Mildly Pleased

The time has come again for another Mildly Pleased Awards and my body is willing but my spirit is broken. The idea of an awards show for the stuff that doesn’t stand out, for the forgotten middle, feels like it’s at its most inessential after a full year of blasting moderates and centrists for allowing […] The post The Sixth Annual Mildly Pleased Awards appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

You better watch out You better not cry Better not pout I’m telling you why Rokk Talk is coming to town They’re making their lists of Christmas rock songs; Gonna find out Which list is wrong Rokk Talk is coming to town They see you when you’re listening They know when you’re into it They […] The post Rokk Talk Ep. 13: Have Yourself a Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Now that The Last Jedi has been out for a week and everyone’s had time to make their mind up, why not listen to us gush about it? Seeing as it has the most bizarre division between critics and the fanbase in Star Wars history, we try to unpack why Episode VIII is so controversial. […] The post Some Kind of Movie – Ep. 8: The Spark That Will Light the Fire appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Thanksgiving is only a two days away, or as most Americans would correct you in saying, Black Friday is only three days away. But whatever your priorities this week, whether you’re noshin’ on some turkey legs or elbowing a portly dad in order to grab a VR fidget spinner, maybe you should take a break from […] The post Rokk Talk Ep. 12: Thank You For The Music appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

“Your butt is mine Gonna tell you right Just show your face In broad daylight” 100 poets working for 100 years could not come up with something that good. That’s because there’s was only one Michael Jackson. In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Bad album, Colin and John reflect on the myth, the […] The post Rokk Talk Ep. 11: Man in the Mirror appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

What we did on our summer vacation: watch lots of Criterion movies, see a few quality blockbusters, and rock out to some sweet summer jams. Oh, and not post very frequently. But fortunately here’s a special end-of-summer podcast to let you know what we’ve been doing this summer pop culture-wise as we head into the […] The post Mildly Pleased Summercast appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Verse Daft Punk, Eminem, LCD Soundsystem The Hold Steady, Wilco, TV on the Radio Fleet Foxes, Green Day, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay Jay Z, Alicia Keys, Yo La Tengo Modest Mouse, Bon Iver, Godspeed You Black Emperor Arcade Fire, Springsteen, Broken Social Scene Radiohead, Brand New, everyone has U2 Outkast, Weezer, still haven’t heard Ween Chorus […] The post Rokk Talk Ep. 10: Everything In Its Right Place appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Maybe I don’t really wanna know, how your garden grows cos I just want to listen to Rokk Talk. Some pretty interesting things have been going on across the pond, lately. So let’s roll back to a simpler time… the 90s! Listen as John and Colin reassess the biggest Britpop bands of the time. Who […] The post Rokk Talk Ep. 09: Live Forever appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

An event is coming! Another event is coming! Summer is here and we all know what that means: Blockbuster movies. 2017 has more franchise and sequel flicks coming out than any other year in history, so we thought we’d celebrate that absolute glut of cinema by actually celebrating the highest achievers in the medium. So, […] The post The First Mildly Pleased Criterion Draft appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Who’s to say what makes a good year for music? After all, every year is just compiled of 365 days that will see a completely random assortment of independent artists making music that may or may not be good. Well, unless you’re talking about a year like 1967 or 1977, in which lots of scenes and […] The post Rokk Talk Ep. 08: Golden Years appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

What is The Matrix? We know the answer to that question now, but do you know its real source? One of the Wachowskis’ biggest inspirations was a 1995 film called Ghost in the Shell, one of the first anime movies to find success in the United States. Tragically, now that movie risks being lumped in […] The post Good Movie/Bad Movie: Ghosts in the Shells appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

No one really knows how the game is played. The art of the trade, how the sausage gets made. We just assume that it happens but no one else is in the room where it happens. In this case, I’m not talking about the post-Revolutionary War American government, but actually the dirty work of pitching […] The post Pitching Tents 18: Musicals appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

What would it take for you to risk it all? Would you gamble with your life for riches? To save a loved one? Maybe you’d only do it if you had nothing else to lose? This week on GMBM, we talk about two films that present two very different groups that go on suicide missions. […] The post Good Movie/Bad Movie: Suicide Missions appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

I, I, I, I, I, I’m hooked on a podcast! This week, John and Colin are digging out the satin shirts, bell bottoms and taking the next soul train back to the seventies. Because there’s a new Guardians of the Galaxy due out May 5th. In anticipation, John and Colin have each made lists of […] The post Rokk Talk Ep. 07: Hooked on a Feeling appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Well, it’s the first week of the Trump presidency and we could all use a pick-me-up, am I right? Sometimes it might seem hard to look forward to the good times ahead, sometimes you might even forget those good times exist. This week, we’re here to remind you that’s absolutely not the case, there’s plenty […] The post Top 10 Anticipated Movies of 2017 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

If 2016 was a script, it would have been rejected for being unrealistic and unrelenting. Lots of people have written something like that, but I don’t have a lot of time to work on this post because it’s already so late. This week we talk about our individual top 10 lists and try to come […] The post Top 10 Movies of 2016 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Makin’ those movie dreams on the small screen? It seemed impossible, the way things had been. But along came David Chase and Tony Soprano, and the world no longer loved Ray Barone a.k.a. Romano. Now the world’s a confusing and complicated place, there’s so much good stuff it’s hard to keep pace. Don’t believe me? […] The post Top 10 TV Shows of 2016 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

If you’re being honest, do all the non-Oscars movie awards shows matter to you? Do you care about the various guilds’ picks? What about lists from critics, newspapers, and blogs? Certainly you don’t care about the Golden Globes, right? Not really, at least, because all those people are going to be talking about the same […] The post The Fifth Annual Mildly Pleased Awards appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

What will you do when they catch you? What will you do if they break you? If you continue to fight, what will you become? A listener of Some Kind of Movie, of course! We’re back to talk about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the ninth film in the franchise to get a theatrical […] The post Some Kind of Movie – Ep. 7: Don’t Choke on Your Aspirations appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Across the great divide, lies a podcast and that podcast is ROKK TALK! This week (more like this month), John and Colin revisit The Band’s classic final performance on Thanksgiving 1976 as captured in Martin Scorsese’s concert film, The Last Waltz. Listen, as your second-favorite rock-analysis-duo break down the film’s performances and rank them in […] The post Rokk Talk Ep. 06: The Weight appeared first on Mildly Pleased.