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# The Supermassive

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- [Movie Review: Elemental](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-elemental/) - Pixar films used to be more playful and much funnier. “Elemental" plays like it was written by the Neutrals from “Futurama.”
- [Dizzy Heights #104: We Live in a Society](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-104-we-live-in-a-society/) - I put this podcast…HERE.
- [Dizzy Heights #101: Let’s Duet](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-101-lets-duet/) - Brought to you by the letter K (Kirsty, Kylie, Kimbra)
- [Dizzy Heights #99: ‘Love’ Songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-99-love-songs/) - Features The Human League, Le Flex, Howard Jones, Climie Fisher, The Pixies, and more Lots of songs, oodles and bunches and tons of songs to choose from when the subject is love. Too many, really, which means that I have almost certainly not played any of the first five songs that popped into your head “No matter what you put me through, I’ll still believe in love.” Features The Human League, Le Flex, Howard Jones, Climie Fisher, The Pixies, and more Lots of songs, oodles and bunches and tons of songs to choose from when the subject is love. Too many, really, which means that I have almost certainly not played any of the first five songs that popped into your head
- [Dizzy Heights #100: The Very Guest of…](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-100-the-very-guest-of/) - Features David Bowie, Pugwash, Fine Young Cannibals, Robbie Willilams, and more You should know, it pained me to shut the show down four episodes away from Show #100. I WAS SO CLOSE. And then it took another year after moving before I was properly motivated. Well, that’s not entirely true. Getting used to the new This might be the most ‘80s show I’ve ever done, which is saying something.
- [Dizzy Heights #97: The Re-Beginnening](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-97-the-re-beginnening/) - I'm back! For now. Spoken with confidence.
- [Dizzy Heights #98: So It’s Come to This: A Covers Show](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-98-covers/) - Seeing someone from the metal community pay respect to the Pet Shop Boys is a glorious thing.
- [Karl Wallinger Was One of the Good Ones](https://www.the-supermassive.com/karl-wallinger-was-one-of-the-good-ones/) - Kindness casts a large shadow, and few exemplified that better than Wallinger did.
- [Happiness is an Option](https://www.the-supermassive.com/happiness-is-an-option/) - My music collection becomes a reclamation project.
- [This is the only logical explanation for the past 12 months](https://www.the-supermassive.com/letsmakeadeal/) - Words were exchanged. A deal was made. Victory comes with a steep price.
- [F*cking Off Is Always an Option](https://www.the-supermassive.com/let-it-go/) - The story of a family of four dealing with a disease, and the couple who went to great lengths to judge them for it.
- [The Last Day of Our Acquaintance](https://www.the-supermassive.com/the-last-day-of-our-acquaintance/) - Imagine trying to set the record straight about a messy breakup. And then don't do that.
- [What's Up](https://www.the-supermassive.com/whats-up/) - This piece brought to you by my least favorite song ever.
- [Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-gotg3/) - James Gunn’s script has a textbook lesson on the importance of emotional intelligence, and it’s wonderful.
- [Movie Review: Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-avatar-2/) - It’s 2022, and James Cameron is putting 83-year-old pop culture references in his scripts. Jesus.
- [Dizzy Heights #96: The Final](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-96-the-final/) - "I've had a marvelous time ruining everything."
- [Dizzy Heights #95: 100% Acrylic](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-95-100-acrylic/) - Be calm, look cute.
- [Dizzy Heights #94: 'House' Music](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-94-house-music/) - "A very acidic tongue waggled in her head."
- [Dizzy Heights #93: The Second Acrostic Show](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-93-the-second-acrostic-show/) - "It's the devil I love, and that's as funny as real love. And that's as real as true love."
- [Dizzy Heights #92: Fire](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-92-fire/) - Not gonna lie, this is a weird one.
- [Dizzy Heights #91: The Acrostic Show](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-91-the-acrostic-show/) - It's not who you think it is.
- [Dizzy Heights #90: ____ Me](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-90-____-me/) - Stop me if you think I've done this idea before. Because I have.
- [Dizzy Heights #89: The Eyes Have It](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-89-the-eyes-have-it/) - Let me take you on a trip...where I don't play that song.
- [Dizzy Heights #88: Money](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-88-money/) - “The answer to 90% of all questions is money.” – My friend Karen
- [Dizzy Heights #87: The Finest 'Work' Songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-87-the-finest-work-songs/) - But not that one.
- [Dizzy Heights #86: Baby Baby Baby](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-86-baby-baby-baby/) - “Writing Christian pop is easy. Instead of saying ‘baby,’ you say ‘Jesus.’” – Nik Kershaw
- [Dizzy Heights #85: Every Hour on the Hour - Flashback Chill Mix, April 2001](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-85-flashback-chill-mix-april-2001/) - Cool, cool water, indeed.
- [Dizzy Heights #84: Count Me In](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-84-count-me-in/) - Billy Joel deserves every second of what I do to him here.
- [Dizzy Heights #83: Closers](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-83-closers/) - No one is putting on Steve McQueen and skipping to “When the Angels.”
- [Movie Review: Encanto](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-encanto/) - It’s tempting to scoff at the thought of a group of the world's most talented people telling its audience that they shouldn’t be so hard on themselves, but at the same time, where’s the lie?
- [Dizzy Heights #82: 'Time' Songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-82-time-songs/) - Features Love Spit Love, Muse, The Smiths, Pulp, and more May I say once again that I have great respect for anyone who has a radio show with a schedule that, say, can’t be abandoned for three months. I clearly do not have the discipline to handle that much responsibility. I’m sorry I was gone
- [Dizzy Heights #81: Tonight](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-81-tonight/) - It's you. I'm yours. The streets are ours.
- [Dizzy Heights #80: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-80-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow/) - Making such a little go a very long way.
- [Dizzy Heights #79: A Show About Death](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-79-a-show-about-death/) - Gary Numan was the inspiration for this one, which means that David Bowie would probably have hated this.
- [Dizzy Heights #78: You](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-78-you/) - You oughta know…that I didn’t play that song.
- [Dizzy Heights #77: Conjunction Junction, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-77-conjunction-junction-vol-i/) - This idea started where all good ideas start: in the shower.
- [Dizzy Heights #76: The Cuervo Gold, The Fine Colombian – Songs with Greetings and Salutations](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-76-the-cuervo-gold-the-fine-colombian-songs-with-greetings-and-salutations/) - Hello! Goodbye. Welcome! Hey. Goodnight. Bye! That's it, that's the show.
- [Dizzy Heights #75: Zipperhead - 'Girl' Songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-75-zipperhead-girl-songs/) - Hey, um, girl.
- [The Popdose Interview: Terri Nunn (2020)](https://www.the-supermassive.com/the-popdose-interview-terri-nunn-2020/) - "Hey, before you record, are we allowed to curse?"
- [Dizzy Heights #74: ‘Boy’ Songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-74-boy-songs/) - In which we discuss Pete Townshend inadvertently writing the world's first trans rock anthem.
- [Movie Review: Jumanji: The Next Level](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-jumanji-the-next-level/) - “Jumanji: The Next Level” in some ways improves upon its predecessor, but it spends far too much time simply *being* its predecessor.
- [Dizzy Heights #73: Songs About Songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-73-songs-about-songs/) - You know that UK band that was the biggest band of the '70s? Yeah, I finally got around to playing them.
- [Dizzy Heights #72: Good/Better/Best](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-72-good-better-best/) - Aaaaaaaand we’re back! Well, for now, anyway.
- [The Karen Mixes, Part 4: More Beats](https://www.the-supermassive.com/the-karen-mixes-part-4-more-beats/) - There will be a Volume 5, but I may not finish that one for a while, ‘cuz, you know.
- [Movie Review: Irresistible](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-irresistible/) - If “Irresistible” were as funny as it is clever, it would be an instant classic.
