Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Dumplin’: Where the Tea Is Sweet and the Love Complete, by David Bax Episode 612: Jewish Movies Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Web Warriors, by David Bax...
Mortal Engines is a surprisingly fitting name for what is, hopefully, the last tired attempt at a YA dystopian franchise starter to cough and sputter its way into theaters. Like most of the others, it takes place in a distant...
With a screenplay by Phil Lord of The Lego Movie and Jump Street reboot fame and a plot that includes a half dozen different versions of Spider-Man in varying degree of obscurity from the comic book’s long and many-tentacled run,...
Is anything actually worth living for against all odds or do we just soldier on out of primal instincts of self-preservation? It’s a solemn question to ponder, which is perhaps why Susanne Bier’s Bird Box only really goes so far as to...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: BP Movie Journal 11/29/18 Vox Lux: God Is a Woman, by Josh Long Episode 611: AFI Fest 2018 Wrap-Up 2nd Annual Los Angeles Online Film Critics...
Dolly Parton’s contributions to Anne Fletcher’s Dumplin’ are all over the movie (about a young woman who idolizes the country singer/songwriter), including some brand new songs. But she probably also deserves a credit for the screenplay’s source material since the...
The transition from actor to director isn’t always a smooth one but Brady Corbet is making that move quietly and deftly. His debut feature, 2015’s haunting The Childhood of a Leader flew under the radar for most moviegoers, but was...
Despite what you might hear from some of society’s louder voices, awareness of racism in its many forms is growing in the United States. Perhaps the racist voices themselves have gotten louder at the same time, but studies show that...
