Haywire is one of the best action films of the decade. Overlooked when it was released wide in 2012—possibly due to a January release date, the typical garbage depot for studio lepers and Oscar bait run-off—Haywire is a taut action-thriller,...
The Last Picture Show is a recurring Battleship Pretension column that reviews and examines the last films of a given director, actor, cinematographer, etc. as a means of exploring their filmography as a whole. When Sidney Lumet died in 2011...
The Last Picture Show is a recurring Battleship Pretension column that reviews and examines the last films of a given director, actor, cinematographer, etc. as a means of exploring their filmography as a whole. Wes Craven’s career is a strange...
Exploring grief and how one copes with loss has long been a theme of horror films, coupling tangible scares with the emotional horror and uncertainty of continuing a life marred by devastation and sorrow. Shout Factory’s new release, 1972’s You’ll...
The Last Picture Show is a recurring Battleship Pretension column that reviews and examines the last films of a given director, actor, cinematographer, etc. as a means of exploring their filmography as a whole. When Stanley Kubrick died in March...
There are but a few rules any satire should remain beholden to: be funny, be cutting and be relevant. Kill Your Friends is a vicious satire of 90s Britpop, portraying record executives as cutthroat, cynical coke-hounds. The film is sometimes...
Shout Factory, and its subsidiary Scream Factory, tend to oscillate between two kinds of releases: under-seen or treasured films that deserve and/or need a high definition upgrade (your The Serpent and the Rainbow or They Live) and novelty films that were forgotten...
This list was compiled from the individual bottom ten lists of Scott, Josh, Aaron, Rita, Craig, Sarah, Darrell, Alexander, Matt, Tyler, and David. Each film was weighted according to its placement on each individual list. As such, a film that...
I’ve never understood James Spader’s sex appeal. He’s a handsome gentleman, sure, but he’s played enough slimy malcontents (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Crash, et al) that he could be chiseled from marble and I’d still see a conniving cretin. Then...