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My Top 25 Albums of 2025

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Something funnier than 24 Happy New Year, folks! Jesus, I uploaded all of.... one article last year. Productive as ever! Well considering I do want to keep this more thing active, despite all appearances, why don't I return to that ever-helpful format for pumping out content and grabbing easy clicks: listing shit!  And what shit exactly shall I list? Well, despite being a piss poor year by just about every other imaginable metric, 2025 was actually a pretty strong year for music. Not that a lot of you may have noticed. The mainstream was a pretty baron wasteland this year, with seemingly the only things finding massive success being Taylor Swift's album long tribute to Regina George and Alex Warren's incredibly aptly titled "Ordinary". Yet a lot of greatness managed to lurk in the shadows, so much so that even at 25 I had to make a few painful cuts to this list. Speaking of which- Honorable Mentions: Backxwash - Only Dust Remains   Matt Berry - Heard Noises Billy...
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Why The Heartbreak Kid (2007) Is One of the Worst Remakes of All Time

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Boy, that Severance finale was good, eh? With all the acclaim and accolades he's receiving these days as a director/producer, it's a real possibility at this point we never see Ben Stiller starring in a comedy film again. Which, ya know, is and isn't a shame.   Stiller certainly has a unique energy for someone who ended up an A-lister. His first big break (outside of a small role in Spielberg's war epic Empire of the Sun ) was being hired as a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live, where he left after only 4 episodes because they wouldn't let him do his more esoteric short films. Later on, he'd land his own sketch show at FOX, where he cast Janeanne Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk and a totally chill guy named Andy Dick as his co-leads, and filled his writers room with the likes of future Mr. Show vets David Cross and Dino Stamatopoulos. That doesn't read like a guy who'd eventually headline three Night at the Museum movies. Pictured: A man more than lik...
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