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Craig Schroeder / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 14, 2019

The Hummingbird Project: What About the Lemon Farmers?, by Craig Schroeder

Squint just a bit and The Hummingbird Project—the new film from Kim Nguyen—looks an awful lot like David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network. Both films share Jesse Eisngberg as a lead, playing a confident neurotic who wades into murky...

Craig Schroeder / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 28, 2019

Stray: Falling in Line, by Craig Schroeder

In just ten years, Marvel Studios has created a vast net of influence over the way sci-fi/action films look and how these stories are told. For better or worse, they have created the template for movies about super-humans. And if...

best of the week / movies

February 15, 2019

Tops Ten and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Josh’s Top Ten of 2018 Isn’t It Romantic: I Don’t Believe You, You’re Not the Truth, by David Bax Episode 621: Sundance 2019 Wrap-Up BP Movie...

best of the week / movies

February 8, 2019

Expecto Patreon! and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Battleship Pretension Patreon What Men Want: Never Let Them, by David Bax Cold Pursuit: Very Far Through the Snow, by David Bax Jim’s Top Ten of...

Craig Schroeder / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 6, 2019

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts: Innocence and Ugliness, by Craig Schroeder

Detainment If “Detainment” is any indication, this year’s crop of Oscar nominated short films are going to be a brutal entree of nastiness and despair. “Detainment,” based on the true story of a 1993 case from Liverpool in which a...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

December 17, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Little Annie Rooney, by Craig Schroeder

Little Annie Rooney stars Mary Pickford as the titular scamp and leader of a gang of young ruffians and street urchins who have found themselves in an embittered battle against a similarly tempered crew of rogues and rascals. While the...

Craig Schroeder / david bax / movies / new to home video

November 20, 2018

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Craig Schroeder / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 13, 2018

The Dawn Wall: Because It’s There, by Craig Schroeder

The idea of recreational climbing is as foreign to me—someone too afraid to step off a ladder to clean the rain gutters—as a desert to a fish but I’m fascinated by what compels someone to do something so transgressive. George...

Craig Schroeder / movies / oscars / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 8, 2018

The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts: Heaviness and Humanism, by Craig Schroeder

“The Silent Child” dir. Chris Overton Films, or art for that matter, are radical pieces of activism, promoting the ideals of their creators to a larger audience. Some films are more overt about the kind of change they intend to...

2017 / Craig Schroeder / movies

February 2, 2018

Craig’s Top Ten of 2017

There are many films from 2017 I enjoyed and would like to spotlight. However, the mathematical restraints of a “Top Ten List” have limited me to only ten films. Here are some 2017 films I quite liked but didn’t make...

Tagged: craig schroeder

The Hummingbird Project: What About the Lemon Farmers?, by Craig Schroeder

Stray: Falling in Line, by Craig Schroeder

Tops Ten and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Expecto Patreon! and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts: Innocence and Ugliness, by Craig Schroeder

Home Video Hovel: Little Annie Rooney, by Craig Schroeder

New to Home Video 11/20/18

The Dawn Wall: Because It’s There, by Craig Schroeder

The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts: Heaviness and Humanism, by Craig Schroeder

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