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david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 17, 2019

El Desencanto: Death of the Family, by David Bax

El Desencanto is something of a cult favorite in Spain but has not seen a release in the United States until this year. Its reputation is not unlike that of Grey Gardens, which came out the year before El Desencanto,...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

April 17, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Body Snatcher, by David Bax

Horror is the best genre of cinema. Not all my favorite movies are horror movies but it’s the category of film in which I have the highest success rate of enjoyment. I’m convinced that there are more people than you’d...

Craig Schroeder / featured / home video hovel / movies / reviews

April 16, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Warning Sign, by Craig Schroeder

Isolation and claustrophobia are about the hardest hitting one-two combination the horror genre can deliver. If not baked right into the premise (The Descent, The Thing, Night of the Living Dead), they’re often deployed to heighten a scene’s tension (the...

Craig Schroeder / movies / new to home video / scott nye / tyler smith

April 16, 2019

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

April 15, 2019

Episode 630: Penny Marshall

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the directorial career of Penny Marshall as well as Netflix’s theater buying plans.

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

April 15, 2019

Movie Meltdown: Dick Starr: Art, Movies and Jerky

This week we talk with Dick Starr, an artist whose work has been featured in numerous galleries, horror and tattoo magazines, books, album covers and comics around the world. But if you look at Dick’s work, it’s very obvious that he’s...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 11, 2019

Little: A Minor Achievement, by David Bax

Tina Gordon wrote the screenplay for this year’s What Men Want, a gender- and race-swapped version of Nancy Meyers’ What Women Want. Now Gordon has written and directed Little, a gender-, race- and age-swapped version of Penny Marshall’s Big. This time around, there is...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 11, 2019

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Welcome to Spain, by David Bax

Though he started off his directing career with PG-rated, ostensibly kid-friendly movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Time Bandits, mean-spiritedness has always defined Terry Gilliam’s work. His latest, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, finally making its way to theaters...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 10, 2019

A Dark Place: The Voices Low, by David Bax

A Dark Place may be a sleep-inducing title but even its original name, Steel Country, is a sidestep from what it really wants to say. The opening montage of the small, rural Pennsylvanian town where it’s set is dotted with...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 10, 2019

Girls of the Sun: Good Daughters, by Alexander Miller

There’s a great scene in Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun that appears in the trailer. One of the titular soldiers is standing over the body of a fallen enemy. She pulls a ringing phone out of his pocket. The...

Tagged: battleship pretension

El Desencanto: Death of the Family, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Body Snatcher, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Warning Sign, by Craig Schroeder

New to Home Video 4/16/19

Episode 630: Penny Marshall

Movie Meltdown: Dick Starr: Art, Movies and Jerky

Little: A Minor Achievement, by David Bax

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Welcome to Spain, by David Bax

A Dark Place: The Voices Low, by David Bax

Girls of the Sun: Good Daughters, by Alexander Miller

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