Tagged: battleship pretension

david bax / episode / jim rohner / movies / podcast / tyler smith

July 12, 2020

Episode 695: Old Movies, New Technology with Jim Rohner

In this episode, Tyler and David are joined by Jim Rohner to discuss how technology antiquates movies.

best of the week / movies

July 10, 2020

We Are Not Entertained and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: BP Movie Journal 7/2/20 The Beach House: Waterlogged, by Tyler Smith Episode 694: Top Five of the Year So Far The Old Guard: Obsolete, by David...

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

July 10, 2020

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller: Fassbinder Tribute

bp movie journal / david bax / featured / movies / podcast / tyler smith

July 9, 2020

BP Movie Journal 7/9/20

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: PRETTY IN PINKI STILL BELIEVEWELCOME TO CHECHNYATHE BEACH HOUSETELL IT TO THE BEESA MOST WANTED MANTHE HIDDEN FORTRESSUSELESS HUMANSTHE SEARCHERSONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOODTHE WAR OF...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 9, 2020

Guest of Honour: Crimes of the Heart, by David Bax

David Thewlis is one of those unfailingly great character actors who improves a few movies every year by turning up in bit and ensemble parts. It’s all too rare that such considerable talents get to headline movies; if you don’t...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

July 8, 2020

Criterion Prediction #249: My Brother’s Wedding, by Alexander Miller

Title: My Brother’s Wedding Year: 1983 Director: Charles Burnett Cast: Everett Silas, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, Jessie Holmes, Ronnie Bell, Sy Richardson Synopsis: While everyone is preparing for his brother’s wedding, Pierce (Silas) must navigate the perils of his life in South...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 8, 2020

The Old Guard: Obsolete, by David Bax

This review will not be simply a list of things Gina Prince-Bythewood’s adaptation of Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández’s The Old Guard changes from the source material. But fans of the graphic miniseries will take note almost immediately that Charlize...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 8, 2020

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: You Can’t Stay Here, by David Bax

When brothers Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV made their enthralling new documentary/drama hybrid Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets–charting the final day in business of a Las Vegas dive bar far from the Strip–they were certainly aiming for something bittersweet. They...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

July 7, 2020

I Do Movies Badly: Introduction to Canuxploitation (featuring David Bax of Battleship Pretension)

David Bax remains the only I Do Movies Badly guest to actively pitch me topics and thus, he returns for the second time in three months to discuss some Canuxploitation films, less fun, “tax shelter films”–in which our neighbors in the Great White North...