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david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 18, 2019

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David Crosby: Remember My Name: Everybody’s Been Burned, by David Bax

From his large but unflashy house in the Santa Ynez Valley, surrounded by lush rows of grapevines and rolling hills, famed singer/songwriter David Crosby, with his trademark whispers now white strands framing a smile, would appear to be living the...
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2019 / cannes / cannes 2019 / featured / luiz oliveira / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 22, 2019

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Cannes 2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, by Luiz Oliveira

I know you’re expecting this fable to start in the summer of ’69. After all, that’s when the story you know happens, well, happens. But things started going wrong a bit before and when we first meet TV actor Rick...
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featured / movies / Theatrical Review / tyler smith / tyler's reviews

March 22, 2019

by · Published March 22, 2019 · Last modified July 15, 2019

Us: Challenged to a Dual, by Tyler Smith

I would love to be able to say that Jordan Peele’s Us is a worthy follow-up to his fantastic directorial debut Get Out, but I’m afraid I just can’t. After a genuinely creepy first half, the film very quickly devolves...
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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...

July 22, 2019

Movie Meltdown: Road Trips with Kathleen Turner

This week we hit the road to Days of the Dead in Indianapolis – where we talk with Kathleen Turner! That’s right… we sit down with the star of Body Heat, Romancing the Stone, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Prizzi’s Honor, Jewel of the Nile, The Accidental Tourist,Crimes of Passion, The...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / west anthony

July 22, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Leopard Man, by West Anthony

If you’ve been listening to Adam Roche’s podcast The Secret History Of Hollywood, you know that he has been laboring for over two years now on an exhaustive multi-part series on producer Val Lewton; the episodes are few and far...

david bax / monday movie / movies

July 22, 2019

Monday Movie: All Quiet on the Western Front, by David Bax

I came to Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front backwards. I saw the silent version (shot alongside the primary, sound version) first, attending a screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago in 2004. Gobsmacked by its...

episode / movies / podcast / tyler smith

July 22, 2019

Episode 644: Jamie Costa

In this episode, Tyler is joined by actor Jamie Costa to discuss his career as an impressionist.

david bax / patreon / podcast / tyler smith

July 19, 2019

Patreon: Celebrity Sightings, Round 2

Tyler and David try to guess each other’s celebrity sightings. Available only to Patreon subscribers. Tiers start as low as $5 per month!

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 18, 2019

Into the Ashes: Southern Comfort, by Alexander Miller

It seems like there is a minor resurgence in contemporary westerns/southern gothic thrillers with movies like Mud, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Blue Ruin, The Hollow Point and Sweet Virginia. Maybe the first season of True Detective is also playing a...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

July 18, 2019

A Faithful Man: You Play the Loving Woman, by Scott Nye

Louis Garrel’s new feature – his second as director – will doubtlessly raise comparisons to the work his father Philippe has been churning out for at least the past decade. Like Lover for a Day, In the Shadow of Women,...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 18, 2019

David Crosby: Remember My Name: Everybody’s Been Burned, by David Bax

From his large but unflashy house in the Santa Ynez Valley, surrounded by lush rows of grapevines and rolling hills, famed singer/songwriter David Crosby, with his trademark whispers now white strands framing a smile, would appear to be living the...

lincoln hayes / movies / podcast / What the Hell Are You Watching

July 18, 2019

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: Back Pocket Films with David Metzger and Devon Ewalt

Following Lincoln’s departure from “Vermont Film Essentials” last summer, Devon Ewalt stepped in and took over co-hosting the show with David Metzger. Recently, they’ve rebranded the show and launched “Back Pocket Films” where they dive DEEP into their personal and...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

July 17, 2019

Criterion Predictions #200: Citizen Kane, by Alexander Miller

Title: Citizen Kane Year: 1941 Director: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Paul Stewart Synopsis: After the death of infamous and controversial newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, journalists tirelessly search for...

David Crosby: Remember My Name: Everybody’s Been Burned, by David Bax

Cannes 2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, by Luiz Oliveira

Us: Challenged to a Dual, by Tyler Smith

Sundance 2019: Relive, by David Bax

Movie Meltdown: Road Trips with Kathleen Turner

Home Video Hovel: The Leopard Man, by West Anthony

Monday Movie: All Quiet on the Western Front, by David Bax

Episode 644: Jamie Costa

Patreon: Celebrity Sightings, Round 2

Into the Ashes: Southern Comfort, by Alexander Miller

A Faithful Man: You Play the Loving Woman, by Scott Nye

David Crosby: Remember My Name: Everybody’s Been Burned, by David Bax

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: Back Pocket Films with David Metzger and Devon Ewalt

Criterion Predictions #200: Citizen Kane, by Alexander Miller

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