Jack Silbert
Movie Review: Shorts 6 — It Hurts to Laugh (comedy; Chicago International Film Festival)
Blocks (USA) 3 stars out of 5 Not affiliated with the Lego Movie series, but the popular connecting blocks do play a role here. We have a stressed-out mom and something strange starts happening. It’s basically one joke, but likable enough. Play Schengen 2.5 stars out of 5 Cute and timely concept — gamers pitching […]
Movie Review: On the Rocks
4 stars out of 5A bunch of people seemed surprised that I went to a movie theater. They’re perhaps forgetting that for the overwhelming majority of films I go to see, the attendance has always been well under 25% capacity. Regardless, going to the movies was one of the main things I’ve missed during the […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/29/20
EPISODE #402: NONSENSEShooby Taylor — “Stout-Hearted Man” [ALTERNATE THEME]T. Lance & the Coctails — “Aba-Daba-Do Dance”Mahna Mahna & the Two Snowths — “Mahna Mahna”Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps — “B-I-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go”Little Richard — “Tutti Frutti”The Crystals — “Da Doo Ron Ron”The Police — “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”The Beatles — “Ob-La-Di, […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/22/20
EPISODE #401: AUTUMN 2020The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Manhattan Love Suicides — “Autumn Fades In”Joe Pernice — “Here Comes September”The Clientele — “Lyra in October”Overlake — “Unnamed November”Karyn Kuhl Band — “November Leaves”Tripod Jimmie — “Autumn Leaves”Teenage Fanclub — “Fallen Leaves”Bob Dylan — “Autumn Leaves”Tom Waits — “Last Leaf”Ron Sexsmith — “Autumn Light”Robyn Hitchcock & […]
Movie Review: Uncle Peckerhead
4 stars out of 5A lot was different when I saw Matthew John Lawrence’s first feature, Two Pints Lighter, back in 2013: no pandemic, the president wasn’t a corrupt fascist moron, I had feet, the writer/director billed himself simply as Matt Lawrence, etc. But, upon watching his newly-released second feature, Uncle Peckerhead, it’s clear that […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/15/20
EPISODE #400: MUSIC III The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Reverend Horton Heat — “400 Bucks”Superchunk — “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo”Big Audio Dynamite — “Just Play Music!”Ron Sexsmith — “Music to my Ears”The Spires — “Tonight’s Music”Juliana Hatfield — “Do It to Music”Matthew Sweet — “Music for Love”Meat Puppets — “Sexy Music”These New Puritans […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/8/20
EPISODE #399: CANCELED CONCERTS II The Who — “Happy Jack” (live) [ALTERNATE THEME]Luna — “Slash Your Tires”Teenage Halloween — “Holes”I Am the Polish Army — “Setup”Alejandro Escovedo — “Horizontal”Joan of Narc — “e.x.”Jennifer O’Connor — “Mountains”M. Ward — “Chinese Translation”Laura Cantrell — “Roll Truck Roll”Robyn Hitchcock — “Dismal City”Built to Spill — “Never Be the […]
Protected: EP Review: ‘Songs for Rivers’ by Rikki Will
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