Category: LA Film Fest

2018 / david bax / LA Film Fest / la film fest 2018 / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 25, 2018

LA Film Fest 2018: Jonathan, by David Bax

Once, on this website’s official podcast, Mystery Science Theater 3000 alum Frank Conniff observed that we are, for the most part, past the point of producing the kind of truly awful movies they lovingly mocked on that series because the baseline of...

2018 / david bax / LA Film Fest / la film fest 2018 / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 25, 2018

LA Film Fest 2018: We the Coyotes, by David Bax

We’ll never be as young as we used to. I mean, obviously, right? But one of the painful things about getting older is that experiencing something new happens less and less frequently. The younger you are, the more newness the...

2018 / david bax / LA Film Fest / la film fest 2018 / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 25, 2018

LA Film Fest 2018: Deep Murder, by David Bax

Nick Corirossi’s astounding Deep Murder is such a thoroughly committed work of parody that its commitment is, in some ways, actually part of the joke. Take, for instance, the opening scenes. We are introduced to the movie’s world—that of a 90s-era,...

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October 11, 2018

LA Film Fest 2018: Softness of Bodies, by David Bax

Jordan Blady’s Berlin is a place of halogen lamp glow and cigarette smoke haze. It’s evocative and immersive without being especially flattering to the people captured in his frame. All of which makes it the perfect look and feel for...

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October 7, 2018

Episode 603: LA Film Fest 2018 Wrap-Up

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss this year’s LA Film Festival as well as the Vice trailer.

2018 / david bax / LA Film Fest / la film fest 2018 / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 4, 2018

LA Film Fest 2018: The Happy Prince, by David Bax

To call Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince a vanity project would be both obvious and an understatement. It’s not just that he’s used his long fought for directorial debut to give himself the role he feels he was meant to...

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September 9, 2018

Episode 599: LA Film Fest Preview 2018

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the upcoming LA Film Fest as well as the death of the Village Voice.

2017 / david bax / LA Film Fest / la film fest 2017 / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 28, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: On the Beach at Night Alone, by David Bax

Like a surprising number of compelling movie protagonists, Kim Min-hee’s Young-hee, the woman at the center of Hong Sang-soo’s On the Beach at Night Alone, is an almost completely passive, reactive character. Distinguished by her severe, long black coat (or...

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June 28, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: Don’t Come Back from the Moon, by David Bax

Bruce Thierry Cheung’s Don’t Come Back from the Moon stands out less as a coming-of-age story or a portrait of economic malaise than it does as a simple, extended work of tonal discipline. In viewing the movie, you float from...