Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: The Worst Movies of 2021 David’s Top Ten of 2021 The BP Top Ten of 2021 Tyler’s Top Ten of 2021 Episode 784: Oscars 2022
In The Rose Maker, Catherine Frot plays the titular character: Eve Vernet, the owner of Vernet Nursery, a small business in the French countryside begun by her father. It is a tiny farm that specializes in only growing and selling...
In this episode, David discusses the movies he’s been watching, including: A CHIARAARMY OF THE DEADATTICABOILING POINTENCANTODEEP WATERVIVE L’AMOURBRING YOUR OWN BRIGADECASTLE FALLSWOOD AND WATERSTUNT ROCKVALLEY OF THE SHADOW: THE SPIRITUAL VALUE OF HORRORYOU WON’T BE ALONEEVERYTHING IS COPY
Even though the more recent of the two films was released more than twenty years after the older one, the very early scenes in Ang Lee’s 1991 Pushing Hands (playing cinemas now in a new restoration) immediately made me think...
It’s immediately apparent that You Won’t Be Alone, Goran Stovelski’s feature debut, is going to follow its own logic, not just narratively but visually. We open on a close-up of a stray cat in a field. The aspect ratio is...
Home invasion movies are a popular genre, likely for the obvious reason that it is something most people fear. Our homes are meant to be our safe place, our sanctuary from fear. Barbarians takes the idea and shifts it slightly....
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Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a theatrical review. Lee Daniels’ new film The Paperboy is a seedy, pulpy film in which a scantily clad Zac Efron attempts to woo oversexed Nicole...
