Category: 2023

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November 6, 2023

Episode 868: AFI Fest 2023 Wrap-Up

David and Scott Nye discuss what they saw this year in the AFI Fest 2023 Wrap-Up as well as the potential downfall of the MCU. Movies discussed in the AFI Fest 2023 Wrap-Up include Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border and more!...

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...

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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

February 15, 2023

Sundance 2023: You Hurt My Feelings, by David Bax

There are many things that make every Nicole Holofcener film a welcome, reliable refreshment but maybe the most important is that she’s one of the very few directors currently working who are expressly an unapologetically interested in making comedies. Sure,...

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

February 14, 2023

Sundance 2023: Jamojaya, by David Bax

Jamojaya, the latest melodrama from one of the best currently working melodramatists, Justin Chon (Gook, Blue Bayou), returns to the subject matter of family, which has dominated much of his oeuvre. This time, we’re focused on the growing distance between...

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

February 9, 2023

Sundance 2023: Kokomo City, by David Bax

In topic-driven or issue-driven documentaries, there are two main paths a filmmaker can make (and then innumerable directions to branch off from there). On the one hand, there’s the bird’s eye view approach, attempting to offer an overview of a...

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

February 8, 2023

Sundance 2023: Bad Behaviour, by David Bax

Alice Englert‘s Bad Behaviour is officially, as the title’s spelling suggests, a product of New Zealand. But most of the movie, as evidenced by the presence of Blue Lives Matter stickers and other present-day yank ephemera, takes place in the...

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

February 7, 2023

Sundance 2023: Infinity Pool, by David Bax

Old, Sundown, Triangle of Sadness, The White Lotus (from what I’m told; I haven’t watched it)… A subsection of the recent trend of movies about how fucked up rich folks are comes in the form of letting us see people...

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

February 6, 2023

Sundance 2023: Cat Person, by David Bax

When it references the saying–often misattributed to Margaret Atwood–that “men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them,” I immediately started to worry that Susanna Fogel‘s Cat Person was going to...

Category: 2023

Episode 868: AFI Fest 2023 Wrap-Up

Episode 861: TIFF 2023 Wrap-Up

Episode 859: TIFF 2023 Preview

Episode 841: TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 Wrap-Up

Sundance 2023: You Hurt My Feelings, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Jamojaya, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Kokomo City, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Bad Behaviour, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Infinity Pool, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Cat Person, by David Bax

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