Email Author Michael Gallucci

2008 Stories by Michael Gallucci

• A portable Guitar Hero tops this week's pop culture picks

  published July 16, 2008

  TOP PICK – Guitar Hero: On Tour (Activision)This video game for the Nintendo DS makes it easy for us to get our... More >>

• Liz Phair's indie-rock milestone tops this week's pop culture picks

  published July 9, 2008

  TOP PICK – Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville (ATO)Phair's potty-mouthed classic celebrates its 15th... More >>

• Don King's knockout video game tops this week's pop culture picks

  published July 2, 2008

  TOP PICK – Don King Presents: Prizefighter (2K Sports) Here's something new: a boxing video game with a... More >>

• Square Pegs on DVD tops this week's pop culture picks

  published June 25, 2008

  TOP PICK – Square Pegs: The Complete Series (Sony Pictures)Way before she chatted about vibrators and... More >>

• Radiohead's best tops this week's pop culture picks

  published June 18, 2008

  TOP PICK – Radiohead: The Best Of (Capitol/EMI)The two-CD Best Of includes 30 songs that range... More >>

• A 30-year-old history of pop music tops this week's pop culture picks

  published June 11, 2008

  TOP PICK – All You Need Is Love (MVD)Back in the mid-'70s, John Lennon proposed to British filmmaker... More >>

• Kung Fu Panda tops this week's pop culture picks.

  published June 4, 2008

  TOP PICK – Kung Fu Panda (Paramount/DreamWorks)Jack Black gives life to a noodle-peddling panda who... More >>

• The first three Indiana Jones movies top this week's pop culture picks

  published May 28, 2008

  TOP PICK – The Adventures of Indiana Jones (Paramount)Indy's latest adventure is kinda fun, but the real... More >>

• Air's debut album marks 10 years, tops this week's pop culture picks

  published May 21, 2008

  TOP PICK – Air: Moon Safari – 10th Anniversary Edition (Astralwerks)When it... More >>

• A mixed-up and confused Bob Dylan pic tops this week's pop culture picks

  published May 14, 2008

  TOP PICK – I'm Not There (Genius Products/Weinstein Company)Todd Haynes's rambling, meditative Bob Dylan... More >>

• The Replacements' first four albums top this week's pop culture picks

  published May 7, 2008

  TOP PICK – The Replacements reissues (Rhino)Of all the 1980s Amerindie giants (Hüsker Dü, Minutemen,... More >>

• Otis Redding gets blue, tops this week's pop culture picks

  published April 30, 2008

  TOP PICK – Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (Collector's Edition) (Rhino)One of the greatest R&B... More >>

• A souped-up Bonnie and Clyde tops this week's pop culture picks

  published April 23, 2008

  TOP PICK – Bonnie and Clyde: Ultimate Collector's Edition (Warner)This landmark 1967 movie re-imagined a... More >>

• There Will Be Blood tops this week's pop culture picks

  published April 16, 2008

  TOP PICK – There Will Be Blood: 2-Disc Collector's Edition (Paramount)Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling... More >>

• The Mars Volta

  published April 16, 2008

  L.A. band the Mars Volta come to town on the heels of their fourth album, The Bedlam in Goliath, which is stuffed with nine-minute... More >>

• Forbidden Hollywood's old-school filth tops this week's pop culture picks

  published April 2, 2008

  TOP PICK – TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 2 (Warner)Back in the early 1930s,... More >>

• Culture Jamming

  published March 26, 2008

  TOP PICK – Patapon (Sony)This terrific video game features a tribe made up of critters who sport one giant eye... More >>

• Culture Jamming

  published March 12, 2008

  TOP PICK – Elvis Costello: This Year's Model – Deluxe Edition (Hip-O/UME)Costello's best album... More >>

• Culture Jamming

  published March 5, 2008

  TOP PICK – Bootsy Collins CD reissues (Collectors' Choice)Bootsy was P-Funk's bass-playing nucleus during their... More >>

• Unlucky Break

  published February 27, 2008

  TOP PICK – Marvin Gaye: Here, My Dear – Expanded Edition (Hip-O Select)Back in 1978, Marvin Gaye... More >>

• Dino-Mite!

  published February 20, 2008

  TOP PICK – Turok (Touchstone)This zippy video game (for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) follows a Native American... More >>

• Culture Jamming

  published February 13, 2008

  TOP PICK – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner)Brad Pitt stars as the... More >>

• Culture Jamming

  published February 6, 2008

  TOP PICK – Thunderbirds 40th Anniversary DVD Megaset (A&E)The endearingly chintzy... More >>

• Culture Jamming

  published January 30, 2008

  TOP PICK – Family Guy: Blue Harvest (Fox)Blue Harvest was the top-secret code name used by... More >>

• Culture Jamming

  published January 23, 2008

  TOP PICK – Indie Sex (Genius Products)This two-disc DVD compiles a four-part mini-series about sex in... More >>