Reviews

The post Home Video Hovel: The Wages of Fear, by Rudie Obias appeared first on Battleship Pretension. One of the original 50 spines in the Criterion Collection (spine #36 to be exact), Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear is a classic thriller that’s full of tension and suspense. It recently

My knowledge of Czechoslovakian film is rather slim since for the most part the local arthouses weren’t running Soviet Bloc movies on their big screens in the ’80s. Even the foreign film sections of video stores only represented the country with the early movies of Milos Foreman (One Flew Over

I grew up on army bases in West German during the early ’70s when dad was stationed in the divided country. This was at the height of the Cold War so there was quite a bit of tension. Few things were scarier than the time we took a car trip

Still behind, and looking at the number of books coming out this week, that’s not going to change anytime soon… Best Comic of My Week: Assorted Crisis Events #1 – I’ve been looking forward to this comic since the day I finished the last issue of 20th Century Men, even

The post Episode 925: Flops with Rico Gagliano appeared first on Battleship Pretension. David and Scott Nye are joined by Rico Gagliano from the MUBI podcast to discuss flops. Flops discussed include William Friedkin’s Sorcerer and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith