Friday, December 22, 2006

The Six Most Underrated Film Performances I’m not digging up hidden treasures and claming that I’m the first one to find these characters spectacular. These are the six best acting preformaces that are forgotten, snubbed by the academy, and in some...

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Monday, December 18, 2006

FRIEND'S TOP 10 Albums of 2006(If you would like to add a list and you have good taste...e-mail your top 10 to zachatach@yahoo.com)PHIL MERKOW 1) Beach House – Beach House 2) Fiery Furnaces- Bitter Tea3) Brightblack Morning Light = ST 4) Liars – Drums...

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Saturday, December 16, 2006

TOP 20 ALBUMS of 200620.) Yo La Tango-I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass19.) Akron/Family-Meek Warrior18.) The Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldiers17.) The Gothic Archies-The Tragic Treasury16.) The Like Young-Last Secrets15.) +/- -Let's Build...

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Friday, December 15, 2006

APOCALYPTO-8.9I simply can’t state how great a tragedy this film is. It is the best movie of the year. My personal favorite is Little Miss Sunshine, but the greatest achievement in filmmaking this year is Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto by leaps and bounds....

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Monday, December 11, 2006

MESTIZO Live @ Random Bar (Buenos Aires, Argentina Dec 8th, 2006 )-9.0My cousin and I walk into a local bar to drink a few cold ones and we are struck by bad rock and roll strumming accompanied by sad lyrics. We look at the band, I turn to my cousin,...

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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Joanna Newsom live @ Headliners (Louisville, KY-Nov 24th, 2006)- 9.4Ys has to be one of the front runners for my best of 2006 albums and seeing Newsom live only heightened my admiration for her beautiful music. First off, she is now tied with Eleanor...

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Film ReviewCasino Royale- 4.3Borat- 7.9Stranger Than Fiction- 5.7Babel- 5.9The Departed- 6.2The Prestige- 4.5For Your Consideration- 4.8The Last King of Scotland- 7.8The Science of Sleep- 4.1 Half Nelson- ...

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Monday, November 20, 2006

Top 25 Films (5-1)5.) Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)4.) Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)3.) Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)2.) Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)1.) Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, 19...

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Top 25 Films (9-6)9.) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)8.) 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)7.) The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)6.) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 19...

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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Top 25 (14-10)14.) On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)13.) American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)12.) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)11.) Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993)10.) A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 19...

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