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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 18, 2020

Blackbird: Only Waiting for This Moment, by David Bax

Over the course of his career, director Roger Michell has been responsible for beloved rom-coms (Notting Hill), sturdy melodramas (The Mother), absolute misfires (Hyde Park on Hudson) and at least one underrated gem (Enduring Love). Despite some misses, his reliable...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 4, 2017

The Mountain Between Us: Alive and Kissing, by David Bax

Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us opens with the din of an airport terminal full of cranky would-be passengers gnashing their teeth about canceled flights in the face of an encroaching storm. It sounds chaotic enough to begin with but...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

August 15, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #36: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by Sarah Brinks

I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. I have a feeling that...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 22, 2016

The Dressmaker: Chanel Unchained, by David Bax

Jocelyn Moorhouse doesn’t have time to wait around for you to catch up to her in the baroque, sultry, hothouse, widescreen neo-Western The Dressmaker. In the opening scene, a bombshell in a black dress pours out of a car and...

Tagged: kate winslet

Ammonite: Can You Dig It?, by David Bax

Blackbird: Only Waiting for This Moment, by David Bax

The Mountain Between Us: Alive and Kissing, by David Bax

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #36: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by Sarah Brinks

The Dressmaker: Chanel Unchained, by David Bax

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