Jack Silbert
Movie Review: It Ain’t Over
3 stars out of 5I didn’t want to see it. But I had 8 hours to kill between checking out of the Berkeley Hotel and doors opening at the House of Independents for the rock and roll hootenanny. Eating only lasts so long. But movies, movies are good. You go in at one time, and […]
Movie Review: Evil Dead Rise
4 stars out of 5I came late to the Evil Dead series. I was 14 when the original film was released, and my slightly twisted buddy Rob Mosley was obsessed with it. And yet a few decades passed before I finally gave it a chance (dear reader, I must admit I didn’t even “get” the […]
Movie Review: Beau Is Afraid
4 stars out of 5I described Ari Aster’s 2018 film Hereditary as “seriously f’ed.” And in 2019, I said his film Midsommar was “100% f’ed up.” But not until writing this review did I realize that those two movies and new release Beau Is Afraid (pretty messed up in its own right) were written and […]
Movie Review: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
3.5 stars out of 5Full disclosure, I never read this book, nor have I ever been an 11-year-old girl. I think I read Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, does that count? At any rate, in hopes of gaining slightly better understanding of all the former 11-year-old girls in my life — and to support […]
Movie Review: The Quiet Girl
4.5 stars out of 5First and foremost, this is not A Quiet Place III. Though it is a pretty quiet movie. The Quiet Girl, from Ireland, was one of the 2023 Oscar nominees for Best International Feature Film. It didn’t win, but it is terrific. I’m not sure when the movie is set — late […]
Movie Review: Creed III
3.5 stars out of 5Are all the movies trying to make me feel old? Adonis Creed is Rocky’s young protégé, and now he’s retired too? Sheesh! We’ve now reached the Rocky III period in the life of Creed, where after his latest title defense, the wealthy, famous, happy-at-home champ hangs up his boxing gloves. But […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/14/23
EPISODE #529: ST. PATRICK’S DAY 2023 (LUCK) Eels — “Beginner’s Luck” [ALTERNATE THEME]Joe Simon — “Pool of Bad Luck” Neko Case — “Bad Luck”The Undertones — “Hard Luck”Nicole Atkins — ”Brokedown Luck” The Lookers — “My Luck Has Changed” A Tribe Called Quest — “Luck of Lucien”k.d. lang — “Luck in My Eyes”Dntel — “Dumb […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/7/23
EPISODE #528: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2023 Siouxsie & the Banshees — “Cities in Dust” [ALTERNATE THEME]Big Joanie — “In My Arms” The Cat’s Miaow — “The Phoebe I Know”Tammy Wynette — “Apartment #9”The Rondelles — ”Mission: Irresistible” The Aquanettas — “Love With a Proper Stranger” Voice of the Beehive — “I Say Nothing”Sam Phillips — […]
Movie Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp—Quantumania
2 stars out of 5It was a drizzly winter day on the Jersey shore and I had hours to kill. “Oh, I’ll see a movie,” I thought. Alas, Asbury Park’s art theater isn’t open mid-week in the off-season. I had no choice but to go to the mall multiplex. This, of course, was no problem […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/28/23
EPISODE #527: HATE EPISODE II In response to an idiotic so-called “Day of Hate” by white-supremacist neo-Nazi fuckfaces that never actually materialized. Spoiler alert: Love always wins. The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Clash — “Hateful” Reese McHenry — “I Hate Waiting”Eric’s Trip — “Hate Song”Ramona — ”Hater’s Ball Parade” They Might Be Giants — […]
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