An excuse to talk about a bunch of awesome music I’ve started listening to in the past month, or a philosophical deconstruction of mix-making, playlisting, and the plight of the modern music fan? No, it’s the first one. From Ray LaMontagne, Michael Jackson, and British boy bands to lesser known upstarts like Alvvays, The Colourist, and Kishi Bashi, this could be the beginning of a beautiful mix-ship…
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16 Days of Halloween Rolled into One: A Buffet of Horror Cinema
Wondering what movies have been doing with the horror genre this year? Just in time for Halloween, let’s look at some of the most notable efforts of 2013, while sprinkling in some random oldies as well, because the cemetery of horror cinema is a vast plot.
Paul McCartney, New: Album Review
16 solo albums and 50 years into an incredible career, Paul McCartney aims for the middle again with the not-so-new sounds of whatever this latest one is called.
bLISTerd: The Simpsons 25th Anniversary, Part 2!
You know who else loves The Simpsons? Everyone! So let’s give another Popblerd writer a chance to convince you which of the 531 episodes are the absolute best, in part 2 of our 25th anniversary salute to the FOX Channel perennial
The Popblerd Fall Movie Preview of 2013, November-December
There are some rather spectacular looking movies coming out in the final two months of 2013. Which ones are you planning to see?
The Popblerd Fall Movie Preview 2013, September-October
Wanna know what brand new [paint jobs on the same old] movies will be attacking theaters in the next few months? We have the opinionated scoop on all of them.
The Jukebox Picture Show: 500 Days of Summer
On the joy of scoring according to Hall & Oates, and why Joseph Gordon-Levitt should be one of our biggest movie stars.
The Jukebox Picture Show: Stranger Than Fiction
Gather ’round, as Will Ferrell whispers a punk song in Marc Forster’s terrific “Stranger Than Fiction”
DreamWorks Animation: Ranking the Films from Best to Worst
With “Turbo” now available to lull you into a cartoon coma, it’s time to decide once and for all which DreamWorks Animation films were worth all that work, and which should have been euthanized in the development stage.
The Jukebox Picture Show: Beetlejuice
For this week’s Jukebox Picture Show, we can talk about cha cha, tango, waltz, or the rumba. Or how about one of movie history’s most inevitable mash-ups – Harry Belafonte and bio-exorcism comedy!
Pacific Rim: Movie Review
Monsters beating up robots? Godzilla made by Guillermo del Toro? A glorious mash-up of every summer movie ever made? Bah, humbug!
The Jukebox Picture Show: Moulin Rouge!
A new weekly feature to sing the praises of memorable song moments throughout cinema history. Have you had enough of silly love songs?