- [Dizzy Heights Live 6/6/20: The 1985 Show](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-live-6-6-20-the-1985-show/) - Dizzy Heights has been quiet, but it has not been idle.
- [Movie Review: The King of Staten Island](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-king-of-staten-island/) - You’ve already seen “The King of Staten Island.”
- [Dizzy Heights Live 5/16/20: The 1987 Show](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-live-5-16-20-the-1987-show/) - Hang a sign up on the door, indeed.
- [The Karen Mixes, Vol. III: Chill](https://www.the-supermassive.com/the-karen-mixes-vol-iii-chill/) - AKA Music for Saturday Morning's Hangover.
- [Movie Review: First Descent](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-first-descent-2/) - How on earth the soundtrack supervisor didn’t cue up Jane’s Addiction’s “Mountain Song” for a scene is beyond us.
- [The Karen Mixes, Volume II: The Beast](https://www.the-supermassive.com/the-karen-mixes-volume-ii-the-beast/) - The first Karen mix was a beat mix. This one is a rock mix.
- [Movie Review: The Finest Hours](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-finest-hours/) - For those who wish to debate the authenticity of the Boston accents: don’t. Just don’t, please.
- [Movie Review: Finding Nemo](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-finding-nemo/) - Magical. God knows how they do it, but Pixar is easily the most consistent, most intelligent movie shop in Hollywood. Their movies are loaded with razor sharp wit, mind-boggling visuals, pitch perfect casting, and an abundance of heart. If Disney knows what's good for them, they will go to the negotiating table early ("Nemo" is
- [Movie Review: Final Destination 5](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-final-destination-5-2/) - After a terribly disappointing fourth installment in the popular teen death series, New Line does the unthinkable by not only making a fifth “Final Destination” but, horrors (see what we did there?), casting old people as the leads. You know, people who are, like, 30, and even some born in the ’70s, ewww. Who wants to see old people
- [Movie Review: Final Destination 5](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-final-destination-5/) - After a terribly disappointing fourth installment in the popular teen death series, New Line does the unthinkable by not only making a fifth “Final Destination” but, horrors (see what we did there?), casting old people as the leads. You know, people who are, like, 30, and even some born in the ’70s, ewww. Who wants to see old people
- [The Karen Mixes, Volume I: Beats](https://www.the-supermassive.com/the-karen-mixes-volume-i-beats/) - Upbeat and fun, and I figured those were both things we need right now.
- [Dizzy Heights #71: Hearts, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-71-hearts-vol-i/) - Should I just call this 'The Squeeze Show Featuring Squeeze'? It certainly seems that way sometimes.
- [Movie Review: Onward](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-onward/) - The film is trying to serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of complacency, while simultaneously not trying as hard as Pixar’s best work.
- [Dizzy Heights #70: Alt-Rock Songs About Boys](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-70-alt-rock-songs-about-boys/) - Q: Do I re-record a segment after my cat misses the jump to the chair next to me, making a ton of noise? A: I do not.
- [Dizzy Heights #69: Alt-Rock Songs About Girls](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-69-alt-rock-songs-about-girls/) - I could put it off no longer.
- [Dizzy Heights #68: Kaboom! 'World' Songs, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-68-kaboom-world-songs-vol-i/) - Because calling it 'Everything Is Broken' seemed a bit too on the nose.
- [Dizzy Heights #67: Wizards of Oz](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-67-wizards-of-oz/) - Me: I hadn't heard this song before. My kids: We know this song (*both sing every word*). Me: It begins.
- [Movie Review: Flightplan](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-flightplan/) - We could swear we just saw this movie, only it had a hot young babe in it, not her mom.
- [Movie Review: First Descent](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-first-descent/) - How on earth the soundtrack supervisor didn’t cue up Jane’s Addiction’s “Mountain Song” for a scene is beyond us.
- [Movie Review: The Final Destination](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-final-destination/) - We would like to call for an official moratorium on the use of a nail gun in the movies. We get it; they shoot nails. Let’s move on.
- [Dizzy Heights: The 2010s, Volumes I-IV](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-the-2010s-volumes-i-iv/) - The plan was to chill over the holidays, and not make any shows for a good six weeks. Instead, I made four.
- [I Has Thoughts: Movies of 2019](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movies-2019/) - Richard Curtis sounds like an old man yelling at the music industry to get off his lawn.
- [Movie Review: Final Destination 3](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-final-destination-3/) - Each death sequence requires belief in both Rube Goldbergian precision and the outer limits of chaos theory. And that is what makes them so entertaining.
- [Movie Review: The Fifth Estate](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-fifth-estate/) - Hollywood has tried again and again to make hacking look sexy. It’s not.
- [Movie Review: Ferris Bueller's Day Off](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-ferris-buellers-day-off/) - As Ben Stein astutely observes in the bonus material, "Ferris" is a testament to man’s need to be free, and that is why it has endured as a comedy classic.
- [Movie Review: Feast](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-feast/) - While it’s not rewriting the rules, it may erase a couple, which is just as good.
- [Movie Review: Eragon](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-eragon/) - This entire story is a photocopy.
- [Movie Review: Faster](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-faster/) - After a while it’s hard to tell if the movie is even aware that it’s bordering on self-parody.
- [Movie Review: Fargo](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-fargo/) - That the Coens are able to make this brutal ordeal so amusing, without undermining the danger, is no easy feat.
- [Movie Review: Extraordinary Measures](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-extraordinary-measures/) - Despite Crowley’s children spending the entire movie in peril, the movie has no emotional heft.
- [Movie Review: The Exorcism of Emily Rose](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-exorcism-of-emily-rose/) - The courtroom drama, however competent, pales in comparison to the spook show.
- [Movie Review: Evil Dead](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-evil-dead/) - For a movie that was at one point wildly ahead of its time, it’s sad to see someone remake it into something stodgy and slow.
- [Movie Review: Everything Must Go](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-everything-must-go/) - It’s nice to see someone try to find the positive in a situation rife with sadness. Most indie movies work the other way around, which is why most people don’t bother watching them.
- [Movie Review: Enchanted](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-enchanted/) - The movie lives and dies on the shoulders of Giselle, and Amy Adams plays her with perfect pitch.
- [Movie Review: Employee of the Month](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-employee-of-the-month/) - The only time people act the way they do in this movie is in other movies.
- [Movie Review: Elysium](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-elysium/) - This is a movie that had bigger fish to fry, and let them off the hook.
- [Movie Review: Easy A](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-easy-a/) - Juno, Cher, Samantha Baker, Kat Stratford and Andie Walsh would love “Easy A,” praise from Caesar that not even Roger Ebert’s thumbs-up can match.
- [Movie Review: Earth to Echo](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-earth-to-echo/) - Think of “Earth to Echo” as a gateway movie for the films from which it’s blatantly stealing, and how that is not necessarily a bad thing.
- [Movie Review: Eagle Eye](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-eagle-eye/) - “Eagle Eye” is a college drinking game waiting to happen
- [Movie Review: The Eagle](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-eagle/) - By the time it’s over, it just seems like a waste of money.
- [Movie Review: The Dukes of Hazzard](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-dukes-of-hazzard/) - You almost have to give them credit; they left no movie cliché stone unturned.
- [Movie Review: Drillbit Taylor](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-drillbit-taylor/) - The whole affair reeks of last-minute tampering, something Hollywood continues to do despite the fact that it almost never works.
- [Movie Review: Dreamgirls](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dreamgirls/) - Words cannot even express what a step up this was after being subjected to “Rent” and “The Producers” last year.
- [Movie Review: Draft Day](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-draft-day/) - The NFL and ESPN are on board, which means they approve of the story line, which means the story is safe as kittens.
- [Movie Review: Don Jon](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-don-jon/) - Where “Shame” was more of a character study, “Don Jon” is focused on a societal problem.
