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david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 11, 2020

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Jazz on a Summer’s Day: To Be in That Number, by David Bax

Every year since 1954, jazz lovers have gathered in Newport Rhode Island for the Newport Jazz Festival, with the exception of 2020 and the nine years the event was located in New York. Meanwhile, every America’s Cup yacht race from...
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david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 5, 2020

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She Dies Tomorrow: Get It Over With, by David Bax

It may only be Amy Seimetz’s second feature directorial effort but she’s been around long enough–producing, writing and acting in great movies–that she’s able to gather an all-star cast of cool kids for her thrillingly metaphysical, depressingly hilarious She Dies...
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david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 5, 2020

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The Tax Collector: Fraud, by David Bax

Have you ever seen an advertisement for a movie and thought to yourself, “There’s no way this thing actually exists”? Not because it sounds especially crazy or anything like that, but because it seems so lame that you can’t imagine...
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alexander miller / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 14, 2018

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MDMA: MDM-Eh, by Alexander Miller

At first glance, the trailer for Angie Wang’s autobiographical MDMA seems to bear a kinship to popular drug sagas (à la Blow or American Made) with its rags-to-riches narrative and “true story” seal of approval. However, for all the films...

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

August 12, 2020

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller: Vintage Anime

david bax / patreon / podcast / tyler smith

August 12, 2020

Patreon: Our Top Five of 1966

Tyler and David discuss their favorite films of 1966. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers begin as low as $2. Become a Patron!

jim rohner / podcast / tyler smith

August 12, 2020

Tyler on the Cast of Cthulu

Tyler was recently a guest on the Cast of Cthulu, discussing the Sierra game Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness.

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 11, 2020

Jazz on a Summer’s Day: To Be in That Number, by David Bax

Every year since 1954, jazz lovers have gathered in Newport Rhode Island for the Newport Jazz Festival, with the exception of 2020 and the nine years the event was located in New York. Meanwhile, every America’s Cup yacht race from...

david bax / monday movie / movies

August 10, 2020

Monday Movie: The Vampire Bat, by David Bax

This article originally ran as part of a Home Video Hovel review. With a name like The Vampire Bat, you’d expect Frank Strayer’s 1933 film to be a horror flick. And I suppose you wouldn’t entirely be wrong. It is, after...

david bax / episode / julie sesnovich / movies / podcast / scott nye / tyler smith

August 9, 2020

Episode 699: Hotel Movies with Scott Nye and Julie Sesnovich

In this episode, Tyler and David are joined by Scott Nye and Julie Sesnovich to discuss movies about hotels.

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

August 8, 2020

Criterion Prediction #253: After Hours, by Alexander Miller

Title: After Hours Year: 1985 Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Linda Fiorentino, Tommy Chong Synopsis: An ordinary data entry worker endures the night from hell after he goes home with a young lady he meets...

best of the week / movies

August 7, 2020

We’d Like a Refund and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: The Tax Collector: Fraud, by David Bax An American Pickle: America Has Made My Fortune, by David Bax La Llorona: No Peace, by David Bax Waiting...

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

August 7, 2020

BP Movie Journal 8/6/20

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: PSYCHOMAGIC, A HEALING ARTAN AMERICAN PICKLERUSHTHE TAX COLLECTORONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANSSHE DIES TOMORROWTASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULAOUT STEALING HORSES

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 6, 2020

Out Stealing Horses: Pony Up, by David Bax

Hans Petter Moland’s Out Stealing Horses (adapted by the director from the novel by Per Petterson) is a pastoral coming of age story. Therefore, it’s light on the superficial whizbangery you might see described as “spectacle.” But Moland is a...

Jazz on a Summer’s Day: To Be in That Number, by David Bax

She Dies Tomorrow: Get It Over With, by David Bax

The Tax Collector: Fraud, by David Bax

MDMA: MDM-Eh, by Alexander Miller

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller: Vintage Anime

Patreon: Our Top Five of 1966

Tyler on the Cast of Cthulu

Jazz on a Summer’s Day: To Be in That Number, by David Bax

Monday Movie: The Vampire Bat, by David Bax

Episode 699: Hotel Movies with Scott Nye and Julie Sesnovich

Criterion Prediction #253: After Hours, by Alexander Miller

We’d Like a Refund and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

BP Movie Journal 8/6/20

Out Stealing Horses: Pony Up, by David Bax

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