By Stick drift is the bane of existence to many a game console player. For those unfamiliar, it’s when a controller’s thumbsticks don’t respond accurately to input and can move on screen without being touched. Traditional thumbsticks and joysticks use a physical connection with a potentiometer to measure the stick’s position
Monday Movie: The Thing, by Jack Fleischer
The post Monday Movie: The Thing, by Jack Fleischer appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Thing originally ran as a theatrical review. John Carpenter’s The Thing is a movie with sanctified status. While a casual Carpenter fan I
Paul Schrader Is All In On AI Filmmaking?
While “The Brutalist” used AI for some voice tweaking, causing all sorts of debate about the technology’s use in movies, one person who has seemingly embraced it is filmmaker Paul Schrader. 78-year-old Schrader has been talking about A.I., more specifically ChatGPT, on his Facebook page recently with multiple postings. He
Home Video Hovel: Inglourious Basterds, by Rudie Obias
The post Home Video Hovel: Inglourious Basterds, by Rudie Obias appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Here’s something different. I usually review releases from the Criterion Collection, especially over the last two years or so. I rarely write about other boutique home video distribution companies, like Shout! Factory, Kino Lorber, Oscilloscope
Watts Has A Planetary “Skeleton Crew” S2 Idea
Disney+ aired its “Skeleton Crew” season finale last Tuesday to a relatively quiet reception. As previously reported, the series experienced the lowest viewership of any “Star Wars” series premiere in its first week, with the first three episodes (the only ones charted so far) not making the Nielsen Top 10.