- [Movie Review: Divergent](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-divergent/) - This movie could use some teeth, and it’s surprising that they didn’t use the ones that the book provided them.
- [Movie Review: Disturbia](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-disturbia/) - “Disturbia” doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is, and thank goodness for that.
- [Movie Review: District 9](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-district-9/) - “District 9” pulls off a rather impressive feat in being smarter and bloodier than any other action or sci-fi movie released this year.
- [Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dinner-for-schmucks/) - Hook Steve Carell up with Alexander Payne. That way he’ll finally get to be both funny and real.
- [Movie Review: The Dilemma](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-dilemma/) - This is the Johnny Tightlips of comedies, and it will bleed to death before it tells anyone where it’s been shot.
- [Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-devil-wears-prada/) - Lord knows, if someone had shown Miranda Priestly that ending, she would have eaten their children.
- [Movie Review: Deuce Bigalow, European Gigolo](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-deuce-bigalow-european-gigolo/) - "Don't wanna be an American idiot..."
- [Movie Review: Devil](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-devil/) - Shyamalan is down, but if “Devil” is any indication, he’s not out.
- [Movie Review: Frozen II](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-frozen-ii/) - It would be understandable if Disney played it safe here, but they didn’t. In fact, they pull a couple of stunts that will live forever.
- [Movie Review: Corpse Bride](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-corpse-bride-2/) - What the moviemakers working in cutting edge technology must remember is that audiences will be perfectly happy with a movie that doesn’t look spotless as long as it means something.
- [Movie Review: Concussion](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-concussion/) - “Concussion” is a film without an audience. Football fans won’t see this movie, because they don’t want to embrace the fact that the NFL lied to them for years about the dangers associated with playing football, and threw thousands of its former players under the bus in order to protect the brand, because money. Who
- [Dizzy Heights #66: Great Scots](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-66-great-scots/) - Make no mistake: Shirley Manson IS a Terminator.
- [It Took Eight Months for Me to Make Sense of a Small but Crucial Plot Point in "Inside Out"](https://www.the-supermassive.com/inside-out-makes-sense-now/) - “Inside Out” might be the subtlest and most insightful film Pixar has ever done, and I’m embarrassed that it took me this long to see it for what it was.
- [Movie Review: Toy Story 4](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-toy-story-4/) - This movie is fine.
- [Dizzy Heights #65: Certain for the Very Last Time: Flashback Chill Mix, 11/25/95](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dh65-flashback-chill-mix-11-25-95/) - I love the smell of twentysomething drama in the morning.
- [Dizzy Heights #64: ‘90s UK Alternative, Part III: The Pop Mix](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-64-90s-uk-alternative-part-iii-the-pop-mix/) - Basically, I made my own episode of the '90s Time Machine.
- [Dizzy Heights #63: '90s UK Alernative, Part II: The Dance Mix](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-63-90s-uk-alernative-part-ii-the-dance-mix/) - For the record no, it is not lost on me that my show about UK music opens with artists from Ireland and Germany.
- [Dizzy Heights #62: ‘90s UK Alternative, Part I: The Rock Mix](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-62-90s-uk-alternative-part-i-the-rock-mix/) - In which I play a bunch of Brit Pop, and then alienate nearly every fan of Brit Pop.
- [Dizzy Heights #61: 'Summer' Songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-61-summer-songs/) - A farewell to title-themed shows, and summer, with a title-themed show about summer.
- [The Popdose Interview with Howard Jones](https://www.the-supermassive.com/the-popdose-interview-with-howard-jones/) - In which we discover the wonderful phrase that is ‘virtuous spiral.’
- [Dizzy Heights #60: Run Betsi Run (a 2003 beat mix tape, digitized and expanded)](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-60-run-betsi-run/) - It's alt-y, it's poppy, and it's trendy. This is me.
- [Dizzy Heights #59: A Touch of Tuesday Weld - 'New' Songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-59-a-touch-of-tuesday-weld-new-songs/) - New World Man takes his New Girl Now, dolled up in a New Dress, for a ride in a Brand New Cadillac. That’s the show, simple as that.
- [Dizzy Heights #58: Contemplating a Crime - Animals, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-58-contemplating-a-crime-animals-vol-i/) - Basically, it's First Wave, Lithium, and Alt Nation in a blender, at a ratio of about 4:2:1.
- [Dizzy Heights #57: Kiss Me Senseless – One-Syllable Songs (Classic Alternative Edition)](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-57-kiss-me-senseless-one-syllable-songs-classic-alternative-edition/) - Twentysomething me is having a moment here.
- [Movie Review - Men in Black: International](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-men-in-black-international/) - “Men in Black: International” makes so much sense from a marketing standpoint that it’s tempting to dismiss the film as the cynical cash grab that it probably is.
- [Dizzy Heights #56: Let's Stay Friends Forever - The Wind and the Rain](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-56-the-wind-and-the-rain/) - "Great song, Bob, but it suggests that you might be gay. Better change the words." Jesus.
- [Movie Review: Aladdin](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-aladdin/) - For a film directed by Guy Ritchie, there’s not a lot of Ritchieness to it.
- [CD Review: Simple Minds, “Walk Between Worlds”](https://www.the-supermassive.com/simple-minds-walk-between-worlds/) - If there is anything holding the album back, it’s the insistence on a radio-friendly unit shifter.
- [Dizzy Heights #55: They Will Never Find Me Here - The Sun and the Moon, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-55-they-will-never-find-me-here-the-sun-and-the-moon-vol-i/) - Tears for Fears fans know where the next show is going.
- [The Popdose Interview with Stine Bramsen of Alphabeat](https://www.the-supermassive.com/the-popdose-interview-with-stine-bramsen-of-alphabeat/) - The angel-voiced co-singer of Denmark’s best kept secret spoke to Popdose about the band’s long overdue American debut.
- [Dizzy Heights #54: Watch the World Argue - Songs About Dancing](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-54-watch-the-world-argue-songs-about-dancing/) - Fun fact: David Bowie's written a lot of songs about dancing. We play one of them. But not that one.
- [Movie Review: Dumbo](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dumbo/) - There are lots of little things that the movie nails, but it gets nearly all of the important things wrong.
- [Movie Review: Captain Marvel](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-captain-marvel/) - Finally, the MCU has someone who fights like a girl.
- [Dizzy Heights #53: Gold](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-53-gold/) - This one's for you, Ponyboy.
- [Movie Review: The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-lego-movie-2/) - Like “22 Jump Street,” “LEGO Movie 2” shares a bit too much DNA with its predecessor.
- [Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-httyd-hidden-world/) - It’s good to know when to walk away.
- [Dizzy Heights #52: Someday We'll Be Happy Again - Breakup Songs Part 2 (The Ballads)](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-52-breakup-songs-part-2-ballads/) - Bringing the mope, yo.
- [Movie Review: Mary Poppins Returns](https://www.the-supermassive.com/mary-poppins-returns/) - The film has its issues, but so did the original. That they were able to get this close to capturing the magic of the original film is miraculous.
- [Dizzy Heights #50: Heat Beneath Your Winter - Dreams, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-50-heat-beneath-your-winter-dreams-vol-i/) - A hard rock band named Rainbow. Discuss.
- [Movie Review: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-spider-verse/) - “Spider-Verse” is the best animated film of 2018 hands down, and one of the best films of the year overall.
- [Movie Review: The Meg](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-meg/) - It’s just not enough, in any way. Not scary enough, not funny enough, not original enough.
- [Movie Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-ralph-breaks-the-internet/) - Stay through the closing credits. There's a can't-miss stinger at the end.
- [Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-fantastic-beasts-grindelwald/) - If there are going to be three more “Fantastic Beasts” films, solving the Newt problem needs to be their top priority.
