Jack Silbert
Movie Review: The Mountain
2.5 stars out of 5 Jeff Goldblum and old-timey mental hospitals? This really seemed up my alley. We meet young, sad, inexpressive Andy who works in a hockey rink run by his grandpa oh wait the movie says it’s his dad. It is the early 1950s and the world is grey and brown, or at […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/6/19
EPISODE #342: MASS SHOOTINGS AND MURDER after the latest two, in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH The Fall — “Fiery Jack” [ALTERNATE THEME]Basic Bitches — “Mass Shootings and Donald Trump”The Selecter — “Murder”Head Cheerleader — “Murderers”The Insomniacs — “Help! Murder! Police!”The Police — “Murder by Numbers”Bruce Springsteen — “Murder Incorporated”Another Sunny Day — “You […]
Movie Review: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
4.5 stars out of 5I feel like I’m in an unhealthy long-term relationship with Quentin Tarantino. We got off to an excellent start, but now he disappoints me time and again, and yet always manages to lure me back. Every now and then, he surprises me with a delightful bed-and-breakfast long weekend (um, wait, I […]
Faces: Tammy Faye Starlite
Tammy Faye Starlite is a singer, an actress, a neighbor, and an absolute delight. Her New York Times-feted salute to Marianne Faithfull returns this month, and I had the pleasure of interviewing Tammy for hMAG.
Movie Review: Sword of Trust
2.5 stars out of 5 The trailer looked cute — Marc Maron working in a pawn shop. Was playing at the artsy theater in Asbury Park, so I could beat the traffic before a concert, chat with the friendly ticket booth guy, sit in some air conditioning, and enjoy another chocolate covered graham cracker. Nice […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/30/19
EPISODE #341: MAMA’S LITTLE BABY LOVES SHORTENIN’ WORDS (NUTHIN’ BUT a G THANG) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers — “Jammin’ Me”Tracy Chapman — “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution”Reigning Sound — “Lyin’ Girl”Public Enemy — “Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya Man”The Pastels — “Comin’ Through”Woods — “Mornin’ Time”Suzanne Lavine — “Hangin’ Around”T-Bone […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/23/19
EPISODE #340: COOL The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Meters — “Look-Ka Py Py” r.i.p. Art NevilleJune Christy — “Something Cool”Rat Fancy — “Stay Cool”Sparks featuring Jane Wiedlin — “Cool Places”Pylon — “Cool”Lucinda Williams — “2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten”Algebra II — “Cool Girl”Sonic Youth — “Kool Thing”Karl Hendricks Trio — “Hold On, Cool Breeze”Dinosaur […]
Movie Review: Marianne & Leonard — Words of Love
4 stars out of 5 I’ll never hear the song “So Long, Marianne” quite the same way again. What a sweet and sad love story this documentary is! I’ve been a Leonard Cohen fan since my mid-20s — “Bird on a Wire” was the first that really got me — but I never knew too […]
Movie Review: Midsommar
4 stars out of 5 This might sound a little weird, but Midsommar made me miss Woody Allen. I was the only one in an Asbury Park theater watching this thoroughly f’ed up story unfold against a gorgeous sunny Swedish backdrop. And I flashed back to Woody’s summer releases. Every year there seemed to be […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/16/19
EPISODE #339: MOON LANDING 50TH ANNIVERSARY (MOON III) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Allo Darlin’ — “Neil Armstrong”The Stray Cats — “Blast Off”Frank Sinatra — “Fly Me to the Moon”Sheryl Crow — “Straight to the Moon”R.E.M. — “Man on the Moon”Sugar — “Man on the Moon”Grinderman — “Man in the Moon”Beulah — “If We Can […]
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