Tag: Academy Awards
Masterpiece Memo: The Social Network
To begin with I think The Social Network is a masterpiece. It’s a film that I really love, and ever since I first saw it…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #32
This edition we get the kind folk at Variety to explain MoviePass to us, a bit of motivation from the Head Sprite, a loving piece…
Woo L.A. Podcast # 7 – Dunkirk: From The Beach To The Oscars
In this edition of the Woo L.A. Podcast, Al Robinson and Robin Write are joined once again by Daniel Smith-Rowsey, and first-timer in these parts…
Review: Dunkirk
USA Theatrical Release – July 21, 2017 Director – Christopher Nolan Screenplay – Christopher Nolan Synopsis – A retelling of the event in Dunkirk, France…
Review: The Big Sick
USA Theatrical Release – June 23, 2017 (Limited), July 14, 2017 (Wide) Director – Michael Showalter Screenplay – Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani Cast – Kumail…
Can 2017’s Blockbusters Get Oscar-Nominated?
By Daniel Smith-Rowsey Ah, blockbusters. For us discriminating film fans, they’re a bit like that fashionable cousin at the family reunion that just won’t shut…
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…
Al Robinson's Oscars Predictions
Happy Oscars Day everybody!! These are my last minute predictions and I’ve been going back and forth on several categories all week. I made a…
Listmania: Ranking Recent Best Picture Oscar Nominees
Friday night at work I was listening to the InSession Podcast (Episode 209; Bonus “And the Winner Is… Vol. 3”) and JD and Brendan were…
Oscars: 7 Potential Spoilers
What a fiasco with the prestigious yet erroneously named Best Foreign Language Film category, with the *insert horrific superlative here* ban on Muslims entering the…
Listmania: Al's Happy Oscars Wins 2000-2015
I’ve been watching the Academy Awards since the 2001 ceremony when Gladiator beat Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon & Traffic for Best Picture. Over the last…
Awards Season Cliques of the Trade
I hated cliques in high school. I hated the idea that you had to be or act a certain way in order to be accepted….
Oscars: If I Picked The Winners
Today is the last day for the Oscar voters to fill out their ballots, and I think it’s time to decide what I would vote…
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…