- [Movie Review: Mission: Impossible - Fallout](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-mission-impossible-fallout/) - My 11-year-old son picked up on a shot that lingered just a little too long. That’s right, Mr. “Usual Suspects” couldn’t even fool a tween this time around.
- [Dizzy Heights #49: Hot Dog, Jumping Frog, Albuquerque: Royals, Volume I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-49-royals-volume-i/) - I thought there would be tons of songs about princesses. I had maybe four.
- [Movie Review: Thor: The Dark World](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-thor-the-dark-world/) - While “Thor: The Dark World” is not as consistent as its predecessor, the film has some truly great moments, including a spectacular climax.
- [Movie Review: Iron Man 3](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-iron-man-3/) - At the beginning of the second act, Shane Black begins to get in his own way, and for anyone familiar with his work, it’s not long before a case of deja vu sets in.
- [Movie Review: Venom](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-venom/) - “Venom” isn’t even aggressively bad: it’s just not trying very hard to be good.
- [Dizzy Heights #49: Songs about Days of the Week, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-49-songs-about-days-of-the-week-vol-i/) - Thursday needs to fire its publicist.
- [Don't Tell Others How to Share Their Trauma](https://www.the-supermassive.com/carry-that-weight/) - There are a number of reasons why someone might wait years or even decades to tell a traumatic story, and they have absolutely nothing to do with you.
- [Dizzy Heights #47: Don't. Just...Don't ("Don't" Songs, Vol. I)](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-47-dont-just-dont-dont-songs-vol-i/) - Tell me you love me. Change. Go. Disturb this groove. Or, you know, do the opposite of all those things. Your call. It's cool.
- [Dizzy Heights #46: Never, Ever, Always, and Forever](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-46-never-ever-always-and-forever/) - Proof that there is always something good that can come from even the worst of things.
- [Movie Review: The Avengers](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-avengers/) - It’s unfortunate that “The Avengers” doesn’t flow better as a whole, because Whedon really did some extraordinary work here in spots.
- [Dizzy Heights #45: The Alliteration Show](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-45-the-alliteration-show/) - There is an alternate universe version of this show with Spinal Tap and Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. Be thankful that we don't live in that world.
- [Dizzy Heights #44: ‘Blue’ Songs, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-44-blue-songs-vol-i/) - Man, why are all of these songs with 'blue' in the title so melancholy? Oh, right.
- [Dizzy Heights #43: It's So Fresh! Popdose Flashback '88 (Mostly) — The Beat Mix](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-43-its-so-fresh-popdose-flashback-88-mostly-the-beat-mix/) - Yes, I opened a 1988 beat mix with a song from 1987.
- [CD Review: Tom Bailey, "Science Fiction"](https://www.the-supermassive.com/cd-review-tom-bailey-science-fiction/) - Many of Bailey’s ‘80s-era peers have been trying to write songs this good as far back as 1984, and here he is, 34 years later, besting them at the top of their game. They must be furious.
- [Dizzy Heights #42: With the Prepositions, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-42-prepositions-vol-i/) - Followed a song by Bowie with a song about Bowie. I am not deep.
- [Dizzy Heights #41: When You Think It's All Over, It's Not Over — Questions, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-41-when-you-think-its-all-over-its-not-over-questions-vol-i/) - In which I execute a pivot so sharp that only John Cleese can effectively prepare the audience for what's about to happen. And so he does. And a new Dizzy Heights tradition is born.
- [Album Review: Midge Ure, "Orchestrated"](https://www.the-supermassive.com/album-review-midge-ure-orchestrated/) - The idea of an orchestral album by Midge Ure isn’t a question of when, but rather why it took this long for it to happen.
- [Movie Review: Incredibles 2](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-incredibles-2/) - When it comes to Pixar sequels, there is “Toy Story 3,” and then there is everything else, with “Incredibles 2” a few steps ahead of everything else.
- [Dizzy Heights #40: I Know That Dude — Songs About Famous People](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-40-i-know-that-dude-songs-about-famous-people/) - In which I get absolutely owned by my Facebook friends, and an idea is born... *maniacal laugh*
- [Movie Review: Deadpool 2](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-deadpool-2/) - Are “Basic Instinct” references now considered a classic reference to a bygone era, like, say, a “Dr. Strangelove” joke would have been 20 years ago? Or are they just lazy?
- [Dizzy Heights #39: The Devil Take Your Stereo — "(This) and (That)" Songs, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-39-the-devil-take-your-stereo-this-and-that-songs-vol-i/) - I am not afraid to admit that the themed shows are better because my friends' song suggestions are better than mine.
- [Dizzy Heights #38: Pico to Colorado to Las Palmas — The Garrett & Amy Show, Vol. II](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-38-pico-to-colorado-to-las-palmas-the-garrett-amy-show-vol-ii/) - A true sign of parental love and sacrifice: letting your daughter play Fergie on your podcast.
- [Dizzy Heights #37: Uh-uh, Not Katherine: The Numbers Show, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-37-uh-uh-not-katherine-the-numbers-show-vol-i/) - It's been...time this show had a leprechaun dance moment. Can't understand what I mean? You soon will.
- [Movie Review: IT](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-it/) - To appreciate this movie, one must first acknowledges the bubble in which it lives.
- [Movie Review: Rampage](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-rampage/) - Rampage the video game deserved better than “Rampage” the movie, which is just a ridiculous thing to say.
- [Dizzy Heights #36: Unpack Your Adjectives, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-36/) - This one was my wife's idea: one-word titles, all adjectives. I have enough songs to do at least two more shows.
- [CD Review: Editors, "Violence"](https://www.the-supermassive.com/cd-review-editors-violence/) - Editors have written many great songs in the past, but this is the first time that they’ve written a jam.
- [High Street Vol. IV: Who Needs to Think When Your Feet Just Go?](https://www.the-supermassive.com/high-street-vol-iv/) - The fourth in a series of love letters my DJ partner Ed Walker and I have created to celebrate the legendary alt-dance clubs of the late '80s and early '90s that peppered Ohio State's campus, and this one might be my favorite of the bunch.
- [Movie Review: A Wrinkle in Time](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-a-wrinkle-in-time/) - There is magic here, but there is also distance, and not of the time-and-space-traveling kind.
- [Movie Review: Despicable Me 2](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-despicable-me-2/) - Universal had a golden opportunity here to hit Pixar while they were reeling and gain significant ground in the ridiculously competitive animation market, but “Despicable Me 2” does not land the punch.
- [Movie Review: Despicable Me](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-despicable-me/) - It has the traditional, sweet moral (being there for your kids is more important than anything you’ll ever do at work), but it also derives laughs out of dream sequences where a grown man joyfully abandons three small children.
- [Movie Review: The Descent](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-descent/) - I would recommend seeing “The Descent” in the daytime, because the feeling of the sun on your flesh as you walk out of the theater will cheer you up in ways that you had heretofore never imagined. Seriously.
- [Movie Review: The Descendants](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-descendants/) - It’s smart and beautifully made, but Payne had the opportunity to punch the audience in the chest, and didn’t take the shot. Pity.
- [Movie Review: Delivery Man](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-delivery-man/) - Despite the outrageousness of the plot, it’s an intimate movie. A smaller scale would have worked wonders, but only to a point.
- [Movie Review: Deja Vu](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-deja-vu/) - Every time Washington said “Let me get this straight” or “Are you saying that...,” I thought to myself: college kids across the country have their next movie drinking game.
- [Movie Review: The Debt](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-debt/) - It’s painfully obvious what the movie has planned, and while the ride is perfectly enjoyable, you’ll wish for a prettier sunset once you’ve arrived.
- [Movie Review: Death Sentence](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-death-sentence/) - I could not shake the thought that the movie would have been better served by a series of deadly traps, each one grislier than the last.
- [Movie Review: Dead Silence](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dead-silence/) - “Dead Silence” is better than most horror movies these days, but that’s kind of like praising the 1963 Mets because they didn’t lose as many games as they did the previous season. Better, yes, but not quite great.
