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Listmania: Al's Best of 2016 Awards

On the latest episode of the Woo L.A. Podcast, you can hear my picks for what I thought was the best in film of 2016….

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Woo L.A. Podcast #4: A Late Best Of 2016 In Film

Welcome to the podcast number four. I am joined by the host Al (@AlRob_MN), his roomie Julia (@Reality_Diva1), and Joel (@JoeM_136) makes a swift return. We…

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Film Honors: 2016

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

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Woo L.A. Podcast – Live Not At The Oscars

Hey everyone, Robin, Joel, Ryan, and I enjoyed doing the special podcast so much that we wanted to do another one during the Oscars. We…

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The Flicksation Podcast Movie Challenge

This past week, the guys at The Flicksation Podcast ranked their top 10 favorite movies of 2016. The type of movies they watch for the most…

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Woo L.A. Podcast – Oscar Picks With Al Al Land

I’d been thinking for a long time about doing a podcast, and Robin and I have talked more specifically about doing one. The idea and…

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Review: Passengers

Morten Tyldum decided that after making the pulsating, brilliant Headhunters in his native Norway that he would downgrade, flying off to make the English-language The Imitation…

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Preview: Film Honors 2016

Wherein I analyse my own choices ahead of Sunday’s big announcements. Check out the Film Honors 2016 Nominees in full, or go straight on ahead:…

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Review: Loving

Companionship derived through pure love is tough at the best of times, but for the likes of Richard and Mildred Loving their struggles were not…

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Review: The Wailing

Forget about what you expect going into Na Hong-jin’s extraordinary The Wailing, a shape-shifter of a film, part detective story, part mystery, part thriller, part…

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Review: Allied

Headed by two beloved acting forces Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt, with a well-established film-maker of the last 30 years Robert Zemeckis, a critically acclaimed…

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Listmania: Al's Top 10 Movies of 2016

It’s time for me to look back on the year in movies that was for 2016, and rank my top 10 favorites of the year….

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Film Honors 2016: Nominations

2016. The movies took us to some great places and times. Some not so memorable, some disappointing, some ruined somewhat by hype. A lot of…

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Listmania: Al's 5 Disappointments Of 2016

So for most people, the year of 2016 in movies was horrible. It was only saved by movies like Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, and…

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