Category: 2023

2023 / david bax / episode / movies / podcast / tiff / tiff 2023

September 18, 2023

Episode 861: TIFF 2023 Wrap-Up

David discusses the movies he saw in Toronto this year in the TIFF 2023 wrap-up. Movies discussed in the TIFF 2023 wrap-up include Evil Does Not Exist, How to Have Sex, The Delinquents, Do Not Expect Too Much from the...

2023 / david bax / episode / movies / podcast / tiff / tiff 2023 / tyler smith

September 4, 2023

Episode 859: TIFF 2023 Preview

Tyler and David discuss the movies playing at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival in the TIFF 2023 preview as well as the ongoing SAG and WGA strikes. Movies discussed in the TIFF 2023 preview include Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone...

2023 / david bax / episode / julie sesnovich / movies / podcast / scott nye / TCM Fest / tcm fest 2023

May 1, 2023

Episode 841: TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 Wrap-Up

In this episode, David and Scott Nye are joined by Julie Sesnovich for a TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 wrap-up. Films discussed in the TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 wrap-up include Man’s Castle and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie...

2023 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2023 / Theatrical Review

January 30, 2023

Sundance 2023: L’immensita, by David Bax

As a genre, the coming of age movie is an oft-used one for a reason. It’s endlessly malleable in that every sort of person can come of any age at any time. Emanuele Crialese‘s L’immensità goes, in many ways, the...

2023 / david bax / episode / movies / podcast / sundance / sundance 2023

January 29, 2023

Episode 828: Sundance 2023 Wrap-Up

In the Sundance 2023 wrap-up, David discusses the movies he saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance 2023 wrap-up includes discussion of Celine Song’s Past Lives and many more! attleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in...

2023 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2023 / Theatrical Review

January 27, 2023

Sundance 2023: Other People’s Children, by David Bax

Not having previously seen any of director Rebecca Zlotowski‘s work (an error I now intend to correct), I had no way of knowing, as Other People’s Children started, what good hands I was in. So when the opening shots included...

2023 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2023 / Theatrical Review

January 26, 2023

Sundance 2023: The Eight Mountains, by David Bax

Despite a hefty (and, make no mistake, well-earned) running time approaching two and a half hours, Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch‘s The Eight Mountains wastes no time establishing the close boyhood friendship (not to be confused with the boyhood...

2023 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2023 / Theatrical Review

January 25, 2023

Sundance 2023: Kim’s Video, by David Bax

On its most superficial level, David Redmon and Ashley Sabin‘s Kim’s Video is a kind of fan movie. In recounting the history and the strange story of the aftermath of the legendary New York City cult video store of the...

2023 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2023 / Theatrical Review

January 24, 2023

Sundance 2023: The Longest Goodbye, by David Bax

There are a lot of different documentaries about space travel. So part of the challenge of making one must be finding a new angle. And director Ido Mizrahy would, at first, seem to have done just that with The Longest...

2023 / david bax / episode / movies / podcast / sundance / sundance 2023 / tyler smith

January 15, 2023

Episode 826: Sundance 2023 Preview

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss what’s on the docket at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in their Sundance 2023 Preview. The Sundance 2023 preview includes discussion of Susanna Fogel’s Cat Person and many more! Battleship Pretension is a...

Category: 2023

Episode 861: TIFF 2023 Wrap-Up

Episode 859: TIFF 2023 Preview

Episode 841: TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 Wrap-Up

Sundance 2023: L’immensita, by David Bax

Episode 828: Sundance 2023 Wrap-Up

Sundance 2023: Other People’s Children, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: The Eight Mountains, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Kim’s Video, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: The Longest Goodbye, by David Bax

Episode 826: Sundance 2023 Preview

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