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Briefly (27 July 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 27, 2026
Attack Force Z (1982) D: Tim Burstall. S: Mel Gibson, John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Ko Chun-Hsiung, Sylvia Chang. Bewildering and boring WWII picture about elite Aussie ATTACK FORCE Z who are sent in to a Chinese island, occupied by the Japanese, to rescue mysterious plane crash survivors. Everythin read more
Briefly (22 July 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 22, 2026
The Death of Robin Hood (2026) D: Michael Sarnoski. S: Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Noah Jupe, Murray Bartlett. Beautifully directed, revisionist old-man ROBIN HOOD picture asks… what if he was actually a murderous brigand? Jackman’s fantastic in the lead, but director Sar read more
Briefly (15 July 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 15, 2026
Barbie (2023) D: Greta Gerwig. S: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, John Cena, Michael Cera. Director and co-writer Gerwig takes a doll Barbie (Robbie) into the real world to find her owner, whose sadness is spreading to Barbieland. Robbie’s disappointed how feminism and equality read more
Briefly (8 July 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 8, 2026
Apostle (2018) D: Gareth Evans. S: Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Mark Lewis Jones, Kristine Froseth. Early twentieth-century lapsed, traumatized British missionary Stevens goes to save his sister from cultists on their island. The pro-colonialist, low-key Church of England propaganda is read more
Briefly (21 June 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 21, 2026
Fall Guy (1947) D: Reginald Le Borg. S: Leo Penn, Robert Armstrong, Teala Loring, Elisha Cook Jr., John Harmon. Mildly engaging B picture has vet Penn waking up covered in blood, a dead girl nearby, and no memory of it. If only he hadn’t supplemented his binge drinking with “narcotic read more
Briefly (13 June 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 13, 2026
Akira (1988) D: Katsuhiro Otomo. S: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Takeshi Kusao, Tessyo Genda. Misanthropic cyberpunk anime epic about a teenage biker gang who coincidentally figure into an ongoing military plot to exploit post-nuclear mutant kids. The gang’s beta becomes the worl read more
Briefly (1 June 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 1, 2026
The Awakening (2011) D: Nick Murphy. S: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Shaun Dooley. Classy enough melodrama about post-Great War ghost hunter Hall going to investigate a boys’ school with a possible killer poltergeist on the roster. She meets various pos read more
Briefly (15 May 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 15, 2026
Superman: Lost (2023) #1 W: Carlo Pagulayan, Christopher Priest. A: Carlo Pagulayan, Michael Jason Paz. Portentous, if not actually big, concept SUPERMAN limited. He and Lois are happy workaholic marrieds until he disappears on a Justice League mission. Except he reappears–twenty years later& read more
Briefly (9 May 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 9, 2026
Blue Beetle (1967) #1 W: D.C. Glanzman, Steve Ditko. A: Steve Ditko. Fun first issue for BEETLE; however, the QUESTION backup ends up overshadowing it. The feature’s fun, with some great art–Ditko’s doing a ballet–but the much shorter QUESTION has more plot and more characte read more
Briefly (2 May 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 2, 2026
36 Hours to Kill (1936) D: Eugene Forde. S: Brian Donlevy, Gloria Stuart, Douglas Fowley, Paul Fix, Jonathan Hale. Relaxed cheapie thriller about gangster Fowley taking a cross-country train to escape a dragnet, only to run into somewhat nosy reporter Donlevy. They then get into a love triangle wit read more
Briefly (12 April 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 12, 2026
Big Driver (2014) D: Mikael Salomon. S: Maria Bello, Ann Dowd, Will Harris, Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett. Tonally concerning, poorly written adaptation of Stephen King novella about cozy murder mystery novelist Bello surviving a sexual assault and attempted murder. Way too many exploitation vibes for read more
The Spirit (June 29, 1941) “The Balkan Ball”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 12, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) Balkan Ball is an Ebony strip, which means there’s lots of racist caricature to negotiate, amplified by Ebony getting a sidekick, Pierpont, who is also visualized in racist caricature. Scarlett appears, too. So it’s read more
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977) #243
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 8, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Jack Abel (inks) Cory Adams (colors) Jean Simek (letters) Al Milgrom (editor) It’s one issue-long story this time, no backup, which is both good and bad. It’s bad because this issue’s a letdown from the previous two “Earthwar!” entries, but it’s read more
The Spirit (June 22, 1941) “The Tale of the Dictator’s Reform”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 6, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) The Tale of the Dictator’s Reform is not Spirit’s biggest creative swing to date, but the strip is definitely the wildest. Hitler coming to the United States on a fact-finding mission—only to have a change of heart read more
The Spirit (June 15, 1941) “Dusk and Twilight”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 2, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) Dusk and Twilight is, no pun, a dark strip. The splash page introduces us to Dusk, who may look like he’s in a carnival act, but he’s actually a murderer with hands of steel and a gentle disposition. We learn these read more
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977) #242
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 1, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) James Sherman (pencils) Bob McLeod (inks) Cory Adams (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Al Milgrom (editor) Once again, the feature story opens with Wildfire being a jerk. Last issue, he was going to let a Science Police officer die because her spaceship wasn’t well-maintained, and thi read more
The Spirit (June 8, 1941) “Five Passengers in Search of an Author”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 28, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) Five Passengers opens on a moody airstrip with an unlikely cast. A local schoolteacher’s favorite assignment is to bring the youngsters to watch the flight to Washington D.C. Each student gets to pick one of the pas read more
The Spirit (June 1, 1941) “Killer McNobby”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 27, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) And, now, Killer McNobby takes the crown for most formal flexing Spirit strip. They do the narration entirely in rhyme, with accompanying illustration. It’s almost like Eisner and studio realized if they didn’t do read more
All-Star Comics (1976) #74
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 26, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Joe Giella (inks) Adrienne Roy (colors) Ben Oda (letters) For the last few issues, Dr. Fate, then Hawkman, have had C-plots involving shadow messengers who come to collect them for a higher purpose. On the splash page, we discover this higher purpose: to pr read more
The Spirit (May 25, 1941) “Thomas Hawkins”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 25, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) Spirit’s been overdue for a nice, wholesome story, so when Thomas Hawkins starts the strip getting out of prison and the guard says, “Once a killer, always a killer,” it’s concerning. The strip turns around immediat read more