Jack Silbert
Movie Review: 28 Years Later
4.5 stars out of 5 28 Days Later came out 23 years ago and all I remember is that it was scary and very good, and also that a couple of years earlier, Sandra Bullock had starred in a movie called 28 Days so that was kind of funny. When I recently learned that director […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/8/25
EPISODE #649: CASEY KASEM TRIBUTE 2025 “The New Scooby-Doo Movies” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Doors — “Hello, I Love You” [Billboard No. 1, 8/3/68 – 8/10/68]The Rascals — “People Got To Be Free” [No. 1, 8/17/68 – 9/14/68]The Beatles — “Hey Jude” [No. 1, 9/28/68 – 11/23/68]Diana Ross & the Supremes — “Love Child” [No. 1, 11/30/68 – […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/1/25
EPISODE #648: LISTENER AUDREY RETIRES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Makeout Point — “Audrey”Freedy Johnston — “There Goes a Brooklyn Girl” Jimmy Cliff — “Oh Jamaica” King Missile — “As I Walked Through Queens” The Move — “Fire Brigade”“Meet the Mets” The Baseball Project — “From Nails to Thumbtacks” Belle & Sebastian — “Piazza, New […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/24/25
EPISODE #647: SUMMER 2025 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Helen Love — “Let’s Go Surfing”Chubby Checker — “Dancin’ Party” The Cowsills — “Most of All” Good Grief — “Kissing Through Curtains” First Class — “Beach Baby”Awful Din — “Summer” [unsolicited Silbert edit]Lawn — “Summertime” The Junior League w/ Scott the Hoople — “Summer of Flies” […]
Movie Review: The Phoenician Scheme
4.5 stars out of 5I was so thrilled while watching this movie that only now, with a distance of a few days, do I realize that I didn’t totally get the ending, that maybe I passed out for a couple of key scenes in the last 20 minutes. But everything else was so much fun, […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/17/25
EPISODE #646: BRIAN WILSON TRIBUTE The Four Freshman — “It’s a Blue World” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Ronettes — “Be My Baby”Beach Boys — “The Warmth of the Sun” Beach Boys — “I’m Waiting for the Day” Beach Boys — “Our Prayer” Beach Boys — “Wonderful”Beach Boys — “Heroes and Villains” Jan & Dean — “Surf City” […]
Thank You, Brian Wilson
We weren’t a big record-buying family, but somehow we owned the Beach Boys’ 1974 double-album compilation Endless Summer. And by the bicentennial summer and carrying into my 2nd-grade fall, I was in love with those Boys from Hawthorne and all those wonderful songs. (The Beatles’ red and blue compilations had come out in 1973, but […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/10/25
EPISODE #645: LITTLE Elliott Smith — “Little One” [ALTERNATE THEME]Ezra Cohen — “Little Things”Nina Simone — “I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl” The Replacements — “My Little Problem” Heavenly — “So Little Deserve” Gary U.S. Bonds — “This Little Girl”Matthew Sweet — “Give a Little” Laura Cantrell — “Little Bit of You” Rolling […]
Movie Review: Mission Impossible—Final Reckoning
3.5 stars out of 5Well, it’s the final Mission: Impossible, I reckon — until they decide to reboot the series in two years with an extended cameo from Tom Cruise as Jim Phelps. Or it’s a prequel reboot streaming show focusing on Phelps’ early days, to air on Amazon Prime. Principal photography will likely begin […]
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