- [Movie Review: Dead Man's Shoes](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dead-mans-shoes/) - Despite the fact that there is little left to the imagination, the movie is enthralling.
- [Movie Review: The Day After Tomorrow](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-day-after-tomorrow/) - No one expected Moveon.org to rally behind “The Day After Tomorrow” and declare it “the movie George W. Bush doesn’t want you to see.” This is, of course, preposterous.
- [Movie Review: Dave Chappelle's Block Party](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dave-chappelles-block-party/) - While this is one of those movies that could have benefited from more journey and less destination, it still winds up in a happy place either way.
- [Movie Review: Dark Water](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dark-water/) - “Dark Water” is less a horror movie than a psychological thriller, focusing on how the ghosts of our past haunt us more than any floating creepy crawlies ever could.
- [Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-dark-knight-rises/) - “The Dark Knight Rises” is arguably Christopher Nolan’s weakest movie, but let’s put that in perspective: it’s still better than the best “Transformers” movie
- [Movie Review: Dark Shadows](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dark-shadows/) - Tim Burton movies are many things, but rarely are they this boring.
- [Movie Review: The Danish Girl](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-danish-girl/) - “The Danish Girl” had the potential to change the world, but instead chose to play it safe. Pity.
- [Movie Review: Dan in Real Life](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dan-in-real-life/) - You’d be hard pressed to find a movie as contrived as “Dan in Real Life,” so it’s a good thing that the movie has charm to spare.
- [Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-benjamin-button/) - This is the movie that I’ve been waiting for David Fincher to make since “Fight Club.”
- [Movie Review: The Croods](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-croods/) - Insert your own joke here about the caveman movie suffering from a lack of development.
- [Movie Review: Cowboys and Aliens](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-cowboys-and-aliens/) - The subject matter had the potential to be the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of movies, but instead turned out to be Nuts & Gum.
- [Movie Review: The Covenant](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-covenant/) - This movie might be the long kiss goodnight to Renny Harlin’s career.
- [Movie Review: Corpse Bride](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-corpse-bride/) - What the moviemakers working in cutting edge technology must remember is that audiences will be perfectly happy with a movie that doesn’t look spotless as long as it means something.
- [Movie Review: Coraline](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-coraline/) - We always had a suspicion that Teri Hatcher was a succubus.
- [Movie Review: Conviction](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-conviction/) - All concerned have done better, and will do better again. Move along, people. Nothing to see here.
- [Movie Review: Control](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-control/) - There's something refreshing about “Control.” There is no cryptic symbolism – hell, there isn’t even any color.
- [New Podcast! Dizzy Heights #35: Going Back to Athens - Songs About Places, Vol. I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-35/) - This show - and the previous show, the 'She' song-filled 'Film the World Before It Happens' - are a big turning point in my podcast. I'm going to ride this theme thing for a while. It's fun, and if the response from my Facebook friends is any indication, people are more engaged with shows that
- [Movie Review: The Conjuring](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-conjuring/) - “The Conjuring” understands that violence is not horror, and delivers a truly disturbing viewing experience.
- [Movie Review: The Condemned](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-condemned/) - You’ll be hard pressed to find a movie that talks out of both sides of its mouth as much as this one.
- [Movie Review: Contagion](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-contagion/) - Where Oscar winners go to die. Thanks, we’re here all week.
- [Movie Review: Con Air](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-con-air/) - It’s okay for a movie to be a little dumb, as long as it’s smart about the right things, and few movies demonstrate that better than “Con Air.”
- [Movie Review: Cloverfield](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-cloverfield/) - The “Blair Witch Project”-style camerawork is effective but it’s also nauseating, like Paul Greengrass hopped up on Red Bull and NoDoz.
- [Movie Review: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs/) - It’s not every day that we see an animated movie that features kittens singing a Public Enemy song, but man, what a wonderful world it would be if we did.
- [Movie Review: Clash of the Titans](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-clash-of-the-titans/) - As if society weren’t self-centered enough, along comes a movie whose moral appears to be “Be your own god.” Swell.
- [Movie Review: City of Ember](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-city-of-ember/) - “City of Ember” feels like a live-action version the video game “Myst,” with George Orwell at the helm.
- [Movie Review: Cinderella](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-cinderella/) - Cinderella not so much a lottery winner as a young woman making smart choices, honoring her family, and taking responsibility for her fate, by being kind. I can’t stress that last part enough.
- [Movie Review: A Christmas Carol (2009)](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-a-christmas-carol-2009/) - Robert Zemeckis seems so obsessed with what he can do with the FX that he doesn’t stop to consider whether he should.
- [Movie Review: Children of Men](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-children-of-men/) - It raises the stakes for all concerned, including the Spielbergs of the world, in terms of what a drama, a sci-fi flick, and a period piece can and should be.
- [Movie Review: Chicken Little](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-chicken-little/) - An encouraging first CGI step for a studio that’s been eating cartoon dust of late.
- [Movie Review: Charlotte's Web](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-charlottes-web/) - Daniel Scott Kay gives Wilbur just the right mix of youthful exuberance, naiveté, and trepidation, and creates a character audiences can’t help rooting for – no matter how much they might love bacon.
- [Movie Review: Changeling](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-changeling/) - It’s the cheapest form of manipulation there is – threatening the lives of children. If it were a political attack ad, they’d call it fearmongering, and that’s “Changeling” in a nutshell.
- [Movie Review: The Change-Up](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-change-up/) - God help us, we’re all the way down to the ‘switched bodies’ plot getting a raunchy makeover.
- [Movie Review: The Cave](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-cave/) - Thrillers aren’t terribly thrilling when you’re actually rooting for the monsters to knock the humans off.
- [Quick Take: Catfish](https://www.the-supermassive.com/quick-take-catfish/) - It’s shocking that this movie didn’t find a larger audience.
- [Movie Review: Casanova](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-casanova/) - Your girlfriend/wife/mistress is going to beg you to go see “Casanova.” And you’ll be really, really glad you went along. Sure, the ending of the movie isn’t “The Usual Suspects,” but the ending of your evening will likely be something out of “Debbie Does Dallas.”
- [Movie Review: Cars 2](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-cars-2/) - Transforming it from a road movie to a spy movie was a good idea, though. Making Mater the star, however, was not.
- [Movie Review: Cars](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-cars/) - It feels like one of Pixar’s less imaginative rivals trying to make a Pixar movie.
- [Movie Review: Caddyshack](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-caddyshack/) - The movie’s contributed more quality quotes per minute to the pop culture lexicon than any other movie. So it’s got that going for it. Which is nice.
- [Movie Review: Burn After Reading](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-burn-after-reading/) - This is one of those movies where the journey is far more important than the destination, and “Burn After Reading” is one loopy journey.
- [Movie Review: Bull Durham](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-bull-durham/) - "Bull Durham" is for people who love baseball, but it’s mainly for people who love love.
- [Movie Review: The Brothers Grimm](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-brothers-grimm/) - They would have been wise to shelve this one for all eternity.
- [Movie Review: Bridge of Spies](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-bridge-of-spies/) - There are these subtle, effective and surprisingly funny moments that are clearly the Coens’ work, and then Spielberg steps in and drowns everything else in syrup.
- [Movie Review: Bridesmaids](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-bridesmaids/) - It’s time to let this whole raunch-com thing die already.
- [Movie Review: The Break-Up](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-break-up/) - The relationship between the two leads is so horrifically lopsided that by the time it comes to its inevitable conclusion, it’s hard to disagree, never mind care.
- [Movie Review: Brave](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-brave/) - John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter will probably never admit it, but you have to think that they know they dropped the ball here.
- [Movie Review: The Bourne Legacy](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-bourne-legacy/) - Not at all necessary, yet still enjoyable.
