Tag: Movies
Genre Blast: Movies About Movies
This series is a challenge directed at all film nerds. On a regular basis, I’ll call out the film genre and five personal favourites, then…
Interview: Documentary Film-Maker Vincent Vittorio
I spoke briefly to Vincent Vittorio, the founder of Life Is My Movie Entertainment, which shines further light on the documentary genre through some truly…
Interview: *Happy Birthday* John Turturro
Late last year I spoke to John Turturro for Awards Daily TV about his brilliant film career leading into his TV role in The Night…
Listmania: Ranking Recent Best Picture Oscar Nominees
Friday night at work I was listening to the InSession Podcast (Episode 209; Bonus “And the Winner Is… Vol. 3”) and JD and Brendan were…
Oscars: 7 Potential Spoilers
What a fiasco with the prestigious yet erroneously named Best Foreign Language Film category, with the *insert horrific superlative here* ban on Muslims entering the…
Listmania: Al's Happy Oscars Wins 2000-2015
I’ve been watching the Academy Awards since the 2001 ceremony when Gladiator beat Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon & Traffic for Best Picture. Over the last…
Oscars: If I Picked The Winners
Today is the last day for the Oscar voters to fill out their ballots, and I think it’s time to decide what I would vote…
Listmania: Al's 5 Movies for President's Day
Since this weekend is President’s Day weekend, I thought it would be time to look at and rank my 5 favorite movies that are about…
Woo L.A. Podcast – Oscar Picks With Al Al Land
I’d been thinking for a long time about doing a podcast, and Robin and I have talked more specifically about doing one. The idea and…
Why The Lobster Has To Win The Original Screenplay Oscar
The following contains SPOILERS. This is also in no way a negative reflection on the other four nominees for Best Original Screenplay at this year’s…
Interview: Alice Winocour
Lucky me got to spend about twenty minutes with the breakthrough French writer-director Alice Winocour. Following a screenplay collaboration with Deniz Gamze Ergüven on the tremendous…
Review: Passengers
Morten Tyldum decided that after making the pulsating, brilliant Headhunters in his native Norway that he would downgrade, flying off to make the English-language The Imitation…
Happy Valentine's Day Agapi Mou
Like soulmates who could have grown up together, Our love survived turbulent games, whatever the weather, In the end, as it goes, I’ll always be…
Review: Incarcerating US
Getting to sit both sides of the high fence is a real viewers’ privilege when it comes down to documentaries depicting the parts of the…
