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david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 20, 2020

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman: Fisher of Men, by David Bax

In many cases, when a restoration as extensive as the one of Albert Lewin’s 1951 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (opening here in Los Angeles on Friday at the Laemmle Royal) is undertaken, it’s because the movie is an undisputed...

david bax / featured / movies / patreon / podcast / tyler smith

February 20, 2020

Patreon: Top Five of 1995

Tyler and David discuss their favorite films of 1995. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers begin as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron!

home video hovel / movies / reviews / tyler smith / tyler's reviews

February 20, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Big Trouble in Little China, by Tyler Smith

After a string of box office failures in the 1980s, director John Carpenter was apparently eager to cut loose. Having delivered some of the best science fiction and horror films of all time to an indifferent filmgoing public, Carpenter decided...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

February 19, 2020

Criterion Prediction #230: Muna Moto, by Alexander Miller

Title: Muna Moto (The Child of Another) Year: 1975 Director: Jean Pierre Dikongue-Pipa Cast: Phillippe Abia, Arlette Din Beli, Gisèle Dikongue-Pipa, David Endene Synopsis: Ngando and Ndome are young and in love.However, they endure the pressures of local customs and...

alexander miller / featured / movies / trailer project / video

February 19, 2020

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #17: Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder (2003)

alexander miller / hammer-rama / movies

February 19, 2020

Hammer-Rama: Demons of the Mind, by Alexander Miller

The 70s were hard times for Hammer and, ironically, it was also the studio’s most prolific period, despite varying degrees of quality among the varied output of buxom vampires, screwy comedies and Jurassic adventures. Their massively successful Dracula and Frankenstein...

david bax / movies / new to home video / tyler smith

February 18, 2020

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2020 / angie han / david bax / episode / featured / movies / podcast / sundance / sundance 2020

February 17, 2020

Episode 674: Sundance 2020 Wrap-Up with Angie Han

In this episode, David is joined by Mashable’s Angie Han to discuss the movies they saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 12, 2020

L’Innocente: Who, Me?, by David Bax

There’s a superficial version of this review in which I try to figure out what the title of Luchino Visconti’s final film, L’Innocente (newly restored in HD and opening at Film Forum this week), means. Well, obviously, it means “The...

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 12, 2020

I Wish I Knew: Legends on the Sea, by Dave Platt

When it comes to films and filmmakers, the word “important” can be a loaded one, and an unwieldy metric by which to appreciate cinema. But, permitted a moment on my soapbox, I doubt there has been a more vital and...

Tagged: battleship pretension

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman: Fisher of Men, by David Bax

Patreon: Top Five of 1995

Home Video Hovel: Big Trouble in Little China, by Tyler Smith

Criterion Prediction #230: Muna Moto, by Alexander Miller

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #17: Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder (2003)

Hammer-Rama: Demons of the Mind, by Alexander Miller

New to Home Video 2/18/20

Episode 674: Sundance 2020 Wrap-Up with Angie Han

L’Innocente: Who, Me?, by David Bax

I Wish I Knew: Legends on the Sea, by Dave Platt

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