I've started posting a video of a song a day on Bluesky, and today I am up to 1959. Rarely has a popular song been so perfectly troublesome to a certain group of people, because "Shout" has ...

This is the fourteenth film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of ...

As I sat down to write this, David Fear at Rolling Stone dropped his list of the 20 Best Movies of 2024, and His Three Daughters was #1. That's not happening with me, but I admit the film has grown on ...

The first entry in the Denis Villeneuve's Dune series won six Oscars, and I'm not here to say they were undeserved: Best Sound, Visual Effects, Production Design, Original Score, Film Editing, and ...

On this date in 1995, we saw the first of two Bruce Springsteen shows on his Ghost of Tom Joad tour. It was only the fourth show of the tour. He opened with this song on both nights, seen here on The ...

Johan von Sydow takes a stylistic kitchen-sink approach to his documentary on the singer Tiny Tim. He blends old performance footage with animated recreations, interviews with relevant people in ...

After a long break due, among other things, to my broken ankle, Phil Dellio and I attack a couple of recent films we didn't like.

The other day, I was driving in Berkeley, and at a stop sign, the car in front of me had a Trump/Vance bumper sticker. I felt like Buggin Out in this scene from Do the Right Thing: If Trump wins ...

Not a bad year for music.

We saw Lou Reed many times over the years, the first being on this date in 1974, at Winterland. Earlier in 1974, he released the still-classic live album, Rock 'n' Roll Animal, which eventually went ...