was the co-writer and co-director here, I […]
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