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david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

December 6, 2019

Home Video Hovel: All About Eve, by David Bax

From the opening narration by George Sanders, a dazzlingly loquacious bit of verbiage in which he, ironically, makes fun of the character on screen for being long-winded, it’s clear that Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve is going to be...

david bax / featured / home video hovel / movies / reviews

December 5, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Eegah, by David Bax

As of the writing of this review, I have not watched the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode in which they mock Arch Hall Sr.’s 1962 teensploitation mess Eegah, even though it’s available as a special feature on the new, limited...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 5, 2019

Midnight Family: Protect Us from Each Other, by David Bax

Not unlike the struggling family at the center of another one of the year’s best films, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, Midnight Family‘s Ochoa clan are not bad people. Perhaps they’re a little desensitized, with 17-year-old Juan casually describing dead bodies while...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 4, 2019

The Disappearance of My Mother: If I Stay, by David Bax

Throughout The Disappearance of My Mother, Benedetta Barzini is seen living in a cluttered apartment, brazenly refusing to shower for days on end and constantly taking pulls from an e-cigarette. You almost wouldn’t guess that she was once one of...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

December 4, 2019

I Do Movies Badly: Foreign Language Christmas Films (featuring Alonso Duralde)

‘Tis the season to be jolly…and for Alonso Duralde to return to I Do Movies Badly! The author of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas makes his annual appearance on the podcast to talk about all things Christmas from the whys and whats of...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 4, 2019

In Fabric: Dress to Kill, by David Bax

Among the many strange and dark delights offered by Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, perhaps the most memorable are the sales clerks. Nearly identical, like the women in Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” video or Cloud Atlas‘s cafe slaves, but more...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 4, 2019

The Aeronauts: Full of Hot Air, by David Bax

The opening sequence of Tom Harper’s The Aeronauts is just a ton of fun. Felicity Jones, in clothes and make-up so garish as to approach clowndom, tears through London in a carriage, arriving not a moment too late for a...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

December 3, 2019

Criterion Prediction #218: Raging Bull, by Alexander Miller

Title: Raging Bull Year: 1980 Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent Synopsis: The career and life of boxer Jake LaMotta is chronicled over two decades; if his mercurial temper isn’t dictating...

david bax / movies / new to home video

December 3, 2019

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movie meltdown / movies / podcast

December 2, 2019

Movie Meltdown: Here Comes Jonah Ray to Talk about Art and Friendship

This episode we talk with Jonah Ray about art, friendship, movies, comedy, music and Mystery Science Theater 3000. And while we try to convert people to our pop culture religion, we also mention… Joel Hodgson, Mel Brooks, Weird Al Yankovic, Paul Myers, refusing...

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Home Video Hovel: All About Eve, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Eegah, by David Bax

Midnight Family: Protect Us from Each Other, by David Bax

The Disappearance of My Mother: If I Stay, by David Bax

I Do Movies Badly: Foreign Language Christmas Films (featuring Alonso Duralde)

In Fabric: Dress to Kill, by David Bax

The Aeronauts: Full of Hot Air, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #218: Raging Bull, by Alexander Miller

New to Home Video 12/3/19

Movie Meltdown: Here Comes Jonah Ray to Talk about Art and Friendship

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