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...
In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies David saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival as well as the various possible worlds to be discovered within the end credits of the second Lego movie.
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Sundance 2019: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, by David Bax Sundance 2019: Wounds, by David Bax Sundance 2019: The Hole in the Ground, by David...
So much of the recent filmed fiction set in the 1980s has been more an attempt to bottle an imagine collective memory of the era than any actual, tactile transportation. Joanna Hogg’s magnetic, gentle and magnificent The Souvenir feels different and...
In his entrancing 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra balanced a deep respect with an anthropological fascination with the lives and cultures of Amazonian tribes aching to preserve their way of life in the 20th century. Now, with...
Even though Gurinder Chadha’s anthemic, deeply moving Blinded by the Light is, to a large extent, a movie about the music of Bruce Springsteen, it opens with a song more specific to its 1987 England setting, “It’s a Sin,” by the Pet Shop...
Even a cursory glance at the pedigree behind Relive would be enough to get one’s hopes up. It’s from Jacob Estes, the director of Mean Creek, and it stars Brian Tyree Henry, Mykelti Williamson and Alfred Molina in addition to its...
Director Ritesh Batra made his name with his lovely feature directorial debut, The Lunchbox, back in 2013, an understated story of a man and woman who become accidental pen pals via mixed up lunch deliveries. Now, with Photograph, he’s returned...
Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile ultimately fails in its mission to provide the viewer with anything deeper or broader than an adaptation of what they’d uncover in a Google search. But it does deserve credit for respectfully avoiding the temptation to be...
For the most part, anyone who’s squeamish will probably instinctively avoid a horror movie called Wounds. A further warning is probably in order, though, for those who get icked out by bugs, especially cockroaches, of which the movie features approximately...
