This week we continue our “live” coverage from WonderFest as we talk with artist Daren Dochterman. Early on, Daren worked in the art department on The Abyss – when he was just 20 years old. And since then, he’s worked in the art...
This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. Petra Costa’s criminally underseen 2012 documentary Elena is a deeply personal work about family, dreams and loss. So her new film, The Edge of Democracy, about the short lived rule of Brazil’s...
The major draw of Hampstead is its stars, Diane Keaton and Brendon Gleeson. The rest of the cast is added incentive, seeing as it’s a rounded collective of British actors. There’s Lesley Manville, James Norton, Phil Davis and none other...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Deep Murder: Gosford Pork, by David Bax Episode 638: Long Awaited Sequels The Dead Don’t Die: Nothing Settled, Nothing Remains, by Scott Nye Wild Rose: I...
In a recent series of tweets, political commentator Matt Walsh stated that older movies – released in the 30s, 40s, and 50s – are less sophisticated than modern films. He suggested that, while many of these older films are still...
It’s so straightforward, it’s disarming. A group of people sit around a table somewhere in Israel, some Jewish Israelis, others Germans or Austrians, all too young to remember the history they’re trying to reckon with and yet forced to reckon...
This review originally ran as part of our LA Film Fest 2018 coverage. Nick Corirossi’s astounding Deep Murder is such a thoroughly committed work of parody that its commitment is, in some ways, actually part of the joke. Take, for instance, the...
This week on the Patreon, Tyler and David discuss the TV they’ve been watching, including Leaving Neverland, Angie Tribeca, and The Amazing Race. Patreon tiers begin at $5 per month!
