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Patreon: October 2024 Mailbag - Battleship Pretension
This week on the Patreon, David and Scott Nye open up the October 2024 mailbag. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! The October 2024 mailbag includes questions about Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and more! Become a Patron! Swabbie Tier ($2 per month):
Episode 917: Vanity Projects - Battleship Pretension
David and Scott Nye discuss directors' vanity projects as well as seeing movies in foreign countries. Directors who made vanity projects include Francis Ford Coppola and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we've done live comedy shows, written reviews, commentaries and more.
Episode 918: Let’s Put on a Show! - Battleship Pretension
David and Scott Nye discuss movie about putting on a show as well as fast food. Movies about putting on a show include James Frawley's The Muppet Movie and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we've done live comedy shows, written reviews,
Podcast Assessment and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week - Battleship Pretension
This week, we're doing a podcast assessment. Here's what else we're doing. We're doing a podcast assessment, coming back, journaling once, journaling twice and counting down. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 916: Assessing the Podcast Episode 915: Comebacks BP Movie Journal 9/27/24 BP Movie Journal
Home Video Hovel: 8½, by Scott Nye - Battleship Pretension
In Cocteau’s The Blood of a Poet, the protagonist - an artist - steps through a mirror, takes a surreal trip through a hotel where he witnesses unreal sights, and shoots himself but does not die. Fellini, in a sense, did the same thing with 8½, traversing the unspoken boundary that seals the artist from
Monday Movie: The Thing, by Jack Fleischer - 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 had never seen this pic and at first I thought maybe I should watch it before reviewing this prequel.
Home Video Hovel: Inglourious Basterds, by Rudie Obias - 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 Laboratories, and Radiance Films. It’s not that I don’t appreciate those distributors, I just find the Criterion Collection’s curation to
BP Movie Journal 10/18/24 - Battleship Pretension
In BP Movie Journal 10/18/24, David discusses the movies he's been watching, including Anora, Bookworm, Woman of the Hour, Conclave and The Last of the Sea Women Movies discussed in BP Movie Journal 10/18/24:AnoraBookwormWoman of the HourConclaveThe Last of the Sea Women Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith
Home Video Hovel: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, by Rudie Obias - Battleship Pretension
Sure, the biopic is a very popular genre with films like Oppenheimer, Man on the Moon, and A Complete Unknown, but the autobiography (even a fictionalized one) is a sub-genre that comes very few and far between with films like The 400 Blows, American Graffiti, Almost Famous, Lady Bird, and The Fabelmans. It’s rare that
The 2025 BPs Nominations - Battleship Pretension
Best PictureChallengersThe BrutalistKinds of KindnessHundreds of BeaversNickel Boys Best DirectorBrady Corbet - The BrutalistLuca Guadagnino - ChallengersYorgos Lanthimos - Kinds of KindnessRaMell Ross - Nickel BoysSean Baker - Anora Best ActorRalph Fiennes - ConclaveAdrien Brody - The BrutalistJesse Plemons - Kinds of KindnessRyland Brickson Cole Tews - Hundreds of BeaversJesse Eisenberg - A Real Pain
Home Video Hovel: Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, by Scott Nye - Battleship Pretension
In her introductory remarks to a recent screening of Todd Haynes’ 1991 film Poison, producer Christine Vachon joked about how often people will declare the death of independent cinema, noting the too-common refrain that the glory days just wrapped up a few years ago, and isn’t it too bad that we don’t have them back.
