This week in music listening, with patent-pending two-word reviews:
The Black Keys: Magic Potion – magic riffs
Dan Auerbach: Keep It Hid – day job
Cabaret Voltaire: Mix-Up – let down
The Cure: Boys Don’t Cry – early uneveness
Dream Theater: A Change of Seasons – interesting interpretations
Mr. Big: What If… – more same
The Kills: No Now – wow factor
Quiet Riot: QR II – not quite
T. Rex: Bolan’s Zip Gun – varied output
December movie watching, with patent pending two-word reviews:
This Is 40 – Altman-esque funny
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – dispiriting garbage
Catch .44 – Tarantino knock-off
Rio – fun characters
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy – awkwardly funny
Conan the Barbarian (2011) – brutally bad
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning – suprisingly effective
The Adventures of Tintin – overly violent
Kung-Fu Panda 2 – fu fun
Tower Heist – time theft
Colombiana – revenge porn
Rango – weirdly entertaining
Joy Division – insightful doc
Deadfall – interesting characters