- [Movie Review: The Bounty Hunter](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-bounty-hunter/) - The only lead roles Jennifer Aniston gets are in movies that no one could save. Had the script been better, they would have offered the part to someone else.
- [Movie Review: Bottle Shock](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-bottle-shock/) - It doesn’t take a love of wine to enjoy this movie; just a love for seeing the hard-working nice guy finish first.
- [Movie Review: The Boss](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-boss-2/) - Melissa McCarthy’s character is an unrepentant, hostile sociopath from birth. Worse, the film treats this as a virtue.
- [Movie Review: The Book of Life](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-book-of-life/) - Hopeless romantics will love this movie, while everyone else will learn about the benefits of being a hopeless romantic. Sounds like a win-win to us.
- [Movie Review: Bolt](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-bolt/) - Ten years from now, no child will declare this to be their favorite Disney movie. Millions, though, will name a Pixar movie – pick one – as their favorite. That says it all, right there.
- [Movie Review: Blood Diamond](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-blood-diamond/) - It’s as if the movie wants to be “Hey Jude,” when “Yesterday” would have been just fine.
- [Movie Review: Blood and Chocolate](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-blood-and-chocolate/) - A song about being broke (Hard-Fi's "Cash Machine") has no place in a movie about werewolves, unless the werewolves are dealing with the fact that they’re broke.
- [Movie Review: The Black Dahlia](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-black-dahlia/) - There are too many talented people involved with “The Black Dahlia” for it to end up this bad. And yet, here we are.
- [Movie Review: Big Hero 6](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-big-hero-6/) - Phase 1 of the Marvel Toons era, as it were, is off to a very promising start.
- [Movie Review: The Benchwarmers](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-benchwarmers/) - This is a movie made for people with the sense of humor of a 10-year-old, but anyone who takes their 10-year-old to this movie will have to answer questions about ovulation cycles, blow-up dolls, and God knows what else.
- [Movie Review: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-before-the-devil-knows-youre-dead/) - Death to the gimmick movie.
- [Movie Review: Bee Movie](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-bee-movie/) - Let me get this straight: the premise for an animated comedy is a bee that sues the human race for the rights to honey? Sorry, but that just isn’t funny.
- [Movie Review: Bedtime Stories](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-bedtime-stories/) - Where “Enchanted” is self-aware, “Bedtime Stories” is self-absorbed.
- [Movie Review: Be Kind Rewind](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-be-kind-rewind/) - The scenes of Mike and Jerry remaking movies are fabulous, guerilla filmmaking at its finest. The problem is that the movie doesn’t seem to value the importance of those scenes.
- [Movie Review: Battle: Los Angeles](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-battle-los-angeles/) - Roland Emmerich’s trilogy of “Destroy LA” movies (“Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012”) look like Mike Leigh-esque character studies by comparison.
- [Movie Review: Batman & Robin](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-batman-robin/) - George Clooney said, that he would be to blame if this movie kills the “Batman” franchise. Very courageous, and not at all true.
- [Movie Review: Batman](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-batman/) - “Batman” completely rewrote the rules for how summer blockbusters were made, how they were promoted, and how they were expected to perform.
- [Movie Review: The Bank Job](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-bank-job/) - David Mamet movies don’t sport this many double-crosses.
- [Movie Review: Balls of Fury](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-balls-of-fury/) - We’re still trying to picture Dan Fogler scoring Maggie Q. Nope, still not happening.
- [Movie Review: Beerfest](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-beerfest/) - Ladies and gentlemen, meet the new “Old School.” Better than the old “Old School.”
- [Movie Review: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dodgeball/) - Unlike the Farrelly Brothers, who love all their misfits, Thurber seems to view his subjects with contempt. As a result, we do, too.
- [Movie Review: Black Panther](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-black-panther/) - Think of this film as a giant middle finger to all things authoritarian.
- [The Popdose Interview: Simple Minds' Jim Kerr](https://www.the-supermassive.com/the-popdose-interview-simple-minds-jim-kerr/) - "Kirsty MacColl was cute as a button and smarter than anyone, and didn’t take any bullshit."
- [Dizzy Heights #34: Film the World Before It Happens](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dizzy-heights-34-film-the-world-before-it-happens/) - Big show. Themed show. That's all I've got. The songs explain themselves, really.
- [Movie Review: Downsizing](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-downsizing/) - People are going to lose their jobs because of this movie.
- [Movie Review: Coco](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-coco/) - “Coco’s” hypercolor landscapes and skeletal characters leave all of Pixar’s previous technical achievements in the dust.
- [Movie Review: Thor: Ragnarok](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-thor-ragnarok/) - If ever there was a Marvel film to fly the fun flag, this is the one. Had they gone for something darker, it would have been insufferable.
- [Movie Review: Kingsman: The Golden Circle](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-kingsman-the-golden-circle/) - Julianne Moore's Poppy is Martha Stewart gone full Sith lord (yes, Martha Stewart is obviously a Sith lord, but go with us here).
- [Movie Review: Dunkirk](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dunkirk/) - There is no denying Nolan’s skill as a filmmaker. The human element is causing him problems, though.
- [Movie Review: Cars 3](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-cars-3/) - They will never soar like Pixar’s finest work, but there is a modesty to them, a pureness of heart that is difficult to deny.
- [Movie Review: The Mummy](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-mummy/) - Tom Cruise's character is set up to be sacrificed in order to serve as the vessel of a god, and isn’t that what Cruise has wanted his entire life?
- [Movie Review: Free Fire](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-free-fire/) - The vast majority of the dialogue consists of variations on people yelling, “Fuck, I’ve been shot!”
- [CD Review: Saint Etienne, "Home Counties"](https://www.the-supermassive.com/cd-review-saint-etienne-home-counties/) - Saint Etienne has placed themselves in a most enviable position, in that they are poised to age more gracefully than anyone from their generation.
- [Movie Review: Fist Fight](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-fist-fight/) - The path to the ending is littered with dick jokes, but “Fist Fight” makes the early hardships worthwhile. Just barely, though.
- [Movie Review: Beauty and the Beast](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-beauty-and-the-beast/) - “Just ask yourself: what would Baz Luhrmann do? And then ask us if we think Baz would do that, and we’ll tell you whether or not you’re right.”
- [Movie Review: T2 Trainspotting](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-t2-trainspotting/) - “T2 Trainspotting” the cinematic equivalent of discovering that there is no Santa Claus.
- [Take My Money! Six Nights on Planet Disney](https://www.the-supermassive.com/planet-disney/) - I would gladly pay for the privilege to do it again. No, I am not suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
- [Movie Review: The LEGO Batman Movie](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-lego-batman/) - Basically a 104-minute ad for LEGO Dimensions, but it's fun anyway.
- [I have a podcast! A Shameless Plug for Popdose and my new show Dizzy Heights](https://www.the-supermassive.com/i-have-a-podcast/) - As if time wasn't already at a serious premium, I have decided to launch a podcast.
- [Amy reviews "Trolls"!](https://www.the-supermassive.com/amy-reviews-trolls/) - Where my daughter takes the helm and shows her daddy how it's done.
- [Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them/) - It pains me to say this, but with each film, Eddie Redmayne looks more and more like someone who got lucky.
- [Movie Review: The Bad News Bears](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-bad-news-bears/) - They lost their nerve and chose to play it safe, which is the last thing in the world that the Bears themselves would do.
- [Movie Review: The Back-Up Plan](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-back-up-plan/) - There isn’t a single note in this movie that rings true. When they get really desperate, they cut to a shot of Jennifer Lopez’s dog.
- [Movie Review: Trolls](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-trolls/) - There is something to it, a relentlessness of spirit that is undeniable.
- [Movie Review: Inferno](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-inferno/) - The movie distances itself from the first two films thanks to a breakneck opening pace, only to turn into the Dan Browniest Dan Brown adaptation to date halfway through.
