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In this episode, David is joined by Kyle Anderson, Scott Nye and Julie Sesnovich to discuss the films of the 2022 TCM Classic Film Festival. David and the usual gang braved the simultaneously rebuilding and crumbling outdoor mall at the...
TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part Three William Dieterle’s (again!) Portrait of Jennie has the distinction of being quite possibly the weirdest-ass movie I’ve ever seen at a TCM Classic Film Festival. Granted, the bar’s not set all that high...
TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part Two After The Letter, here comes another movie with a Max Steiner score (not the last of the festival for me, either), Michael Curtiz‘ Angels with Dirty Faces. A crime picture with James Cagney...
TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part One It’s going to be hard to resist the temptation to turn every reaction to every movie I saw at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival into a gleeful celebration of the fact that...
In this episode, David is joined by Julie Sesnovich, Scott Nye and Kyle Anderson to discuss the films of this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival.
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 738: The Oscar Expert Above Suspicion: Impersonal Elegy, by David Bax The Story of a Three-Day Pass: Weekend, by David Bax TCM Classic Film Festival...
For a long time, I had very little interest in seeing Bullitt, a movie I snobbishly thought of as a Steve McQueen vanity project, something he reverse engineered from the idea for a car chase scene. I softened my stance...
1947’s T-Men is one of a flurry of propaganda movies made in the 1940s and 50s with the cooperation of various law enforcement agencies. Like 1949’s Trapped, this one’s about treasury agents tracking counterfeiters. Other examples include 1954’s Down Three...
For the second year in a row, there was no in-person TCM Classic Film Festival this spring. No drinks with old friends at the Pig ‘n Whistle, no charming anecdotes from well-seasoned celebrities, no nitrate at the Egyptian. And I...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Spaceship Earth: Mission Inscrutable, by Tyler Smith BP Movie Journal 4/23/20 Episode 684: TCM Classic Film Festival Special Home Edition Wrap-Up Deerskin: Odd Fit, by Josh...
