2026
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My Highly Subjective List of the Best Films of 2025
Call me optimistic, call me someone who makes claims based on anecdotal evidence, “Call me… irresponsible…,” but I feel like maybe, maybe people are starting to go to movie theaters a little more? Like, I’ve been at crowded screenings recently that in the past few years would’ve just been me and my medium popcorn. Here […]
Aquarium Playlist, 1/6/26
EPISODE #675: ORIGINAL VERSIONS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Feelies — “Original Love” The Clique — “Superman” Bessie Banks — “Go Now” Tom Waits — “Jersey Girl”Bruce Springsteen — “Blinded by the Light” Love Positions — “Into Your Arms” James Ray — “Got My Mind Set on You” [pts. 1 & 2]Dolly Parton — […]
Movie Review: Is This Thing On?
3.5 stars out of 5 Alec Baldwin said it was the best movie of the year, and this was a slow New Year’s Day, so I found myself in a surprisingly crowded theater for Is This Thing On? Well, maybe Baldwin needs to see a few more films, but it was a decent, “grown-up” way […]
Pandemic Cinema, Year 6
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 2025. The great majority of them were new to me. Gaslight a.k.a. Angel Street (1940)Lousy Carter (2023)Love Lies Bleeding (2024)Homesteader Droopy (1954)Cops Is Always Right (1938)Juror #2 (2024)Wolfs (2024)The Hound and the […]
Jack Silbert, curator