Listening Is Everything
Listening Is Everything

Some Guy Cinema: Lifeguard

By jefito Movies August 6, 2021
Sam Elliott in "Lifeguard"

Cinema is essentially a storytelling medium, so when we talk about movies and their relative merits, we often tend to focus on how well they tell their stories, or whether…

Some Guy Cinema: Scorpio

By jefito Movies July 30, 2021

There’s no real rhyme or reason to the way I choose movies to cover for this series, and there are only seven different types of stories, so it’s probably only…

Some Guy Cinema: Hopscotch

By jefito Movies July 23, 2021

Walter Matthau turned typecasting into a virtue, making the most of his pigeonhole by using his character type to play a sneakily wide variety of roles.

Some Guy Cinema: Harry & Son

By jefito Movies July 16, 2021

In general these days when writing about pop culture, I come to praise, not to bury. Still, I find that failure is often more interesting to explore than success —…

Some Guy Cinema: Running on Empty

By jefito Movies July 9, 2021

He’ll probably always be remembered as Alex Rieger from Taxi (or, for people who aren’t enlightened enough to have loved that sitcom, as Jeff Goldblum’s dad in Independence Day), but…

Some Guy Cinema: The Mean Season

By jefito Movies July 2, 2021

In theory, it should be difficult for a filmmaker to screw up a crime story set in Florida.

Some Guy Cinema: Target

By jefito Movies June 25, 2021

There are some very good things about not dying young — chief among them getting to have the experience of, you know, not dying young — but as I was…

Some Guy Cinema: California Split

By jefito Movies June 18, 2021

No matter how much of a sure thing it might appear to be, every creative endeavor is a gamble. It can involve the greatest artistic minds in its medium, it…

Some Guy Cinema: Scarecrow

By jefito Movies June 11, 2021

The film industry pumps out a lot of movies every year — you could go blind trying to patch up all the blind spots in your viewing — and yet…

Cultural Consumption: 6/6/21

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

Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 5/30-6/5/21.

Some Guy Cinema: Rancho Deluxe

By jefito Movies June 4, 2021

I’ll do just about anything to avoid having to listen to Jimmy Buffett’s music.

Some Guy Cinema: Freebie and the Bean

By jefito Movies May 28, 2021
Freebie and the Bean

I don’t have it anymore so I can’t prove this if anyone comes asking for it, but in the press kit for Toots Thielemans’ 1992 album The Brasil Project, there’s…

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