Marcello Mastroianni was Italian cinema for me in the ’80s when they’d run his film at the campus “art screen.” After watching him in La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2, if anyone mentioned an Italian film, my first question was “Is Marcello in it?” When I’d poke around the small
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Official Trailer 2
The rise of a new empire, the epic battle continues as Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures releases the second official trailer for the upcoming monster movie Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. View trailer below. The epic battle continues! Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of “Godzilla
The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Six, Episode Twenty-One: “The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth’s Dad”/”Hopeless”
The post The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Six, Episode Twenty-One: “The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth’s Dad”/”Hopeless” appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Natalie and David write a novel with Phoebe in “The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth’s Dad” and pretend to write plays with Marshall in “Hopeless.”
Home Video Hovel: Nothing but a Man, by Scott Nye
The post Home Video Hovel: Nothing but a Man, by Scott Nye appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Due to the very nature of the conflict worth exploring, there’s an unfortunate dearth of contemporaneous fiction films made about the Black experience in Jim Crow, pre-Civil Rights Act America. Few white filmmakers
Kinds of Film Comedy arrives on book shelves today.
A few days ago, I discovered that a group of kids had no idea about classic movie comics. They didn’t know Robert Benchley, The Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields. They might not even known about Adam Sandler. They mostly referenced Memes and TikTok videos. But for those of us