Jack Silbert
Movie Review: The Running Man
2.5 stars out of 5I like to go to the movies after Thanksgiving dinner. Clears my head. This year I wasn’t thrilled with my choices: Zootopia 2, Wicked for Good, Predator: Badlands, and The Running Man. Quickly narrowed it down to Predator and Running Man. I’d never seen the original version of either of them. […]
Aquarium Playlist, 12/2/25
EPISODE #670: 14TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (RADIO XIII) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Television Personalities — “14th Floor” R.E.M. — “Radio Free Europe” [Jacknife Lee 2025 remix]Bruce Springsteen — “Open All Night” [Electric Nebraska version]Joan Jett & the Blackhearts — “Five” Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians — “Driving Aloud (Radio Storm)”Brian Bilston & the Catenary Wires […]
Movie Review: Jay Kelly
4 stars out of 5Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood. Sure, it is the absolute most cliched topic for a Hollywood writer to write about, but A) People who watch movies love movies, so it’s not too risky a subject to present, and B) Write what you know, and C) Noah Baumbach has been directing movies […]
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition XXIX
Luckily, the recent government shutdown didn’t effect my TV viewing. Here’s a list of the shows I’ve checked out in the past several months. LOVED The Pitt (HBO) I never did watch ER, and I haven’t watched a hospital show since Code Black. But the 24-esque real-time conceit of this series really hooked me, and […]
Movie Review: Blue Moon
4 stars out of 5 That I went to see Blue Moon in the theater shows two things: One, that I trust Richard Linklater as a filmmaker and two, that I’ve come a long way in my reappreciation of Ethan Hawke. (It was Linklater’s 2014 opus Boyhood which in fact ended my quarter-century Hawke boycott.) […]
Aquarium Playlist, 11/18/25
EPISODE #668: THE PENNY On November 12, 2025, the U.S. Mint produced the final penny for circulation. The Beatles — “Penny Lane” [ALTERNATE THEME]Half Japanese — “Penny in the Fountain” Big Black — “Bad Penny” JD McPherson — “Lucky Penny” Freedy Johnston — “Lonely Penny” Amy Ray — “Pennies on the Track”The Holiday Crowd — […]
Movie Review: Bugonia
4.5 stars out of 5 This is the best Yorgos Lanthimos film that Yorgos didn’t write himself. (I’m looking at you, well-received Poor Things and The Favourite.) It best captures the very dark comedy that permeates his own scripts. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that Will Tracy wrote the screenplay, as I wasn’t […]
Aquarium Playlist, 11/11/25
EPISODE #667: SIX SEVEN Austin Lounge Lizards — “Neighbor of the Beast” [ALTERNATE THEME]Ladybug Transistor — “Six Times” Salem 66 — “Seven Steps Down” The Resonars — “Six Daisy Neckchain” Swansea Sound — “Seven in the Car” Steve Earle — “Six Days on the Road”Bruce Springsteen — “Seven Tears”Lucinda Williams — “Six Blocks Away” Ben […]
Movie Review: The Mastermind
3.5 stars out of 5I left this movie thinking I’d be giving it a higher rating than the aggregated writers on Metacritic. Was surprised to see that, no, it was averaging 80 out of 100, with a handful of perfect 100s from a few top reviewers. Well, I guess there’s a new hardass in town! […]
Movie Review: Frankenstein
4.5 stars out of 5 Guillermo del Toro has quietly become one of my favorite filmmakers. This is his fourth consecutive movie (after The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio) that I’ve rated 4.5 stars out of 5, and Pan’s Labyrinth is a classic as well. And via interviews, I’ve learned […]
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