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.
Steven Rubio's Online Life: from up on poppy hill (goro miyazaki, …
WEB3 days ago · This is the second film directed by Goro Miyazaki, son of the great Hayao (who co-wrote the script). Compared to some of the classic Ghibli movies, From Up on Poppy Hill is relatively straightforward, missing much of the flights of fantasy associated with Goro's father. It tells the story of teenage love in 1963 Japan, with specific ties to the ...
manos: the hands of fate (harold p. warren, 1966) - Steven Rubio's ...
WEBJan 18, 2022 · This is the eighteenth film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2021-22", "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 7th annual challenge, and my third time participating (my first year can be found at "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2019-20", and last year's at "My Letterboxd ...
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.
Steven Rubio's Online Life: negamco and me
WEBAug 24, 2020 · negamco and me. Monday, August 24, 2020. My grandson just turned 8, and he never seems to run out of things to do or to think about. Part of this comes from his parents, both of whom know a lot of different things that they love to pass along to him. So he is already a bigger expert on all sorts of subjects than is his old grandpa.
the lady from shanghai (orson welles, 1947) - Steven Rubio's …
WEBAug 12, 2024 · the lady from shanghai (orson welles, 1947) Monday, August 12, 2024. It can't be said that Orson Welles is the greatest movie director of all time, although the evidence in his favor is there. Citizen Kane is his towering achievement, and that's not his only great film ... I'm partial to Touch of Evil, and The Magnificent Ambersons deserves our ...
June 2021 - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBGreen Room is a coldly efficient picture about punks, neo-Nazis, and violence. Jeremy Saulnier has cited Straw Dogs as an influence, and I suppose Green Room does call on some toxic masculine violence. But unlikely that repulsive film, Green Room is at least an equal opportunity revenge thriller. By the end of the movie, of the two remaining heroes, one is a woman, as if Dustin Hoffman in ...
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 …
August 2022 - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBCompared to the original, this was Citizen Kane.Compared to an actual good movie? It was efficient; you could picture the checklist from which they wrote the script, and my wife kept knowing in advance which item on the list would be next.
Steven Rubio's Online Life: goodbye, captain pissgums
WEBI had just finished reading "Transgression: An Elegy" by Laura Kipnis, when word arrived that S. Clay Wilson had died.Wilson was always my favorite of the "underground/Zap comix" writers. A little more than 12 years ago, he suffered a traumatic brain injury, and suffered for the rest of his life.
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