By The post Episode 871: Movie Actors vs. TV Actors appeared first on Battleship Pretension. In this episode, David and Scott Nye discuss movie actors vs. TV actors as well as the reopening of Los Angeles’ Vista Theater. Actors discussed in movie actors vs. TV actors include Jon Hamm and more!
Home Video Hovel: The Last Picture Show (plus Texasville), by Scott Nye
The post Home Video Hovel: The Last Picture Show (plus Texasville), by Scott Nye appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Even when I first saw it around 2006, just out of high school, Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show felt unusual. The new century had been blanketed in teen sex comedies
Monday Movie: The Deep Blue Sea, by David Bax
The post Monday Movie: The Deep Blue Sea, by David Bax appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Deep Blue Sea originally ran as as a theatrical review. Terence Davies and Rachel Weisz, the director and star,
Silent Night: Emotional Blanks, by Scott Nye
The post Silent Night: Emotional Blanks, by Scott Nye appeared first on Battleship Pretension. There are few things more unpleasant than a movie with immense promise coming up as empty as John Woo’s Silent Night does. Woo, one of the masters of action cinema, makes his return to American filmmaking
Blu-ray Review: The Wrong Door
When I was in junior high, one of my classmates decided they were going to make a movie using their dad’s Super8 film camera. He had an idea for a men on a mission movie starring a few classmates. While it took him a little bit of time to make
