A painfully inept film, full of dialogue and plot points that any professional writer should have rejected without hesitation Seven years ago, I felt like the only person in the world who liked Superman Returns. Over time, my feelings have softened considerably, but my childlike affection for the idea of Superman was enough to blind me…
The Usual Suspects — Boring Desert Island Discs I Still Love: AC/DC – Back in Black The Clash – London Calling Fugazi – 13 Songs Green Day – Dookie Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American My Bloody Valentine – Loveless Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory Radiohead…
This is part of the Everything Music Survey series The Usual Suspects — Boring Desert Island Discs I Still Love: The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night The Beatles – Revolver The Beatles – Rubber Soul Big Star – #1 Record/Radio City Billy Joel – The Stranger Billy Joel – 52nd Street Billy Joel – Glass Houses…
This is part of the Everything Music Survey series AllMusic Questions The Usual Suspects — Boring Desert Island Discs I Still Love: 65daysofstatic – The Destruction of Small Ideas The American Analog Set – Know By Heart Battles – Mirrored Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism Dragonforce – Sonic Firestorm Dream Theater – Six Degrees of…
This is part of the Everything Music Survey series Six years ago, I was a freshman in college and I did all of my writing on LiveJournal. This was just when I was really starting to get into music, movies, and other arts, so along with my angsty journal entries (I had a pretty crappy freshman year),…
Welcome to the “Everything Music Survey” page. Below, you can read the introduction to the project and our filled out surveys. Enjoy, and link us to your own surveys. Everything Music Survey Introduction Colton’s Completed Survey Dan’s Completed Survey Grant’s Completed Survey
I wanted to love the Great Gatsby adaptation so much. I tried, I really did. But when a studio moves a prominent release from prime Oscar season to the following summer, that’s usually a bad sign for the movie’s prospects. And in this case, smoke meant fire. Fitzgerald’s Great American Novel is set in the…
Are you a connoisseur of bad movies? Do you appreciate “the creepy, the strange, and the poorly and cheaply produced?” Looking for an overview of films so inessential or poorly curated that their copyright has lapsed? If you live in Northern Virginia, you need look no further than your local television channel. Beginning this spring, you…
The AV Club is one of my favorite sites on the web. I love many of their features (as I’ve noted in the past, the New Cult Canon column by Scott Tobias was what directly inspired me to recruit Grant and get this site going). Probably my least favorite recurring feature on the site is…
As all four of our loyal readers may recall (I include our staff and my wife in that count), I made a series of predictions before the start of 2012. We’re a few months into 2013, but I want to look back on those predictions. Am I a sham? Or should you just call me…