Jack Silbert
Movie Review: You Can See Everything
4.5 stars out of 5I’ll follow Nathan Fielder pretty much everywhere. For me, that started back in 2011 when he played “Nathan” on TV’s Jon Benjamin Has a Van. His project that I’ve enjoyed the least was The Curse with Emma Stone, yet, I still liked it. So, when I saw that Nathan had made […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/20/26
EPISODE #706: COUNTING BY TEN The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Marianne Faithfull — “Counting” Young Fresh Fellows — “Another Ten Reasons” The Undertones — “Top Twenty” Chuck Berry — “Thirty Days” Muddy Waters — “Forty Days and Forty Nights” Drunken Prayer — “Fifty Foot Locust”Billy Ward & the Dominoes — “Sixty Minute Man”Robyn Hitchcock — […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/13/26
EPISODE #705: BLOWIN’ UP The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Los Straitjackets — “Blowout!” Kiwi Jr. — “Blowin’ Up” Dinosaur Jr. — “Blowin’ Up” The Exciters — “Blowing Up My Mind” The Bongos — “Blow Up” George Harrison — “Blow Away”Jeff Lynne — “Blown Away”Matthew Sweet — “Blown Away” The 5th Dimension — “Blowing Away” The […]
Movie Review: The History of Concrete
4 stars out of 5HBO’s How To with John Wilson was a real pleasant pandemic surprise, debuting in October 2020. It presented an ostensible how-to project each week, but was actually — as I described at the time — “a showcase for Wilson’s unerring eye for the absurd via reams of his on-the-street video footage, […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/6/26
EPISODE #704: TRIP TO MAINE Vic Chesnutt — “Vernon” [ALTERNATE THEME]Gold-Bears — “Record Store” Sourpatch — “Deli Dream” Cub — “Motel 6” E.R. Jurken — “Maine Man” The Zombies — “A Rose for Emily” Minutemen — “Life as a Rehearsal”The B-52’s — “Rock Lobster”The Animals — “Gonna Send You Back to Walker” Lil Wayne — […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/29/26
EPISODE #703: TROUBLE II The Goodbye Party — “Trouble” [ALTERNATE THEME]Aesop Rock x Blockhead — “Trouble Trouble” James Mastro— “Trouble” Freedy Johnston — “The Trouble Tree” Antietam — “Trouble Net” Vehicle Flips — “Trouble on the Western Survey” The Resonars — “If You’ve Got Troubles”Minor Alps — “If I Wanted Trouble”Rufus Wainwright — “Trouble in […]
Movie Review: The Uprising
3 stars out of 5This was not a “ooh I can’t wait to see this movie” selection. Rather, it was a “I’m bored stiff in Maryland and I guess this looks OK” choice. Andrew Garfield, we like him. And writer/director Paul Greengrass made those Matt Damon/Jason Bourne flicks. This could be exciting, even if I […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/22/26
EPISODE #702: DIFFERENT Joan Jett & the Blackhearts — “Different” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Human Hearts — “A Different City for a Different Life” The Lookout Honeys — “Different Waters” Big Eyes — “Different Than I Thought” Heavenly — “Different Day” Lewsberg — “A Different View” Wipers — “Different Ways”Elvis Costello & the Attractions — “Different Finger”The […]
Movie Review: Coyote vs. Acme
4 stars out of 5This is a whole lot of fun! I haven’t seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit since it came out but this gave me the same “cartoon characters interacting with humans” satisfaction; instead of the creepy 3D Mickey animation you might see on a Disney Channel commercial at the Holiday Inn Express, it’s […]
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