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June 25, 2021

Lansky: Stop, He’s Already Dead!, by Tyler Smith

The gangster movie has long been a Hollywood staple. As far back as the 1930s, filmmakers drew inspiration from Prohibition Era figures like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, producing some of the most iconic movies in film history. Since then,...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 7, 2021

Above Suspicion: Impersonal Elegy, by David Bax

Look, I’ll confess. I didn’t see Hillbilly Elegy. I know, I know, it was nominated for a goddamn Oscar and everything but something told me maybe I ought to skip it. If that movie is even half as patronizing toward...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 19, 2021

Sin: Rocky Road, by David Bax

In ways both good and bad, Andrey Konchalovskiy’s Sin isn’t strictly a biopic of Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (played here by Alberto Testone). Like most good biographical films, it doesn’t try to cram too much of the man’s life into...

2021 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2021 / Theatrical Review

February 3, 2021

Sundance 2021: Judas and the Black Messiah, by David Bax

After nearly a year of video-on-demand premieres–and coming almost at the end of an entirely virtual film festival–the larger-than-life, widescreen photography (by Sean Bobbitt) and the abundant close-ups in Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah made me long for...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 21, 2020

The El Duce Tapes: Troll Hunting, by Alexander Miller

Where does someone like El Duce fit in today’s society? What could we possibly gain from the exploits of a slovenly shock-rocker, whose coined the term “rape rock” to describe his group, The Mentors, whose songs mostly celebrate degrading women...

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

November 20, 2020

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #28: Rodney Ascher, David Lawrence & Ryan Sexton’s The El Duce Tapes (2019)

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 12, 2020

Ammonite: Can You Dig It?, by David Bax

In the opening scene of Francis Lee’s Ammonite, a brief sort of prologue set decades before the main story, we see a complete, fossilized ichthyosaur skeleton being arranged for display in a museum. Empirical though it may be, to contemplate...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 11, 2020

I Am Woman: Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady, by David Bax

Helen Reddy’s life, it would seem, was endlessly eventful. At least, that’s the approach taken by her biopic, I Am Woman, directed by Unjoo Moon and written by Emma Jensen. Like high school students just trying to fill out their...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 21, 2020

Tesla: My Own Design, My Own Remorse, by David Bax

Twenty years ago, Michael Almereyda made his name directing Hamlet, with Ethan Hawke in the title role. In 2017, Almereyda released what may be his best film yet, Marjorie Prime, working for the first time with cinematographer Sean Price Williams...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 24, 2020

Radioactive: The Colour Out of Science, by David Bax

Director Marjane Satrapi does plenty in Radioactive to bring distinction to yet another biopic about a great historical figure. But, even at its core, the story of Marie Curie stands apart simply by being an eccentric genius tale in which...

Tagged: biography

Lansky: Stop, He’s Already Dead!, by Tyler Smith

Above Suspicion: Impersonal Elegy, by David Bax

Sin: Rocky Road, by David Bax

Sundance 2021: Judas and the Black Messiah, by David Bax

The El Duce Tapes: Troll Hunting, by Alexander Miller

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #28: Rodney Ascher, David Lawrence & Ryan Sexton’s The El Duce Tapes (2019)

Ammonite: Can You Dig It?, by David Bax

I Am Woman: Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady, by David Bax

Tesla: My Own Design, My Own Remorse, by David Bax

Radioactive: The Colour Out of Science, by David Bax

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