- [Movie Review: The Girl on the Train](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-girl-on-the-train/) - Emily Blunt is the best movie drunk ever.
- [Movie Review: Storks](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-storks/) - Everyone involved with this film has something better than this on their resume.
- [Movie Review: The Light Between Oceans](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-light-between-oceans/) - There is clearly a lot going on between the ears of the main characters, but very little of it is translated on screen for the viewer.
- [Movie Review: Jason Bourne](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-jason-bourne/) - Breaking a bunch of stuff on screen does not make a movie visceral – it makes a movie noisy.
- [Movie Review: Don't Breathe](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-dont-breathe/) - Have fun deciding who the true heroes and villains are over drinks afterwards.
- [Movie Review: Hell or High Water](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-hell-or-high-water/) - If “Blood Simple” and “Fargo” were forced to mate, the offspring would turn out a lot like this.
- [Movie Review: Now You See Me 2](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-now-you-see-me-2/) - What seemed like a one-off movie about magicians has wisely positioned itself as the next “Ocean’s” franchise. Well played.
- [Movie Review: Lights Out](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-lights-out/) - Had “Lights Out” been released after “The Ring,” it might be considered one of the all-time greats of supernatural horror. The film’s biggest problem is that it doesn’t trust its stuff.
- [Movie Review: The Secret Life of Pets](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-secret-life-of-pets/) - They’ll sell a ton of Snowball and Max plushes, and that is what clearly matters most to them.
- [Movie Review: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-mike-and-dave-need-wedding-dates/) - Raunch-com, we need to talk. We’ve been spending a lot of time together, and this relationship just isn’t working for me anymore.
- [Movie Review: The BFG](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-bfg/) - Wes Anderson wrecked the curve for Roald Dahl adaptations with his stop-motion masterpiece “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” “The BFG” didn’t have a prayer.
- [Movie Review: Finding Dory](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-finding-dory/) - Ellen Degeneres learns the same lesson here that Larry the Cable Guy learned with “Cars 2”: stealing a movie is much easier than leading one.
- [Movie Review: Central Intelligence](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-central-intelligence/) - Two people skilled with weapons are shooting at each other at close range on a bridge, and neither of them hits his target. What?
- [Movie Review: Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-neighbors-2-sorority-rising/) - Watching this movie was like watching an episode of “SpongeBob Squarepants.” You’re all idiots, and you deserve exactly what’s coming to you.
- [Movie Review: Baby Mama](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-baby-mama/) - Studios throw millions at Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson to star in their rom-coms, and after watching Tina Fey here, you wonder why.
- [Movie Review: Captain America: Civil War](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-captain-america-civil-war/) - If Steve Rogers is a real person, he’s likely a racist crank, yelling at the other Avengers to get off his lawn.
- [Movie Review: The Jungle Book](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-jungle-book/) - Disney surely has a hit on their hands here (and is already thinking sequel), but there is room for improvement in the “Jungle Book” universe.
- [Movie Review: The Good Dinosaur](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-good-dinosaur/) - “The Good Dinosaur” is gorgeous, but flawed. Its heart is in the right place, but Pixar of all studios should know that the story comes first.
- [Movie Review: The Boss](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-boss/) - One of the most morally repugnant, mean-spirited, tone-deaf films you will ever see.
- [Movie Review: The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Part I](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-allegiant-i/) - “Allegiant” isn’t an awful movie; it’s just not trying very hard, and doesn’t have anything unique to say.
- [DVD Review: "The Simpsons, Season 6"](https://www.the-supermassive.com/dvd-review-the-simpsons-season-6/) - Season Six is where they tried even harder to get into trouble with the network, and made some great, great television in the process.
- [CD Review: Simple Minds, “Big Music”](https://www.the-supermassive.com/simple-minds-big-music/) - They’re still taking risks; what a wonderful thing that is.
- [Movie Review: Zootopia](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-zootopia/) - It’s the most fun you’ll ever have pondering race relations.
- [“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is so awesome that this should absolutely be its only season](https://www.the-supermassive.com/cxg-piece/) - “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” as fantastic as it is, doesn’t have legs. It’s a sprint, and she needs to run to the finish line as fast as she can.
- [Movie Review: Risen](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-risen/) - It’s pleasant, and hopeful, but a tad slight.
- [Movie Review: How to Be Single](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-how-to-be-single/) - Don’t let the dirty talk and rampant sex fool you: “How to Be Single” is as safe as kittens.
- [Interview with Terri Nunn (Popdose, September 19, 2013)](https://www.the-supermassive.com/interview-with-terri-nunn/) - The opening exchange will haunt our dreams until the end of days.
- [Movie Review: Inside Out](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-inside-out/) - It’s a two-run double in the corner from a studio that, until recently, had hit nothing but home runs.
- [Movie Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-avengers-age-of-ultron/) - Joss Whedon has said that he’s walking away from the Marvel universe after this, and after seeing “Ultron,” it makes sense; this movie killed him.
- [Movie Review: Australia](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-australia/) - Baz Luhrmann just can’t help himself with the teeth-gnashing villains, can he?
- [Movie Review: August Rush](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-august-rush/) - While we all know that Russell has hair to die for, there is no way that Lyla plays the cello with her hair down.
- [Movie Review: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford/) - The story of Jesse and Robert is a mob tale set in the Old West and disguised as a treatise on fame, only the narrator hates his central character’s guts.
- [Movie Review: Arthur and the Invisibles](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-arthur-and-the-invisibles/) - “Arthur and the Invisibles” could have been the movie that turned a doodler into an artist, or a scribbler of words into a storyteller.
- [Movie Review: The Art of Getting By](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-art-of-getting-by/) - It has its good points, but the story takes the easy way out far too often for the sake of striking a cool pose.
- [Movie Review: Arbitrage](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-arbitrage/) - For this story to work, Jarecki had to include enough back doors to fill the scare floor at Monsters Inc. for a week.
- [Movie Review: Appaloosa](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-appaloosa/) - Westerns are supposed to be gritty, mean and, pardon the reference, unforgiving. Everything here is too polite, even the killing and the lying.
- [Movie Review: Apollo 13](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-apollo-13/) - Ron Howard may have won his Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind," but "Apollo 13" was and is his finest hour.
- [Movie Review: Apocalypto](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-apocalypto/) - In a shocking turn of events for a Gibson movie, no one was tortured, unless you count the guy who watched as his heart beat for the last time.
- [Movie Review: Anvil: The Story of Anvil](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-anvil-the-story-of-anvil/) - Being the “Metal on Metal” guys may not have made them a fortune, but as Jani Lane will tell you, it’s a hell of a lot better than being the “Cherry Pie” guys.
- [Movie Review: Anonymous](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-anonymous/) - Emmerich is more than capable outside of the disaster genre. He just bit off more than he can chew, as is his tendency.
- [Movie Review: Annapolis](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-annapolis/) - Jack Valenti can whine all he wants about how bootlegs are killing the movie industry, but in truth, it is movies like “Annapolis” that are killing them.
- [Movie Review: Annabelle](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-annabelle/) - If you have a newborn, there is absolutely no good that can come from seeing this.
- [Movie Review: Angels & Demons](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-angels-demons/) - This is a gruesome PG-13 movie, like “The Da Vinci Code” with Jigsaw as the villain.
- [Movie Review: An American Werewolf in London](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-an-american-werewolf-in-london/) - You can bet that Sam Raimi watched this movie once or twice while hashing out the script for “Evil Dead.”
- [Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-alice-in-wonderland/) - It has style but no heart, an off-putting ‘weird for the sake of being weird’-ness to it that is more alienating than it is imaginative.
- [Movie Review: American Sniper](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-american-sniper/) - It is perfectly enjoyable, and it is well made, but it doesn’t bring anything new to the table.
