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david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 21, 2019

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Ready or Not: You’re Next of Kin, by David Bax

Look, I’m not going to be giving away any major spoilers in this review. But, having said that, if the only reason you’re here is to find out whether you should go see Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet’s Ready or...
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featured / i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

August 21, 2019

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I Do Movies Badly: Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies wonderfully typifies what Leigh is capable of as a director in both the performances he gets from his actors and how subtlety explores the tension between social classes. It’s just a shame that the film’s mouthpiece also reminds...
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2019 / david bax / featured / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2019 / Theatrical Review

January 28, 2019

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Sundance 2019: Relive, by David Bax

Even a cursory glance at the pedigree behind Relive would be enough to get one’s hopes up. It’s from Jacob Estes, the director of Mean Creek, and it stars Brian Tyree Henry, Mykelti Williamson and Alfred Molina in addition to its...
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2019 / david bax / featured / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2019 / Theatrical Review

January 27, 2019

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Sundance 2019: The Report, by David Bax

Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic doesn’t hold up so well almost two decades later (maybe in a post-Wire world, its insights into the drug trade don’t quite seem to penetrate) but the movie’s legacy has more than endured. In a way, its...

August 23, 2019

Cruise Control and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 648: Cruise Ship Movies Ready or Not: You’re Next of Kin, by David Bax BP Movie Journal 8/22/19 Brittany Runs a Marathon: Unfinished, by David...

bp movie journal / david bax / movies / podcast / tyler smith

August 23, 2019

BP Movie Journal 8/22/19

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: THE REPTILEFRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRECHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUTGOOD BOYSBLINDED BY THE LIGHTMONOSNEW YEAR’S EVILTHAT’S THE WAY I LIKE ITSHIRKERSTHE HANGOVERTHE SECOND GAMEREADY OR NOTWHERE’S MY ROY COHN?THE REFLECTING...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 22, 2019

Brittany Runs a Marathon: Unfinished, by David Bax

Whatever else you might say about Brittany Runs a Marathon, you can’t say director Paul Downs Colaizzo’s heart isn’t in the right place. This is a movie that is overwhelmingly nice to its characters and its audience, an effect it...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 21, 2019

Ready or Not: You’re Next of Kin, by David Bax

Look, I’m not going to be giving away any major spoilers in this review. But, having said that, if the only reason you’re here is to find out whether you should go see Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet’s Ready or...

david bax / movies / patreon / podcast / tyler smith

August 21, 2019

Patreon: August Mailbag Part 2

This week on the Patreon, Tyler and David answer more listener questions. Patreon tiers begin at $2 per month!

featured / i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

August 21, 2019

I Do Movies Badly: Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies wonderfully typifies what Leigh is capable of as a director in both the performances he gets from his actors and how subtlety explores the tension between social classes. It’s just a shame that the film’s mouthpiece also reminds...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

August 20, 2019

Criterion Prediction #204: Wild Reeds, by Alexander Miller

Title: Wild Reeds Year: 1994 Director: André Téchiné Cast: Gael Morel, Élodie Bouchez, Stephane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny Synopsis: Four teenagers, Francois, Maïté, Serge and Henri undergo a pivotal period of transformation and personal awakening in this moving coming-of-age story set...

david bax / monday movie / movies

August 19, 2019

Monday Movie: The Bitter Tea of General Yen, by David Bax

It’s almost funny, in a foul-tasting way, to read that the initial box office failure of Frank Capra’s 1932 The Bitter Tea of General Yen was attributed by some to racism on the part of moviegoers unwilling to accept the...

david bax / episode / matt patterson / movies / podcast / tyler smith

August 18, 2019

Episode 648: Cruise Ship Movies

In this episode, Tyler and David are joined by Matt Patterson to talk about movies that take place on cruise ships.

dayne linford / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 18, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Heroes Shed No Tears, by Dayne Linford

John Woo belongs to that worldwide pantheon of legendarily cool directors achieving international notoriety at the end of the 90s, reworking classic Hollywood tropes and genres to create something that, despite those antecedents, feels almost entirely original. But, before bullet...

Ready or Not: You’re Next of Kin, by David Bax

I Do Movies Badly: Secrets & Lies

Sundance 2019: Relive, by David Bax

Sundance 2019: The Report, by David Bax

Cruise Control and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

BP Movie Journal 8/22/19

Brittany Runs a Marathon: Unfinished, by David Bax

Ready or Not: You’re Next of Kin, by David Bax

Patreon: August Mailbag Part 2

I Do Movies Badly: Secrets & Lies

Criterion Prediction #204: Wild Reeds, by Alexander Miller

Monday Movie: The Bitter Tea of General Yen, by David Bax

Episode 648: Cruise Ship Movies

Home Video Hovel: Heroes Shed No Tears, by Dayne Linford

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