By The lawyers and lobbyists at Disney failed to prevent key characters from their kingdom from falling into the Public Domain. The first one to slip away from them was Winnie-The-Pooh. The studio had made billions off their adaptations of the little bear from the Thousand Acre Forest. While their movies
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Carrie was both the book and movie that established Stephen King as a force in horror. The book was different from what had been on the shelf previously. While there had been teenage horror tales before, but Carrie had the teenagers being the monsters on the page or screen. Think
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The post New to Home Video 3/12/24 appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 3/12/24: Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite, Dogtooth) has never been one for subtlety, though at least he can look to novelist Alasdair Gray for giving him a character named
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The post Monday Movie: All That Heaven Allows, by Aaron Pinkston appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of All That Heaven Allows originally ran as part of Aaron Pinkston’s series on the American 50s. I’m going to make
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The post Movie Meltdown: Bottoms Up appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Movie Meltdown – Bottoms Up This episode we discuss the recent comedy Bottoms directed by Emma Seligman and starring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri. And while we take turns punching each other in the face, we also mention… Mad Max: Fury
