Jack Silbert
Movie Review: Dory Previn — On My Way to Where
4.5 stars out of 5 I wasn’t familiar with Dory Previn. Even the 2006 song “Dory Previn” by one of my favorite groups, Camera Obscura, didn’t inspire me to look up Dory Previn, and the name slipped out of my head. I must’ve seen her name multiple times, yet it never stuck. Until February, that […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/25/24
EPISODE #596: CASEY KASEM TRIBUTE 2024 “The New Scooby-Doo Movies” [ALTERNATE THEME]Elvis Presley — “Suspicious Minds” [Billboard No. 1, 11/1/69]The 5th Dimension — “Wedding Bell Blues” [No. 1, 11/8/69 – 11/22/69]The Beatles — “Come Together/Something” [double A-side No. 1, 11/29/69]Steam — “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” [No. 1, 12/6/69 – 12/13/69]Diana Ross & […]
Movie Review: Tuesday
4 stars out of 5Tuesday is the day to go to the Clairidge Theater in Montclair, because that’s discount day. But we who are truly in the know (and who have a member discount anyway) will go on Wednesdays, when no one is around. (They all went on Tuesday.) Things didn’t work out for me […]
Movie Review: Flipside
3.5 stars out of 5The name Christopher Wilcha looked familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Ah, but years ago, someone tipped me off to his directorial debut, the 1999 first-person documentary The Target Shoots First, about working at the Columbia Record Club during the “alternative rock” era. (I watched it on Vimeo.) And in 2007, […]
Movie Review: Ezra
3 stars out of 5There’s been a lot of hubbub the past couple of months about Timothée Chalamet being in Hoboken to film the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. And yet there’s been zero hubbub about a current major motion picture that is actually set in Hoboken. And that motion picture is called […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/18/24
EPISODE #595: SUMMER 2024 The Flashing Lights — “Summertime Climb” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Proper Ornaments — “Waiting for the Summer”So Cow — “Summer Is Icumen in Again” Sweater Girls — “Summer Girls”Wolfmanhattan Project — “Summer Forever” The 5th Dimension — “On the Beach (in the Summertime)” The Pastels — “Summer Rain” The Smittens — “Summer Sunshine” […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/11/24
EPISODE #594: POP The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Prince — “Pop Life”Blueboy — “Popkiss” The Consultants — “Pop Pop”Noise Addict — “Pop Queen” The Chills — “Heavenly Pop Hit” Art Brut — “We Make Pop Music” France Gall — “Baby Pop” Heavy Lag — “Dirt Pop”Colin Clary — ”Boogiepop (Don’t Stop)” XTC — “This Is […]
Movie Review: Evil Does Not Exist
4 stars out of 5 In the past 2.5 years, I’ve quietly become a fan of writer/director Ryûke Hamaguchi. His previous effort, Drive My Car (based on a Haruki Murakami short story), was my favorite film of 2021. And his anthology film Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy was pretty compelling as well. Now this would […]
Movie Review: Furiosa—A Mad Max Saga
4 stars out of 5 “Mad Max” was a nickname, which described his behavior, which was — you know — mad. But saddling a kid with the name Furiosa — are you sealing their fate right then and there? And don’t even get me started on her arch rival, Dementus. As with recent sequels involving […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/4/24
EPISODE #593: LULLABIES The Pogues — “Lullaby of London” [ALTERNATE THEME]Lightheaded — “Dawn Hush Lullaby”Thigh Master (now Dippers) — “Porto’s Lullaby” UV-TV — “Distant Lullaby”Jonny Couch — “Lullaby” Long Neck — “Lullaby” Health & Happiness Show — “Sinner’s Lullaby” Neko Case — “Furnace Room Lullaby” M. Ward — “Lullaby + Exile”Built to Spill — ”Nowhere […]
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