Tagged: movie

david bax / episode / movies / podcast / tyler smith

January 25, 2021

Episode 723: Sundance Film Festival 2021 Preview

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies planned for this year’s Sundance Film Festival as well as those Santa Ana winds.

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 22, 2021

Coming Clean: Study Guide, by David Bax

Ondi Timoner’s Coming Clean is the kind of issue-advocacy documentary that’s full of slogans and sound bites. The magnitude of opioid overdose deaths is referred to in numbers of “9/11s,” “plane crashes” and “Super Bowls” and the solution, we’re assured,...

bp movie journal / david bax / featured / movies / podcast / tyler smith

January 21, 2021

BP Movie Journal 1/21/21

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: SOME KIND OF HEAVENHELLO AGAINSOUND OF METALTHE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART

david bax / movies / patreon / podcast / tyler smith

January 20, 2021

Patreon: A Tribute to Sean Connery

Tyler and David discuss their favorite Sean Connery performances. Become a Patron!

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 20, 2021

The White Tiger: Predator/Prey, by David Bax

The White Tiger is the cheekiest movie of director Ramin Bahrani’s career. It even has one of those in media res, freeze frame, “Yup, that’s me, you’re probably wondering…” type of openings. But there’s a dark side to the playfulness....

david bax / episode / movies / podcast / tyler smith

January 18, 2021

Episode 722: Passive Protagonists

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss movies with passive protagonists as well as Painting with John.

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies / podcast

January 16, 2021

The Cast of Cthulhu: Black Mountain Side

Happy new year, y’all! Before discussing the surprisingly good Black Mountain Side, we catch up on some news and housekeeping, including Jim bidding adieu to I Do Movies Badly (boo…), a new home for The Cast of Cthulhu on Battleship Pretension (hooray!), and discussion about indie directors Benson &...

best of the week / movies

January 16, 2021

Facing Orson Welles and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 721: The Many Faces of Orson Welles Skyfire: Volcanic Park, by David Bax The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller: Mank/Welles I Do Movies Badly: Auld...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

January 15, 2021

Movie Meltdown: Mary Ann and the Town the Dreaded the Sad Trombone

On this very special “bonus” installment of The Meltdown Horror Club, we get together to pay tribute to Dawn Wells by watching a movie in which she was featured. But then we chose The Town That Dreaded Sundown… and we quickly realize...