Tag: Films
Film Honors: 2000
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…
Interview: Filmmaker Richard T. Wilson
I spoke to filmmaker Richard T. Wilson about his filmic influences, both as an audience member and behind the camera, before breaking bread over his…
Listmania – Bouncing Out 5 Basketball Movies
NCAA Men’s Basketball Edition Can you feel it?? That’s March Madness, AKA, the NCAA basketball tournament. We’re down to the FINAL 4 this weekend, and…
Genre Blast: Make 'em Laugh
Genre Blast: Make ‘em Laugh Comedy comes in all colours, but what I’m considering here is not dry humor, tongue-in-cheek, or satire. I’m talking gut-busting,…
Listmania: Top 5 Star Wars Movies
Listmania – Star Wars Edition I finally got a chance to see Rogue One, and I was inspired by it to rank my top 5…
Genre Blast: War is Hell
Sometimes the genre is used as patriotic propaganda, sometimes to the opposite effect. Conflict drives all drama and nothing compares to the giant canvas provided…
Review: Suntan
Argyris Papadimitropoulos is an okay director, nothing spectacular, we knew that already. Makis Papadimitriou already proved himself in the recent Chevalier so I wasn’t too…
Woo L.A. Podcast #3: Films From Birth
So we made it to the third podcast. This episode we talk about the upcoming aliens and baby Groot, before declaring our favorite films for…
Genre Blast: Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Movies
(This series is a challenge for all film nerds. I call out the film genre and five favorites, and then you tell me what I…
Film Honors: 2004
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: The Salesman
Without it yet being an actual problem, watching this felt like Asghar Farhadi has become a bit too self-aware, dangerously close to falling into the…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #30
Long time no see Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, my once regular links recommendations of the movie world (and those that crash the party). This time around…
Genre Blast: Westerns
(This series is a challenge for all film nerds. I call out the film genre and five favorites, and then you tell me what I…
LACMA Review: Personal Shopper
In their second collaboration, Kristen Stewart and director Olivier Assayas go down a creepy American in Paris Gothic film road with Personal Shopper. I was…
