There will be no new episode of Battleship Pretension this week. Instead, as laid out in this short announcement, if you buy any of our premium episodes here in the month of June, 100% of proceeds will go to Communities...
Bill Miner was a real life stagecoach robber (reported to have coined the phrase, “Hands up!”) who turned to robbing trains after being released from prison into a stagecoach-free twentieth century. Phillip Borsos’ 1982 biopic, The Grey Fox (a new...
Tyler and David discuss the TV shows they’ve been watching lately. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month! Become a Patron!
Siegfried Kracauer – born February 8th, 1889 – was a landmark film theorist, who in 1960, released his expansive book on film, Theory of Film. The book outlines and explores cinema as, “The Redemption of Physical Reality,” as described in...
In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: THE MAN WHO KILLD HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOTMR. TOPAZETHE FRESHMANTO WONG FOO THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, JULIE NEWMARREEL REDEMPTIONTHE OLD DARK HOUSE
Mr. Topaze, the only feature film on which Peter Sellers is credited as director, was re-titled I Like Money for its initial U.S. release. While that’s a boring title, it takes its name from the film’s highlight, a musical number...
Tyler and David discuss the TV shows they’ve been watching lately, including Curb Your Enthusiasm and Bojack Horseman. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month! Become a Patron!
When Tommaso (Willem Dafoe), the title character in Abel Ferrara’s new film, dances like a goofball dad along to the song being performed on a corny, televised variety show, it seems almost like we’re going to be treated to an...
This article originally ran as part of a Home Video Hovel review. American film noir owes a great deal to John Huston. His adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon set a new standard in the genre. He also went...
There will be no new episode of Battleship Pretension this week. Instead, as laid out in this short announcement, if you buy any of our premium episodes here in the month of June, 100% of proceeds will go to Communities...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: The Vast of Night: We Are Controlling Transmission, by David Bax Mysteries of Lisbon: An Open Book, by David Bax On the Record: Cross-Fade, by David...
Lone Star is, for better and for worse, an efficient encapsulation of the two things that make John Sayles films, well, John Sayles films: His earnest filmmaking and his egalitarianism towards his characters.
Title: Legend of a Duel to the Death Year: 1963 Director: Keisuke Kinoshita Cast: Shima Iwashita, Mariko Kaga, Bunta Sugawara, Kinuyo Tanaka Synopsis: Toward the end of WWII, the Sonobe family is relocated from Tokyo to a farming village on...
