Album and film ratings based only on my subjective enjoyment of the music or movies, not on how "objectively good" they are.

I mainly live in the Guided by Voices/Robert Pollard musical universe. Otherwise I dabble in all genres but tend to like: Indie rock. Noisy guitars. Post-punk and new wave. Poppy hooks. Metal. Reggae and world music. Psychedelic weirdness.

For movies I also dabble in all genres but tend to like: Old B movies. Gorey cheesy horror. Over-the-top exploitation. Occasional art house. So bad it's good. Spaghetti westerns. Quirky comedy.

For films my ratings roughly correspond to the following "recommendations" (although they're mostly recommendations from myself to myself):

4-5: Solid buy to must have
3.5: Strong rental (mostly) to weak buy
3: Weak to solid rental
2-2.5: Skip to weak rental
0.5-1.5: Avoid