Tag: filmmaking
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…
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….
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…