- [Movie Review: American Reunion](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-american-reunion/) - If “American Reunion” proves anything, it’s that it’s sometimes smart to play dumb.
- [Movie Review: American Dreamz](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-american-dreamz/) - It miraculously uses a terrorist sleeper cell as a subplot in a comedy, and you totally buy it. That doesn’t just take guts; it takes skill.
- [Movie Review: Aliens](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-aliens/) - One of the most intense, squirm-inducing movies you’ll see in this or any other genre.
- [Movie Review: Alvin & the Chipmunks](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-alvin-the-chipmunks/) - One wonders how much better “Alvin and the Chipmunks” would have turned out if Brad Bird had been in charge.
- [Movie Review: Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-alvin-the-chipmunks-the-squeakquel/) - Kids will probably love “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” but that’s because they haven’t seen enough movies to know any better.
- [Movie Review: Up](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-up/) - “Up” chooses old-school heart and soul over modern-day cynicism. How refreshing.
- [Movie Review: Amelia](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-amelia/) - Being a celebrity does not automatically make someone interesting.
- [Movie Review: The American](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-american/) - It was probably one of the most enjoyable paychecks George Clooney’s ever cashed.
- [Movie Review: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-alexander-very-bad-day/) - “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day” is not a good movie, but it’s a damn likable one.
- [Movie Review: Alex Cross](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-alex-cross/) - It’s a flat recycling of every late-‘90s thriller ever made, without an original thought in its head.
- [Movie Review: The Age of Adaline](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-age-of-adaline/) - “The Age of Adaline” only flexes its smarts when it’s convenient.
- [Movie Review: Aeon Flux](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-aeon-flux/) - How they convinced two Oscar-winning actresses and one Oscar nominated actor to appear in it defies logic. Were they promised condos in Vail?
- [Movie Review: Adventureland](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-adventureland/) - '80s kids were naïve much later in life than kids are allowed to be now. “Adventureland” revels in that naiveté, and treats it as the blessing that it was.
- [Movie Review: The Adjustment Bureau](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-adjustment-bureau/) - An action thriller with a soul; that is one trend we’d like to see catch on.
- [Movie Review: Across the Universe](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-across-the-universe/) - Until the third act, Taymor’s weirdo blend of “Moulin Rouge” and “Hair” is just the right mix of whimsical and crazy.
- [Movie Review: 127 Hours](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-127-hours/) - The Onion A.V. Club ran a list of great films that are too painful to watch twice. That list has a new Number One.
- [Movie Review: 300: Rise of an Empire](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-300-rise-of-an-empire/) - You will learn virtually nothing from this movie, except that Eva Green has very nice breasts.
- [Movie Review: 2012](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-2012/) - It’s surprising that studios are still allowing Emmerich to double-dip as screenwriter. Send one of his scripts and a blank check to Quentin Tarantino. Please.
- [Movie Review: 1408](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-1408/) - It turns a Carpenters wedding staple into a murder ballad. That, my friends, takes skill.
- [Movie Review: 300](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-300/) - If you’re looking for a comic book-style version of “Gladiator,” turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream, as John Lennon once said.
- [Movie Review: 50/50](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-5050/) - It hits all the right emotional chords, but it hits them like they’re targets in a drive-by shooting.
- [Movie Review: The 33](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-the-33/) - Ninety-nine percent of the characters are Chilean; this movie has no business being in English.
- [Movie Review: 28 Weeks Later](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-28-weeks-later/) - After watching “28 Weeks Later,” the only thing I wanted to do was take a shower and watch “American Idol.” Granted, it contained all the elements that these movies need to be effective: it was bloody, disturbing and relentless, but not in a thrilling way. Instead, it was exhausting and bleak, and made me feel
- [Movie Review: 30 Minutes or Less](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-30-minutes-or-less/) - The overall experience is a satisfying one, but it will try the patience of a saint along the way. Simply put, the first 30 minutes are brutal.
- [Movie Review: 21 Jump Street](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-21-jump-street/) - As remakes of ‘80s properties go, you’d be hard pressed to find one so self-deprecating, yet ruthless.
- [Movie Review: 50 Shades of Grey](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-50-shades-of-grey/) - It’s like “9 ½ Weeks,” only Kim Basinger comes back for more. Jesus.
- [Movie Review: 2 Guns](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-2-guns/) - It may not have an original thought in its head, but it has Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, and they sell the hell out of it.
- [Movie Review: 3 Days to Kill](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-3-days-to-kill/) - It requires “Taken” levels of disbelief, but the acting performances elevate the material from ‘predictable’ to ‘predictable but fun.’
- [Movie Review: 9](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-9/) - Even the bleakest story has to have some heart, and you have to work twice as hard to create it when your protagonists aren’t human.
- [Movie Review: 13 Tzameti](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movie-review-13-tzameti/) - Thank goodness the American remake of this film never happened.
- [So, um, hey and stuff](https://www.the-supermassive.com/hello-world/) - So, it's probably going to be a while before anything is posted here, since I gotta, like, get organized and plan the layout and all that stuff. Eventually, this will serve as an archive for everything I've ever written that exists online, which includes Bullz-Eye, ESDMusic, Premium Hollywood, Popdose, and PopMatters. Until then, hello world.

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- [Movie Reviews: The Number Movies](https://www.the-supermassive.com/movies/movie-reviews-0-9/) - “2 Guns” was originally going to star Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. That would have been a terrible movie.
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- [Alphabeat](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/alphabeat/)
- [Interview with Stine Bramsen](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/interview-with-stine-bramsen/)
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- [The Alarm](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-alarm/)
- [The Beatles](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-beatles/)
- [The Marmalade](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-marmalade/)
- [Sam Phillips](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/sam-phillips/)
- [The Jayhawks](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-jayhawks/)
- [Eddie Rabbitt](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/eddie-rabbitt/)
- [The Boomtown Rats](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-boomtown-rats/)
- [Deacon Blue](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/deacon-blue/)
- [The Thompson Twins](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-thompson-twins/)
- [Lindsey Buckingham](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/lindsey-buckingham/)
- [Nick Heyward](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/nick-heyward/)
- [Guns 'n Roses](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/guns-n-roses/)
- [Songs with One-Syllable Titles](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/songs-with-one-syllable-titles/)
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- [Alternative Songs with One-Syllable Titles](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/alternative-songs-with-one-syllable-titles/)
- [The Primitives](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-primitives/)
- [Tones on Tail](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/tones-on-tail/)
- [Age of Chance](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/age-of-chance/)
- [Gary Numan](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/gary-numan/)
- [David Bowie](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/david-bowie/)
- [The Sugarcubes](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-sugarcubes/)
- [Barenaked Ladies](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/barenaked-ladies/)
- [The Lightning Seeds](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-lightning-seeds/)
- [James](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/james/)
- [Squirrel Nut Zippers](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/squirrel-nut-zippers/)
- [The Apples in Stereo](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/the-apples-in-stereo/)
- [Godley & Creme](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/godley-creme/)
- [Jesus Jones](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/jesus-jones/)
- [Shakespear's Sister](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/shakespears-sister/)
- [My Bloody Valentine](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/my-bloody-valentine/)
- [songs about summer](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/songs-about-summer/)
- ['summer' songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/summer-songs/)
- [King of Staten Island Review](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/king-of-staten-island-review/)
- [Dizzy Heights has been quiet](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/dizzy-heights-has-been-quiet/)
- [Songs About Songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/songs-about-songs/)
- [encanto review](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/encanto-review/)
- [encanto](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/encanto/)
- [lin-manuel miranda](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/lin-manuel-miranda/)
- [Chill Mix](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/chill-mix/)
- [baby songs](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/baby-songs/)
- [Songs about Money](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/songs-about-money/)
- [Music podcast](https://www.the-supermassive.com/tag/music-podcast/)