Tagged: battleship pretension

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

February 21, 2019

Criterion Prediction #179: Bamboozled, by Alexander Miller

Title: Bamboozled Year: 2000 Director: Spike Lee Cast: Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Savion Glover, Michael Rapaport Synopsis: Pierre Delacroix (Wayans) is an uptight, Harvard-educated TV producer who tries to use his influence to create positive programs featuring...

crossing the streams / jim rohner / movies

February 21, 2019

Crossing the Streams: February 2019, by Jim Rohner

Congratulations! With your recent purchase of a brand-new Roku/Apple TV/Amazon Fire Stick you’re ready to – as Obi-Wan Kenobi said – take your first step into a larger world. That larger world is, of course, the world of cord cutting,...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

February 21, 2019

I Do Movies Badly: Safety Last!

Safety Last! may only last a brief one hour and seven minutes but that was long enough to create an image that would resonate with film audiences almost 100 years later!

2018 / david bax / episode / featured / movies / podcast / tyler smith

February 18, 2019

Episode 622: Top Ten Films of 2018

In this episode, Tyler and David count down their favorite films of 2018 as well as mourn the passing of Bruno Ganz.

2018 / alexander miller / movies

February 18, 2019

Alexander’s Top 10 of 2018

This year we saw a lot in the world of movies. Screen legend Robert Redford retired from a prolific career with low-key crime film The Old Man and the Gun. Steven Soderbergh shot a brilliant little chiller on some iPhones....

david bax / monday movie / movies

February 18, 2019

Monday Movie: The Decline of Western Civilization, by David Bax

To whatever extent it still exists, the punk rocker’s mentality almost reflexively rejects things that feel calculated to appeal to it; like Grouch Marx, they don’t care to belong to any club that would have them as a member. This...

best of the week / movies

February 15, 2019

Tops Ten and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Josh’s Top Ten of 2018 Isn’t It Romantic: I Don’t Believe You, You’re Not the Truth, by David Bax Episode 621: Sundance 2019 Wrap-Up BP Movie...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 13, 2019

Isn’t It Romantic: I Don’t Believe You, You’re Not the Truth, by David Bax

Roy Orbison crooning “Pretty Woman” over the opening titles of Todd Strauss-Schulson’s Isn’t It Romantic is just the first of many touches meant to signify how steeped in the world of romantic comedies the film and its world are. In...

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

February 13, 2019

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #7: Andrew Kam & Johnnie To’s The Big Heat (1988)

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

February 13, 2019

Hotel by the River: White Party, by Scott Nye

It’s nothing but love among Hong Sang-soo fans, but I have noticed at least two factions of sorts crop up in the seven years I’ve been keeping up with his work. The first prizes most his rigidly-structured, more grounded features...

Tagged: battleship pretension

Criterion Prediction #179: Bamboozled, by Alexander Miller

Crossing the Streams: February 2019, by Jim Rohner

I Do Movies Badly: Safety Last!

Episode 622: Top Ten Films of 2018

Alexander’s Top 10 of 2018

Monday Movie: The Decline of Western Civilization, by David Bax

Tops Ten and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Isn’t It Romantic: I Don’t Believe You, You’re Not the Truth, by David Bax

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #7: Andrew Kam & Johnnie To’s The Big Heat (1988)

Hotel by the River: White Party, by Scott Nye

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