Category: dave platt

dave platt / episode / podcast / tyler smith

April 25, 2022

Episode 788. Movies about South Africa

Tyler is joined by Dave Platt to discuss movies about South Africa.

dave platt / movies / new to home video

November 2, 2021

New to Home Video 11/2/21

Review

dave platt / movies / new to home video

October 12, 2021

New to Home Video 10/12/21

Review

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 30, 2021

The Green Knight: Off With His Head, by Dave Platt

“Tell me a tale of thyself, so that I may know thee.” “I have none to tell.” “Yet.” This exchange, early on in David Lowery’s stunning new film, The Green Knight, between King Arthur, his nephew Gawain, and Queen Guinevere...

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 30, 2021

Nine Days: What’s It Like to Be Alive?, by Dave Platt

In Edson Oda’s affecting debut feature Nine Days, Will (Winston Duke) is a man who lives alone in a house that stands isolated in the middle of a vast desert landscape. It is his job, we learn, to interview prospective...

dave platt / luiz oliveira / movies / new to home video

July 7, 2020

New to Home Video 7/7/20

Review Review

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 13, 2020

The Wild Goose Lake: To Live and Die in Wuhan, by Dave Platt

With his first movie since 2014’s Berlin Film Festival-winning Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer/director Diao Yinan has returned to the noir genre, and crafted an exceptionally stylish audiovisual feast of neon- and rain-soaked sleaze. While Black Coal, Thin Ice was...

dave platt / david bax / movies / new to home video

March 3, 2020

New to Home Video 3/3/20

Review Review

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 12, 2020

I Wish I Knew: Legends on the Sea, by Dave Platt

When it comes to films and filmmakers, the word “important” can be a loaded one, and an unwieldy metric by which to appreciate cinema. But, permitted a moment on my soapbox, I doubt there has been a more vital and...