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Film Honors: 1982

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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Review: Small Crimes

A crime thriller with a heavy touch of swagger and style neatly describes the SXSW premiered Small Crimes, garnering a distribution on Netflix this year….

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Genre Blast: Genre of the Philosophical; aka: Mindf**k Cinema

I’m not prefacing this batch with “not my preferred genre”, that’s for certain. It is my “go-to” genre when I have an appetite for pure,…

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20 Imperially Quiet Star Wars Moments

So it is that time of year again, the clever play on words against today’s date. I, for one, need little reason to honor the…

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Festival de Cannes 70: Rosetta, 1999

A sunny shout-out to 70 winners at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate the 70th event which is just around the corner – in no…

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Film Honors: 1978

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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Review: Miss Stevens

Whether the flourishing Netflix platform for feature films has garnered a straight-to-video feel may be a matter of opinion, but a notion that warrants much…

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Festival de Cannes 70: Kathy Burke, 1997

A sunny shout-out to 70 winners at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate the 70th event which is just around the corner – in no…

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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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Festival de Cannes 70: All That Jazz, 1980

A sunny shout-out to 70 winners at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate the 70th event which is just around the corner – in no…

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Festival de Cannes 70: Taxi Driver, 1976

A sunny shout-out to 70 winners at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate the 70th event which is just around the corner – in no…

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Festival de Cannes 70: David Thewlis, 1993

A sunny shout-out to 70 winners at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate the 70th event which is just around the corner – in no…

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Festival de Cannes 70: Union Pacific, 1939 / 2002

A sunny shout-out to 70 winners at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate the 70th event which is just around the corner – in no…

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Genre Blast: All For Love – Romance on Film

 We all love to be in love. It can make the world go ’round or bring life’s routines to a screeching halt. We hunger during the chase,…

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