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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...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

April 29, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Magic Flute, by Craig Schroeder

The lines between television, film, and performance art as a whole continue to blur with each passing year. With the Academy’s recent decision to uphold its stance and allow Netflix to contend for Oscars, the paradigm in which viewers consume...

david bax / monday movie / movies

April 29, 2019

Monday Movie: The Spirit of the Beehive, by David Bax

“Why did he kill the girl, and why did they kill him after that?” This question, asked by a seven year old girl who’s just seen James Whale’s Frankenstein in Victor Erice’s 1973 The Spirit of the Beehive, is one...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 24, 2019

Avengers: Endgame: Make It Snappy, by David Bax

“Fan service” is a term spoken with disdain for good reason. Aiming to please a series’ most ardent fans, who are going to go see your movie anyway, makes for flat, unsurprising results. Joss Whedon, the writer and director of...

david bax / 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

March 28, 2019

Dumbo: Big Top Letdown, by David Bax

Tim Burton’s Dumbo is a failure, to be sure, but not because of the poor, stiff child acting around which so much of it revolves. Even if that were the case, it would be mean-spirited to say so. No, the...

alexander miller / home video hovel / movies / reviews

March 18, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Vengeance of She, by Alexander Miller

Oh, Hammer. One of the best, most relentlessly entertaining studios to have emerged in the conversation of world cinema. They dabbled in all genres; comedies, adventures, noir, thrillers, chillers, gothic sci-fi and, while their handsome, emblematic Victorian horror features in...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

March 13, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Mole People, by David Bax

When a movie about an ancient race of humans and devolved mole people living miles underground begins with a lecture about the earth’s core from a professor of English, of all things, you may briefly assume that the film is...

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...

Tagged: fantasy

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

Movie Meltdown: Endgame: Post-Snap Therapy Session

Home Video Hovel: The Magic Flute, by Craig Schroeder

Monday Movie: The Spirit of the Beehive, by David Bax

Avengers: Endgame: Make It Snappy, by David Bax

Little: A Minor Achievement, by David Bax

Dumbo: Big Top Letdown, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Vengeance of She, by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: The Mole People, by David Bax

Stray: Falling in Line, by Craig Schroeder

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