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david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 21, 2018

Damsel: Distressingly Funny, by David Bax

Directors David and Nathan Zellner may have upped the star power with Damsel, their Western follow-up to 2014’s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, but no one could accuse them of making a star vehicle. Even in his brief cameo in the...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 20, 2018

Boundaries: Path of Least Resistance, by David Bax

Even before Boundaries‘ tired plot grinds into motion, your patience may already be worn thin by the introduction of only the first of its many grating characters. Vera Farmiga’s Laura Jaconi is a single mom who works as an executive assistant...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 20, 2018

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town: No Direction, by David Bax

Introducing itself with a song by Corin Tucker’s pre-Sleater-Kinney band, Heavens to Betsy, Christian Papierniak’s Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town kicks off with energetic, punk rock promise. Soon, though, what Papierniak seems to be positioning as a quintessential Los...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

June 19, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Misery, by David Bax

From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, a Rob Reiner film was a grade A production. It would be unthinkable, for instance, for him to employ any less than William Goldman to adapt a hot Stephen King property like Misery,...

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June 19, 2018

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david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

June 19, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Nightkill, by David Bax

1980’s Nightkill is, perhaps disappointingly, not quite as dumb and trashy as its title would suggest. But director Ted Post (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Magnum Force) still brings a sense of matinee movie fun to this murder cover-up thriller. He also...

best of the week / movies

June 15, 2018

Holding on to Our Discs and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 586: Do We Still Need Physical Media? Incredibles 2: Suffering by Comparison, by Tyler Smith BP Movie Journal 6/14/18 Home Video Hovel: The Last Laugh,...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 14, 2018

SuperFly: Ballin’ on a Budget, by David Bax

It would be misleading to refer to Director X.’s SuperFly as a comedy (despite the director’s clownish name) but it will make you laugh more than once, and on purpose too. Well, for the most part; I’m not sure I was...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 13, 2018

Gabriel and the Mountain: World Traveler, by David Bax

If you’re ever looking to define the nebulous term “world cinema,” just pointing toward Fellipe Barbosa’s beautiful and haunting Gabriel and the Mountain would be a good start. A French/Brazilian coproduction set and shot in Eastern Africa, the film unfolds...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

June 13, 2018

Home Video Hovel: The Man Who Died Twice, by David Bax

With its Afterschool Special depiction of jonesing heroin addicts and its generally choppy dialogue, Joseph Kane’s The Man Who Died Twice is square through and through, especially for a hip-seeming genre like noir. It does eventually reveal a bit of distinctive character...

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Damsel: Distressingly Funny, by David Bax

Boundaries: Path of Least Resistance, by David Bax

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town: No Direction, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Misery, by David Bax

New to Home Video 6/19/18

Home Video Hovel: Nightkill, by David Bax

Holding on to Our Discs and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

SuperFly: Ballin’ on a Budget, by David Bax

Gabriel and the Mountain: World Traveler, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Man Who Died Twice, by David Bax

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