Spectrum Culture
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Film, music and book reviews. Proudly based in Portland, OR! www.spectrumculture.com
2025 is the best movie year in a long time.
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We are back with new content on Monday!
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The Portland Critics Association announces it year-end awards!!
portlandcritics.com/awards/2025-2/
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Best Picture WINNER: One Battle After Another RUNNER-UP: Sinners Best Director WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another RUNNER-UP: Ryan Coogler, Sinners Best Lead Performance WINNERS:…
https://portlandcritics.com/awards/2025-2/
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Sums up 2025
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Happy New Years to those who celebrate.
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Mark Harris
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A lady in her eighties who lives in my building asked me if she should see Marty Supreme, or as she put it, "the one about the pisher who thinks he's a big shot," and I don't think this movie has anything to teach her that she doesn't already know.
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Paring down collection a bit! Ditch or keep!?
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THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is everything that HAMNET could/should have been.
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I Heart Noise
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50+ tickets sold to our Boston gig. Crazy to think about it given how many of our early shows had no one there and/or had people calling me and
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clueless idiots.
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Listening to THE '59 SOUND by the Gaslight Anthem is like playing spot-the-influence. Barely a moment goes by without a reference to Springsteen, Waits, even Counting Crows. Who else is in there?
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Wake Up Dead Man feels like a 2.5 hour episode of Scooby Doo.
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Portland Critics nominations are up! Voting this weekend!
portlandcritics.com/awards/2025-2/
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This year’s nominations are below. Winners will be announced on December 31st. Best Picture Marty Supreme No Other Choice One Battle After Another Sinners Sorry, Baby Train Dreams Best Direct…
https://portlandcritics.com/awards/2025-2/
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We have openings for writers to review music, film and/or books. Send us a DM for more info!
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My
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Xmas continues….
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How many other households the same thing? Will help make it through 2026. Thanks
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Nate Chinen
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Nothing better late on Christmas Eve
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A Trick of the Light is one of our Top 20 Albums of 2025!
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Read below!
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Top 20 Albums of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best albums of 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/18/top-20-albums-of-2025/
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Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE is one of our Top 20 Albums of 2025
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Top 20 Albums of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best albums of 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/18/top-20-albums-of-2025/
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Like or not, our TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2025 list has landed. Let's hear it. Just how right or wrong are we?
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Top 20 Albums of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best albums of 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/18/top-20-albums-of-2025/
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Dropping our tasty Favorite Films of 2025 list. Enjoy! (and watch these....seriously!!!)
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Best Films of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are our favorite films of 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/17/best-films-of-2025/
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10 more followers until we hit the Big 2-k! Help us get there! Tell your followers how awesome we are lol.
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“Bird on a Swing” is one of our Top 25 Songs of 2025! List below!
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The 25 Best Songs of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best songs of 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/16/the-25-best-songs-of-2025/
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2oC...
add a skeleton here at some point
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“What Do I Know?” is one of our Top 25 Songs of 2025!
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The 25 Best Songs of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best songs of 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/16/the-25-best-songs-of-2025/
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The Malcontent, now Bluer and More Sky-ish
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I went long in
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this week on one of the greatest albums of all time:
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The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy & the Lash (40th Anniversary Edition) - Spectrum Culture
Depending on how you look at it, the Pogues’ Rum, Sodomy & the Lash either destroyed or saved traditional Irish folk music. Or, perhaps, it did both things simultaneously.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/15/the-pogues-rum-sodomy-the-lash-40th-anniversary-edition-review/
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The influential techno label Cocoon is still spinning.
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Various Artists: 25 Years Cocoon Recordings - Spectrum Culture
A compilation celebrating a techno label’s silver anniversary has more to do with the vital present than the dead past.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/15/various-artists-25-years-cocoon-recordings-review/
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Alan Zilberman
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The good folks at
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today have a list of the year's best movie performances. I wrote about Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee, who moved me in a way that Jessie Buckley never quite did.
