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Movie and Music Analysis from One Lacking Any Credentials to Provide It

  • Movie Review: “Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski, USA 2022)

    For a time when I was roughly 10-13 years old, I thought Top Gun (Tony Scott, USA 1986) was the greatest movie ever. I watched it many times, to the point that I can still remember every beat of it even though I haven’t seen it in more than two decades. One of the first…

  • “Nocturnal Pleasure”/”Dead Ringer for Love” by Meat Loaf

    I have nothing really to say about “Nocturnal Pleasure.” It’s very short and while I still love Steinman’s delivery, it doesn’t seem to have anything terribly interesting to say. It is interesting that, like “Love and Death and an American Guitar” but unlike “Hot Summer Night,” it is its own track instead of being attached…

  • “Read ’em and Weep” by Meat Loaf

    I haven’t harped as much about how much this album is repeating Bat out of Hell as I did with Bad for Good, but it’s definitely the case–if anything even more so. “Peel Out” opens the album with a song about driving fast to replicate the motorcycle crash opening, “I’m Gonna Love Her for Both…