This week, we’re holding over. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re holding over, delinquenting, othering, droming and goggling. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: The Holdovers: Held Back, by Scott Nye The...
One of the big box office hits of 2001, Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others is a love letter to gothic horror with its post-WWII British setting, spooky production design, melodramatic tone, and haunting storytelling that engages audiences with scares, grief, and...
This week, we’re creating nothing. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re creating nothing, meeting Ritchie Valens, getting propagandized, bowling on Saturn and going back to Vegas. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week:...
At this point in time, the music biopic is a tried and true subgenre complete with loads of clichés and tropes. Anyone who has watched Jake Kasdan’s parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story knows that the music biopic is...
This week, we’re bottoming out. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re bottoming out, revisiting vulgar auterism, jabbering with the hominids, opening the BP mailbag and blackening at home. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension...
The World War II genre lends itself to sprawling epic movies. From big battle scenes to politics and romance to clear distinctions between good and evil, the genre has something for everyone. The film Is Paris Burning? fits in that...
The hey-day of independent film was in the late ‘80s and throughout the ‘90s with movies like Slacker, Metropolitan, Bottle Rocket, Do The Right Thing, and others. There was just something about this era of American filmmaking that was really...
This week, we’re counting down the top five films of the year so far. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re counting down the top five films of the year so far, reviewing the new Christian Petzold, revisiting an old Francis...
The Criterion Collection has a history of highlighting the first feature films from notable contemporary directors, such as Christopher Nolan’s Following, Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket, Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave, Joel & Ethan Coen’s Blood Simple, and many more. There’s just...
To watch David Lowery’s Peter Pan & Wendy, is to engage in a frustrating – but fascinating – conflict. Produced by Disnay, the film attempts to capture the whimsical spirit of the 1953 animated feature, while trying to inject modern...