Category: matt warren

2014 / aaron pinkston / Craig Schroeder / david bax / jim rohner / josh long / matt warren / rita cannon / sarah brinks / scott nye / tyler smith

February 21, 2015

The BP Top Ten of 2014

This list was compiled from the individual top ten lists of Scott, Josh, Aaron, Rita, Matt, Craig, Sarah, Jim, Tyler and David. Each film was weighted according to its placement on each individual list. As such, a film that appeared on...

matt warren / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 12, 2015

Drink it Up, by Matt Warren

Look, being a vampire undoubtedly sucks. Stop audibly laughing at my amazing pun. It’s distracting your coworkers, and besides: this is serious business. This may be a bit existential, but I can think of no fate worse than eternal life....

2015 / david bax / episode / matt warren / podcast / sundance / tyler smith

February 9, 2015

Sundance 2015 Bonus Episode

In this bonus episode, Tyler and David are joined by Matt Warren to discuss this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

matt warren / movies / reviews / sundance / Theatrical Review

February 3, 2015

Sundance 2015 Part Four, by Matt Warren

So I’m back, refreshed and erect behind the ergonomic standing deck in my corner office at Battleship Pretension world headquarters in beautiful Gordita Beach, CA, dictating the introduction to my fourth and final Sundance blog of the year to my...

matt warren / movies / sundance

February 2, 2015

Sundance 2015 Part Three, by Matt Warren

So here we are: Day Three of my annual Sundance sojourn. Did you ever see that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Captain Picard is zapped by a comet or whatever and somehow lives an entire lifetime inside...

matt warren / movies / reviews / sundance / Theatrical Review

February 1, 2015

Sundance 2015 Part Two, by Matt Warren

Welcome to the second installment of my 2015 Sundance diary. Full disclosure: I’m actually writing this on Day Three, which means that by this point in the festival my brain has already been turned into combustible fuchsia blasting jelly by...

matt warren / movies / reviews / sundance / Theatrical Review

January 31, 2015

Sundance 2015 Part One, by Matt Warren

Like the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, so too am I called back to my hometown of Park City, UT each year for the movie-adjacent gathering of selfie stick enthusiasts known as the Sundance Film Festival. As I have...

2014 / matt warren / movies

January 26, 2015

Matt’s Top Ten of 2014

I’ve been an extant human American for almost 33 years and an incorrigible, obsessive cineaste for at least half that. Since becoming absorbed, Borg-like, into Film Culture my love of the moving image has never wavered. But the specific qualities...

matt warren / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 22, 2015

Unbound, by Matt Warren

Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy is a very odd movie about very basic human emotions. It’s simultaneously a hyper-stylized pastiche of 60s-and-70s-era European erotic melodramas and a realistic exploration of what it takes to keep passion alive in a...