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Best Film Performances of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best film performances of 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/15/best-film-performances-of-2025/
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Pat Padua
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For the
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roundup of the year’s best film performances, I wrote about Diane Kruger’s triple-role in THE SHROUDS, which embodies a lifelong fixation with the horrors of this mortal coil
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Best Film Performances of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best film performances of 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/15/best-film-performances-of-2025/
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40 Years of Turpitude
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The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy & the Lash (40th Anniversary Edition) - Spectrum Culture
Depending on how you look at it, the Pogues’ Rum, Sodomy & the Lash either destroyed or saved traditional Irish folk music. Or, perhaps, it did both things simultaneously.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/15/the-pogues-rum-sodomy-the-lash-40th-anniversary-edition-review/
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Alan Zilberman
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Atropia, the winner of this year's Grand Jury Drama prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is truly awful: meandering, unfocused, a satire without urgency or a real POV. Everyone involved should be glad this toothless dark comedy will soon be forgotten. My
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review.
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Atropia - Spectrum Culture
This year’s big winner at the Sundance Film Festival turns out to be a tedious political satire about the Iraq War that is built on a tenuous, lazy grip with reality.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/15/atropia-review/
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These are the best books we read in 2025!
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Our Favorite Books of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best books we read in 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/14/our-favorite-books-of-2025/
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WE RECOMMEND: Resurrection "Bi Gan’s dream-logic vignettes trace China’s path through the 20th century."
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Resurrection - Spectrum Culture
Bi Gan’s dream-logic vignettes trace China’s path through the 20th century.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/14/resurrection-review-2/
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Pat Padua
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Gotta love a year-end list that won’t look like anyone else’s. I wrote about Helen Garner’s diaries for
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‘s book list.
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Our Favorite Books of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best books we read in 2025.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/14/our-favorite-books-of-2025/
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To sleep theater, perchance to Dream Theater ...
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Dream Theater: Quarantième: Live à Paris - Spectrum Culture
Despite some minor nitpicks, Dream Theater’s latest live album is one of their best recorded performances to date, both visually and audibly.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/14/dream-theater-quarantieme-live-a-paris-review/
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Wherein I review a Mountain Goats concert and try to make a metaphor about the four elements. Maybe successfully.
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Concert Review: The Mountain Goats - Spectrum Culture
As an atmospheric river drenched Oregon, John Darnielle and the Mountain Goats descended on Portland, armed with a string section and backup singers for an elemental performance.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/11/concert-review-the-mountain-goats-5/
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The Beatles Anthology is TWELVE LPs long. We help you by picking the essentials. Read below.
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The Beatles Anthology: The Essential Tracks - Spectrum Culture
The Beatles are definitively mainstream because what became mainstream pop and rock music was partly shaped in their image, and yet they are still a band whose music you can put on at work and reliabl...
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/11/the-beatles-anthology-the-essential-tracks/
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Is it time to give AROUND THE SUN another spin?
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Discography: R.E.M.: Around the Sun - Spectrum Culture
Around the Sun may be a middling effort, but it doesn't deserve the scorn it receives.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/10/discography-r-e-m-around-the-sun/
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The happiness in Cave's work doesn't last, but the joy does, and the difference between the two makes an essential understanding of his thought.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Live God - Spectrum Culture
The happiness in Cave's work doesn't last, but the joy does, and the difference between the two makes an essential understanding of his thought.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/10/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-live-god-review/
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Charles Johnston
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Technically, it's a Christmas movie! My review of Happy Holidays for
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Happy Holidays - Spectrum Culture
A piercing analysis of two families living in Israel – one Jewish and the other Palestinian – who get trapped in a web of lies due to overwhelming societal pressures.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/10/happy-holidays-review/
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Miller out of time : Bargain Bin Babylon looks at a forgotten hair-metal also-ran.
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Bargain Bin Babylon: Donnie Miller: One of the Boys - Spectrum Culture
One of the Boys amply demonstrates that Miller was indeed the whole package. He had the voice, the guitar and songwriting chops and – crucially – the looks and hair to have made to a real impact in th...
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/09/bargain-bin-babylon-donnie-miller-one-of-the-boys/
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Dove Ellis’ debut is remarkably assured, showcasing a new talent with strong potential.
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Dove Ellis: Blizzard - Spectrum Culture
Dove Ellis’ debut is remarkably assured, showcasing a new talent with strong potential.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/12/09/dove-ellis-blizzard-review/
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