“Simple task becomes wholly complicated” is a tried-and-true storytelling approach going back to slapstick two-reelers. We all, to some degree, feel like life is too much of a bother as it is, and any attempt to go the extra mile...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Last Year at Marienbad originally ran as part of our top 100 movies list. Last Year at Marienbad is about two people whose relationship is incredibly complicated....
In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the career of Norman Jewison as well as the announcement of Toy Story 5. Norman Jewison movies discussed include 1975’s Rollerball and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007...
This week, we’re beasting. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re beasting, omening first, wonking, chancing coup and self-destructing. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: The Beast: Doll-drums Through the Century, by Scott...
This week on the Patreon, David and Scott Nye run down Scott’s Movie Journal April 2024. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! Scott’s Movie Journal April 2024 includes...
The First Omen, the sixth film in a nearly-fifty-year-old film series, on the face of things, has no reason to be exceptional. All the objective things you can read about it lead to the easy conclusion that it is not....
Coup de Chance is Woody Allen’s 50th, and potentially final, theatrical film, and one would hardly say his most original. Revisiting themes of luck, misfortune, guilt, and violence, comparisons to Crimes and Misdemeanors, Irrational Man, Match Point, Cassandra’s Dream, and...
This week on the Patreon, David and Scott Nye open up the March 2024 mailbag. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! The March 2024 mailbag includes questions about...
Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast opens with a scene that both enigmatically alludes to the action to come, yet also suggests the abyss it will pointedly explore without resolving – Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux), an actress in 2014 Los Angeles, walks into...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Farmageddon originally ran as a home video review. No Virginia, Bruce Willis does NOT save a farm from an asteroid in this picture. A sort of...
