Contrary to what certain clickbait rags might tell you, we have always understood that the real villain of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is Dr. Frankenstein himself, not the monster he created. Franc Roddam’s The Bride (out now on Blu-ray from Shout!...
This week we discuss the 2018 Netflix release Apostle, a period piece that is arguably a horror film about religion or at least religious cults. The film stars Dan Stevens, Lucy Boynton, Michael Sheen and was written and directed by Gareth Evans. And...
Horror cinema is in an uncomfortable stage right now, too wrapped up in the structures of the past to convey quality to audiences of the present. We can say something that emulates a John Carpenter film is good, because we...
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” begins as documentary, proceeds as political comedy, climaxes as a live event, and concludes as the most laser-accurate indictment of the modern culture we’ve yet seen since neofascism...
“I make vases,” Carlos Reygadas declared to the brief Q&A following (what I believe to be) the U.S. premiere of his new film, Our Time, at AFI Fest. “They’re for people to through through, to sit in and consider, and...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: AFI Fest 2018: Green Book, by David Bax Episode 608: The Community of Film Fandom AFI Fest 2018: Bird Box, by David Bax BP Movie Journal...
With the current rise of white supremacy in America and the repulsive violence it brings with it, this is either an opportune time or a very inappropriate one to tell the true, heartwarming story of a white man and a...
Probably about midway through At Eternity’s Gate – but really, who can say how deep into this meandering, thoroughly unilluminating film – there’s a scene in which Vincent Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe), nearing the end of his stay at a...
Like so much of Steve McQueen’s work, his new film Widows is wonderfully-acted. McQueen has shown himself extremely adept at working with actors. However, just as with his films Shame and 12 Years a Slave, I was left feeling cold...
