This week we travel to Indy PopCon and discuss all the crazy goings on, as well as the latest trailers we’ve seen for upcoming movies, including… Bad Times at the El Royale, Suspiria, Destination Wedding, Upgrade, and the latest Halloween...
Perhaps the most heartbreaking work of avant garde cinema ever made, there’s a kind of graceful fury boiling underneath the placid, azure surface of Derek Jarman’s Blue. Released only months before Jarman’s AIDS-related death, the film is a mix of...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 586: Do We Still Need Physical Media? Incredibles 2: Suffering by Comparison, by Tyler Smith BP Movie Journal 6/14/18 Home Video Hovel: The Last Laugh,...
In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: Movies SUPERFLY EDWARD II INCREDIBLES 2 THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY UNFORGIVEN
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...
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...
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,...
Title: Cabaret Year: 1972 Director: Bob Fosse Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson Synopsis: While the Weimar Republic is ending, the Nazi party is rising but the decadent Kit Kat club is a world unto...
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...
