POP FILTER VS. AUNTIE MAME It’s the saddest story that Hollywood loves to exploit for comedic fodder, and for good reason. Minor child gets orphaned and goes to live with eccentric relatives is a cliché that still produces some of the best fish-out-of-water stories, especially when you totally gloss over the tragedy of a [...]
Flickchart’s Greatest Battles In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. ROUND ONE RAIN MAN VS THE PROFESSIONAL Rain Man is probably the obvious choice here; it’s a beloved classic quoted ad nauseum and quite possibly the last time Tom cruise played a convincing human being. And of [...]
YOURPOPFILTER.COM PRESENTS: POP FILTER TOP TEN PRESENTS: AMELIA presents: TOP HORROR MOVIE MOMENTS PET SEMETARY Three-year-old Gage rises from the dead as an evil, giggling zombaby. He hides under the bed of his elderly neighbor and takes him down by slicing open his Achilles tendon then savagely stabs him to death with a scalpel. [...]
I MISS MY MTV 80′s FLASHBACK SOFT CELL- TAINTED LOVE If you were an 80’s band that covered a sixties hit, and wanted to make a video to you you’re newer, darker version of the song,–what’s the obvious route to go? A GrecoRoman/Victorian/Preppy theme of course! You’re going to want to just mash different time [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Best Friend’s Funeral Guilty Cocker Spaniels – Modest Mouse Nobody on the planet knows what this song is about, but there is a strange and euphoric comfort that I receive from this song. When my best friend dies, I will be upset. I will need a comfortable pile of gibberish to [...]
I MISS MY MTV The Walkmen-Heaven I really like this band. This song is a pretty good representation of why. The video reminds me of one of those images that is made up of a million smaller images. The smaller images chronicle the life and times of the band, where they are from, who has [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Anger Bang Poison and Wine – The Civil Wars The go-to reaction to ‘what song to pick for a hate fuck’ is something loud, aggresive and punk rock. However, nothing says I hate you like a song that realitically depicts a passive aggressive relationship going even more sour. The music is [...]
I MISS MY MTV HEADBANGER’S BALL Dethklok-Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle I know just as much about heavy metal as I do about building a Mars rover, but that doesn’t mean I won’t speak with an arrogant confidence on the subject. This may be a fake band from a cartoon, but it’s fully brutal. From [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Exercising Hungover Lua – Bright Eyes For me, exercising is not an activity that exists but, unfortunately hangovers do. Now I understand that exercising requires strenuous movements of the body, which is the last thing I would ever want to do, and certainly not something I would do hungover. That said, [...]
TRAILER TRASH In which we review movies based on only the previews with 100% accuracy. PREMIUM RUSH AKA: The Most Hipster Action Movie Ever In his paradoxal quest to be king of the indie darlings, Joseph Gordon Levitt tries appealing to the fixed gear crowd in this action flick about a bike messenger determined to [...]
I MISS MY MTV Everybody Talks – Neon Trees This song is fucking rad, this video is cool as fuck and I’ll be goddamned if I didn’t have a good time enjoying both simultaneously. This video captures the fun and excitement that MTv used to portray on an hourly basis. The cinematic shooting of the [...]
POP FILTER VS. HAROLD AND MAUDE I have a soft spot for cult classics and this one has been on my must see list for so long it’s embarrassing. So thank you powers that be at Pop Filter HQ for forcing me to finally take it off my shelf! Yes I own [many] DVD’s I’ve [...]
I MISS MY MTV TAKE A WALK – PASSION PIT What if you could see the world throught the eyes of the bounciest ball of all time? What if that world was full of CGI clouds and real footage of city streets? What if that view was accompanied by some rad fucking music? What if [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE STRANDED ON A LIFEBOAT Goodbye Sky Harbor – Jimmy Eat World This song was chosen for one reason and one reason only: it is 16 minutes long. I have never actually had the patience to sit through the whole thing but with a 16 minute song, something new and interesting will [...]
I MISS MY MTV 80′S FLASHBACK! MICHAEL JACKSON – BEAT IT To this day, I have no fucking idea what is going on in this video. I think two rival gangs are assembling in the city but people are coming out of the sewer and joining when they walk by an alleyway all willy nilly. If [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE AMERICA- FUCK YEAH! 99 Problems – Danger Mouse This song is AMERICA! A DJ (Danger Mouse) took some of the best work of people that are more talented than he is (The Beatles and Jay-Z) and made something artistic out of it. This song encapsulates the American spirit of making pre-existing [...]
I MISS MY MTV JACK WHITE – SIXTEEN SALTINES This video features kids that appear to rule the world in what can only be called pure motherfucking anarchy. They boil bourbon in a coffee filter and use a gas mask to get high off of the fumes. They eat sandwiches off the ceiling. They have [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE LAZY SUNDAY The Shankill Butchers – The Decemberists Yes, this song is creepy and yes this song is mellow. This mellow creepiness, however is what makes it perfect for a lazy Sunday. I have a hard time sitting around and not doing anything all day, so this song would relax [...]
TRAILER TRASH In which we pre-review movies based solely on the trailers with 100% accuracy ROCK OF AGES AKA: Moulin Rouge with extra Hairspray Look you’re either a musical person or you’re not so if you identify with the latter just stay home if you can’t refrain from bitching that nobody in the real world [...]
I MISS MY MTV HEADBANGER’S BALL CLUTCH – ELECTRIC WORRY I know this isn’t the headbangingest song off all time, but come on. This is hillbilly headbanging at its finest. And any time a song wants to include the lyrics “bang, bang, bang, bang, vamonos, vamonos” it is officially fine with me. Sure, the lead [...]
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