Category: Craig Schroeder
Each year, preparing a top ten list is both the most exciting and stressful thing I write for Battleship Pretension. An elaborate ceremony of agonizing precedes the completion of the list, debating over which ten films to commit to stone...
Horst von Wächter and Niklas Frank are both men who have to reckon their lives against unspeakable evil. Born in the twilight of World War II, they escaped Nazi Germany to live full lives. Now in their sixties, nearly every...
Admittedly, I’m a bit green to the Tales From the Crypt franchise. When the show was relevant, I was too young, eating up Nickelodeon’s tamer Are You Afraid of the Dark? and when I got older, I gravitated more towards The...
The formula for Volley—the new film from Argentinean writer, director and star Martín Piroyansky—is a tried and true storytelling recipe, one that has worked for centuries across every medium. A group of men and women, all with mistaken intentions and...
score by Clint Mansell 2006’s The Fountain is Darren Aronofsky’s most ambitious, beautiful (cinematographer Mathew Libatique is doing some of his best work) and flawed film (aside from his bizarre biblical-fantasy-epic Noah). But there’s a definitive charm to the film...
score by John Williams John Williams’ score to Jurassic Park is one of just a few cinematic soundtracks able to evoke such immediate and accessible imagery. A single note of the score’s intrepid main theme doesn’t pass without visualizing the...
It’s been a rough week and a half for people who are carrying on extramarital affairs. It seems the initial Ashley Madison doxxing was only the beginning, as a second wave of documents unveiled even more philanderers. If the Ashley...
I’m as big a fan of sleazy exploitation films as the next fellow. But in 2015, I think it’s time for us to become more discerning as to which “so bad it’s good” exploitation films we choose to champion or...
It seems odd that the 2000 film Psycho Beach Party isn’t better known, if only because of its anomalous cast. It features Amy Adams, just a few years before her appearance in Junebug and subsequent rise to superstardom; Lauren Ambrose,...
Every writer I’ve ever idolized is, without fail, a drunken malcontent. Tennessee Williams. Ernest Hemingway. Charles Bukowski. All of them geniuses and all of them disastrously self-destructive. Hunter S. Thompson was my favorite. A drug addict who got his ass...