Monday Movie: At Berkeley, by Scott Nye - Battleship Pretension
Every Monday, we'll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of At Berkeley originally ran as a theatrical review. Due to the nature of its subject – the entire campus of University of California, Berkeley – and its length – just over four hours – Frederick Wiseman’s new documentary inspires roughly ten
BP Movie Journal 9/20/24 - Battleship Pretension
In BP Movie Journal 9/20/24, David discusses the movies he's been watching, including A Different Man, The Substance, Omni Loop and Eureka. Movies discuss in BP Movie Journal 9/20/24:A Different ManThe SubstanceOmni LoopEureka Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we've done live comedy
Patreon: September 2024 Mailbag - Battleship Pretension
This week on the Patreon, David and Scott Nye open up the September 2024 mailbag. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! The September 2024 mailbag includes questions about Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking and more! Become a Patron! Swabbie Tier ($2 per month):
Monday Movie: Meeting Spencer, by West Anthony - Battleship Pretension
Every Monday, we'll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Meeting Spencer originally ran as a home video review. Why isn’t this funnier? That’s what I kept asking myself as I watched Meeting Spencer, a would-be farce directed by Malcolm Mowbray (A Private Function, itself a movie I didn’t find as funny
BP Movie Journal 9/13/24 - Battleship Pretension
In BP Movie Journal 9/13/24, David discusses the movies he's been watching, including Basquiat and Presumed Innocence. Movies discuss in BP Movie Journal 9/13/24:BasquiatPresumed Innocent Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we've done live comedy shows, written reviews, commentaries and more. Battleship Pretension
Episode 912: Bavamania! with Kyle Anderson - Battleship Pretension
David is joined by Bavamaniac Kyle Anderson to discuss the films of Mario Bava. Bavamania includes Black Sunday and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we've done live comedy shows, written reviews, commentaries and more. Battleship Pretension is a film discussion show
BP Movie Journal 9/6/24 - Battleship Pretension
In BP Movie Journal 9/6/24, David discusses the movies he's been watching, including Look into My Eyes, The Paragon and Rebel Ridge. Movies discuss in BP Movie Journal 9/6/24:Look into My EyesThe ParagonRebel Ridge Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we've done live
Patreon: Scott’s Movie Journal September 2024 - Battleship Pretension
This week on the Patreon, David and Scott Nye run down Scott's Movie Journal September 2024. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! Scott's Movie Journal September 2024 includes M. Night Shyamalan's Trap and more! Become a Patron! Swabbie Tier ($2 per month): A
Episode 913: Let’s Talk About Sex - Battleship Pretension
Scott Nye and Julie Sesnovich fill in as hosts and discuss sex in movies. Movies with sex in them include Poor Things and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we've done live comedy shows, written reviews, commentaries and more. Battleship Pretension is
Patreon: Deadpool/Star Wars Taste Test - Battleship Pretension
This week on the Patreon, David and Josh Long conduct a Deadpool/Star Wars taste test. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! Does the Deadpool/Star Wars taste test make David and Josh want to see Shawn Levy's Deadpool & Wolverine? Find out! Become
Home Video Hovel: Farewell My Concubine, by Scott Nye - Battleship Pretension
When one considers - as we have in past episodes - whether cinema’s cultural impact has diminished, consider Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine. It was the first film to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (albeit sharing the prize with The Piano), but the Chinese government would not let it remain in
Episode 906: Routine & Ritual - Battleship Pretension
In this episode, David and Scott discuss movies about routine and ritual as well as 70MM movies. Movies about routine and ritual discussed include Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we've
Patreon: 2024 Predictions - Battleship Pretension
This week on the Patreon, Tyler and David react to patron prediction. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! Patron predictions include matters related to Gladiator II and more! Become a Patron! Swabbie Tier ($2 per month): A great way to dip your
Between the Temples: Sorrow and Scorn, by Scott Nye - Battleship Pretension
As the commercial cinema has become more narrowly controlled between a handful of tiers and types of cinema that are more carefully-managed than ever, we’ve lost along the way that rarest, crucial pleasure for the cinephile - a director working in a commercial genre who’s able to get away with something sneakily subversive. Between the
The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Seven, Episode Eighteen: “The One with Joey’s Award”/”Karma” - Battleship Pretension
Natalie and David meet a cute guy at the coffee shop with Phoebe in "The One with Joey's Award" and meet Quinn at a coffee shop with in Barney in "Karma." Friends season seven, episode eighteen, "The One with the Joey's Award": Joey overreacts at a daytime drama awards show. How I Met Your Mother
The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Seven, Episode Nineteen: “The One with Ross and Monica’s Cousin”/”The Broath” - Battleship Pretension
