Tag: Films
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…