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She Loves You
The very first Pop and Beatles record I ever heard. It changed my life forever! It's a joyful message from a friend to a friend, She Loves You. The song launches into the hook right out of the gate and races to an exuberant, exultant end. It changed the world.
By Liam Ireland2 years ago in Critique
Banshees of Inisherin
Captivatingly Stark Contrasts: Rudimentary satisfaction battles complex mental instability. Turmoil unfolds in slow motion, trapping your gaze, similar to a roach in a sticky trap. Desolation and depression are well represented and reflected in empty, gray landscapes. Light-hearted characters and wry comedy bring a deep beauty to these dark places.
By Abby Kay Mendonca2 years ago in Critique
Apocalypse Now
Read the notes of his wife as the director attempted his Conradian tale in Vietnam. Watched the film his wife created later as the director fell deeper and deeper into the madness of that war...and his large production.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Critique
Sukiyaki
Number one in the USA in 1963, and one of the world's best-selling singles of all time, in Japanese! A song about a man who looks up to the sky as he walks so that his tears of sadness will not fall. The song is full of meaning and inspiration.
By Liam Ireland2 years ago in Critique
Avatar is not the way
The Avatar series is not as ground breaking as people claim. It is stolen stories that warp indigenous tropes to create a fictional society complete white savior a who becomes one of their own. It dances with colonization as if it's a beautiful waltz & not a dance of death.
By Josey Pickering2 years ago in Critique
Appaloosa Bones
With his first album in five years, Isakov wraps me in the warmest golden aura. Never in a hurry, it commands me to sit still.
By Alivia Varvel2 years ago in Critique
The Humbling Of The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
Three challenged members of homophobic Sydney society embark on a physical and metaphorical journey across the Australian desert.
By Ellen Frances2 years ago in Critique
The Catcher In The Rye
The Catcher in the Rye is a tortuous tale of one boy's experience of life as a teenager, transitioning from innocence to experience. It is an angst-ridden story of alienation and rebellion, loss and connection, sex and depression, authenticity and superficiality. It is in short about a coming of age.
By Liam Ireland2 years ago in Critique
The All-England Summarize Proust Competition
In Search of Lost Time, written between 1910-1920 Childhood darkens somberly mature while 1880 transitions to 1920. Time is only recoverable through the incidental sensation of the moment, reviving past memories. Dissimulation of complex personal secrets. Densest of books, sensitive universally: a psychedelic soap-opera. Nothing is what it seems: not-so-secretly advocates homosexuality. A true Swann Song: politely told.
By Rob Angeli2 years ago in Critique
The Warning Is Real
The Warning, hailing from Monterrey, Mexico, plays infectious rock rooted in old-school classics but with the modern sensibilities of Muse and Jack White.
By Brent Tharp2 years ago in Critique
White Noise
Sometimes, the voices of the dead make contact with the living. In this classic supernatural thriller, the consequences are deadly. A bereaved man gets in touch with his deceased wife, only to discover that the ghosts inside the tv are out to get him. They want his life and soul.
By Liam Ireland2 years ago in Critique
Priscilla (2023) (Elvis Presley)
Priscilla (2023) (Elvis Presley) Rease date… 06th October 2023 Drama When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
By TV of tv's2 years ago in Critique