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Film Honors: 2005

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: Dancing Quietly

Sinfully as of yet not distributed outside of its native Germany, Luca tanzt leise (going by the English-language title Dancing Quietly) is a diamond-in-the-rough search…

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Listmania: Al's Top 5 Samuel L. Jackson Characters

Samuel L. Jackson is arguably the most badass character actor of all-time, and so many of his characters have been memed and parodied out of…

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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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Film Honors: 1981

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 # 5 – Fast Furious Ghosts Do The Cannes-Cannes

I, Robin Write (@WriteoutofLA), take a bit of a backseat as Al Robinson (@AlRob_MN), Jonathan Holmes (@MisterBrown_23), and Joel Meléndez (@JoeM_136) chat about The Fate of the Furious, 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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Genre Blast: Bursting into Song – The Musical

Yes, they can be cloying, unrealistic and just plain tacky, but if they are handled with some inventiveness and originality, musicals can be transporting. No…

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Film Honors: 1979

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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Festival de Cannes 70: Meet The Jury

The following 9 chosen ones have until Sunday 28th May at the Closing Ceremony of the 70th Festival de Cannes to choose the prize winners…

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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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