Tagged: shorts

February 8, 2019

Expecto Patreon! and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Battleship Pretension Patreon What Men Want: Never Let Them, by David Bax Cold Pursuit: Very Far Through the Snow, by David Bax Jim’s Top Ten of...

Craig Schroeder / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 6, 2019

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts: Innocence and Ugliness, by Craig Schroeder

Detainment If “Detainment” is any indication, this year’s crop of Oscar nominated short films are going to be a brutal entree of nastiness and despair. “Detainment,” based on the true story of a 1993 case from Liverpool in which a...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 6, 2019

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts: Politics and Periods, by Alexander Miller

A Night at the Garden Short, and sweet? Clocking in at a slim seven minutes, Michael Curry’s documentary is solely composed of archival footage shot at Madison Square Garden on February 20th, 1939. There’s a crowded street. Mounted police officers...

movies / reviews / sarah brinks / Theatrical Review

February 4, 2019

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Family Time, by Sarah Brinks

There’s a surprisingly consistent theme across the animated short films nominated this year: The many phases families experience throughout a lifetime. Four out of the five films explore this theme in different ways. Animal Behaviour “Animal Behaviour” is the one...

Craig Schroeder / movies / oscars / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 8, 2018

The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts: Heaviness and Humanism, by Craig Schroeder

“The Silent Child” dir. Chris Overton Films, or art for that matter, are radical pieces of activism, promoting the ideals of their creators to a larger audience. Some films are more overt about the kind of change they intend to...

Tagged: shorts

Expecto Patreon! and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts: Innocence and Ugliness, by Craig Schroeder

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts: Politics and Periods, by Alexander Miller

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Family Time, by Sarah Brinks

The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts: Heaviness and Humanism, by Craig Schroeder

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