It turns out that great minds think alike. Joe and Anthony Russo (The Russo Brothers) have combined their love of two things, pizza and movies, to educate and entertain the masses.
Starting next Friday, May 15th at 8pm ET, the Russo Bros Pizza Film School comes to the Instagram Live airwaves. SThe Russo boys promise a weekly show on Instagram live intended to educate and spread some love to favorite classic films, and local pizzerias while movie lovers are stuck at home during the pandemic. Each week joe and Anthony will assign a movie for the class every week, and tune in with guests to talk about how different flicks have transformed their relationship to cinema, while enjoying pizza from a local pizzeria. Every week on Instagram Live @therussobrothers will walk us thru a great movie while enjoying some delicious pie. Fans will be able to check out past episodes on the Russos’ IGTV page.
For episode 1 The Russo Brothers have assigned the movie La Haine(available on Amazon Prime Video and iTunes Movies). This week’s guest is Pete Hammond, currently the Chief Film Critic and Awards Columnist for Deadline Hollywood and is widely considered to be one of the preeminent awards season commentators for film and television. Before joining Deadline, Pete was an awards columnist for The Los Angeles Times, and a film critic for MovieLine, Box Office Magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com and Maxim. In addition to writing, Pete hosts popular year-round film screening series’ and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for his own television writing.
Russo Bros Pizza Film School airs Fridays at 5PM PT / 8PM ET. Keep track of what movie and what pizza by following the show on Instagrah here @therussobrothers, and here @agbofilms. There are also these cool hashtags:
