I almost exclusively picked dance videos this year. Go figure.
1. Missy Elliott ft. Pharrell, “WTF” [Director: Dave Meyers] – If more music videos were reminiscent of Being John Malkovich, this would have been a harder decision.
9 Best Music Videos of 2015
February 21, 2016
Best of 2015, Best of Music 2015, Music, Music Videos Calvin Harris, Carly Rae Jepsen, Charli XCX, Disclosure, Jack Garratt, Missy Elliott, The Weeknd, Wolf Alice Leave a comment
The Best Albums of 2015 That I Listened To
February 20, 2016
Best of 2015, Best of Music 2015, Music Alabama Shakes, Carly Rae Jepsen, Disclosure, Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer, Miguel, Sleater-Kinney, Tame Impala, The Arcs, The Weeknd Leave a comment
As my best albums list is the “Best Albums I Listened To” as opposed to just the “Best Albums,” it is more pointedly subjective than my other best of lists. I usually do not listen to enough albums each year to really be able to definitively say which are the absolute greatest. Thus, instead of focusing on objective critical analysis, I am concentrating more on my own personal experiences with each of these entries.
1. Tame Impala, Currents – The Australian psychedelic rockers’ latest gets my top spot because it is one of those vaunted albums in which I wanted to listen to every track over and over, both as a whole and individually. Tame Impala’s previous release, Lonerism, is one of my favorite albums of all-time; I am counting my blessings that its follow-up is now in the same category.
The Best Commercials of 2015
February 20, 2016
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1. Apple TV – “The Future of Television” – The spot for Apple’s latest innovation has the bouncy sort of colors and sounds that portend utopia.
Best New TV Characters of 2015
February 20, 2016
Best of 2015, Best of TV 2015, Television Arnold Baumheiser, Better Call Saul, Blaine DeBeers, Carol Pilbasian, Chuck McGill, Dean Sanderson, Elliot Alderson, Fargo, Fresh Off the Boat, Jessica Huang, Jessica Jones, Kent Woolworth, Kimmy Schmidt, Liz Greenberg, Mike Milligan, Moonbeam City, Mr. Poopybutthole, Peggy Blumquist, Phil Miller, Rad Cunningham, The Grinder, The Last Man on Earth, Titus Andromedon, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Leave a comment
1. Rad Cunningham (Will Forte), Moonbeam City – On an underseen show, Will Forte worked his indelible powers of empathy and open-mindedness to birth another one of his beautifully pathetic creations. In the patently ridiculous Moonbeam City PD, Rad is the most ridiculous, and the most childish, but also the most profoundly human.
Best TV Scenes of 2015
February 18, 2016
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These were the moments that had me had me keeling over, on the edge of my seat, and begging for mercy.
10. The Eric Andre Show, “Bird Up!” – Focus group – This is how TV gets made, apparently.
Best Movie Scenes of 2015
February 18, 2016
Best in Film 2015, Best of 2015, Cinema Chi-Raq, Ex Machina, Inside Out, Jurassic World, Mad Max: Fury Road, Magic Mike XXL, Minions, Sicario, The Big Short, Unfriended 1 Comment
The best mini-movies that had us rocking in and falling out of our seats in the past year.
10. Jurassic World, T. Rex vs. Indominus Rex – A.K.A the 2015 Late Night War.
The Middle 7.15 – “Hecks at a Movie”
February 18, 2016
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“Are potatoes a classic movie snack?” http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2016/02/18/the-middle-season-7-episode-15-recap-h
The Muppets 1.13 – “Got Silk?”
February 17, 2016
Muppets (2015 TV Series), Muppets Episode Reviews, Television Got Silk?, RuPaul, The Muppets, The Muppets 113, The Muppets on ABC, The Muppets Season 1 Leave a comment
Is Piggy that hard to like? http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2016/02/17/the-muppets-season-1-episode-13-recap-
New Girl 5.7 – “Wig”
February 17, 2016
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“When?” “Before.” “Well the timing definitely checks out.” http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2016/02/17/new-girl-season-5-episode-7-recap-wig
This Is a (Quickie) Movie Review: Carol
February 14, 2016
Cinema, Movie Reviews Carol, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Todd Haynes 2 Comments
“We’re not ugly people,” Carol Aird pleadingly, but assuredly, insists to her husband during a custody fight that threatens to turn nasty. Carol is a thoroughly humanistic examination of the affair between a shopgirl and a housewife in 1952 New York, and the men in their life who struggle to understand them. It is about identity: the internal challenges to find your own and the external challenges to live it out. It mostly keeps it cool, in a manner that viewers who are not already fully attuned to director Todd Haynes’ restrained style might struggle to fully embrace. But when Cate Blanchett delivers the “ugly people” emphasis, Carol finds the winner’s circle.
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