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April 17, 2023

Monday Movie: Little Annie Rooney, by Craig Schroeder

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Little Annie Rooney originally ran as a home video review. Little Annie Rooney stars Mary Pickford as the titular scamp and leader of a gang of young...

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April 17, 2020

More Like Endless Beginnings and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Endings, Beginnings: 500 Days of Bummer, by Craig Schroeder Episode 682: Movies About Confinement Tyler on Coffee Over Suicide BP Movie Journal 4/9/20 A White, White...

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April 16, 2020

Endings, Beginnings: 500 Days of Bummer, by Craig Schroeder

Endings, Beginnings is a mopey, tone-deaf slog that misunderstands its audience and its purpose. It’s like an entire set of Morrissey covers played on kazoo in the middle of a sports bar on Super Bowl Sunday. With a cast of...

2019 / Craig Schroeder / movies

January 20, 2020

Craig’s Top Ten of 2019

10. CLIMAX Gaspar Noe’s Climax exists in the delicate meridian between art and madness. Taking place in a single location, Climax sees a dance troupe plummet into bedlam when it’s discovered they’ve all been drugged with a powerful hallucinogenic. Noe’s...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

October 9, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Scars of Dracula, by Craig Schroeder

Count Dracula’s status as horror’s most sinister sex symbol is a mythology built over the last 100 years. From the pages of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel to Bela Lugosi’s iconic performance, the Count’s grotesque appeal is both hypnotic and repulsive....

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June 25, 2019

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May 30, 2019

For the Birds: I’ll Fly Away Oh Glory, by Craig Schroeder

With the explosion of reality television in the 2000s came the ubiquitous critiques maligning the broad format as a single monolithic genre with nothing of value, discounting any number of thoughtful, compassionate, well-crafted reality programs. However, one sub-genre of reality...

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April 29, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Magic Flute, by Craig Schroeder

The lines between television, film, and performance art as a whole continue to blur with each passing year. With the Academy’s recent decision to uphold its stance and allow Netflix to contend for Oscars, the paradigm in which viewers consume...

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April 16, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Warning Sign, by Craig Schroeder

Isolation and claustrophobia are about the hardest hitting one-two combination the horror genre can deliver. If not baked right into the premise (The Descent, The Thing, Night of the Living Dead), they’re often deployed to heighten a scene’s tension (the...