August 2025
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Aquarium Playlist, 8/26/25
EPISODE #656: RAIN II The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Renee Maskin — “Rain, Rain” Emma Swift — “The Resurrection Game” The Ladybug Transistor — “Here Comes the Rain” The Black Hollies — “Here Comes the Rain” Eurythmics — “Here Comes the Rain Again”Jack Skuller — “Watercolor Rain” Edward Rogers — “Rain Becomes Her” Life in […]
Movie Review: Weapons
4 stars out of 5 Three years ago, I was quite taken with Zach Cregger’s off-kilter horror flick Barbarian. This summer, Zach is back with Weapons, and he’s once again playing with the horror formula. He sets things up with a strong conceit: Julia Garner (who I last saw in Wolf Man) is a third-grade […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/19/25
EPISODE #655: CATS X The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Theme From Felix the CatTy Segall — “Fuzzy Cat” Renee Maskin — “Cat’s Out of the Bag” Royal Arctic Institute — “From Catnap to Coma” Jimmie Davis — “Tomcat and Pussy Blues”The Prof.Fuzz 63 — “Ohio as Seen on TV” Oceana — “Pussycat on a Leash” […]
Movie Review: The Naked Gun
4 stars out of 5The six episodes of Police Squad! that aired when I was 12-going-on-13 couldn’t have been a better bar mitzvah gift. Sure, I had loved the same filmmakers’ Airplane! when I was 11, but now I was a sophisticated tween (though the word hadn’t been coined yet). So, I understood more of […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/5/25
EPISODE #653: ISLANDS The Surfaris w/ The Honeys — “I Want To Take a Trip to the Islands” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Millennium — “The Island”UV-TV — “Pale Blue Island” The Blue Jays — “Lover’s Island” The Buggles — “Island” The Garment District — “The Island of Stability”Rare Books — “Island” Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers — […]
Movie Review: Eddington
3.5 stars out of 5Dear Ari Aster: I promise I’ll attend your next movie while remembering that it is written and directed by you, the same guy who made Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid, all of which I liked. Hey, it’s partially your fault for putting your credit at the end, and for making […]
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