Natalie and David make fruit foreskin for Joey with Monica in "The One with Ross and Monica's Cousin" and bring a fruit basket to Quinn with Ted in "The Broath." Friends season seven, episode nineteen, "The One with Ross and Monica's Cousin": Monica's gorgeous cousin unwittingly wreaks havoc on Chandler and Ross; Rachel and Phoebe
The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #47: E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten (1989) - Battleship Pretension
E. Elias Merhige's 1990 independent feature Begotten is a surreal slab of nightmarish expression mired in earthy emulsion. A near silent epic of transgressive spiritual violence Begotten deserves our captive attention even if it inspires nightmares and emotional tumult. The Trailer Project is devoted to the moving image, the trailers that promote the movies we
BP Movie Journal 7/18/24 - Battleship Pretension
In BP Movie Journal 7/18/24, David discusses the movies he's been watching, including Family Portrait, Janet Planet, The Spirit of the Beehive, Kalki 2898-AD, June Zero, Delicate Arch, Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play., Boogie Nights, Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story, Dandelion and The Nature of Love. Movies discuss in BP Movie
Episode 905: SDCC 2024 Preview - Battleship Pretension
In this episode, David is joined by Ryan Gallagher to discuss what they're looking forward to at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. Deadpool & Wolverine will be at SDCC 2024. Let's talk about what else will be! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then,
The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Seven, Episode Fourteen: “The One Where They All Turn Thirty”/”46 Minutes” - Battleship Pretension
Natalie and David get drunk with Monica in "The One Where They All Turn Thirty" and get drunk with Ted in "46 Minutes." Friends season seven, episode fourteen, "The One Where They All Turn Thirty": Rachel's 30th birthday prompts the friends to reminisce about their own 30th birthdays. How I Met Your Mother season seven,
Episode 901: The Cast of Delicate Arch - Battleship Pretension
David and Scott Nye are joined by the cast of Delicate Arch, the new movie directed by longtime friend of the show Matt Warren. Delicate Arch premieres Friday, June 28th at the Dances with Films film festival. Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then,
BP Movie Journal 6/20/24 - Battleship Pretension
In BP Movie Journal 6/20/24, David discusses the movies he's been watching, including Red Rock West, Firebrand, Ghostlight, Kinds of Kindness, Chestnut, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and Thelma. Movies discuss in BP Movie Journal 6/20/24:Red Rock WestFirebrandGhostlightKinds of KindnessChestnutHumanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal PersonThelma Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in
Patreon: June 2024 Mailbag - Battleship Pretension
This week on the Patreon, David and Scott Nye open up the June 2024 mailbag. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! The June 2024 mailbag includes questions about Anora and more! Become a Patron! Swabbie Tier ($2 per month): A great way to
Running the Color Gamut and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week - Battleship Pretension
This week, we're running the color gamut. Here's what else we're doing. We're running the color gamut, querelling, lilying, eating all the cheesecakes and marrying the toys. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 899: Both Ends of the Spectrum Home Video Hovel: Querelle, by Rudie Obias
The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Seven, Episode Thirteen: “The One Where Rosita Dies”/”Tailgate” - Battleship Pretension
Natalie and David grab some beers from an armchair with Rachel in "The One Where Rosita Dies" and grab some beers at a gravesite with Marshall in "Tailgate." Friends season seven, episode thirteen, "The One Where Rosita Dies": Phoebe becomes involved with a suicidal office worker. Rachel breaks Joey's favorite chair. Monica's beloved childhood belongings
Home Video Hovel: Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène, by Scott Nye - Battleship Pretension
I’m going to cheat a bit and start this piece off with the same quote that Yasmina Price uses to begin her excellent essay, included with this new release - when asked about the concern that his films might not be legible to a European audience, writer/director Ousmane Sembène replied, “Why be a sunflower and
Episode 900: Susan Burke & Brandie Posey - Battleship Pretension
Tyler and David are joined by Susan Burke and Brandie Posey to celebrate 900 episodes of Battleship Pretension. Tyler, David, Susan and Brandie celebrate 900 episodes by discussing Caligula and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we've done live comedy shows, written
Patreon: IHOP Taste Test - Battleship Pretension
This week on the Patreon, David and Josh Long conduct an IHOP taste test. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! Does the IHOP taste test make David and Josh want to see John Krasinski's IF? Find out! Become a Patron! Swabbie Tier
Movie Meltdown: Married to the Toy Lifestyle - Battleship Pretension
Movie Meltdown - Married to the Toy Lifestyle We're coming to you “live” from WonderFest as we hang out and talk about toys and marriage… and possibly even a few movies. And while we’re confused about converting things to the metric system, we also mention… getting married to George Romero, Lego storylines, Kill Bill 1 and 2,