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Today, March 14, in 2077, drone repair technician Jack Harper wakes up near the end of his five-year mission on Earth. He is one of the few humans on the planet, which was ravaged by nuclear war and natural disaster after the moon was destroyed 60 years earlier (Oblivion, 2013)
Today, March 14, in 1964, Dallas, Texas nightclub owner Jack Ruby was convicted of murder with malice and sentenced to death for shooting and killing President John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald (Ruby, 1992)
My ★★★★½ review of Punch-Drunk Love (2002) on #letterboxd: https://boxd.it/97AFpN
Added some new reviews to my Letterboxd page, including two recent gems, Flow (2024) and Good One (2024)
https://letterboxd.com/stancarey/films/reviews/
Today, March 13, recent graduate and aspiring journalist Andrea "Andy" Sachs interviews to become a personal assistant to Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of Runway magazine (The Devil Wears Prada, 2006)
Today, March 13, in 1941, newspapers report on the incredible flying elephant Dumbo, who sets a new altitude record and brings morale to the war effort (Dumbo, 1941)
#OnThisDay, March 13, in 2013, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the papal conclave elected Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church (depicted in The Two Popes, 2019)
Today, March 12, asylum director Dr. Caligari excitedly writes about a somnambulist, or sleepwalker, who has been brought to his hospital. He hopes to emulate an 18th-century mystic who utilized sleepwalkers to commit murders (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920)
#OnThisDay, March 12, 538 AD, Ostrogothic king Witigis ended his year-long siege of Rome and retreated, conceding the city to Byzantine general Belisarius. The siege decimated the city's population, and defeat broke the power of the Goths (depicted in Kampf um Rom, 1968)
On this day, March 11, 1952, 23-year-old medical student Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his friend, 29-year-old biochemist Alberto Granado, spent the night in the Atacama Desert, speaking with a homeless communist couple in search of mining work (The Motorcycle Diaries, 2004)
Today, March 11, in 1985, in East Germany, Stasi surveillance of playwright Georg Dreyman, known as “Operation Lazlo” and overseen by Gerd Wiesler, code name HGW XX/7, concludes (The Lives of Others, 2006)
On this day, March 11, 1918, Spanish Flu was diagnosed in Queens, New York, one week after it was first recorded on a military base in Kansas. It infected 500 million people around the world, about 27% of the world’s population (Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen, 2009)
Today, March 11, in 2008, at 11:47 pm, reporter Angela Vidal and cameraman Scott Percival go on a ride-along with LAPD firefighters during an emergency call. They enter a building and are trapped inside when it is suddenly locked down (Quarantine, 2008)
My ★★★★ #review of Harold and Maude on #letterboxd: https://boxd.it/95mUMr
#Watching BIG BAD WOLVES
This police procedural horror thriller takes no prisoners, leaves no stone unturned and other cliches.
"This movie is good" - Abraham Lincoln
https://letterboxd.com/noeljpenaflor/film/big-bad-wolves/
#movies #movie
#letterboxd #letterboxdfriday #thriller #nowwatching #cinema #cinemastodon #Film #films #filmmastodon
#OnThisDay, March 9, in 1954, journalist Edward R. Murrow reported on the “Red Scare” investigation of Communists led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. The broadcast, known as “television’s finest hour”, ultimately led to McCarthy's downfall (Good Night, and Good Luck, 2005)
Today, March 10, in 1928, Los Angeles telephone operator Christine Collins arrived home to find her son, Walter, missing. His disappearance turned into a saga of impersonation, police coercion, and false imprisonment (Changeling, 2008)
My ★★★★½ review of #Okja on #letterboxd: https://boxd.it/8FzYsH
Been a while since I've seen this. I swear movies made in the 90s are the best of the best. I think thats when #cinema hit its peak.
Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear - just stellar performance. Music - top tier.
