Category: scott nye

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July 5, 2020

Episode 694: Top Five of the Year So Far

In this episode, Tyler and David are joined by Battleship Pretension editor-at-large Scott Nye to count down their respective top five films of the year so far.

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June 2, 2020

New to Home Video 6/2/20

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May 10, 2020

Episode 686: The Best Summer Movie Preview We Could Manage

In this episode, Tyler and David are joined by Scott Nye and Julie Sesnovich to assemble some sort of preview of what movie lovers have to look forward to this summer Oh, and here’s the cake recipe Julie recommends.

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April 27, 2020

Episode 684: TCM Classic Film Festival Special Home Edition Wrap-Up

In this episode, David and guest co-host Julie Sesnovich are joined by Battleship Pretension editor-at-large Scott Nye and Nerdist.com Senior Editor Kyle Anderson to discuss the movies they watched during the first ever Special Home Edition of the TCM Classic...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

April 23, 2020

To the Stars: Floating, by Scott Nye

The movies went through a heady period from the 1980s ‘til the mid-2000s of depicting high school as a non-stop party, but when I think back on those years, I mostly think about the long gaps of nothing. I think...

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April 21, 2020

New to Home Video 4/21/20

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February 27, 2020

The Whistlers: Coded Messages, by Scott Nye

Corneliu Porumboiu’s work can fit many off-putting descriptors – slow, meandering, talky, lacking in plot or character insight, to name a few – and whether one agrees with those conclusions, his films tend to be a tough sell if you’re...

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February 26, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Le petit soldat, by Scott Nye

Jean-Luc Godard’s early ambition was in fact to be a novelist, and he took that same working method and applied it to cinema. As lead actor Michel Subor notes in the supplements on this disc, Godard uses the camera like...

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February 13, 2020

Ordinary Love: Into the Unknown, by Scott Nye

You get sick, or your spouse gets sick. The diagnosis makes clear that this won’t be an easy illness. It might take up your year and be over, or that year might be the last. But it will be hard,...