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June 20, 2018

Boundaries: Path of Least Resistance, by David Bax

Even before Boundaries‘ tired plot grinds into motion, your patience may already be worn thin by the introduction of only the first of its many grating characters. Vera Farmiga’s Laura Jaconi is a single mom who works as an executive assistant...

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June 20, 2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: The End of the World As We Know It, by Tyler Smith

J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a worthy sequel to a less-than-stellar film. In many ways, it far exceeds Colin Trevorrow’s 2015 film in terms of pure, unrelenting action and suspense. Where that film was required to spend a...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 20, 2018

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town: No Direction, by David Bax

Introducing itself with a song by Corin Tucker’s pre-Sleater-Kinney band, Heavens to Betsy, Christian Papierniak’s Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town kicks off with energetic, punk rock promise. Soon, though, what Papierniak seems to be positioning as a quintessential Los...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

June 19, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Misery, by David Bax

From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, a Rob Reiner film was a grade A production. It would be unthinkable, for instance, for him to employ any less than William Goldman to adapt a hot Stephen King property like Misery,...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

June 19, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Nightkill, by David Bax

1980’s Nightkill is, perhaps disappointingly, not quite as dumb and trashy as its title would suggest. But director Ted Post (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Magnum Force) still brings a sense of matinee movie fun to this murder cover-up thriller. He also...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 14, 2018

SuperFly: Ballin’ on a Budget, by David Bax

It would be misleading to refer to Director X.’s SuperFly as a comedy (despite the director’s clownish name) but it will make you laugh more than once, and on purpose too. Well, for the most part; I’m not sure I was...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 13, 2018

Gabriel and the Mountain: World Traveler, by David Bax

If you’re ever looking to define the nebulous term “world cinema,” just pointing toward Fellipe Barbosa’s beautiful and haunting Gabriel and the Mountain would be a good start. A French/Brazilian coproduction set and shot in Eastern Africa, the film unfolds...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

June 13, 2018

Home Video Hovel: The Man Who Died Twice, by David Bax

With its Afterschool Special depiction of jonesing heroin addicts and its generally choppy dialogue, Joseph Kane’s The Man Who Died Twice is square through and through, especially for a hip-seeming genre like noir. It does eventually reveal a bit of distinctive character...

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June 13, 2018

Incredibles 2: Suffering by Comparison, by Tyler Smith

One of the problems inherent in movie sequels is the inevitable comparison to the original. It can’t really be helped. And, in this comparison, the sequel often falls short, if only due to the novelty having worn off. Some sequels,...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

June 12, 2018

Home Video Hovel: The Last Laugh, by David Bax

From our vantage point, nearly 100 years later, cinema in 1924 can appear nascent. But it was already decades old and had come into its own as an artistic medium and a populist entertainment. F.W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh is an example...

Category: reviews

Boundaries: Path of Least Resistance, by David Bax

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: The End of the World As We Know It, by Tyler Smith

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town: No Direction, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Misery, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Nightkill, by David Bax

SuperFly: Ballin’ on a Budget, by David Bax

Gabriel and the Mountain: World Traveler, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Man Who Died Twice, by David Bax

Incredibles 2: Suffering by Comparison, by Tyler Smith

Home Video Hovel: The Last Laugh, by David Bax

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