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December 5, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Eegah, by David Bax

As of the writing of this review, I have not watched the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode in which they mock Arch Hall Sr.’s 1962 teensploitation mess Eegah, even though it’s available as a special feature on the new, limited...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 9, 2019

TIFF 2019: The Lighthouse, by David Bax

Robert Eggers’ thrilling, garish, wonderfully off-putting and hilarious portrait of insanity, The Lighthouse, starts with a churning, percussive score indicating the two main characters’ level-headed determination on their way to get a job done. That sense is comically short-lived, though,...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 6, 2019

TIFF 2019: Zombi Child, by David Bax

Bertrand Bonello’s Zombi Child is a fictionalized retelling of the account of Clairvius Narcisse, a Haitian man who claimed to have been given a poison in 1962 that caused him to appear dead and then “resurrected” by men who enslaved...

david bax / monday movie / movies

August 26, 2019

Monday Movie: Full Moon High, by David Bax

This article originally ran as part of a Home Video Hovel review. Four years before being a werewolf made Michael J. Fox good at basketball, being a werewolf made Adam Arkin good at football. The sports angle was a 1980s...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 1, 2019

La Flor: Unstill Life, by David Bax

In his onscreen introduction to his thirteen and a half hour (fifteen hours with intermissions), multi-part undertaking La Flor, Argentinean director Mariano Llinás describes the first episode of the film as a B-movie, “the kind Americans used to make with...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

July 3, 2019

Criterion Prediction #198: The Secret of Roan Inish, by Alexander Miller

Title: The Secret of Roan Inish Year: 1994 Director: John Sayles Cast: Jenny Courtney, Eileen Colgan, Mick Lally, John Lynch, Pat Slowly, Declan Hannigan, Dave Duffy Synopsis: A ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in the quiet...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 27, 2019

Diamantino: Sorry to Boggle You, by David Bax

It’s probably the giant puppies that will make the first big impression on you in Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s Diamantino. If it’s not that, then it’ll be the similarly outlandish, perfect physique of star Carloto Cotta who, in the...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

June 19, 2019

Criterion Prediction #196: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, by Alexander Miller

Title: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Year: 2010 Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Cast: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Jenjira Pongpas, Thanapat Saisaymar, Natthakarn Aphaiwonk, Geerasak Kulhong Synopsis: Living in the countryside, an aging Boonmee, struggling with kidney failure, is visited by...

2019 / cannes / cannes 2019 / luiz oliveira / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 21, 2019

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

Not since the Overlook hotel appeared on screen has any piece of remote real estate been so ominous and obviously dangerous as the simple, weather-beaten lighthouse on the coast of Maine that sits atop a cragged landscape in Robert Eggers’...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

May 6, 2019

Movie Meltdown: Endgame: Post-Snap Therapy Session

This week the Super Series wraps up a huge chapter in the Marvel cinematic universe. Join us as we try to talk through coming down off the Endgame high as well as what all of this has meant to us over the course of these last...

Tagged: fantasy

Home Video Hovel: Eegah, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: The Lighthouse, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Zombi Child, by David Bax

Monday Movie: Full Moon High, by David Bax

La Flor: Unstill Life, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #198: The Secret of Roan Inish, by Alexander Miller

Diamantino: Sorry to Boggle You, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #196: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, by Alexander Miller

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

Movie Meltdown: Endgame: Post-Snap Therapy Session

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