2026
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Movie Review: The Drama
3.5 stars out of 5 Dear Hollywood: I demand bigger roles for Alana Haim. She was so good in Licorice Pizza! But then in One Battle After Another, Alana didn’t have much more than a cameo, and in The Mastermind she just stood around looking disappointed. I know, I know, acting is a secondary career […]
Movie Review: Exit 8
4 stars out of 5 Once I got over the disappointment that Exit 8 wasn’t a movie about driving to Hightstown and East Windsor on the New Jersey Turnpike, I really started to enjoy it. I know we’re in an era where an increasing number of motion pictures and TV shows are based on video […]
Movie Review: Project Hail Mary
4 stars out of 5I feel like I’m about to write a negative review. Which is crazy, because I liked this movie. Look, I gave it 4 out of 5 stars. The thing is, I wanted it to be great. This movie was promoted for such a very long time. Months and months. I was […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/24/26
EPISODE #685: DOUBLE SHOT TUESDAY Mike Delevante — “When You’re Around” The Delevantes — “Long About That Time” Heavenly — “Portland Town” Heavenly — “Lemonhead Boy” The Lemonheads — “Deep End”The Lemonheads — “If I Could Talk I’d Tell You” Lucinda Williams — “Low Life” Lucinda Williams — “I Just Wanted To See You So […]
Movie Review: The Bride!
3.5 stars out of 5Jessie Buckley charmed the world accepting her Best Actress Oscar for Hamnet. And yet the fickle world has mostly turned a blind eye to Buckley’s lead turn in The Bride! (despite her playing more characters than Michael B. Jordan did in Sinners). Maybe it didn’t help that The Bride! (a Bride […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/17/26
EPISODE #684: MY MOM a memorial tribute to Judy Silbert The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The dB’s — “Judy” Herman’s Hermits — “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter” Boogie Down Productions — “South Bronx” Russ Hodges — Bobby Thomson’s Shot Heard ‘Round the WorldSid Caesar — “Real Live Girl” Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/4/26
EPISODE #683: ALIVE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Frankie Cosmos — “Being Alive” Electric Light Orchestra — “I’m Alive” Jackson Browne — “I’m Alive” Queen — “Keep Yourself Alive”Tom Waits — “What Keeps Mankind Alive” The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — “Stay Alive” Bern & the Brights — “As Long As I’m Alive” […]
Movie Review: A Poet
4.5 stars out of 5Thank goodness lead actor Ubeimar Rios wears a beard throughout this film, or else my fellow moviegoers might’ve thought I was him sneaking in for a screening. And there’s not just a physical resemblance that connected me to this schlubby middle-aged character Oscar Restrepo; he’s a writer whose professional and personal […]
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