This article originally ran as part of our TCM Classic Film Festival: Special Home Editon coverage. Howard Hawks’ Sergeant York (1941) has a spoiler right there in the title since Alvin York (Gary Cooper) doesn’t even join the army until...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: 7500: Mayday, by Tyler Smith You Should Have Left: Not Just the House Settling, by David Bax Episode 691: Hudson and Gaines Reunion I Do Movies...
We recently posed the question, if they made a live-action Battle of the Planets movie, who gets cast as the leads? So we settle in for a discussion about different options… from big-budget blockbuster choices to more age-appropriate actors. What...
If you’re at all like me, you’ll become immediately skeptical about David Koepp’s You Should Have Left because it’s yet another Hollywood movie in which a male star is romantically paired with an actress more than a quarter century his...
Tyler and David discuss five entries of their respective top hundreds. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron!
It’s possible that Patrick Vollrath’s new thriller 7500 was never going to work. The story of an airplane hijacking told entirely from the point of view of the pilot in the cockpit sounds like a decent enough idea, but it...
Benson and Moorhead’s Spring is a marvelous exploration of suspense over surprise, focusing on two closed off characters whose world views of objectification stem from their vulnerabilities and fears of loss (even if its female lead is far more interesting than its...
