Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 636: Unconventional Casting Cannes 2019: Parasite, by Luiz Oliveira Domino: All Fall Down, by Scott Nye Mouthpiece: Half-Formed, by David Bax New to Home Video...
It’s the middle of the Cannes Film Festival and it seems directors’ greatest fear today is not criticism but rather the modern malaise of spoiler culture. Bong Joon-Ho’s latest is preceded by a letter from the South Korean director himself,...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Cannes 2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, by Luiz Oliveira Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira Petty Petitions, by Tyler Smith Echo in the...
I know you’re expecting this fable to start in the summer of ’69. After all, that’s when the story you know happens, well, happens. But things started going wrong a bit before and when we first meet TV actor Rick...
Not since the Overlook hotel appeared on screen has any piece of remote real estate been so ominous and obviously dangerous as the simple, weather-beaten lighthouse on the coast of Maine that sits atop a cragged landscape in Robert Eggers’...
The Turner family, typically blue-collar and traditional (a husband, a wife, a teenage son and a ten year old daughter), are about to try for a more ambitious lot in life when Ricky (Kris Hitchen) realizes that, the way things...
Something threatening hangs over the village of Bacurau, in western Pernambuco. But perhaps no one cares. After all, in the near future, it has been literally erased from the map. When the new film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, this time...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: All Creatures Here Below: Rising to the Occasion, by Chase Beck Episode 634: Summer Movie Preview 201 BP Movie Journal 5/9/19 Cannes 2019: The Dead Don’t...