The post Patreon: Best and Worst Part One appeared first on Battleship Pretension. This week on the Patreon, Tyler and David reveal their best and worst films by filmmakers picked by the patrons. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! Tyler and David’s best and worst films include Mulholland Drive and more! Become a Patron! Swabbie Tier ($2 per month): A great way to dip your toes in the water. This tier gets you one bonus episode per month. Petty Officer Tier ($5 per month): This will grant you access to new episodes c ..read more

The post The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Seven, Episode Seven: “The One with Ross’s Library Book”/”Noretta” appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Natalie and David wear a cute robe with Rachel in “The One with Ross’s Library Book” and wear a revealing robe with Ted in “Noretta.” Friends season seven, episode seven, “The One with Ross’s Library Book”: Chandler’s former girlfriend manipulates Chandler and Monica. Rachel and Phoebe meddle in Joey’s relationship. How I Met Your Mother season seven, episode seven, “Noretta”: Kevin’s declaration that everybody marries their par ..read more

The post The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #46: Louis Malle’s Atlantic City (1980) appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Louis Malle’s second American (feature) film, Atlantic City is a dynamic and relentlessly clever neo-noir. The Trailer Project is proud to present this trailer commentary for one of the best films to kick off the second to last decade of the twentieth century. The Trailer Project is devoted to the moving image, the trailers that promote the movies we all know and love and some other random movies that you might not know or care about. Here we also like to featur ..read more

The post Monday Movie: The Bakery Girl of Monceau, by Scott Nye appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Bakery Girl of Monceau originally ran as part of Scott’s Rohmerathon. So here we are, at the start of one of the truly great film sagas ever crafted. After spending so long with Rohmer’s work in the 1950s, and seeing how often his work went unseen or unfinished, the audacity of his gambit with The Bakery Girl of Monceau is all the more impressive. It’s not that there would be mobs coming after hi ..read more

The post Movie Meltdown: You Drive Me So Crazy appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Movie Meltdown – You Drive Me So Crazy After going to see Melissa Joan Hart and Caroline Rhea’s new, live performance, we discuss that… and then just go ahead and discuss Melissa’s 1999 movie Drive Me Crazy.  And while trying to decide if we trust ourselves to ever eat pancakes again, we also bring up… Adrian Grenier, really expensive parking, Rob Thomas, being catfished, how much the world has changed since the 90s, Benicio del Toro, orange powder, weird computer searches, bra removal, Eden Sher ..read more

The post Seeing the TV Glow and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week appeared first on Battleship Pretension. This week, we’re seeing the TV glow. Here’s what else we’re doing. We’re seeing the TV glow, wrapping up TCM Fest, dogfighting, lettering wickedly and napping with partners. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: I Saw the TV Glow: Don’t Sit So Close, by Scott Nye Episode 893: TCM Classic Film Festival 2024 Wrap-Up Home Video Hovel: Dogfight, by Scott Nye BP Movie Journal 5/2/24 The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Seven, Episode Six ..read more

The post Episode 894: Novelists Turned Filmmakers appeared first on Battleship Pretension. In this episode, David and Scott Nye discuss novelists turned filmmakers as well as the relocation of Slamdance. Novelists turned filmmakers include Pier Paolo Pasolini 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 and a film review website founded by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Beginning in March 2007, Battleship ..read more

The post BP Movie Journal 5/2/24 appeared first on Battleship Pretension. In BP Movie Journal 5/2/24, David discusses the movies he’s been watching lately, including Wicked Little Letters, Occupied City, Birth/Rebirth, One from the Heart, BlackBerry, Our Body, Boudica, Coonskin, Heavy Traffic, One Hand Don’t Clap, First Time Female Director, Close to Vermeer, La région centrale, The Tuba Thieves, Delicate Arch, Immaculate, We Grown Now, Summer Vacation 1999, Housekeeping for Beginners, The Song of Styrene, Civil War, Igualada, On the Waterfront, The Wild One, Not a Pretty Picture, Paul Gaugui ..read more

The post Patreon: April 2024 Mailbag appeared first on Battleship Pretension. This week on the Patreon, David and Scott Nye open up the April 2024 mailbag. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! The April 2024 mailbag includes questions about Everything Everywhere All at Once and more! Become a Patron! Swabbie Tier ($2 per month): A great way to dip your toes in the water. This tier gets you one bonus episode per month. Petty Officer Tier ($5 per month): This will grant you access to new episodes created just for our pa ..read more

The post I Saw the TV Glow: Don’t Sit So Close, by Scott Nye appeared first on Battleship Pretension. For the past twenty years, and exploding further in the days of streaming, most everyone you meet seems to be addicted to some TV show. It’s one of the easier addictions to feed – if it’s not already on a service you subscribe to, a month’s use is available at the click of a button for, at most, a fairly modest fee. In the 1990s, however, TV devotion required a genuine compulsion – you had to sit down at a specific time and day of the week, or be pretty handy with your VCR’s labyrinthine reco ..read more