Jack Silbert
Movie Review: Honey Don’t!
4 stars out of 5 I liked Drive-Away Dolls a lot more than you did, and guess what, I liked Honey Don’t! more than you did too. In fact, I liked it even more! Hollywood historians will be able to identify the precise “tipping point” when Margaret Qualley became a national treasure: 1 minute, 13 […]
Movie Review: Caught Stealing
3 stars out of 5 I’ve seen Caught Stealing, once, when I was 55. Whoops I mean 56. Hi Darren Aronofsky. Big fan. Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Wrestler, Mother!: awesome. The Whale, Noah: pretty good. The Fountain was incomprehensible garbage but, hey, you tried. Caught Stealing is… average. Innocent likable guy gets […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/2/25
EPISODE #657: BRIDGES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]A.T.S. — “Bloomfield Bridge” Frank Sinatra — “The Brooklyn Bridge” Bruce Springsteen — “Brothers Under the Bridge” Black Tambourine — “Throw Aggi Off the Bridge” Mark Olson — “Clifton Bridge”The Orange Peels — “Bicentennial Bridge” Rose Melberg — “Golden Gate Bridge” Outrageous Cherry — “Bridge” The Splinters […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/26/25
EPISODE #656: RAIN II The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Renee Maskin — “Rain, Rain” Emma Swift — “The Resurrection Game” The Ladybug Transistor — “Here Comes the Rain” The Black Hollies — “Here Comes the Rain” Eurythmics — “Here Comes the Rain Again”Jack Skuller — “Watercolor Rain” Edward Rogers — “Rain Becomes Her” Life in […]
Movie Review: Weapons
4 stars out of 5 Three years ago, I was quite taken with Zach Cregger’s off-kilter horror flick Barbarian. This summer, Zach is back with Weapons, and he’s once again playing with the horror formula. He sets things up with a strong conceit: Julia Garner (who I last saw in Wolf Man) is a third-grade […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/19/25
EPISODE #655: CATS X The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Theme From Felix the CatTy Segall — “Fuzzy Cat” Renee Maskin — “Cat’s Out of the Bag” Royal Arctic Institute — “From Catnap to Coma” Jimmie Davis — “Tomcat and Pussy Blues”The Prof.Fuzz 63 — “Ohio as Seen on TV” Oceana — “Pussycat on a Leash” […]
Movie Review: The Naked Gun
4 stars out of 5The six episodes of Police Squad! that aired when I was 12-going-on-13 couldn’t have been a better bar mitzvah gift. Sure, I had loved the same filmmakers’ Airplane! when I was 11, but now I was a sophisticated tween (though the word hadn’t been coined yet). So, I understood more of […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/5/25
EPISODE #653: ISLANDS The Surfaris w/ The Honeys — “I Want To Take a Trip to the Islands” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Millennium — “The Island”UV-TV — “Pale Blue Island” The Blue Jays — “Lover’s Island” The Buggles — “Island” The Garment District — “The Island of Stability”Rare Books — “Island” Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers — […]
Movie Review: Eddington
3.5 stars out of 5Dear Ari Aster: I promise I’ll attend your next movie while remembering that it is written and directed by you, the same guy who made Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid, all of which I liked. Hey, it’s partially your fault for putting your credit at the end, and for making […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/29/25
EPISODE #652: STARS II Haim — “Lucky Stars” [ALTERNATE THEME]Allo Darlin’ — “Stars”Spit-take — “Stars Don’t” Matthew Sweet — “Stars Explode” The Cranberries — “Stars” Maggie Bjorklund — “Playground Stars”Peter Case — “Underneath the Stars” Chris Isaak — “Western Stars” Bruce Springsteen — “Western Stars” Rufus Wainwright — “Release the Stars”Carole King — “Under the […]
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