Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBAug 26, 2024 · This was the first time in nearly a month that we had a Geezer movie, and almost two months since we'd been to a theater." On June 19, I broke my ankle. We hadn't gone to a theater or had a Geezer Tuesday since Furiosa. Finally, two months, two weeks, and two days later, we went to a theater for Geezer Cinema #242: Didi.
music friday: double shot (of my baby's love)
WEB5 hours ago · It was originally released in 1963, three years before the Medallions' version, by Dick Holler and the Holidays. Holler went on to write "Abraham, Martin, and John", a memorable record by Dion. "Double Shot" was an example of a subgenre called "Frat Rock" (think "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen). One big fan …
geezer cinema: night moves (arthur penn, 1975)
WEB1 day ago · What [Hackman] brings to “Night Moves” is crucial; he must be absolutely sure of his identity as a free-lance gumshoe, even while all of his craft is useless and all of his hunches are based on ignorance of the big picture. The typical old-school private eye is a bit smarter than everyone else. It's the noir "hero" that gets it all wrong ...
Steven Rubio's Online Life: sabotage (alfred hitchcock, 1936)
WEB3 days ago · sabotage (alfred hitchcock, 1936) Monday, September 16, 2024. This is the second film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of the theme for the week." This is the 10th annual challenge, and my sixth time ...
Revisiting the 9s - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBApr 4, 2024 · [This is the twenty-first in a series that will probably be VERY intermittent, if I remember to post at all. I've long known that while I have given my share of 10-out-of-10 ratings for movies over the years, in almost every case, those movies are fairly old.
Animation - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBThis is the twenty-first film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2022-23", "A 33 week long challenge where the goal each week is to watch a previously unseen feature length film from a specified category."This is the 8th annual challenge, and my fourth time participating (my first year can be found at "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2019-20", the second year at "My Letterboxd ...
tombstone (george p. cosmatos, 1993) - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBAug 7, 2024 · While it's not nearly as long as Wyatt Earp, Tombstone goes on forever. We get the famous shootout at the OK Corral, look at the clock, and realize there's still an hour to go. Basically, Tombstone is kinda boring. But it has one thing that raises it to a much higher standard: Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. Kilmer is tremendous, idiosyncratic ...
Steven Rubio's Online Life: what to pass on
WEBThey're all over our neighborhood: little "loan libraries", small cubbies where you can leave a book and take a book. I often think I should leave something, except virtually every book I have bought and read for the past several years has been for my Kindle, and thus has no …
losing it at the movies: the fury (brian de palma, 1978)
WEBJun 15, 2019 · For me, that was The Fury. In 5001 Nights at the Movies, Kael wrote of The Fury: Brian De Palma’s visionary, science-fiction thriller is the reverse side of the coin of Spielberg’s Close Encounters. With Spielberg, what happens is so much better than you dared hope that you have to laugh; with De Palma, it’s so much worse than you feared ...
once upon a time in america (sergio leone, 1984) - Steven …
WEBOnce Upon a Time in America is an epic gangster picture with flaws, some troublesome, but nonetheless a classic of sorts. It's not as loony as Once Upon a Time in the West, although it's even more ambitious than that sprawling Western, and it's not as iconic as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.And unlike so many gangster epics, it …
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