Listening Is Everything
Listening Is Everything

Some Guy Cinema: The Kid Detective

By jefito Movies October 22, 2021

What would happen if Encyclopedia Brown peaked at 12 and grew up to be a disappointment?

Some Guy Cinema: Paris, Texas

By jefito Movies October 8, 2021

The dust has come to stay. You may stay or pass on through or whatever.

Some Guy Cinema: Teachers

By jefito Movies October 1, 2021

Because Some Guy Cinema is a thing I made up without a ton of thought beyond a general feeling that leading men were more interesting between, say, 1973 and 1991,…

Some Guy Cinema: The Hand

By jefito Movies September 24, 2021

There’s a great story about Michael Caine being asked to comment on his co-starring role in the voodoo-frosted disaster of 1987’s Jaws IV: The Revenge, to which he’s said to…

Cultural Consumption: 9/20/21

By jefito Books, Movies, Music, Television September 20, 2021

Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 9/13-9/18/2021.

Some Guy Cinema: Last Embrace

By jefito Movies September 17, 2021

Have you ever wanted to watch a film starring Roy Scheider as a spy who loses his wife in a shootout, then becomes embroiled in a serial murder plot involving an ancient Jewish brothel? Well, friend, have I got the movie for you.

Some Guy Cinema: The Big Fix

By jefito Movies September 10, 2021

It’s often said that politics make for strange bedfellows, but they can make for some fairly strange movies, too.

Cultural Consumption: 9/6/21

By jefito Books, Movies, Music, Television September 6, 2021

Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 8/30-9/5/2021.

Some Guy Cinema: The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By jefito Movies September 3, 2021

With most organized crime movies, you go in knowing you’re going to be served a heightened version of reality, whether it’s a story that glamorizes the lifestyle or further darkens…

Some Guy Cinema: Blue Collar

By jefito Movies August 27, 2021

For a movie that’s largely faded from mainstream memory, Blue Collar has an awful lot going for it. It marked the directorial debut of Paul Schrader, for starters — after…

Some Guy Cinema: Klute

By jefito Movies August 20, 2021

When first outlining the “rules” of Some Guy Cinema, I kind of skirted around something that I’ve since come to adopt as a core ingredient of this type of film,…

Some Guy Cinema: Heroes

By jefito Movies August 13, 2021

As the father of two teenagers, I’m often blessed with the opportunity to introduce them — unwillingly, mind you — to various pop culture artifacts under the guise of showing…

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