Tagged: films

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

November 17, 2019

Episode 661: Is It Cinema?

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss what people mean by the word “cinema,” as well as the TV show that is not the best TV show of the 2010s.

2019 / afi fest / afi fest 2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 17, 2019

AFI Fest 2019: Citizen K, by David Bax

Nearing the end of the decade, there’s been a lot of looking back at trends and changes. One of the less remarked upon developments of the 2010s is the advent of affordable drone cameras that gave modest filmmakers the sudden...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

November 14, 2019

Movie Meltdown: Colonel Tony Moore: Lean into Something Weird

This episode we’re joined by special guest Tony Moore. Now you probably know Tony as the co-creator of The Walking Dead comic series. Or if you are more of a comic fan, you also may know his titles like Battle Pope, Fear Agent and The Exterminators. And...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 14, 2019

Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer: You Don’t Wanna Know, by David Bax

In the opening titles of Mark Landsman’s Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer, the last two letters of the word scandalous are highlighted in the colors and style of the United States flag. Unfortunately, Landsman follows through on...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 13, 2019

The Hottest August: Summer in the City, by David Bax

There’s an anthropological conceit to Brett Story’s documentary The Hottest August; despite being filmed in August 2017 (actually tied with 2015 and 2019 for second hottest August ever; 2016 is the prizewinner), the narration frames the events historically. Everything is...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 13, 2019

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi: Blase-Heart, by David Bax

With the exception of veteran scenery chewers Rupert Everett (as British Army officer Sir Hugh Rose) and Derek Jacobi (as Prime Minister Henry John Temple, also known as Lord Palmerston), the performances in Swati Bhise’s The Warrior Queen of Jhansi...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

November 12, 2019

Criterion Prediction #215: The Late Show, by Alexander Miller

Title: The Late Show Year: 1977 Director: Robert Benton Cast: Lily Tomlin, Art Carney, Eugene Roche, Bill Macy, Joanna Cassidy Synopsis: Aging private eye Ira Wells (Carney) reluctantly allies with a young would-be actress turned hippie Margo (Tomlin) as their...

david bax / movies / new to home video

November 12, 2019

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aaron pinkston / monday movie / movies

November 11, 2019

Monday Movie: Rebel Without a Cause, by Aaron Pinkston

This article originally ran as part of Aaron’s series on American Films of the 1950s. Up until this point in the 1950s film series, a specific demographic had been completely unrepresented — strangely enough, the demographic that is the largest...