Reviews

The post Monday Movie: Saving Private Ryan, by Jason Eaken appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Saving Private Ryan originally ran as part of our top 100 movies list. I’m not sure there will be a war-film

When you take an international cinema class odds are high that your high minded teacher is going to keep going on and on about Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni and Bertolucci. These were the directors who won Oscars and became beloved at Cannes. They were icons of the art houses. But once

Chang Cheh became a major director at the Shaw Brothers studio after the success of One-Armed Swordsman with Jimmy Wang Yu in 1967. While he was busy making action films for a decade, he truly found his stride when he put together his Venom Mob rep company of actors. They

Even with a week off, I’m not even through last week’s comics. It’s wild. Best Comic of My Week: FML #4 – I’m starting to wonder just how autobiographical this book is. Sure, it features a monstrously large and hairy teenager, but I feel like Kelly Sue DeConnick has modeled