Jack Silbert
Movie Review: The Revenant
4 stars out of 5 For three weeks, I trudged through the snow, relying only on my wits. Would I emerge victorious, or was I merely delaying the inevitable? Finally — a broken man — I succumbed to my fate: I bought a ticket to The Revenant. Hey, you know what? It was really good! […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/5/16
EPISODE #218: SUPER R.I.P. Live365.com The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] ABBA — “Super Trouper” Liz Phair — “Supernova” Boyracer — “Superhip” Wildhoney — “Super Stupid” R.E.M. — “Supernatural Superserious” Lupe Fiasco featuring Matthew Santos — “Superstar” Edwyn Collins — “Superstar Talking Blues” Stevie Wonder — “Superstition” Howlin’ Wolf — “I Ain’t Superstitious” James Brown […]
Movie Review: Hail, Caesar!
4 stars out of 5 The holidays can be rough, and winter can really be a drag, but I didn’t care: There was a new Coen Bros. movie on the way, with my man Clooney in it, and the trailer looked like a friggin’ hoot. Now it’s February, the days are getting just a little […]
Movie Review: The Finest Hours
3.5 stars out of 5 I don’t know, something just ain’t pulling me to The Revenant. It was Tuesday, $6 Tuesday, and I could’ve really seen The Revenant this time, but no, I didn’t. I saw The Finest Hours instead. Sorry again, Leo. When I first caught the trailer for The Finest Hours, I figured […]
A 24-Hour Window in Which Nobody Wanted Me
I received an email at 8:53 last night. The key paragraph read: OK, that was a bummer, was kind of excited about judging again (in one of my various areas of expertise); breaks up the working-at-home monotony. Ah well, no worries, perhaps I’d judge remotely. Woke up this morning, checked my email. This had arrived […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/26/16
EPISODE #217: THE X-FILES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Mark Snow — “X-Files Theme” Graham Parker & the Rumour — “Waiting for the UFOs” Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers — “The U.F.O. Man” Hüsker Dü — “Books About UFOs” Tullycraft — “The Lonely Life of the UFO Researcher” The Misfits — “I Turned […]
Movie Review: The Big Short
3.5 stars out of 5 January is a weird time at the movies. The studios tend to dump garbage that they didn’t release the previous year. Other selections are “prestige films” left over from the holidays, or snuck in at the end of December for Oscar consideration. From that second batch, at my local theater […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/19/16
EPISODE #216: THE F-BOMB II The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Kicking Giant — “Fuck the Rules” Brute Force — “King of Fuh” The Gotobeds — “Fucking Machine” Daddy Issues — “Fuck Marry Kill” The Bird and the Bee — “Fucking Boyfriend” Cee-Lo Green — “Fuck You” Prince and the New Power Generation — “Sexy […]
Movie Review: Anomalisa
3.5 stars out of 5 Remember Being John Malkovich? Wow, that was fun, right? And ingenious. Then there was Adaptation, also very clever. And Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, that was pretty wild if I recall. Synecdoche, New York: I didn’t see it, did you? I read a review and it just sounded too… […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/12/16
EPISODE #215: DAVID BOWIE TRIBUTE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] David Bowie — “Modern Love” Davie Jones and the King Bees — “Liza Jane” Mott the Hoople — “All the Young Dudes” Lou Reed — “Vicious” Iggy Pop — “China Girl” Bruce Springsteen — “Growin’ Up” Queen and David Bowie — “Under Pressure” David […]
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