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July 17, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Perfect Days, by Rudie Obias

Most of the time in movies, filmmakers like to celebrate big events, like weddings, graduations, and important life milestones. Movies can also celebrate big moments in life, like first dates and first kisses. However, not many films can celebrate everyday...

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July 13, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, by Rudie Obias

Director Sam Peckinpah is mostly known for two things: Making a lot of westerns, like The Deadly Companions, Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, and The Wild Bunch; and injecting a lot of bloody violence in his films, like Straw...

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June 15, 2024

Running the Color Gamut and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

This week, we’re running the color gamut. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re running the color gamut, querelling, lilying, eating all the cheesecakes and marrying the toys. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this...

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June 11, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Querelle, by Rudie Obias

During his short, yet prolific, career, New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder made 44 films and TV dramas in just 15 years. In 1982, Fassbinder’s life was cut short from a drug overdose of cocaine and barbiturates at age...

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May 30, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Girlfight, by Rudie Obias

Movies during the late ‘90s and early 2000s were truly special. While a small budget didn’t hinder big ideas, there was also a working marketplace for independent cinema. With showcases like the Sundance Film Festival, movies —such as You Can...

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May 27, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Anatomy of a Fall, by Rudie Obias

Anatomy of a Fall was one of the most buzzed about movies from 2023. It received rave reviews from critics, a healthy box office with a $35.6 million worldwide haul (from a budget of $6.7 million), an Academy Award for...

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May 4, 2024

Seeing the TV Glow and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

This week, we’re seeing the TV glow. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re seeing the TV glow, wrapping up TCM Fest, dogfighting, lettering wickedly and napping with partners. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension...

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April 11, 2024

Sting: Harmless, by Tyler Smith

I’m terrified of spiders. And so are you. Everybody is. Those who say they are not are either liars or not paying close enough attention. Spiders are monsters. As proof, we need only look at the horror genre. Whether big...

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April 5, 2024

Beasting and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

This week, we’re beasting. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re beasting, omening first, wonking, chancing coup and self-destructing. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: The Beast: Doll-drums Through the Century, by Scott...

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March 13, 2024

Home Video Hovel: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, by Rudie Obias

With the Oscar winners in the books for 2024, let’s go back a year and take a look at the nominations for the best documentary feature film. Although it didn’t win (another great film called Navalny won the Academy Award),...

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Home Video Hovel: Perfect Days, by Rudie Obias

Home Video Hovel: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, by Rudie Obias

Running the Color Gamut and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Home Video Hovel: Querelle, by Rudie Obias

Home Video Hovel: Girlfight, by Rudie Obias

Home Video Hovel: Anatomy of a Fall, by Rudie Obias

Seeing the TV Glow and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Sting: Harmless, by Tyler Smith

Beasting and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Home Video Hovel: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, by Rudie Obias

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