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david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 18, 2018

Home Video Hovel: The Holy Mountain, by David Bax

The opening titles of Arnold Fanck’s 1926 The Holy Mountain would like you to know that no trick photography was used. It’s referring specifically to the extensive footage of expert ski jumpers doing flips and spins in the air; for a considerable...

best of the week / movies

August 17, 2018

Shading the Oscars with Katie Walsh and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 595: New Oscar Rules with Katie Walsh Crazy Rich Asians: Experience Has Made Me Rich, by David Bax Crossing the Streams: August 2018, by Jim...

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

August 17, 2018

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: The Long Good Friday with Paul Heath

Mr. Paul from the Pharos Project and Hammered Horror makes his triumphant return to the podcast after far too long to join Lincoln for a discussion of one of his favorites, The Long Good Friday. The late/great Bob Hoskins commands the screen in this...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

August 17, 2018

Criterion Prediction #153: Xiao Wu, by Alexander Miller

Title: Xiao Wu (aka The Pickpocket) Year: 1997 Director: Jia Zhangke Cast: Wang Hongwei, Hao Hongjian, Ma Jinrei, Baitao Zuo Synopsis: Xiao Wu (Hongwei) is a small-time thief who is adrift in China’s Fengyang County. His cronies and former partners in crime...

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

August 17, 2018

BP Movie Journal 8/16/18

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: Movies NO DATE, NO SIGNATURE TEN CHINATOWN WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY CRAZY RICH ASIANS ISLE OF DOGS ALPHA RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD II BREAKING & EXITING...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 16, 2018

Breaking & Exiting: Damages, by David Bax

Peter Facinelli really likes to rack focus. Breaking & Exiting, his feature directorial debut, is replete with mid-shot focal shifts. It’s like he can’t control himself. At one point, while our protagonist, Harry (Milo Gibson), is filling up his truck...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 16, 2018

Alpha: I’m Lost and I’m Found, by David Bax

Albert Hughes’ Alpha is a little weird when you think about it. And, when you really think about it, it’s a lot weird. Like, it’s weird that it even exists. Not that that’s a complaint; it’s a good movie, for...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 15, 2018

We the Animals: I’ll Fly Away, by David Bax

At the beginning of Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals, we meet three boys, brothers, all close in age. They run and play in their modest house and the surrounding woods. One of them is narrating but we can’t quite tell which....

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 15, 2018

Crazy Rich Asians: Experience Has Made Me Rich, by David Bax

Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians knows exactly what it’s doing by employing so much jazzy, brassy Big Band music. In many ways, the movie feels like something new; a romantic comedy featuring an all Asian cast taking place amidst...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 15, 2018

Juliet, Naked: Heard It All Before, by David Bax

There’s something familiar about Jesse Peretz’s Juliet, Naked: Everything. From the tired music made by one character to the Web 1.0 fansite made by another to the plot itself, we’ve seen it all before. Annie (Rose Byrne) is the curator of...

Category: movies

Home Video Hovel: The Holy Mountain, by David Bax

Shading the Oscars with Katie Walsh and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: The Long Good Friday with Paul Heath

Criterion Prediction #153: Xiao Wu, by Alexander Miller

BP Movie Journal 8/16/18

Breaking & Exiting: Damages, by David Bax

Alpha: I’m Lost and I’m Found, by David Bax

We the Animals: I’ll Fly Away, by David Bax

Crazy Rich Asians: Experience Has Made Me Rich, by David Bax

Juliet, Naked: Heard It All Before, by David Bax

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