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May 31, 2019

Casting Doubt and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

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...

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May 27, 2019

Cannes 2019: Parasite, by Luiz Oliveira

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,...

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May 24, 2019

That Screwy, Ballyhooey Hollywood and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

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...

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May 22, 2019

Cannes 2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, by Luiz Oliveira

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...

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May 21, 2019

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

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’...

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May 20, 2019

Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You, by Luiz Oliveira

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...

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May 20, 2019

Cannes 2019: Bacurau, by Luiz Oliveira

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...

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May 17, 2019

Gillan and Dastmalchian, Together at Last and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

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...

Tagged: luiz oliveira

New to Home Video 7/7/20

Casting Doubt and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Cannes 2019: Parasite, by Luiz Oliveira

That Screwy, Ballyhooey Hollywood and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Cannes 2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, by Luiz Oliveira

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You, by Luiz Oliveira

Cannes 2019: Bacurau, by Luiz Oliveira

Gillan and Dastmalchian, Together at Last and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

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