The First Omen, the sixth film in a nearly-fifty-year-old film series, on the face of things, has no reason to be exceptional. All the objective things you can read about it lead to the easy conclusion that it is not....
Coup de Chance is Woody Allen’s 50th, and potentially final, theatrical film, and one would hardly say his most original. Revisiting themes of luck, misfortune, guilt, and violence, comparisons to Crimes and Misdemeanors, Irrational Man, Match Point, Cassandra’s Dream, and...
This week on the Patreon, David and Scott Nye open up the March 2024 mailbag. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! The March 2024 mailbag includes questions about...
Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast opens with a scene that both enigmatically alludes to the action to come, yet also suggests the abyss it will pointedly explore without resolving – Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux), an actress in 2014 Los Angeles, walks into...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Farmageddon originally ran as a home video review. No Virginia, Bruce Willis does NOT save a farm from an asteroid in this picture. A sort of...
David and Scott Nye discuss movies about self-destructive characters as well as this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival lineup. Movies about self-destructive characters discussed include Mike Figgis’ Leaving Las Vegas and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started...
This week, we’re sessioning Freud. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re sessioning Freud, icking movies, wonking, conning on and lousing Carter. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: BP Movie Journal 3/21/24 Episode...
In BP Movie Journal 3/28/24, David discuss the movies he’s been watching lately, including Wonka, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, American Symphony, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, The Sweet East, The Misfits, Disco Boy, Bushman, Amélie, The...
Writer/director Bob Byington has carved out an enviable, if regrettably low-profile, place in the film industry, regularly turning out expertly-tuned comedies with stellar casts that rarely get wide enough distribution to be seen by many. His latest film, Lousy Carter,...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 3/26/24: Kitty Green’s narrative debut – 2019’s The Assistant – was one of the most striking independent films of the past five years, portraying a complex series of systems and personal compromises...
