Jack Silbert
Movie Review: The Outfit
2.5 stars out of 5I texted my friend Lex Burling right after seeing the trailer for this movie a while back. I needed to tell her that, on the front window of a tailor shop in the film, it prominently says “L. BURLING.” I also said in that text exchange that initially The Outfit looked […]
Movie Review: The Batman
4 stars out of 5It had been five and and a half weeks and I still hadn’t seen The Batman. Seven-dollar Tuesday came and went. Just wait till Monday and fire it up on HBOMax? No, I’d seen every Batman flick since 1989 in the theater and by god, I wasn’t stopping now! Which is […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/29/22
EPISODE #480: JACK III The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Ramones — “53rd & 3rd”The Buffets — “Saucy Jack”Spinal Tap — “Saucy Jack”Arabesque — “Peppermint Jack”KRS-One — “Jack of Spades” AC/DC — “The Jack”Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — “Jangling Jack”The Gun Club — “Jack on Fire”The Ladybug Transistor — “Hey Jack I’m on […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/22/22
EPISODE #479: SPRING 2022 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]k.d. Lang — “I Dream of Spring”Adult Mom — “First Day of Spring”Spit-Take — “Boulder of Spring”Frank Sinatra — “Spring Is Here”La Luz — “Sure as Spring” Magnetic Fields — “Love Comes Home to Paris in the Spring”Bill Callahan — “Spring”Willie Nile — “Rite of Spring”The […]
Movie Review: 2022 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films
Robin Robin (United Kingdom)3 stars out of 5This is the mainstream nominee, from Aardman Studios (Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run) with voices by Gillian Anderson and Richard E. Grant. And though it’s cute — a bird growing up in a mouse family! Oh and it’s Christmastime! — this is real kid-oriented and nothing particularly special. […]
Movie Review: 2022 Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films
Audible (USA)4.5 stars out of 5 No, this isn’t a documentary about the audio book company. If you’re a fan of Friday Night Lights, fire up your Netflix and watch this 38-minute doc. (The similarities are no coincidence: Lights’ Peter Berg is a producer here.) Audible focuses on the high school football team at the […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/15/22
EPISODE #478: ST. PATRICK’S DAY EPISODE 2022 (SNAKES) The Pogues — “Streams of Whiskey” [ALTERNATE THEME] in memory of Al LandesM. Ward — “He Asked Me To Be a Snake & Live Underground”Brother JT — “Snakebit”Half Japanese — “Snakeline”Duran Duran — “Union of the Snake”Lithics — “Snake Tattoo”Bush Tetras — “Snakes Crawl”John Lee Hooker — […]
Movie Review: 2022 Oscar Nominated Live-Action Short Films
On My Mind (Denmark) 3.5 stars out of 5 Man walks into a bar. But it’s not the set-up for a joke, it’s an Oscar-nominated short. He downs a stiff drink and, on his way out, notices the karaoke stage. Can he please sing a song? Gruff owner is dismissive — it’s morning, he’s working […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/8/22
EPISODE #477: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2022 Palmyra Delran & the Doppel Gang (w/ Kim Shattuck) — “Walk Away” [ALTERNATE THEME]Stephanie Seymour — “There Was a Time”Kait Eldridge — “Father Callahan”Rosanne Cash — “The Wheel”Smile Machine — “Pretty Today”Hank Thompson & his Brazos Valley Boys — “The Wild Side of Life”Kitty Wells — “It Wasn’t God […]
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