Yesterday afternoon I was strolling on my way to check out a newly opened cultural centre and cinema called Lumina. I went to see The Mastermind, which was just released here two days ago. I’m already eyeing the new Springsteen…
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A Serious Man (2009) – Joel and Ethan Coen (Friday’s Finest)
The brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have long stood among my favourite filmmakers, and their work has often featured here at Friday’s Finest. A Serious Man (2009) seems one of their lesser-known and most underrated films, yet I think it…
This Charming Man (1983) – The Smiths
“Where has all the wildness and daring got to? Some of it has found its way onto the Smiths’ record, ‘This Charming Man’. It jangles and crashes and Morrissey jumps in the middle with his mutant choir-boy voice, sounding jolly…
Brooklyn Soundtrack (2015) – Score by Michael Brook
Last night, I watched a moving romantic period drama called Brooklyn, starring the wonderful Saoirse Ronan – whom you might remember from other standout performances in Lady Bird, Little Women, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. One of the aspects of…
All Night Long (All Night) 1983 – Lionel Richie
This is another one of those songs I heard endlessly growing up – and if you’d asked me back then whether I liked it, I’d have told you to take a flying jump. Maybe it was because it saturated the…
Live is Life (1984) – Opus (Ft. Maradona)
Today, we watch the most iconic warm-up in football history – Diego Maradona’s dance to Live is Life by the Austrian group Opus. I remember when I was 16, my father and I were up in the wee hours in…
Thinking About You (2007) – Norah Jones
It’s Norah Jones, not ‘Snorer’ Jones – right! So lets just leave the shenanigans behind shall we? But I will say, today’s featured track is a nice one to curl up to on a lazy Sunday morning with a warm…
More Than a Feeling (1976) – Boston
“The power an old song can have in your life” – What Boston’s website says about the song Back then, the radio played this kind of great music all day long. Well, so they tell me – since I was…
Casi un Hechizo (1992) – Jerry Rivera
The baby of salsa is back! Jerry Rivera’s music almost single-handedly brought romantic salsa to a worldwide audience in the 1990s. Influenced by his musically gifted parents and mentored by icons like Frankie Ruiz, the Puerto Rican’s breakthrough came with…
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2022) – Lana Del Rey
The lyrics contain strong language. Reader / listener discretion is advised. “What can I say! I’m so grateful to be present and feeling effervescent today…With a mind full of violets and a forehead warmed by the sun as I pray…
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