Category: movies

June 1, 2020

Monday Movie: Beat the Devil, by Tyler Smith

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...

best of the week / movies

May 30, 2020

Vastly Rated and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

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...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

May 29, 2020

I Do Movies Badly: Lone Star

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.

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

May 29, 2020

Criterion Prediction #244: Legend of a Duel to the Death, by Alexander Miller

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...

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

May 29, 2020

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #23: Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets (1968)

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

May 29, 2020

I Do Movies Badly: Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out is a pretty faithful and earnest retelling of the 1919 “Black Sox” Scandal…to the film’s detriment. More concerned with compiling a mostly historically accurate checklist of what transpired, perhaps Sayles’ script would have been better served by another...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

May 29, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, by David Bax

When discussing cinema, the term “exploitation” usually means something fun. Trashy and not exactly contributing to society’s moral fiber, sure, but fun. But Matthew Mallinson’s 1980 psuedo-documentary Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, out now in a limited edition Blu-ray...

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

May 28, 2020

BP Movie Journal 5/28/20

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: L’IMPORTANT C’EST D’AIMERCARO DIARIOA LEAGUE OF THEIR OWNON THE RECORDDEATH BECOMES HERSEVEN PSYCHOPATHSTOMMASOTHE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEKTHE LOVEBIRDSTALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHTTALES FROM THE HOODTHE VAST...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 28, 2020

The Grey Fox: The Old Man & the North, by David Bax

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...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 27, 2020

The Vast of Night: We Are Controlling Transmission, by David Bax

In the entrancing, energizing opening sequence of Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night, Everett (Jake Horowitz), the young man from the local radio station, makes his way through seemingly every nook and cranny of a 1950s high school gymnasium, instructing...

Category: movies

Monday Movie: Beat the Devil, by Tyler Smith

Vastly Rated and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

I Do Movies Badly: Lone Star

Criterion Prediction #244: Legend of a Duel to the Death, by Alexander Miller

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #23: Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets (1968)

I Do Movies Badly: Eight Men Out

Home Video Hovel: Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, by David Bax

BP Movie Journal 5/28/20

The Grey Fox: The Old Man & the North, by David Bax

The Vast of Night: We Are Controlling Transmission, by David Bax

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